Thomas Smith (parson)

Born in Boston on March 10, 1701, he was the son of a merchant by the same name. He enrolled at Harvard College in 1716 at the age of 15 and studied Hebrew.

Smith was married three times throughout his life. He married his first wife, Sarah Tyng, who was the daughter of Col. Jonathan Tyng in 1728. The couple had 8 children before her death on October 1, 1742. She died less than a month after giving birth to their final child, who was born on September 6 and died 8 days later on September 14. Approximately 5 months later, he married a widow with the last name of Jordan who was from Saco, Maine on March 1, 1743. Jordan died on January 3, 1763. He married again on August 10, 1768, to Elizabeth Wendall, who was also a widow. He had no children with either his second or third wives.

The home of his son, known as the Parson Smith House in Windham, Maine, has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1973. In 1821, his papers were published under the title Extracts from the Journals Kept by the Rev. Thomas Smith: Late Pastor of the First Church of Christ in Falmouth, in the County of York, (now Cumberland,) from the Year 1720, to the Year 1788, with an Appendix, Containing a Variety of Other Matters.^[4]