Smith, James (1719?-1806), was a Pennsylvania signer of the Declaration of Independence. He urged a boycott of British goods and a general congress of colonies when he was a delegate to a conference in Philadelphia in 1774. He helped draft a resolution for independence at the provincial conference in June 1776. He served in the Continental Congress from 1776 to 1778 and as judge of the Pennsylvania High Court of Errors and Appeals in 1781. He was born in Ireland. He died on July 11, 1806, in York, Pennsylvania.
