Captain
Jacob Smith
The first
English settlers along the Saint John River at Woodstock were
Loyalist soldiers of the Delancey Regiments in 1784 lead by Lieut.
Benjamin P. GRIFFITH and Captain Jacob SMITH who was born at Long
Island New York, April. 26 1749, at Stoney Brook. He was
commissioned captain of a company raised to defend Long Island.
Captain
Smith married Martha Birdsill also of Long Island around 1777,
she was 19 at time of her marriage. Shortly after the birth
of their first born Richard, Capt. Smith was ordered to the
south as part of Delancey's battalions and was away from home for
the next four years returning about fall of 1782.
Capt.
Smith died at age 88 and Martha at age 91 on April 4 1850.
On October
15 1784 grants were issued to Delancey's first and second
battalions, under the seal of Nova Scotia.
There were about 110 grantees although Delancey's battalions
numbered many more men.
Some of the men in
Delancey's 1st battalion included George McGEE Sr, b. Ireland,
James DELANCEY, Benjamin COLLINS, Thomas CUNNINGHAM, Henry
FARMER, David FLINN, Sgt. David NEWMAN, William PITT, Corp.
Thomas STANLEY, John STRAWBANK, Joseph TEMPLE and John WESTON.
IN MEMORY
of Capt. Jacob Smith who was born April 26th 1749, in Long Island
in the State of New York & who during the Revolutionary War
served as Captain in DeLancy's Brigade; departed this life on the
29th Sept. in the year of our Lord 1837 & 88th year of his
age. "Go thou thy way till the end be, for thou shalt rest
and stand in thy lot at the end of thy days." Daniel 12, 13.
Capt.
Jacob Smith's is buried in the Old Anglican Cemetery behind
Christ Church , Woodstock, N.B.
Men of
Delancey's Brigade who settled in the Parish of Woodstock
Delancey's Brigade
Descendants
of Lieutenant Michael Smith
and his brother Captain Jacob Smith
http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/halew/Smith.htm
Descendants
of Michael Smith the Great Grandfather of Captain Jacob Smith
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nbcarlet/descendants_of_michael_smith_2.htm
Captain
Jacob Smith and some of his Comrades in Arms
http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/halew/Raymond46.html
The PANB Grantbook database online. This database consists of records of land settlement in New Brunswick in the period 1765-1800.