Abijah Smith of Massachusetts and Rindge, New Hampshire from A List of The Revolutionary Soldiers of Dublin, N.H. (1904)

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Surname: SMITH
Source:  A List of The Revolutionary Soldiers of Dublin, N.H. by Samuel Carroll Derby, 
          Columbus, Ohio, 1901, page 29

ABIJAH SMITH of New Ipswich, came thither from Leominster, Mass., about 1764. He had been a 
soldier in the French and Indian War, and was accordingly made a leader in preparations to 
resist Great Britain. In Col. Nahum Baldwin's regiment which marched in the autumn of 1776 to 
reinforce Washington's army about New York, Abijah Smith held a captaincy. He had a large family
and died in New Ipswich, 1786.

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS, OCTOBER, 1904.
Abijah Smith, a carpenter, and built, 1760, the first mill in Rindge, N. H.