Stephen Smith (1741-1799) was the fifth child of Samuel Smith Jr. and Elizabeth Drowne. He was baptized in the Congregational Church. He was a cooper by trade and listed in documents as a “gentleman”. In 1763, he married Mary Gorham in the Congregational Church. Stephen and Mary had several children including: Sarah, Mary, Elizabeth, Hannah, Lydia Power, Susannah, and Stephen. In 1774, as part of a town-wide effort, Stephen Sr. sent a sum of 15 shillings to support the people of Boston (that city’s port having been recently closed by the British). He was counted as a head of household in the 1774 Rhode Island Census. In 1776, he became captain of the Bristol Militia Company, later being replaced by William Throope. In the early 1790s, Stephen became a justice of the peace, serving in the Bristol County Court of Common Pleas.
Bristol, Rhode Island in the Revolutionary War 1775-1783
Rev War Bristol 