History of the Town of Rochester, New Hampshire, Vol 2 of 2 From 1722 to 1890 Classic Reprint

Excerpt from History of the Town of Rochester, New Hampshire, Vol. 2 of 2: From 1722 to 1890

Elias Smith was born in Epping, but removed in early life to Moultonborough, where the poverty and sacrifices incident to the settlement of a new country served to develop patience, perse veranos, and energy of character. In a time of great scarcity of provision he went on foot to Exeter, where he procured half a bushel of Indian corn and bore it home on his shoulder, a distance of nearly seventy miles through a dense and almost pathless wil derness.

His son, John Smith, was born in Moultonborough and brought up to a mechanical calling. He married Betsey Roberts of the same place and removed to Rochester about 1796, where he reared six sons and three daughters. He was through life an industrious, hard-working mechanic, of strong mental powers, ready for every emergency. Proverbially an honest man, he was endowed with a keen, intuitive sagacity, and manifested great independence of mind in the choice and maintenance of both religious and political principles. He had the confidence of the whole community, and those who knew him the most intimately, yielded him the largest homage and respect. Of an inquiring spirit, and gifted with happy conversational powers, his society was much sought, and he was always listened to with interest and profit. His opinions, formed only after due investigation, became incorporated into his very life. His wife was remarkable for her domestic and stern republican virtues.' Caring always for her household with true maternal ten derness, she cherished to the last a most sacred regard for the memory of the patriots of the Revolution. Remotely of blood kin to the immortal Warren, she partook largely of those strong and sterling qualities which characterized the women as well as the men of the Revolutionary era.

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