Merritt (Merrett) Smith

Bef 1718 - 1762  (> 44 years)

• Name	Merritt (Merrett) Smith  [1]
  Birth	Bef 1718  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	13 Jun 1762	Fairfield, CT   [1]
  Person ID	I7678	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	17 Sep 2023

  
  

  Father	Major William Henry Smith,   b. 13 Mar 1689, Brookhaven, Suffolk, New York Colony, British Colonial America d. 27 Jan 1742, Mastic, Brookhaven, Suffolk, New York, United States (Age 52 years)
  Mother	Hannah Merritt,   b. 1690, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA d. Abt 1718 (Age 28 years)
  Family ID	F2928	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Hill,   b. 5 Aug 1724   d. Aft 10 Aug 1786 (Age > 62 years)
  Marriage	6 Nov 1745  [1]
  Family ID	F3632	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Oct 2026

  
  

• Notes

  Merritt Smith was administrator and only heir of the estates of his Merritt grandparents in New London, and lived there till he moved to Fairfield about 1752, where he kept an inn, "a house of entertainment."

  
  

• Sources

  [S58] Ruth Tangier Smith, M.D. and Henry Bainbridge Hoff, The Tangier Smith Family: Descendents of Colonel William Smith of The Manor of St. George, Long Island, New York (The Order of colonial Lords of Manors in America. Publication No. 34. 1978.), p. 7.