Hooker Low,5 of Samuel,4 of Samuel,3 of Anthony,2 of John1; m. Elizabeth Kinnicutt; children, Wilson, b. 1751; Wilson, 2d, 1753; Sarah, 1754; Hooker, 1756; Wilson, 3d, 1758; Anstress, 1759; Amy, 1761, John Wilson, 1764. Hooker sold the farm and brick mansion house under the great elms at the corners at B. Centre to Hon. Paul Mumford.
Joseph Rawson. Second son of Edward; was born in Mendon, Aug. 18, 1768; grad. at Rhode Island College A. D. 1794; was rector of the Academy at Bristol, R. I., a number of years. He married Mrs. Rebecca Bullock of Providence, widow of Capt. William Bullock, and eldest dau. of Gen. Thomas Allen, Dec. 21, 1797; settled in Bristol and was for several years the first cashier of the Bank of Bristol, and his reason for leaving the bank was " in consequence of the Rev. Abraham L. Clark, the Episcopal minister, offering to be its cashier for one hundred dollars less than he had been paid. It was quite a ministerial move for the bread and fishes." He afterwards removed to Barrington, and was a representative in the General Assembly in 1808. He also held other responsible offices such as justice of the peace, chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas for Bristol County, etc., etc.
George Lewis Smith. Oldest son of Lewis B. Smith; farmer, soldier, Captain in the Civil War, officer of Customs, Representative, Senator, member of Board of State Charities and Correction, member of school committee and superintendent of schools, Assessor of taxes, President of B. R. I. Society, etc., etc. Mr. Smith enlisted as a private in the Second R. I. V. Reg. in 1861, served throughout the war and received an honorable discharge in 1865. For army record see page 509. Mr. Smith is a man of practical business ability, liberal in views, generous, public spirited, conservative in action. His army record is one of which he is justly proud and in it he rendered the longest service, and attained the highest rank of the Barrington soldiers, the captaincy. In the autumn of 1891 Mr. Smith, wife, and daughter, started with others on a trip around the world, returning in 1893. They crossed the continent to California, thence across the Pacific, visiting Japan, India, Palestine, and the European countries, with great delight and profit to all. Mr. Smith is influential in the Republican party, and has enjoyed a full share of its honors. Both Mr. and Mrs. Smith have been actively engaged in all the efforts made for building up New Barrington along the lines established by the earlier families; m. Adelaide E. Peck, of Asa and Lucretia S. Peck, Dec. 27, 1865; children, George Howard, m. Olive B. Holmes; children, Mildred R., Lewis B., Harold H.; Anna D., m. George R. Gray, D. D. S., of Worcester, Mass.
The Paines are descended from Stephen Paine,1 who came from Great Ellingham, County Norfolk, England, and settled at Hingham, and was at Rehoboth in 1638. His son, Stephen,2 m. Anne Chickering, and his son Nathaniel,3 b. Nov. 20, 1667, m. Dorothy Chaffee May 1, 1694; children, Dorothy, Nathaniel,4. Abigail, Jonathan, Rachel, Elizabeth.
