JOHN (JR.) AND SARAH SCOTT SMITH
JOHN AND ELISABETH BALL SMITH

John and Sarah Scott Smith were my Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandparents.
John was born around 1686 in Falls Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania to John and Elizabeth Ball Smith. It has not been proven.
He married Sarah Scott on 2 May 1711.
They had seven children. Ann, John, Joseph, Robert, Samuel, Henry, and Thomas. All of the children were born in Bristol Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Their births were recorded in the Falls MM.

There is no record of John’s death.
Sarah Scott has been traced to Longhamroe, Sawley, and Yorkshire, England. She was the daughter of John and Sarah Bond Scott who immigrated in 1699 on the ship Brittania with four living children. Both of these parents have been traced back another generation or two and the information was entered in the LDS IGI. It has been verified through MM Records in Sawley, Yorkshire, England and Falls MM Bucks, Pennsylvania.
Sarah Scott Smith died in 1776.
During the time period of the lives of these people, some of the immigrants signed for an indentured servant contract which usually lasted for four years then and included 50 deeded acres upon completion of the service. This servitude was common and did not indicate poverty. Many wanted to save their funds to establish themselves and improve the property deeded them and add acreage to it. The relationships between the property owner and the servant was usually good and many a young man married a daughter of the man he had served for four years. This was the case of the father of Sarah Cowgill who married Thomas Smith. This is a very different servitude than the one we are more familiar with that occurred in the later years when abusive treatment was common.

JOHN (SR) AND ELISABETH BALL SMITH

John and Sarah Scott Smith were my Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandparents.
John is listed in the LDS IGI as born around 1663 and maybe born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Elisabeth Ball is listed in the LDS IGI as born around 1666 and may also have been born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It is possible that they were both born somewhere in the British Isles rather than New Jersey or Pennsylvania.
They were married 30 August 1685 in New Jersey, Bradford County, Township of Burlington just across the river from Falls Township as transcribed in the colonial documents of New Jersey.
They had three children. John, Samuel, and Robert. All were born in Cold Spring near Bristol, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
There is no record of the death of John Smith.
Elisabeth Ball Smith died 29 August 1724.

Interesting information: These ancestors were Quakers and were not concerned with lasting indications of their life on earth. Many had no headstone or such a one that did not survive the ages and that is the case for this family from John Smith Sr. through Nehemiah Smith.