Rev. Henry Smith was born in 1600 in Norwich, Norfolk, England and died August 09, 1648, in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, aged 48.

Henry first married Cornish, daughter of Gabriel Cornish. Gabriel was born in England. They had four children.

Philippa Smith, born about 1622 in England, died by 1687 Married John Birdseye [EP Update 28 Dec 2011]
Mary Smith, born about 1624, in England, died January 19, 1711
Peregrine Smith, born about 1628 in England, died before 1648 probably at Wethersfield, Connecticut.
Rebecca Smith, born about 1631 in England.
Henry married second Dorothy Cotton , sister of Rev. John Cotton, in 1632 in England. Dorothy was born December 24, 1606, in Norwich, Norfolk, England and died in 1694 in Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts, aged 88. Henry and Dorothy had six children.

Preserved Smith, born at sea 1635, died as a child
Dorothy Smith, born in 1637 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, died in 1706 in Farmington, Connecticut,
Samuel Smith, born June 27, 1638 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, died September 10, 1703, Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts
Joanna Smith, born December 25, 1641, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, died December 28, 1664, Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts.
Noah Smith, born February 25, 1643, in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, died May 08, 1648, Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts
Elizabeth Smith, born August 25, 1648, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut. died in 1648, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut.
Matriculated at Sidney Sussex College Cambridge 1617

Rev. Henry Smith was ordained 8 Jun 1623 Peterborough England

Henry SMITH - b. about 1600, England; d. 1648, Wethersfield, CT; will dated May 8, 1648. His parents have not been identified. Henry may have been educated for the ministry at Sidney Sussex College and Magdalene College, Cambridge University , or at King's College, Cambridge University . A Rev. Henry SMITH was ordained by the Bishop of Peterborough on Jun. 8, 1623. He probably arrived in New England about 1636/7 with his second wife and young children, and by 1637 he was at Wethersfield, Hartford Co., CT as the first settled pastor. His first wife's name, by whom he had 4 children is not known. Married second about 1635, England. The following is a portion of a letter written by Henry's son Samuel, and provides a portrait of the minister. However, the statement about first settling at Watertown is not supported by any contemporary evidence.

Hadley, Massacusetts Colony, Jan. ye Firste, 1698/99

My Dear & Dutiful Son:

I was of so tender an Age at the Death of my beloved Father, that I am possessed of but little of the Information for which you seek. My Revered Father was an ordained Minister of ye Gospelle, educate at Cambridge in England, & came to yis Land by reason of Ye Great Persecution by which ye infamous Archbiship Laud and ye Black Tom Tyrante die cause ye reign of his Majestie, Charles ye First, to loose favor in ye sight of ye people of England. My Father & Mother came over in 1636/37, firste to Watertown which is neare Boston, & after a yeare or two to Weathersfield on ye great River, where he became ye firste settled Pastor. Concerning of ye earlie days I can remember but little save Hardship. My Parents had broughte both Men Servants & Maid Servants from England, but ye Maids tarried not but till they got married, ye wch was shortly, for there was great scarcity of Women in ye Colonies. Ye men did abide better. Onne of em had married onne of my Mother's Maids & they did come with us to Weathersfield, to our grate Comforte for some years, untill they had manny littel onnes of theire Owne. I do well remember ye Face & Figure of my Honoured Father. He was 5 foote, 10 inches talle & spare of builde, tho not leane. He was an Active as ye Red Skin Men & sinewy. His delighte was in sportes of strengthe, & withe his owne Hands he did helpe to reare bothe our owne House & ye Firste Meetinge House of Weathersfield, wherein he preacht yeares too fewe. He was well Featured & Fresh favoured with faire Skin & longe curling Hair with a merrie eye & swete smilinge Mouthe, tho he coulde frowne sternlie eno' when need was.

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There have been suggestions that Rev. Henry SMITH was from Leicestershire, England as part of the SMITH alias HERIZ family. No substantive evidence has been seen that supports his claim, and the sources thus far located are contradictory in details. Considerable information on the SMITH alias HERIZ line is available on the web site of Hugo HERIZ-SMITH. Documentation of the parents of Rev. Henry SMITH is desired.

