I’ve finally updated the deed records for Henry FRANKLIN, Duncan CAMRON, Pierce WADE and Elizabeth WADE. I’ve been away for far too long!

You can find the index to everything I’ve recorded at History Index of Genealogy by Anne

I also have some records for William SMITH, Jacob SMITH and a bunch of GILLESPIE records.

I believe I’ve posted about the SMITH and GILLESPIE information here before.

So more digging turns up that William SMITH, husband of Philadelphia FRANKLIN, is the father of Harriet SMITH, and thanks to information from the VA AMHERST rootsweb message board, I discover that Jacob SMITH is his father. And I believe that Millicent POWELL is his mother.

So, I compiled all the deeds for William Smith in Amherst County from the Deeds of Amherst County, 1748-1807 and published them. Obviously not all of these are my William SMITH because he died around Sep 1798. But I list them all because it may jog someone else’s memory or give them that ah ha moment they’ve been looking for.

I also found an abstract of a Revolutionary War Application for William Smith that I’ve posted. I’m not sure if this is my William or not. Interesting reading; he entered the war around the age of 14. It’s not very clear in this abstract who is applying.

So if you wander up my tree, you find Jeremiah and Mary E GILLESPIE who were first cousins. Jeremiah’s parents were Tarlton GILLESPIE and Mahala REYNOLDS and Mary’s were Willis GILLESPIE and Harriet SMITH.

I have never been able to find much about Harriet, other than on an abstract for Willis and Harriet’s marriage were listed a Philadelphia SMITH and a Phillip SMITH.

This weekend, I was looking through some microfilmed records of the Virginia DAR, and ran across a marriage record for a William SMITH and a Philadelphia FRANKLIN on 17 Nov 1784 in Amherst, VA.
Could this be Harriet’s parents? Or some relation? Or just one of those fun wild goose chases!