SMITH, Jonathan Bayard, member of the Continental congress, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 21 February, 1742; died there, 16 June, 1812. His father, Samuel, a native of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, settled in Philadelphia, where he became a well-known merchant. The son was graduated at Princeton in 1760, and engaged in mercantile pursuits. He was among the earliest of those who espoused the cause of independence, and he was active in the Revolutionary struggle. In 1775 he was chosen secretary of the committee of safety, and in February, 1777, he was elected by the assembly a delegate to the Continental congress. He was a second time chosen to this post, serving in the congresses of 1777-'8. From 4 April, 1777, till 13 November, 1778, he was prothonotary of the court of common pleas. On 1 December, 1777, he presided at the public meeting, in Philadelphia, of "Real Whigs," by whom it was resolved "That it be recommended to the council of safety that in this great emergency . . . every person between the age of sixteen and fifty years be ordered out under arms." During this year he was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of a battalion of "Associators" under Colonel John Bayard, who was Colonel Smith's brother-in-law, and the latter subsequently commanded a battalion. In 1778 he was appointed a justice of the court of common pleas, quarter sessions, and orphans' court, which post he held many years. He was appointed in 1781 one of the auditors of the accounts of Pennsylvania troops in the service of the United States. In 1792, and subsequently, he was chosen an alderman of the city, which was an office of great dignity in his day, and in 1794 he was elected auditor-general of Pennsylvania. He became in 1779 one of the founders and a member of the first board of trustees of the University of the state of Pennsylvania, and when in 1791 this institution united with the College of Philadelphia, under the name of the University of Pennsylvania, he was chosen a trustee, which place he held until his death, and was also from 1779 till 1808 a trustee of Princeton. He was a vice-president of the Sons of Washington, and grand-master of Masons in Philadelphia, and for forty years was a member of the American philosophical society.--His son, Samuel Harrison, editor, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1772" died in Washington, D. C., 1 November, 1845, was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1787, edited the "New World" in 1796-1800, and on the removal of the seat of government to Washington, D. C., on 31 October of the latter year, founded the "National Intelligencer," which he edited till 1818. He was commissioner of revenue from 1813 till the office was abolished. He published "Remarks on Education" (Philadelphia, 1798); "Trial of Samuel Chase, Impeached before the United States Senate," with Thomas Lloyd (2 vols., Washington, 1805); and an " Oration" (1813).--His wife, Margaret Bayard, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1778: died in Washington, D. C., in 1844, was the daughter of Colonel John Bayard, of Philadelphia. She was educated at the Moravian seminary, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, married Mr. Smith in 1800, and removed with him to Washington, D. C., where she was for many years a popular leader of society, her house being the resort ofseveral of the early presidents and of Henry Clay She engaged in many religious and charitable enterprises. Mrs. Smith wrote with facility, and published several tales and biographical sketches, including "A Winter in Washington" (2 vols., Washington, 1827) and "What is Gentility?" (1830).