John SMITH

12 Feb 1752 - 12 Aug 1816

• OCCUPATION: United States Congressman & General
  
• BIRTH: 12 Feb 1752, Mastic, Suffolk, Long Island, NY
• DEATH: 12 Aug 1816, Mastic, Suffolk, Long Island, NY

• MARRIAGE: 21 Oct 1792

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[3534] Note that Smith and the Congressional biography disagree on John Smith's birth and
death dates.

"The Family of Richard Smith of Smithtown, Long Island"
Frederick Kinsman Smith
Smithtown Historical Society, Smithtown, NY, 1967
"John (known as General Smith), b. 12 Feb 1756, d. 25 Jne 1816, m. (1) 7 Oct 1776, by the Rev.
Joshua Hartt, probably at Smithtown, to Lydia Fanning, who died 6 Jne 1777, in her seventeenth
year, daughter of Thomas and Lydia (Horton) Fanning and granddaughter of Hannah Smith. He
married (2) 1785, Elizabeth Platt, who died 7 Mch 1787, daughter of Zephaniah and Mary
(VanWyck) Platt, of Poughkeepsie. He married (3) 21 Oct 1792, Mrs. Elizabeth (Woodhull) Nicoll,
b. 30 Nov 1762, d. 14 Sep 1839, daughter of General Nathaniel and Ruth (Floyd) Woodhull and
widow of Henry Nicoll. Her mother, Ruth Floyd, was a daughter of Tabitha Smith."
"Elizabeth, b. 30 Nov 1762, d. 14 Sep 1839, m. (1) Dec 1781 (lic. 17 Nov 1781), Henry Nicoll,
of Mastic, L.I., b. 13 Dec 1755, d. 9 Apr 1790, son of Benjamin and Magdalena Mary (Holland)
Nicoll, of New York. She married (2) 21 Oct 1792, as third wife, General John Smith (Tangier),
b. 12 Feb 1755, d. 25 Jne 1816, son of Judge William Smith and his wife Mary Smith. Henry
Nicoll was the great-grandson of William Nicoll, patentee of Islip, and great-great-grandson of
Mathias Nicoll."

Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
http://bioguide.congress.gov/
"SMITH, John, 1752-1816
Senate Years of Service: 1804-1813
Party: Republican

SMITH, John, a Representative and a Senator from New York; born in Mastic, Long Island, N.Y.,
February 12, 1752; completed preparatory studies; member, State assembly 1784-1799; delegate
to the State convention which adopted the Federal Constitution in 1788; elected to the Sixth Congress
to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Jonathan N. Havens; reelected to the Seventh and Eighth
Congresses and served from February 6, 1800, until his resignation, effective February 23, 1804;
elected as a Republican on February 4, 1804, to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of De Witt Clinton; reelected, and served from February 23, 1804, to March 3, 1813;
United States marshal for the district of New York 1813-1815; major general of the New York Militia at
the time of his death in Mastic, Long Island, N.Y., August 12, 1816; interment in the family cemetery on
Smiths Point, N.Y. "