See also

Susannah LEA ( - )

1. Susannah LEA, daughter of Thomas LEA ( - ) and Catherine GILBERT ( - ), was born in Bermuda. She died in Bermuda. She married Christopher SMITH.

 

III Christopher SMITH, son of Daniel SMITH (1676-1758) and Mary WENTWORTH (c. 1690-1761), was born circa [Julian] 1714 in Bermuda. He was lost at sea, en route to Bermuda or Turks Islands. He and Susannah LEA had the following children:

 

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John SMITH (1745-1749)

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Elizabeth SMITH (c. 1746-bef1804)

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Daniel Lea SMITH (1747-1791)

Second Generation

2. John SMITH, son of III Christopher SMITH and Susannah LEA, was born in 1745. He died in April 1749.

 

3. Elizabeth SMITH, daughter of III Christopher SMITH and Susannah LEA, was born circa 1746 in Bermuda. She was born circa [Julian] 1746 in Bermuda. She married Benjamin FRITH on 2 March 1763 in Moore Register, Bermuda. She died between 1801 and 1804 in Bermuda. She died between [Julian] 1801 and [Julian] 1804 in Bermuda.

 

Benjamin FRITH, son of William FRITH ( -1771) and Sarah LEA (LEE) ( - ), was born in 1761 in Nova Scotia. He died between [Julian] 1796 and [Julian] 1801 in Bermuda. He died in April 1801 in Bermuda. He and Elizabeth SMITH had the following children:

 

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Joseph FRITH (c. 1771- )

 

4. Daniel Lea SMITH, son of III Christopher SMITH and Susannah LEA, was born in 1747 in Paget, Bermuda. He married Susannah INGHAM circa 1768 in Christ Church, Warwick, Bermuda. He died in 1791 in Bermuda.

 

Susannah INGHAM and Daniel Lea SMITH had the following children:

 

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Thomas Lea SMITH (1769-1859)

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Edward Ingham SMITH (1770-1797)

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Daniel Lea SMITH (1770- )

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John SMITH ( - )

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Mary Lea SMITH ( - )

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Susannah SMITH (c. 1772-1834)

Third Generation

5. Joseph FRITH, son of Benjamin FRITH and Elizabeth SMITH, was born circa 1771 in Bermuda. He died in Bermuda. He married Elizabeth Mary JAMES.

 

Elizabeth Mary JAMES was born in Bermuda. She died in Bermuda. She and Joseph FRITH had the following children:

 

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Elizabeth James FRITH (1790-1836) (known as 'Eliza'). Eliza was born in [Julian] 1790 in Bermuda. She married Samuel Saltus INGHAM after 1809. She died on 26 August 1836 in Sandys Parish, Paget, Bermuda.

 

6. Thomas Lea SMITH, son of Daniel Lea SMITH and Susannah INGHAM, was born in 1769. He was a Privateer, Ship-owner. He died on 19 October 1859 in Cluster Cottage, Warwick, Bermuda. He married Dorcas FRITH.

 

From "Bermuda Lore 1649-1900" by John Cox: TLS was a privateer ship-owner of some note. In his early career he was overtaken by American privateers and carried prisoner to New York where he fell in love with a young woman named Anne Chauncey. Despite the circumstances surrounding his confinement, he managed to entertain Miss Chancey in style because his captors never realised he had sewn up a hundred pounds of gold into his breeches! Later, he plundered a number of French ships during the Haiti uprisings. He also owned salt ponds in Turks Islands where he spent the summers raking and harvesting.

 

7. Edward Ingham SMITH, son of Daniel Lea SMITH and Susannah INGHAM, was born in 1770. He died on 11 January 1797 in Paget, Bermuda. He married Mary LIGHTBOURN.

 

8. Daniel Lea SMITH, son of Daniel Lea SMITH and Susannah INGHAM, was born in 1770.

 

9. John SMITH was the son of Daniel Lea SMITH and Susannah INGHAM.

 

10. Mary Lea SMITH, daughter of Daniel Lea SMITH and Susannah INGHAM, married unk DAVIS.

 

11. Susannah SMITH, daughter of Daniel Lea SMITH and Susannah INGHAM, was born circa 1772. She died on 12 July 1834.