- The will of William Barton Smoot was proved 1821 in Charles County by John T. Dyson, William H. Smoot, and Mary Muskett. Mary Letitia was bequeathed one-third of the dwelling-plantation and numerous slaves, while William and John received the residue. Walter Hanson was willed the land purchased from Robert Edelen, and Hanson the land where Edward Ford resided called "Bridges" and "Smoot's Triangle". Mary Letitia Briscoe and Elizabeth Eleanor Briscoe, grand-daughters, were devised personalty.
The inventory on August 31, 1821, showed numerous tannery utensils. At the sale of his personal estate on November 23, 1823, among the buyers were William Hoskins Smoot, Hanson Smoot, Dr. Charles Smoot, Walter H. Smoot, Letitia H. Smoot, John Smoot, Charles Smoot, and Walter Smoot Hoskins.
On August 4, 1825, Letitia Hanson Smoot, William Hoskins Smoot, and John Smoot conveyed the following tracts--"Chance Enlarged", "Brother", "Boarman's Hazard", and "George's Rest"--beginning at Zachia Swamp, all of which had been deeded to their father, William Barton Smoot, by Samuel Chapman.
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- Children of William and Elizabeth (Hanson) Smoot
1. Letitia Hanson Smoot married Henry S. Hawkins.
2. William Hoskins Smoot, d.s.p. 1831, naming young niece Elizabeth Eleanor Brerewood Hawkins dau. of "my" sister Letitia H.Hawkins; will witnessed by J. W. Smoot and Mary Briscoe.
3. John Smoot, d.s.p. 1846, willing sister Letita H. Hawkins entire estate and mentioning niece Mrs. Sara Sides, of Balto.
4. Walter Hanson Smoot. Pvt. Capt. Cox's Co., Hawkins' Regt.,
War of 1812.
5. Hanson Smoot, born 1789, living alone 1850 in Chas. Co.
6. Charles Smoot married Harriet Sothoron. q.v.
7. (???) Smoot married (???) Briscoe. Issues: Mary Letitia and Elizabeth Eleanor.
- The Smoots of Maryland and Virginia by Harry Wright Newman, Pages 110
(this book is on-line at http://www.usgennet.org/family/smoot/book/index.html)
He engaged in the tanning trade, an occupation which proved the foundation for considerable affluence of the Smoots for a later day.
The will of William Barton Smoot was proved 1821 in Charles County by John T. Dyson, William H. Smoot, and Mary Mushett.
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WILLIAM BARTON SMOOT5
(1746 - 1822)
William Barton Smoot, son of Charles and Mary (Brandt) Smoot, was born about 1746 in the Wicomico District of Charles County, where his great-grandfather settled nearly 100 years before. He, however, left the immediate environs of his father's plantation and established his seat near the present hamlet of Newport in Trinity Parish where a number of the younger sons of the landed barons of the Wicomico settled when their patrimony did not entitle them to the ancestral seat. He engaged in the tanning trade, an occupation which proved the foundation for considerable affluence of the Smoots for a later day.
He selected his wife from among the eligible daughters of Judge Walter Hanson and Elizabeth his wife, the daughter of William Hoskins.
William Barton Smoot was active in the cause for independence and in 1777 served as private then sergeant in the company of Captain Walter Hanson of the Twelfth Battalion of Charles County Militia.3
The tax list for Charles County in 1783 shows him a resident of Newport Hundred seized of the following tracts--"Chance Enlarged" of 12 acres, "George's Rest" of 50 acres, "Bridges" 50 acres, "Hucklow's Addition" 28 acres, and "Smoot's Venture" of 343 acres, the latter lying in Port Tobacco Hundred.
In 1792 William Barton Smoot with John Chandler was a bondsman for Charity Keech when she administered on the estate of George Keech Sr.
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