Identifier: memorialofrevtho00smit (find matches)
Title: A memorial of Rev. Thomas Smith (second minister of Pembroke, Mass.,) and his descendants ... A full genealogical record. 1707-1895
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Smith, Susan Augusta, 1843-
Subjects: Smith family (John Smith, ca. 1614-1691) Smith family (Thomas Smith, 1706-1788)
Publisher: Plymouth, Avery & Doten, printers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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sensible, intelligent woman, with a mind wellstored with the history of her Country, and a happy facultyof communicating it to the young people around her, and ifI mistake not, she not only transmitted her knowledge, butmuch of her sense to her posterity. With this digression, to speak of the other side of thefamily, we will return to Rev. Thomas Smith3. I very muchwish to know of that first ordination, and have vainlysearched for items in regard to it, at Yarmouth, but a fireabout 1800 destroyed the church records. He was a won- •j derfullv scholarly man, always in advance of his time, andin sympathy with the younger generation. After preachingat Yarmouth twenty-five years, his religious views had soadvanced and liberalized, as to be no longer in accord withthe church, consequently he asked his dismission, whichwas granted. The same year, 1751, he settled at Pembroke,where he remained till his death, July 7th, 1788. As one ofthe Cape historians has put it He lived in reputation and
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SMITH MEMORIAL. IS died at advanced age. During the latter part of MrSmiths life, he had as colleague, Rev. Kilborn Whitman,who afterwards studied law and became Judge Whitman.There has always beeu a strong and lasting friendship be-tween the two families of Smith and Whitman. So numerous are the anecdotes told of Parson Smithsindependence, charity, kindliness and quick perceptions, itis difficult to select the best. Many have become as house-hold words. I am indebted to my father for all such in-formation, his mind being a perfect store-house of storiesand traditions. Once when taking tea at the house of a proverbially goodcook, and of course the best was put before the minister,she expecting a compliment chose to depreciate her food,and said, Mr. Smith let me give you some very poor apple-pie. No, maam, thank you, said he, I never eat poorpie, and much mortified, she could not persuade him totouch it. His criticism upon a sermon, read to him by Mr.Whitman, which began with a long pr

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