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He was born on June 17, 1769 in Lyme, Connecticut, United States, a son of Stephen and Irene (Ransom) Smith. In his fourteenth year the family moved from a Connecticut farm to the much harder conditions of the frontier settlement of South Woodstock.
His father was a Baptist, but the mother was a "strict" or "separatist" Congregationalist, a fact which accounted for his being baptized by "sprinkling" - to his lasting resentment - in his eighth year.
At the age of eighteen he attended school for a few weeks.
After school he began teaching, which occupation he followed for two years.
He devoted himself to the study of the Bible and theology and, though greatly distrustful of his own worthiness and ability, began to preach in 1790. His success was marked and he was ordained by the Baptists as an evangelist at Lee, New Hampshire, in August 1792.
In 1793 he established his home in Salisbury, New Hampshire, and became a successful itinerant preacher throughout the towns of New Hampshire and Massachusetts. In 1798 he was installed pastor of the Baptist church in Woburn, Massachussets, but was unhappy in the relations of the settled pastorate.
After a brief business venture which failed, he moved to Portsmouth and founded a church acknowledging no creed but the Bible and having no denominational name but Christian. His denunciations, coupled with his political views, created for him a host of enemies who pursued him for many years, and often he narrowly escaped mob violence. In order to reply more effectively to his opponents, he began to write, and his History of Anti-Christ (1803 1811), The Clergyman's Looking-Glass (1803), The Whole World Governed by a Jew (1805) only added fuel to the flames.
In 1805 he began a quarterly, The Christian's Magazine, Reviewer and Religious Intelligencer, which continued for two years. On September 1, 1808, he issued the initial number of the Herald of Gospel Liberty. This organ of the growing Christian fellowship was published in Portsmouth, Portland, and Philadelphia during Smith's residence in these places and was later continued under various names. In 1818 Smith sold the paper.
He formed a business connection with Dr. Samuel Thomson of Boston, originator of the Thomson system of medicine and therapeutics, mastered the system, and soon built up a lucrative practice, establishing, about 1830, a private sanitarium.
He died in 1846.
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He experienced a profound religious awakening and, after much mental conflict over the subject of baptism, joined the Baptist Church in 1789.
He found no precedent for the installation in the New Testament. Meanwhile his theological opinions underwent a radical change. He rejected the Calvinistic system held by the Baptists, repudiated the doctrine of the Trinity, and disowned all systems of church order and all denominational names not found in the New Testament.
He was unsparing in his criticism of other churches with their settled and tax-supported clergy and their theological systems, which he regarded as having no Biblical foundation.
In 1818 Smith became a Universalist. In 1823 he renounced Universalism, but his restoration to the Christian fellowship was only partial.
He had strong anti-Federalist political views.
On January 7, 1793 he married Mary Burleigh. His first wife died in Philadelphia, February 27, 1814, and in the latter part of the same year he married Rachel, daughter of Samuel Thurber of Providence. There were a number of children by the first marriage.
