Meriwether Smith
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Meriwether Smith (1730– January 25, 1790) was an American planter from Essex County, Virginia. He was a delegate for Virginia to the Continental Congress in 1778, 1779, and 1781.
Smith was first elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1770. He was a vocal opponent of the Stamp Act, and a representative in the revolutionary conventions which replaced the burgesses in 1775 and 1776. Virginia sent him to the Continental Congress three times. He was a member of Virginia's House of Delegates in 1776 to 1778 and again in 1781. In 1788 he was a member of the Virginia convention that ratified the U.S. Constitution.
Smith was married twice, first to Alice Lee in 1760 and after her death to Elizabeth Daingerfield in 1769. His son by Alice was George William Smith who was Governor of Virginia from part of 1811. Meriwether died in Essex County, and was buried in a family plot on his plantation of Bathurst.
