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Richard Smith, the emigrant ancestor, was an earlier settler in the Narragansett country near present-day Wickford, Rhode Island. He established a trading house in the midst of the Narragansett Indians, giving free entertainment to travelers passing through that section. Smith's Castle, as his trading post came to be called, became the military headquarters of the whole New England army of 1,000 men from Massachusetts Bay Colony, Plymouth and Connecticut both before and after the Great Swamp Fight of King Phillip's War. Read the biography of Richard Smith. |
