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Title: Hannah Logan's courtship, a true narrative; the wooing of the daughter of James Logan, colonial governor of Pennsylvania, and divers other matters, as related in the diary of her lover, the Honorable John Smith, assemblyman of Pennsylvania and king's councillor of New Jersey, 1736-1752;
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Smith, John, 1722-1771 Myers, Albert Cook, 1874-1960, ed
Subjects: Smith, Hannah (Logan), Mrs., 1720-1761 or 2 Smith, John, 1722-1771
Publisher: Philadelphia, Ferris & Leach
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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man ofYork, to Anne Yates, daughter of William Yates,Quaker, of Alborough. She also was imprisoned inYork Castle, in 1688. This Richard Smith was a sonof Richard Smith (1593-1647), of Braham, and agrandson of William Smith, of Braham, the first knownancestor of the family. The Honourable Richard Smith, Jr.( 1699-175 i ), is introduced in Mollesons painting, The First Prayer in Con-gress. He was carefully educated and devoted much of his timeto literary pursuits. Part of his correspondence with Dr. TobiasSmollett, the novelist, at the beginning of the Revolution, hasbeen published in the Atlantic Monthly. He was married to Eliz-abeth, daughter of John Rodman. His country seat was namedBraham Hall. He died at Natchez, Mississippi, in 1803,while on a journey through the Southern States. — R. MorrisSmith, Burlington Smiths, 118-119; Appletons Cy. Bio. Burlington Smiths, 21, passim. 2 Richard Smith had one sister, Mary, who married JosephNoble, son of Abel, of Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
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Old View of John SiiiiUi ^, House in BurlingtonIuilt in 1720 by his father, Richard Smith. Jr. auction) Hannah Logan 27 a prominent Friend of Burlington, was a prosperousmerchant, and for nearly twenty years a member ofthe New Jersey Assembly. He was extensivelyengaged in commerce to the West Indies, exchanginggrain, lumber, and other products of the Middle Statesfor sugar, rum, molasses, and the like. He ownedhis own vessels and built some of them at his ownyard. His wharves were in Burlington on what isnow known as Green Bank, the pleasant residentialshore of the Delaware. He had a spacious townhouse, not far from the river, on Main Street, builtof brick, in 1720, shortly after his marriage, and acountry-seat near to the town called Green Hill,previously owned by Governor Samuel Jennings.The letters of Richard Smith show him to have beena genial, kindly man with some humor. He was veryhospitable, and his house was much resorted to bytraveling Friends and others. His contemporaries h

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