found: An essay on the fall of angels and men, 1792:p. 76 (E.S.)
found: American Antiquarian Society General Catalogue, viewed Nov. 5, 2020(An essay on the fall of angels and men, 1792; access point: E. S.; usage: E.S.; attributed to Elias Smith by Evans and Rink. However, when this tract was first published in Delaware, Smith was an itinerant preacher in his native New England)
found: The life, conversion, preaching, travels, and sufferings of Elias Smith, 1840:p. 270 (first published work was was a sermon delivered in Northwood in 1802)
found: NUCMC data from Portsmouth Athenaeum for Portsmouth Church of Christ Record book, 1803-1824(Elias Smith; church elder)
found: ANB, 1999(Elias Smith; b. 17 June 1769; d. June 1846; m. (1793) Mary Burleigh (d. 1814); m. (1814) Rachel Thurber; minister; religious journalist; polemicist; botanical doctor; baptized and joined (1789) Baptist chuch, Woodstock, Vt.; itinerant Baptist preacher in northern Connectitut River valley and New Hampshire; ordained (1792) Baptist preacher; served as preacher of a Baptist church in Salisbury, N.H. (1793-1798); installed minister of Baptist church, Woburn, Mass. (1798-1801); removed (1803) to Portsmouth, N.H. and estab. "Church of Christ" to protest the growing formalism of the New England Baptists)
