[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 117 (Friday, July 15, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H6628]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





             SMITH FAMILY CELEBRATING 400 YEARS IN AMERICA

  (Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania. Madam Speaker, I rise today to 
recognize the Smith family ahead of their 400th anniversary of arriving 
to the United States.
  In 1622, William Smith traveled across the ocean from England and 
made landfall just north of Plymouth. Mr. Smith, like so many of the 
original Pilgrims, left England in search of a new life as a result of 
religious persecution. Being Methodist in a mostly Puritan colony meant 
he and his family were considered strangers and outsiders in their 
English community.
  The Smith family eventually made their way to Jefferson County, 
Pennsylvania, in 1816, which they have now called home for more than 
200 years.
  Madam Speaker, this weekend, the Smith family will gather in Clarion, 
Pennsylvania, to mark 400 years in the United States in the form of a 
family reunion. Their uniquely American story deserves to be 
celebrated, and I want to extend my sincerest congratulations to the 
Smith family for their longstanding history in the United States.

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