SMITH, Thomas, clergyman, born in Boston, Massachusetts, 10 March, 1702; died in Portland, Maine, 25 May, 1795. He was the son of Thomas Smith, a well-known merchant of Boston, and was graduated at Harvard in 1720. After leaving college he at once entered upon theological studies, and began to preach on 19 April, 1722. In June, 1725, he came for the first time to Falmouth (now Portland), then the extreme settlement in Maine, and preached for several months to the great satisfaction of the people, who extended to him a call to become their pastor, 26 April, 1726. This he did not accept until 23 January, 1727, and he was publicly ordained on 8 March of the same year. His salary was "£70 money the first year besides his board." Mr. Smith continued pastor of the 1st church in Portland more than sixty-eight years, and officiated in part of the services till within two years of his death. He kept an historical and personal diary from 1720 till 1788, a greater length of time probably than that during which any similar record has been kept within the limits of the state. It was edited by the Reverend Samuel Freeman (Portland, 1821), and a new edition, with notes and a memoir by William Willis, former president of the Maine historical society, was issued in 1849.