Life

He was the son of Joshua Smith (1732–1814), and Hannah (Smith) Smith (1742–1793), and was born and died at the family estate in the Smithtown

Smithtown, New York

As of the census of 2000, there were 115,715 people, 38,487 households, and 31,482 families residing in the town. The population density was 2,159.9 people per square mile . There were 39,357 housing units at an average density of 734.6 per square mile...

 section of Hauppauge

Hauppauge, New York

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On December 23, 1784, he married Alma Blydenburgh (died 1790). On October 19, 1793, he married Ruth Smith (1769–1797), and they had two children. On April 4, 1798, he married Deborah Smith (1771–1809), and they had three children, among them State Senator Joshua B. Smith (1801–1860).

Joshua Smith was a member of the New York State Assembly

New York State Assembly

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 (Suffolk Co.) in 1794

17th New York State Legislature

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, 1795

18th New York State Legislature

The 18th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 6 to April 9, 1795, during the eighteenth year of George Clinton's governorship, first in Poughkeepsie, then in New York City....

, 1796

19th New York State Legislature

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, 1796–97

20th New York State Legislature

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, 1798–99

22nd New York State Legislature

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 and 1825

48th New York State Legislature

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He was a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1821.

He was a member of the New York State Senate

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 {1st D.) from 1826 to 1829, sitting in the 49th

49th New York State Legislature

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, 50th

50th New York State Legislature

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, 51st and 52nd New York State Legislatures.

Sources

• The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 58, 126f, 145, 168ff, 172 and 203; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
• Judge Joshua Smith at Long Island Surnames

External links

• The Joshua Smith House (demolished 1960), in Smithtown by Bradley Harris, Kiernan Lannon & Joshua Ruff (Arcadia Publishing, 2009; ISBN 978-0-7385-6453-1 ; pg. 90)