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Anabel Smith “Bland”

Generation 12 back

Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Catherine Raye Lobb ← Patricia Jane Loomis ← Beulah Grahm ← Anna Frances Brown ← Isaac Horace Brown ← George Ellison Brown ← John Brown ← Isaiah Brown ← John Brown ← John Brown ← Sarah Barsham ← Anabel Bland/Smith

In brief

Born about 1613/1615. She married about 1634.

Family

Father

John Smith “Bland”

Mother

Isabel Drake

Spouse

William Barsham

m. 1634

Children

John Barsham
b. December 8, 1635, in Watertown, Massachusetts
m. Mehitable ____
Anna/Hannah Barsham
b. January 7, 1637[1638], in Watertown, Massachusetts
m. John Spring, December 19, 1656, in Watertown, Massachusetts
Joshua Barsham
b. March 15, 1640, in Watertown, Massachusetts
Susanna Barsham
b. January 28, 1641[1642], in Watertown, Massachusetts
m. John Capen, November 19, 1663, in Dorchester, Massachusetts
Nathaniel Barsham
b. Abt. 1644
m. Elizabeth Bond, March 13, 1678[1679], in Watertown, Massachusetts
Sarah Barsham · in this line
b. Abt. 1646
m. March 3, 1673[1674], in Lynn, Massachusetts
m. November 14, 1681, in Reading, Massachusetts
d. After August 1714
Mary Barsham
b. June 23, 1648, in Watertown, Massachusetts
m. John Bright, May 7, 1675, in Watertown, Massachusetts
Rebecca Barsham
b. December 12, 1657, in Watertown, Massachusetts
m. Edward Winship, May 14, 1683, in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Elizabeth Barsham
b. July 29, 1658, in Watertown, Massachusetts
m. Adam Eve, July 5, 1694, in Watertown, Massachusetts

Siblings

Isabel Smith “Bland”
b. c. 1612
m. Francis Austin
m. Thomas Leavitt
d. Abt. February 1698 [1699]

Life story

A Watertown Inheritance

Anabel Smith, known as “Bland,” was born around 1613–1615, daughter of John Smith “Bland,” and inherited her father's land in Watertown, Massachusetts, along with ten shillings. She married around 1634.

Sources (3)

Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, 3 vols. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 1:108-111; digital images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2496/images/42521_b158318-00182 : accessed 20 August 2026).
Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, 6 vols. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009), 6:391-394; digital images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2496/images/42521_b158317-00504 : accessed 21 August 2026).
Robert Charles Anderson, “John Smith of Watertown, Massachusetts,” The American Genealogist 61 (January/April 1985): 18-31; image copy, American Ancestors, (https://www.americanancestors.org/DB283/i/12790/18/144273857 : accessed 24 August 2026).