My colonial ancestor, Andrew Smith [c.1644-1703], is believed to have emigrated from St Wilfrids Parish Calverley, West Riding of Yorkshire, c.1677 by way of Hull and London, expanding his family and living the remainder of his life in West New Jersey Colony. The family home for centuries had been in the hamlet of Owlcotes, near Farsley, (near Bradford and Leeds). I have a continuing study of the family dispersal in the eastern colonies and later into the heartland.

The popular putative line identifies Andrew of New Jersey as the son of another Andrew born 17 Jul 1619 in Farsley, Calverley Parish [Leeds], West Riding Yorkshire, England, marrying 17 Apr 1643 a spouse, yet unidentified, and dying in Farsley 16 May 1671.

Our Andrew is first noted in West New Jersey Colony with his daughter Elizabeth's birth 9 Feb 1679, at the Burlington Monthly Meeting of Quakers! And, later in a surveyor's diary: on January 20, 1681, Thomas Revel surveyed for Peter Fretwell "above the ffals of Dellaware" (Hopewell), and 200 acres for Andrew SMITH "at the ffalls (Trenton)."

There are a number of intriguing indicators of a Yorkshire connection, but as of yet no 'Golden Spike' uniting the lines of East and West.

Notes added by Carole
Entries from Gary's Ancestry World Tree index,
for Smiths/Smyths and Smythes, who were born and/or died in either Yorkshire West Riding or Lancashire, have been extracted with brief details for easy reference into the following Appended file:
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