Lt. Thomas Smyth

 

Edward Howard mentioned

Certifies copy from original marriage certificate of Thos. Smyth, late Lieut. 1st Battn. King's

Royal Regt. of New York, to Larima Cornstock.  Sept. 1834  C. 213  p.166

Dr. Smyth’s son, Thomas, also served as a Secret Service scout and courier. He was responsible for a reconnaissance expedition to Albany in 1780 and led a party to Saratoga in April 1781. Shortly thereafter he enlisted as an Ensign in the King’s Royal Yorkers.  It was in this capacity that he led a prisoner exchange to Skenesborough in September, and there reconnected with his mother who was still making her way north to join her husband. They continued on to Fort St. Jean where Dr Smyth had his headquarters.  Thomas served in the Colonel’s Coy of the Yorkers and reached the rank of Lieutenant.  

...“Smiths Falls”...remember that the spot where the three locks sit today is the exact location of the rapids that powered the Smyth mill. Also recall that the owner of the land was Lt. Thomas Smyth, a young lieutenant in the King’s Royal Yorkers, and that the Smyth Family served with distinction as agents of the British Secret Service throughout the American Revolution. (Source)