Soon after his father heard of his marriage, whose indignation and anger become so great, that he determined to cut him off with a shilling, and forbid his ever entering his house. Matters had now come to such a pass that he had determined to leave his native country, and his wife concurred in the plan; she soon scraped up her effects, for she had a small estate of her own, and turned them into money. They then embarked on board of one of his Majesty’s ships bound for Montreal, where he settled down, and for several years gained a comfortable livelihood for his family by industry, but as his family increased, and the means of living began to grow rather scanty, his evil habits of intemperance also gained upon him. He forsook all honest courses of getting a living and joined a band of smugglers, moving from Montreal to the village of St. Johns, situated on the St. John’s River, about thirty miles from Montreal, and here carried on a regular course of smuggling between Montreal, Plattsburg New York, Burlington in Vermont, sometimes going as far as Quebec, to obtain articles which they could not readily get in Montreal, and as his house was situated at a convenient distance from those places, they made it a receptacle for their goods until such times as they should find an opportunity to run them in and dispose of them. While things were going on in this style, it so happened that an old acquaintance whose name was Alexander Paine moved from Montreal and settled in the neighborhood in which Smith resided, and as they had formerly been on intimate terms, the acquaintance was soon renewed, though not much to the satisfaction of Smith, as he knew Paine to be a man of very sober, honest habits, and not likely to be easily persuaded to forsake the path of virtue, and it was on this ground, and the fear of detection and exposure, that Smith dreaded again becoming on intimate terms with an old acquaintance; for Paine was as yet entirely ignorant of the business Smith was following, for he, Smith, had always managed, through the influence of his wife, to keep up the appearance of honesty and respectability during his stay in Montreal.