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State of Service: MD
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
Andrew Smith was born in Switzerland (or perhaps Holland) about the year 1738. He provided Patriotic Service by signing an Oath of Fidelity in the year 1778 (source: NSDAR A104655, NSSAR RC# 150526, 158449). Andrew Smith married Elizabeth Estep about the year 1760 at Baltimore County. He appears in the 1790 U.S. Census at Patapsco Lower Hundred, Baltimore County, Maryland. He wrote his will (recorded at Will Book 9, Pages 148-149, Baltimore County, Maryland) 17 June 1811, which names his wife Elizabeth and his ten children John, William, Christopher, Thomas, Elizabeth, George, Daniel, Sarah, Ellenor and Mary. Andrew died 1 July 1811 and was laid to rest at the Smith Family Cemetery (also known as the Pargue Farm Cemetery) at Belfast, Baltimore County, Maryland. His wife was laid beside him upon her death 30 October 1815.
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