William Stephens Smith
BIRTH
Nov 8, 1755
Suffolk County, New York
DEATH
June 10, 1816
Lebanon, New York
FAMILY
FATHER:
John Smith
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Smith, William Stephens
(1755-1816)
William Stephens Smith was a United States representative from New York. He married Abigail "Nabby" Adams, the daughter of President John Adams, and so was a brother-in-law of President John Quincy Adams and an uncle of Charles Francis Adams Sr. Smith served as aide-de-camp to General John Sullivan in 1776. He fought in the Battle of Long Island, was wounded at Harlem Heights, fought at the Battle of White Plains, was promoted to lieutenant colonel at the Battle of Trenton and fought at the Battle of Monmouth and Newport. He was on the staff of General Lafayette in 1780 and 1781, became an adjutant in the Corps of Light Infantry, then transferred to the staff of George Washington.
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WIFE
Abigail "Nabby" Adams Smith
(1765-1813)
Caroline Amelia Smith De Windt
(1795-1852)
Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
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Washington's Crossing State Park | 355 Washington Crossing Pennington Rd, Titusville, NJ 08560 | MUSEUM | ||
Washington's Crossing Historic Park | 1112 River Rd, Washington Crossing, PA 18977 | MUSEUM | ||
Monmouth Battlefield State Park | 20 NJ-33 Business, Manalapan Township, NJ 07726 | MUSEUM | ||
Battle of Harlem Heights | 478 Riverside Drive, New York, New York, 10027, USA | MARKER | ||
Battle of Brooklyn Marker | Belt Parkway, New York, New York, 11209, USA | MARKER |
DIED:
Lebanon, New York
Jun 10, 1816
William Stephens Smith was born on Nov 8, 1755 in Suffolk County, New York. 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.
The available biographical record identifies William Stephens Smith with work or public activity as a soldier, statesman. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. William Stephens Smith died on Jun 10, 1816 in Lebanon, New York. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.