From GEN. DICT. OF ME AND NH, by Noyes, et al.:
SMITH
9 GEORGE, Mr., Exeter, Dover, Lists 372, 353, 354ab, 355a, not seen aft. 17 Nov. 1653 when Recorder of Courts, and no rec. of a family. See History of Durham ii: 329-330, answering 'No' to question asked there, if identical with George of Ipswich. Com. t.e.s.c., Associate for Dover Court, Clerk of the Writs. In 1650 he sold Kit. land, acting for John Newgrove. See also Phillips(7), Webb(1).
From NEW ENGLAND SETTLERS, by Savage:
SMITH. GEORGE, Dover 1645, came, perhaps, from the city of Salisbury, a tailor, in the James, from Southampton, Apr. arr. June 1635, unless this array of circumstance pertain rather to the Salem man, for a fam. tradit. says, this man came from Plymouth, in Devon of Boston, when there were only a few huts, and not one cellar dug;" was town clk. in 1646 had commiss. from Mass. and at the head of the tax list 1648; had Joseph, b. 1640; and, as Mr. Quint thinks, John, and James. His wid. he says, m. Monday, perhaps Henry of Salisbury, and next Mason.