Hello! This is so exciting! I think we are in perfect accord as to who is who; we're just using different terminology due to the change in names -- Schmidt to Smith, Christoph to Christian.
Let me begin with what I know from certified copies of documents and town/county ledgers: I am Mary Kathleen Butz Carpenter. My mother was Mary Earl, daughter of William Earl Cary. His father was Jasper Wesley Cary, son of Rachel Rhea. She was the daughter of Rachel Eleanor Smith, who was the daughter of Christian Smith (whom I will identify henceforth with a "T" for Texas). Christian Smith (T) was the son of Christian Smith (whom I will identify with an "NC" for North Carolina).
Christian Smith (T) was born in North Carolina about 1774. He married Rachel Pafford about 1797 in North Carolina, where their son John D. was born in 1798, followed by Peter (or William, I'm unsure which is correct), Elizabeth and Christian Columbus (in 1804). Wanderlust seems to have hit about 1805, for I have a copy of two deeds dated 2/9/1805 and 3/9/1805 divesting Christian (T) of his North Carolina properties. He has settled his family in Adair County, Kentucky, where his daughter, Rachel Eleanor (my direct ancestor), is born in 1806, followed by a son, Joseph, in 1807. A deed dated Nov. 27, 1816 indicates that Christian Smith of Adair County, Kentucky, bought 50 acres of land, which another deed dated Jan. 19, 1819 shows he sold when wanderlust hit again. I also have a copy of a formal notice dated Oct. 3, 1810, which states that Christian Smith (T), currently residing in Adair County, KY, has retained William McDaniel, an attorney in Adair County, KY, to act in his stead in order to recover his rightful inheritance from his father, Christian Smith (NC), deceased in North Carolina. Wanderlust this time led to Texas (still a part of Mexico at this time), where he became one of "Austin's Old Three Hundred", the first Americans to settle in Texas under Impressario Stephen F. Austin's agreement with Mexico. He and his family landed in Galveston in 1822 on the schooner "Revenge". I have certified copies of his Spanish land grants dating from 1824.
Now, as for Christian Smith (NC), who died in 1800 and is buried in Bethabara, NC, we know that all his children were issues of his first marriage -- presumably, to Anna Helena Grundling, though I am not sure the source of that name or of the date of her death, 1790. We know from Christian (NC)'s will that his children were named Christian (T), Peter, John, Catharine, Nelly and Margareth. We know that Christian (T) was born in 1774. We also know that Peter was born in 1776, that he married Susanna Leinbach, and that he had a son Christian, born 1801, and a son, Peter, Jr., born 1802. I have a copy of the marriage bond dated Aug. 26, 1791, issued to Christian Smith (NC) for his impending marriage to Anna Leinbach, widow of Abraham Leinbach. I also have a photo of the log house Christian Smith (NC) built in 1780 on the Joseph Leinbach land, 8 miles NW of Winston-Salem, NC.
I think we are in accord on everything up to now, right? Can we also agree that Christian Smith (NC) was the same person who's last name changed from Schmidt (presumably sometime after immigrating to the colonies)? Now comes the sticky part. Was his original first name Christian (Schmidt) or Christoph (Schmidt). I am of the belief that it was Christian Schmidt. As I indicated in my previous post, in "Records of the Moravians in North Carolina", there is a list of the names of 26 Moravian immigrants to North Carolina made up from certificates of land grants in the Hernnhut (Saxony) archives. On this list is a Christian Schmidt from Stettin, Prussia, who immigrated to North Carolina with the group in 1754. The only monkey wrench I see in this line of thought is Christian's age. The date of birth I have seen repeatedly show up in Ancestry.com for Christian (NC) is 1745 (though I have no idea what the original source for this date was). If we assume that 1745 is correct, then Christian would have been only 9 years old when he immigrated. This could be explained: the date of birth on Ancestry.com is incorrect, Christian immigrated as a member of a group from the same Single Men's House, or he immigrated as an apprentice to one of the other men.
Concerning Christian (NC)'s second wife, my research shows that Annagalia Fidler was born in Cocalico, PA, in 1746 (not 1712), and that she married Abraham Leinbach (born in 1744 in Oley, Berks, PA) in 1768. We know that her full name was not Anna or Ann, but Annagalia from a deed dated 1797 in which Christian Smith (by name) and his wife Annagalia (by name) sold property to Peter Smith. This was witnessed by John Smith and Daniel Leinbach.
As for Peter Smith, in a previous post, you wrote, "Meaning that Christoph Schmidt who remarried Ann Leinbach after Abraham Leinbach's death already had children who were John, Peter (Lancaster Co. PA April 1750), Christian, Margareth, Nelly, and Catherine." I agree with everything you wrote, except Peter's birth year. Perhaps I am incorrect in assigning a birth year of 1776 for Peter. Is there another source for the 1750 birth year besides the Revolutionary War Pension application? Could that perhaps be a different Peter Smith than the one born to Christian Smith (NC)? It's unfortunate that North Carolina did not start requiring the reporting of births, deaths and marriages until well after the dates we are dealing with.
I'm anxious to see your research and hopefully gain some clarity on the Christoph/Christian/Schmidt/Smith issue.