Lieut. Samuel Smith with his wife Elizabeth and children Samuel, age 9, Elizabeth, age 7, Mary, age 4 and Philip, age 1, sailed for New England, the last day of April 1634, in the Elizabeth of Ipswich. He and his wife were each then called thirty two years of age. He came from Whethersfield, Connecticut, where he was a leading man, to Hadley, where he held important offices both in church and state. He is supposed to have died in 1680, age about 78. His inventory was taken 17 January 1681.58 He m. Elizabeth, who d. March 16, 1686, ae. 84.”58

Their first child was born in 1625 in England. 362She died at age 84.58