Samuel J. Smith

Samuel J. Smith was born in New Jersey, in 1771, and after a secluded life on his paternal estate near Burlington, died in 1835. In his religious connection he was a Quaker.
--Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A. 1872.

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Smith, Samuel J. , born in the autumn of 1771, and died Nov. 14, 1835. He was a wealthy Quaker, resided at Burlington, New Jersey; but followed no profession. His Miscellaneous Writings with a short Memoir, were published posthumously in 1836. He is known to hymnnology through his hymn—

Arise, my soul, with rapture rise. Morning. The earliest date to which we have traced this hymn is Priscilla Gurney's Hymns, London, 1818. It was included in the American Prayer Book Collection, 1826, No. 165, and thence has passed into several collections. It is also in the Miscellaneous Writings, 1836; but there are slight differences in the text. It is included, together with a second piece, on Christ stilling the Tempest," When on His mission from His throne in heaven," in Lyra Sacra Americana, 1868. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)