Descended in the family from Thomas Smith to his daughter Maria Catherina Smith Gross Mears (Mrs. William Gross, later Mrs. Samuel Mears) (b. 1670–73. d. 1703/4–06); to her daughter Catherina Mears Dexter (Mrs. Samuel Dexter; later Mrs. Samuel Barnard) (1701–1797); to Catherina Dexter Haven (Mrs. Joseph Haven) (1737–1814); to her grandson Samuel Foster Haven, mid nineteenth century; to his nephew the Rev. Samuel Haven Hilliard, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts; to his son Edmund B. Hilliard.