Margaret Spear Smith
(1758-1842)
BIRTH
1758
PLACE
Baltimore, Maryland
NAME
Margaret Spear
DEATH
1842
PLACE
Baltimore, Maryland
FAMILY
HUSBAND
Samuel Smith
(1752-1839)
CHILDREN
John Spear Smith
(1785-1866)
CHILDREN
Sidney Smith Patterson
(1794-1879)
CHILDREN
Laura Sophia Smith Hughes
(1795–1832)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
NOT YET RESEARCHED
NOT YET RESEARCHED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Margaret Spear Smith was a Baltimore merchant’s daughter who married Revolutionary officer Samuel Smith in 1778. Their children included merchant Lewis Buchanan Smith and John Spear Smith, later president of the Maryland Historical Society. Gilbert Stuart painted her around 1800; William Edward West portrayed her again in widowhood. She was buried in the Smith family vault in 1842. Sources differ between 1758 and 1759 for her birth year, so that detail remains qualified.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Margaret Spear Smith’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. 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 Margaret Spear Smith 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. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Margaret Spear Smith died in 1842, in Baltimore, Maryland. Margaret Spear Smith was a Baltimore merchant’s daughter who married Revolutionary officer Samuel Smith in 1778. Their children included merchant Lewis Buchanan Smith and John Spear Smith, later president of the Maryland Historical Society. Gilbert Stuart painted her around 1800; William Edward West portrayed her again in widowhood. She was buried in the Smith family vault in 1842. Sources differ between 1758 and 1759 for her birth year, so that detail remains qualified. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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