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John Smith (Virginia representative)

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over a school in Winchester as well as won election to the Virginia Senate (representing Frederick and Jefferson Counties 1827-1831). His grandson, Col. Archibald Magill Smith would continue the family's martial tradition as a Confederate cavalry captain, although several of his cousins became doctors and moved to Missouri before the conflict. His daughter Eliza Barnwell Smith married prominent architect
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After retiring from Congress, Smith resumed farming, probably using enslaved labor. Although the 1787 tax census lists several men of the same common name, only one of whom owed (2) slaves, this John Smith is probably the man who owned 26 slaves in Frederick County in 1810 and not the other two men
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of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, and they had at least three daughters and two sons who reached adulthood. His son Augustine Charles Smith (1789-1843) would also serve with distinction as a U.S. Army officer (in the War of 1812, promoted from the rank of major to colonel) and then presided
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Frederick County voters first elected Smith as one of their two representatives in the House of Delegates beginning in 1777, where he served alongside Isaac Zane and was re-elected twice but was replaced by Joseph Holmes in 1780. Smith again won election in 1786, serving alongside veteran
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and was elected to the Seventh and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1801 – March 3, 1815), although the name of his district changed following the 1800 census from the 1st to the 3rd Virginia congressional district.
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in Frederick County on March 5, 1836. He was interred in the family burying ground at Hackwood, near Winchester. "Hackwood" became a hospital for Union troops in the American Civil War, but burned in the
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of the same name and county who owned no slaves. In 1820, John Smith owned 17 slaves near Middletown in Frederick County. In the last census before his death, John Smith and his wife owned six slaves.
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Cynthia Miller Leonard, The Virginia General Assembly 1619-1978 (Richmond: Virginia State Library 1978) pp. 125, 129, 134,, 160, 186, 193, 196, 198
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to parents Captain John Smith (1715–1771) and Mary Jaquelin (1714–1764). He also raised his orphaned nephew,
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in 1773 and became a planter. By 1777 he built a manor house he called "Hackwood", near the county seat at
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he was commissioned as colonel and served under generals Daniel Morgan and Muhlenburg). During the
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Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia
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William and Mary Quarterly referenced at note 5 on page 29 in www.jstor.org/stable/4243032
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1830 U.S. Federal Census for Western District Frederick County Virginia p. 67 of 116
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1810 U.S. Federal Census for Frederick County Virginia p. 59 of 59
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1820 U.S. Federal Census for Frederick County Virginia p. 7 of 11
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Burials at Mount Hebron Cemetery (Winchester, Virginia)
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Smith also served in the local militia and fought in
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Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
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U.S. House of Representatives
Virginia
3rd
George Jackson
Henry S. Tucker
U.S. House of Representatives
1st
Robert Page
John G. Jackson
Virginia Senate
Frederick
Berkeley
Hampshire
Hardy
Robert Rutherford
Hugh Holmes
Virginia House of Delegates
Locust Hill
Virginia Colony
British America
Middletown
Virginia
U.S.
Winchester, Virginia
Democratic-Republican
planter
United Kingdom
United States of America
Virginia Militia

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