John Smith (1752-1807) served as the Baptist minister at Burford, Oxfordshire, from 1801 until his death in April 1807. He was active in his last few years in village preaching, establishing regular meetings at four places, one of which may have been Hartley Row. For more on Smith, see his ‘Memoir’ in the Evangelical Magazine 15 (1807), pp. 394-7.