1. John William Smith (1741–1782) demonstrated fervor for the revolutionary cause but retreated shortly after the war began to the seclusion of his farm in Schunemunk Clove, N.Y., an area within Smiths Clove. Shortly before his death, he was suspected of carrying intelligence to the British (see Koke, Joshua Hett Smith description begins Richard J. Koke. Accomplice in Treason: Joshua Hett Smith and the Arnold Conspiracy. New York, 1973. description ends , 13–23,283).

2. Elizabeth Gordon Smith (1753–1784), daughter of a prosperous Charleston merchant, married Joshua Hett Smith in 1770 and gave birth to a son in 1771 and a daughter in 1773. She firmly supported her husband throughout the aftermath of Maj. Gen. Benedict Arnold’s treachery and assisted his escape from the custody of New York officials. Elizabeth Smith stayed in New York after her husband fled to England, where he “received an afflicting account” of her death. He believed that “from the first shock” of his “being arrested by order of Washington,” she “had been daily declining in health, which increased in consequence of [his] compulsive departure at the end of the war, and which terminated her existence on the 1st of January, 1784, with a truly broken heart” (Smith, Narrative description begins Joshua Hett Smith. An Authentic Narrative of the Causes which Led to the Death of Major Andrè, Adjutant-General of His Majesty’s Forces in North America. 1808. Reprint. New York, 1969. description ends , 289; see also Koke, Joshua Hett Smith description begins Richard J. Koke. Accomplice in Treason: Joshua Hett Smith and the Arnold Conspiracy. New York, 1973. description ends , 191–98).