- The will of Charles Smoot was dated November 25, 1776, and proved in Charles County on March 20, 1778. He divided his estate among his wife Elizabeth and four children--Mary, John Nathan, Hendley, and William Barton. The inventory of the personal effects was taken on June 27, 1778, with William Barton Smoot as the acting executor, and John N. Smoot and Hendley Smoot, signing as the kinsmen.
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- Charles Smoot, son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Barton) Smoot, was born in the year 1700 at the parental homestead on the Wicomico. He was orphaned when he was not more than five years of age and, according to the will of his father, he was placed under the guardianship of his maternal uncle, Colonel William Barton, of Prince Georges County. Colonel Barton died within the same year as that of Thomas Smoot, and by a codicil to his will he mentioned the land left Charles by his father Thomas.
Charles Smoot married thrice, his first wife being Elizabeth, the daughter of Thomas and Martha (Sansbury) Harris.
Children of Charles and Elizabeth (Harris) Smoot
1. Elizabeth Smoot married Henry Smith Hawkins.
Well advanced in his thirties Charles Smoot married secondly Mary, daughter of Randolph and Anne Brandt, who was also the step-daughter of Barton, his brother. Circumstances also seem to indicate that Mary had been the second wife but childless widow of ---- Goodrick.
Children of Charles and Mary (Brandt) Smoot
1. Henley Smoot married Eleanor Briscoe. q.v.
2. John Nathan Smoot married twice. q.v.
3. William Barton Smoot married Elizabeth Hanson. q.v.
4. Mary Smoot married July 16, 1782, William, born Sept. 23, 1740, died Jan. 19, 1809, son of William and Barbara (Acton) McPherson. Issues: Elizabeth, born Apr. 15, 1783; Henry Hendley, born 1786; Thomas; William; Mary; and Harriot.
Shortly after the marriage of his eldest daughter, Elizabeth to Henry Smith Hawkins, Charles Smoot deeded to them the tract called "Daniel's Mount" for natural love and affections. The conveyance was recorded in Charles County on August 11, 1750, with Mary Smoot, wife, relinquishing her interest.
A warrant was issued to him in 1761 for 130 acres of land in Charles County to be known as "Chance Enlarged", which seems to be the only record of a land patent in his name.
His second wife died prior to June 21, 1766. The fact that she maintained a separate estate and that Charles Smoot, the widower, was appointed administrator by the court is proof that she had a life interest in the property. The inventory papers were filed on September 16, 1767, with an appraisement of £452/8/4, with William Courts and James Maddox as the sureties. Distribution was made on October 11, 1768, to the following representatives, no relationship stated--Ignatius Middleton, William Stone, Charles Sewell, Frances Goodrick, and the heirs of Edward Goodrick deceased. It is assumed that they were her step- children or their husbands who claimed their father's estate upon the death of his widow.
Charles Smoot took for a third wife his cousin Elizabeth, the daughter of William and Rachel Barton, but successively the widow of Henry Brawner and Aaron Nalley. She had married her first husband on January 2, 1726/7, in Rock Creek Parish, of Prince Georges County. He died prior to 1749, leaving six children. The following have been proved-- William, Barton, and Henry. By her second husband she became the mother of four sons--John, Aaron, Richard, and Nathan Barton. To the latter chidren she deeded on March 26, 1767, her personal estate but reserved it to her use during life and that of Charles Smoot "providing that the said Charles Smoot should marry me in six months". Two days later she deeded "Wentworth Woodhouse" to her three Brawner sons "providing if Charles Smoot should marry me honourably in six months". At this date most assuredly a courtship was in progress.
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=grantpinnix&id=I082105
The Smoots of Maryland and Virginia
Author: Harry Wright Newman
Call Number: R929.2 S6662
Pages 106-122
http://www.smoot-family.us/book/106.html
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Abt 1700 - Bef 1778 (~ 78 years)
