John Smith - Curator

Do you mean this one? https://www.geni.com/merge/view?revision_id=78336857250 It looks like a good merge to me. Did it introduce an issue into the family tree?

Tamas

@Erica Howton had disconnected the Christopher as parent....

SMITH

(Related to the Cowne Family)

Information from "Windows Into Our Past A Genealogy of the Cowne, Gough & Associated Families, Volume 2", compiled by Judy Parsons Smith © 1998.

http://www.crossedbrushstudio.com/windowsintoourpast//Vol2/smith.htm

Thomas Smith , emigrant

Thomas Smith [i], emigrant, had a son:

Major John Smith [ii]

Major John Smith of Warwick Co., VA; m. 1653[iii] to Anne Bernard , daughter of Richard & Anne (Corduroy) Bernard .

Major John Smith served as the Speaker of the House of Burgesses of Colonial Virginia in 1657-1658.

Major John & Anne (Bernard) Smith had:

Colonel John Smith II

Colonel John Smith II of "Purton", son of Major John & Anne (Bernard) Smith, b. 1662; d. 14 Apr 1698; m. 17 Feb 1680 to Mary Warner , daughter of Col. Augustine & Mildred (Reade) Warner , Jr. of Warner Hall, d. 12 Nov 1700 .

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Possible the father was not Thomas; but Pretty sure was not Christopher Smith

“ The following year (1663), as Beverly, the historian informs us, a plot was disclosed to the public by a servant of "Mr. Smith, of Purton."

So much seems certain, but the article in the magazine appears in error in attempting to identify John Smith, of "Purton," with Major John Smith of Warwick County, who was Speaker of the House of Burgesses in 1658. The fact is, there is nothing to show that John Smith, of "Purton", attained the military title of major, as early as 1658, though he was a major in 1665. ”

Tyler does not have parents for him.

Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Under the Editorial ..., Volume 1
edited by Lyon Gardiner Tyler. Page 326.

https://books.google.com/books?id=CWiel4PVkEkC&lpg=PA326&ot...

I had thought this merge reconnected Christopher as parent but I may have that wrong; but, I know that without a primary source or atDna to ISOGG Standards, it is policy to have the unknown parent be listed as unknown.