Mary Smith

Samuel married Mary Morton about 1749. Mary was born about 1727; died about 1807. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"Sophia Smith remembered her grandmother [Mary Morton Smith] well. She used to say: 'I looked up to my grandmother with great love and reverence. She more than once put her hand on my head and said, "I want you should grow up and be a good woman and try to make the world better." -- Rev. John M. Greene, An Address at the Centennial of the Birth of Sophia Smith, 27 May 1896

http://clio.fivecolleges.edu/smith/sophia/family/gen1.htm

Joseph married Canada Waite about 1696. Canada (daughter of Benjamin Waite and Martha Leonard) was born on 22 Jan 1677 in Canada; died about 1749. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"[Canada Waite] was the child born in captivity to Benjamin Waite, the hero of the early days, who with Stephen Jennings made the perilous trip to Canada in the Winter to ransom captives taken in the memorable attack on Hatfield, Sept. 19, 1677." Daily Hampshire Gazette, 22 October 1972

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mcstayfamily/smith.htm

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The SMITH FAMILY GENEALOGY WEBSITE (http://clio.fivecolleges.edu/smith/sophia/family/gen1.htm) shows that they were the parents of 10 children.

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Slain by the Indians in Hatfield Meadow.

http://clio.fivecolleges.edu/smith/sophia/family/gen1.htm

John married Mary Partridge. Mary was born about 1648; died on 20 May 1683. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Benjamin married Martha Leonard on 8 Jun 1670 in Hatfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. Martha was born on 15 May 1649 in Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The daughter of John and Sarah LEONARD. (James Albury; Chris Bird; Dave Graves).

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". . .the epitome of courage and selflessness. . ." By Meredith Boissy Donatello

My favorite ancestors are Benjamin Waite and his wife Martha Leonard Waite. Benjamin, "The Hero of the Connecticut Valley," was a courageous, loving, and capable man. When his wife and three daughters were taken captive during the Hatfield Indian Raid of September 19, 1677, Benjamin did not sit idly by but was determined to set his wife and children free or share their fate. He and another man faced the hostile French and Indians and pursued them until he returned with his family to Hatfield. During her captivity Martha gave birth to her fourth daughter, Canada Waite. Martha Leonard Waite, like her husband Benjamin, was extraordinarily courageous. She made a three hundred mile forced march to Canada while pregnant and managed to keep her three small children alive. This feat is so extraordinary because the Indians killed those captives, especially women and children, who could not keep up. This family is and was the epitome of courage and selflessness that is embedded in the American Spirit.

Source: http://www.newenglandancestors.org/

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