A lenthy footnote appears in The History of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut, Volume II - Genealogies and Biographies, by Dr. Henry R. Stiles with alternative conjectures about the possible ancestry of Rev. Henry SMITH, including his education at Sidney Sussex and Magdalene Colleges, Cambidge University. As an alternative for Henry SMITH's education, Donald Lines Jacobus, in Hale, House and Related Families, , page 730, writes that "The origin of Rev. Henry Smith has not been ascertained. He may have been the Henry Smith who matriculated from Kings College, Cabridge, A.B., 1619/20; Fellow of Kings."

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Will of Rev. Henry Smith - March 8, 1648

I Henry Smith, of Wethersfield, being at present in health of body and soundness of minde, considering my mortality, and knoweing it to be my duty to provide for my family and settle my estate, that I may leave no occasion of trouble to my children when I am gone, and that I may be free my self
from distractions of this kind, if it shall please God to visit mee with sickness before I dye; I doe therefore leave this testimony uppon Record as my last Will and Testament. Then, for my outward estate, wch, because it is little and I have well proved the difficultyes of this Country, how hard a

thinge it will be for a woman to manage the affaires of so great a family as the Father of Mercyes hathe blessed me withall, and have had allso experience of the prudence and faithfullness of my deare wife, who shall, in parting with me, parte with a great parte of her livelihood, I give to my wife full power to dispose of all my estate in howses, Lands, Cattell band Goods whatsoever, within dores and without, only providing if she marry again, or otherwise be able comfortably to spare it from her owne necessary

maintenance, that she give to my sonne Sammuell that part of my howselott which was intended for my sonne Peregrine, lyinge next to the burying place, and the land I have beyond the great River eastward, and also to him and my 2nd sonne Noah, 5 acres apeece of meadow, with upland proportionable thereunto; and to the rest of my children unmarried, £20 apeece at the age of 21 yeares, or at the time of her death wch shall come the soonest; and for my two daughters that bee married, my desire is that they have £20 apeece, and every one of their children £5 apeece, either in books or such

other thing my wife shall best please to parte withall. And I desire the Church, whose serviant I now am, to take an oversight of my family, that they may be brought up in the true feare of God, and to see that this my will bee faithfully prformed.

Henry Smith
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3. REV. HENRY3 SMITH 1,2 was born 1600 in Norwich, Norfolk, England, and died August 09, 1648 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut. He married DOROTHY COTTON 1632 in Wethersfield, Glastonbury, Hartford, Conn.. She was born Abt. 1603 in Norwich, Norfolk, England, and died 1694 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA.

Notes for REV. HENRY SMITH: From an old record Richard Alden left, we learn that on the paternal side, the first of Irene Smith's ancestors to come to America was the Rev. Henry Smith, who was born in England about the year 1600. With his wife, Dorothy, he arrived here in 1636-'37, some sixteen years after the settlement of the Plymouth Colony. On the passage over, a son was born, who, from the unusual circumstances of his birth, was named Preserved, which is the origin of a name ever since retained among his descendants. The first notice of Rev. Henry Smith in New England, is on the records of the First Congregational Church of Charlestown, Mass. He and his wife, Dorothy, were admitted to the full communion of that church, October 5, 1637. He was the first minister of Wethersfield, Conn., and was installed there in 1641. He died in 1648. His widow, Dorothy, married a Mr. Russell, in 1650. They removed with their family, in 1659, to Hadley, Mass., accompanying a colony comprised of the largest portion of the members of their church.

SMITH Rev. Henry Smith, immigrant ancestor, was born in England, in 1588, near Norfolk. He came to America in 1636, and settled in Wethersfield, Connecticut, in 1638. He is thought to have married twice, but the name of his first wife is not known. The name of his second wife was Dorothy, sister of Rev. John Cotton, of Boston. He died in 1658, and she married John Russell, father of Rev. John Russell, who succeeded Mr. Smith in the pastorate at Wethersfield, and who, ten years later, became the first minister at Hadley, and died May 8, 1690, aged eighty-three. Mrs. Dorothy Russell died at Hadley in 1694. New England Families Genealogical and Memorial: Volume IV, p. 1614