Welcome back for the part 2 of our story on how Smith became the most common surname in America! We'll go through the whole shebang from Capt. John Smith to Mr. & Mrs. Smith with all the racist awfulness in between! 

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Sources:

Websites:

https://www.facinghistory.org/reconstruction-era/changing-names

https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=47

https://www.thechurchnews.com/leaders-and-ministry/2018-08-10/we-are-family-over-500-descendants-of-joseph-smith-sr-and-lucy-mack-smith-gather-for-one-epic-reunion-9490

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/09/30/how-u-s-immigration-laws-and-rules-have-changed-through-history/

http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/page/mission 

http://nativeamericannetroots.net/diary/1458 

https://www.thoughtco.com/smith-name-meaning-and-origin-1422624 

https://www.jaunequicktoseesmith.org/

https://www.bjpa.org/content/upload/bjpa/name/NAME%20CHANGING%20JEWISH%20REFUGEES%20CENTRAL%20EUROPE%20IN%20US,%20ERNEST%20MAAS%20SEPT%201958.pdf

census.gov

Books:

Smith, H. (1891). Fifty Years of Slavery in the United States of America. classics.us.