Esther Judd Smith

• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Sep 23 2018, 21:05:03 UTC

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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/112157845/esther-smith

Esther Webster, dau. of Jonathan Webster, Jr. and Esther Judd, b. of record Feb. 23 (bp. Feb. 29), 1707/8 at Hartford, Conn. and bapt. at the Hartford 2nd Church. She d. Mar. 9, 1793 at Hanover, NH (family cenotaph monument, æ. 85.)

Esther m. on an unrecorded date, but by early 1727 possibly at East Hartford, Conn., Timothy Smith, s. of Samuel Smith and his 2nd wife Mary Smith (dau. of Joseph of Hadley), b. June 1, 1702 (Hadley Genealogies) or June 10, 1702 (Webster Gen.) at Hadley, Mass. They had ten known children, all b. in Connecticut before relocating to Hanover, NH. For a summary of the children, see their father's memorial.

Edited 12/14/2019

Inscription SMITH FAMILY MONUMENT
Esther Webster, [d.] Mar. 9, 1793 æ. 85

Prior to the early 1800s gravestones stated a person's age at death using a variation of the Latin Ætatis suæ (i.e., Æ, "Aged," in the XX year of one's Age), which is one year more than one's chronological age. At death Esther was Æ 86, but this family monument, obviously errected and inscribed well after the early 1800s, instead uses the symbol æ. to denote each person's chronological age at death.