Caroline Amelia Smith de Windt
(1795-1852)
BIRTH
January 27, 1795
PLACE
NAME
Caroline Amelia Smith
DEATH
July 28, 1852
PLACE
Riverdale, New York, U.S.
FAMILY
MOTHER
Abigail Adams Smith
(1765-1813)
CHILDREN
William Stephens Smith
(1755-1816)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Caroline Amelia Smith De Windt (1795–1852) was a daughter of Abigail Adams Smith and William Stephens Smith, and a granddaughter of John and Abigail Adams. She married John Peter De Windt and lived at Fishkill Landing, New York. John Quincy Adams recorded the birth dates of nine of her twelve children, while family correspondence and memoirs describe visits to the Adams home in Quincy. Her life carried the founding family’s connections into the nineteenth century.
EARLY LIFE
Caroline Amelia Smith De Windt was born on Jan 27, 1795. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Caroline Amelia Smith De Windt is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Caroline Amelia Smith De Windt died on Jul 28, 1852. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Caroline Amelia Smith De Windt died on Jul 28, 1852, in Riverdale, New York, U.S. Caroline Amelia Smith De Windt was a daughter of Abigail Adams Smith and William Stephens Smith, and a granddaughter of John and Abigail Adams. She married John Peter De Windt and lived at Fishkill Landing, New York. John Quincy Adams recorded the birth dates of nine of her twelve children, while family correspondence and memoirs describe visits to the Adams home in Quincy. Her life carried the founding family’s connections into the nineteenth century. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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