Smith:Information about John Bland Smith
John Bland Smith (b. Abt. 1572, d. January 05, 1667/68)
Notes for John Bland Smith:Mr. John Bland, alias Smith, was living
JOHN SMITH was born about 1572 in Colchester, Essex, England, and died January 06, 1667 in Watertown, Middlesex, MA. He married ISABELLA DRAKE 1613-1636 in Colchester, Essex, England.
This man's surname might have been Bland. Did he change it to Smith? Was he running away from the law?
at Edgartown, on Martha's Vineyard, in 1646, undoubtedly the John Smith assoc. with the Mayhews in the first movement from Watertown to the Island, where he was always -Bland-. In Watert. liv. his mother Adrian, 2d w. of Jeremiah Norcross, and there is recorded 'Isabel, w. of John Smith, bur. 12 July 1639, ag. 60.' The Hampt. Drakes test. that they knew his dau. Isabel Bland from childhood, that her f. John Bland lived in Colchester, and that his ancestry was Bland, not Smith. App. his stepf. was Smith. His will made 2 Nov. 1663 names w. Joanna and 'all the children that are alive that I owne': Isabel, m. 1st Francis Austin(1), 2d Thomas Leavitt. Annabel, m. William Barsham of Watert.; eldest s. John(1). Blandfield, John, Portsm., drunk
More About John Bland Smith:
Date born 2: 1585
Fact 1: http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&id=I4160&db=pcurtis.
More About John Bland Smith and Isabel Bland Drake:
Marriage: Colchester, England.
Children of John Bland Smith and Isabel Bland Drake are:
- +Daniel Smith, b. September 27, 1624, Colchester, Essex, England, d. July 14, 1660, Watertown, MA.