Smith, Simeon, 1735-1804

found: NUCMC data from New London County Hist. Soc. for Simeon Smith letter; also called Citizen Smith; commander of Militia detachment which marched French soldiers from New London to Hartford)

found: Sharon Hist. Soc. WWW, Nov. 4, 2008(Dr. Simeon Smith; 1735-1804; physician and militia officer; Sharon, Conn.; Burgoyne's Army, as prisoners of war, was marched into Conn., and encamped for the night across from Smith's house)

found: Rootsweb WWW, Nov. 24, 2010(Dr. Simeon SMITH came from Sharon, Conn., in 1787; he built a saw-mill on Hubbardton River, and operated a forge on the Falls, afterwards owned by General Jonathan ORMS. He leased the lot owned by Captain Eleazer DUDLEY, and erected there the house afterwards occupied by Major TILLY GILBERT, across the road from Dr. SMITH. He was selectman for the old town of Fairhaven in 1789, '90 and '91; representative in 1789, 1792 and 1797; was the delegate for the town to the State Convention at Bennington in Jan. 1791; in 1788 was elected one of the assistant judges of the Rutland County Court [Vermont], and in 1792 was probate judge for the district of Fairhaven. At his death, on 17 Feb. 1804, at the age of seventy years, he bequeathed to the town of Westhaven the then generous sum of $1,000, to be kept at interest for sixty years, and afterwards devoted to the following uses: "To have one good grammar school kept in Westhaven near the village where I now live, the over-plus for the benefit of other schools and the support of a gospel minister, well educated and regularly instructed in the ministry, and if any over for the support of the poor and needy in the said town of Westhaven, under the direction of the civil authority and the selectmen of said town.")