SMITH, Ethan, clergyman, b. in Belchertown, Mass., 19 Dec., 1762; d. in Pompey, N. Y., 29 Aug., 1849. He was apprenticed to the leather trade in his boyhood, was a private in the Continental army in 1780-'1, was graduated at Dartmouth in 1790, and the same year licensed to preach. From 1791 till 1832 he was pastor of Congregational churches in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont, and he served as city missionary in Boston from the latter date until his death. He was a founder of the New Hampshire missionary society, its secretary for sixteen years, and the author of numerous sermons: "Dissertation on the Prophecies" (Concord, N. H. , 1809); "Key to the Figurative Language of the Prophecies" (1814); "A View of the Trinity" (1824); "A View of the Hebrews," designed to prove that the aborigines of America are descended from the twelve tribes of Israel (Poultney, Vt., 1825); "A Key to the Revelation" (New York, 1833); and a "Prophetic Catechism" (1839).