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Sixth Generation.
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Chil. of Daniel and Rachel (Perlee) Smith.
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168
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| 694
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I. Major Smith, b. at Ridgefield, Conn., 14 Oct 1775; died, unmarried, at Ridgefield, 16 Aug. 1799.
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| 695
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II. Nehemiah Smith, b. at Ridgefield, Conn., 13 Feb. 1777; a shoe-maker; married, 3 June 1800, at North Salem, N. Y., Rhoda Keeler, dau. of Jeremiah and Lydia (Keeler) Keeler, of North Salem, where she was born 4 Aug. 1784. They dwelt in North Salem, till May 1828, and then moved to Nelson, N. Y., where he turned his attention to farming, owning, at one time, 405 acres of land, stocked with more than a thousand sheep. She died at Nelson, 14 July 1843, and was buried there. He married (2d), in the Autumn of 1846, at Pitcher, N. Y., Asenath Shurtleff, of Pitcher. They died at Nelson (he, 17 Jan. 1864, aged nearly 87 years; she, 5 Feb. 1866), and were buried there.
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1026
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III. Edmund Perlee Smith, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 22 March 1779; a shoemaker; married Theodosia Lobdell, of North Salem, N. Y. They settled at Spencertown, N. Y., where he died, 5 Dec. 1805, without children.
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IV. Polly Smith, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 13 Feb. 1781; married Joshua Burt, born in Ridgefield, 24 March 1777, son of Joshua and Lydia (Smith) Burt They died in Ridgefield; she, 22 Feb. 1808; he, 20 April 1830, aged 53 years and 27 days, though the town-record makes him older by four years.
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V. Nancy Smith, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 22 Jan. 1783; married Joseph Castle. She moved with her brother, Nehemiah Smith, in May 1828, to Nelson, N. Y., and from there to Otsego, N. Y. She died, 7 Oct 1830, in Cortland Co., N. Y., according to one account, while another states that she returned to Ridgefield, after the death of her husband, and died there.
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VI. Rachel Smith, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 3 Ap. 1785; died of consumption, 5 March 1820, at North Salem, N. Y., unmarried, and was buried at Titicus Cemetery in Ridgefield. She dwelt with her brother, Nehemiah Smith.
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| 700
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VII. Catharine Smith, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 24 March 1787; married Jeremiah Keeler, a shoemaker, born in Ridgefield, 7 Aug. 1786, son of Levi and Dorcas (Smith) Keeler. They settled in Ridgefield, where she died, 15 May 1814, in her 28th year. Her monument has her name "Caty", and she seems to have been always called Kitty.
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1093
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VIII. Czar Smith, b. at Ridgefield, Conn., 17 Jan. 1789; a farmer;
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2435
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