The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-02-03

create Carleton. in the countie of Lin
coin, together with my Coate of Armes.
ltem-to my sister Smith, the
widowe of my brother, the come of tenn
poundes. Iten-to my cousin, Steven
Smith. & his sister, the somme (of) six
poundes thirteene shillinges and Tower
pence between them"
In this will, John Smith leaves legacies
Of money. wearing apparel, books, ETC..
to Sir Samuel Saltonstall with whom
he lived much OF the time and in whose
house he almost certainly dleO. to Mis-
tress Tredway, to Thomas Packers wife
Joan and "Eleanour his Daughter" to
Ma ster Reynoldes the Saymaster assay
Mastery of Gouldsmith Hail., and to
others. but there is never word of any
wife, son, daughter, nephew or niece.
To sum up: John Smith never mar
ried and his brother Francis almost as
certainly left no lawful issue.
Whether his sister Alice dyed before
we age of cishtenne yeares," konw not,
but the strong presumption is that she
was not alive and had left no issue when
Smith made his will In 1851, for it is not
credible that hid should have left his
property to sster-in-law, cousins and
friends and passed over his own sister
and her children.
Still more incredible Is it that a man
of John Smiths character ('the ancestor
whom General Baden-Powell IN his recent
speech tells US The uses as a model and
example OF all that is best In honesty'0
should seek to divert from his own child
or children and to give to divers friends
of his the property which his father,
George Smith had explicitly bequeathed
to him and to we hei-es of his body law
fully besotten''
Indeed, John Smith could not have done
this, even had he been so minded, unless
what Is known in law as "a common re-
covery" had been suffered" by which
the entail might be broken, and of this
there is not the slightest trace in the
records.
1t would be interesting to know on
what grounds General Baden-Powell's
branch of the Snlyth family are entitled
of the Heralds' College to bear the arms
OF John Smith," as the general asserts
In the P. S. to his letter addressed to
Judge Mayer. seeing that John Smith
himself IN his will rather emphasizes the
fact that he left no llneal descendant by
bequeathing to his friend Thomas
Packer Esquioure" and 80 his heires
for ever, all my houses andes tenements
lyenEe and being In the Countie of Lin
colne together with my Coate Of Armes.
AS we say in 1.-THE American lang,lage,"
ut is lip to- the Heralds' College to en-
plain. since General Baden-Powells right
to bear these arms Ga right sanctioned by
the Heralds College according to his en-
plicit statemenD. has been fatty denied.
If the Heralds' College bears him out" in
his assumption of John Smiths arms.
as he declares (and 7 do not for mo-
ment doubt his statemenD, and If the
province Of the "Heralds'' be in chief
mea sure the tracing and preservation OF
surely some Of these learned
officials might be willing to state the
grounds of their official sanct ton. AS to
when this claim of direct descent from
John Smith was first put forward In print
l can find little or nothing, but some OF
your readers may be more Fortunate.
The first mention of it that | recall |
IS in a pleasant little volume. entitled
"A Year With the Turks" by ,Waring
~ ms yoIms Of travel tbe N
who w Was. take it. brother Of Gen Can
sral -Powell's mother) says: son
ae nppea Rosen %hurm eor Red
ar) several severe engagements ushered |
n the seventeenth century. 1t was at |
his time that the wave Of Mohamme
Pennsylvania and WalIachla," |
After, describing the, VARYING
'ortunes, of tho Hungarian and Turkish |
the river and the heights OF |
he Rothen Thurm range, the Christian |
lrmy was attacked with impetuosity BY |
|. far greater number, COMPOSED prn- |
'lpally OF Tartars, and was entirely |
suit to pieces.
TN this catastrophe, several English
officers serving with the Hungarian ,
army We're slain; and an ancestor Of the
who was left for dead on the !
leld, after describing this dismal bat
TELL gives their names ana observes
hat they did what men could do, and |
when they could do no moro. left there [