Meriwether Smith

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt. Birth: 1730; Alt. Birth

Notes:

Note: DAR 59528 issue George William Smith
Note: DAR 147732 SAYS MERRIWETHER SMITH
Note: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF NOTABLE
AMERICANS: VOLUME IX
Smith, Meriwether, statesman, was born a Bathurst,Essex County, Va. in
1730. He was twice married; first to Alice, Daughter ofPhillip Lee, and
of their children George William became Governor of Va. secondly Sep 29
1769 to Elizabeth, daughter of Col. William Dangerfield. He Represented
Essex county in the House of Burgessess in
1770; was a member of theVirginia conventions in 1775 and 1776, being
associated with George Mason (q.v.) in the drafting of the bill of rights
and the state constitution; was a signer of the articles of the
Westmorland association, Feb 27,1776 which was pledged to use no articles
of British importation, and of the resolution of the Williamsburg
association, which met the old Raleigh Tavern of the city, May 17,1779.
He was also a delagate to the Continental congress, 1778-82, and amember
of the Virginia convention, which adopted the constitution of the United
States. He died Jan. 25 1790

Meriwether married Alice Corbin Lee in 1760 in Essex County, Virginia. Alice was born between 1702 and 1730; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Alice Lee Smith was born about 1760; and died.
2. Gov. George William Smith was born in 1762 in Essex, Virginia; died on 26 Dec 1811 in Richmond, Virginia.
3. Lucy Dangerfield Smith was born in 1773; and died.
4. Rev Thomas G. Smith, Sr.
5. Lettice Lee Smith
6. William Smith

Francis married Lucy Meriwether. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Francis married Mary Bathurst about 1729. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

MERIWETHER, NICHOLAS, born in Wales 1631, died James City, VA. 15 Dec.
1678.Land in Lancaster, Westmoreland and Surry Cos. Married Elizabeth
Woodhouse.

Nicholas married Elizabeth Woodhouse between 1655 and 1656. Elizabeth (daughter of Henry Woodhouse and Mary Judith Carter) was born in 1633; died in Jan 1680. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]