Deborah Smith

Deborah Howland

• Birth: 1630, England
• Death 1666 (aged 35–36), Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, USA * Burial: Smith Family Cemetery, Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, USA, MEMORIAL ID 49388519
• Parents: Arthur Howland and his first wife Grace
• Spouse: John Smith (1618-1692) - married 1649

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Biography

Retrieved from https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49388519/deborah-smith and then edited

Deborah Howland, dau. of Arthur Howland and his first wife Grace, b. circa 1630 probably in or near the parish of St. Giles Cripplegate, London, England.[*1]

One writing claims she d. in Dartmouth, Mass. Oct. 16, 1665, but no primary record can be located to confirm this date. She did, however, die before the middle of 1666 when her husband married his second wife.

Deborah is assumed to be interred at the Smith Family Burial Ground at Dartmouth, Mass.

On Jan. 4, 1648/9 of record at Plymouth, Mass., Deborah m. John Smith, called John Smith, Jr. in the Plymouth records for being the younger of two unrelated John Smiths who resided at Plymouth at the same time.ñ

Lieutenant John Smith (1618-1692) was the son of Thomas Smith and Ann Sayer. He survived Deborah and married Ruhamah Kirby second.

They had the following four children b. of record at Plymouth, Mass.:

• i. Hasadiah Smith, b. Jan. 11, 1649/50, d. at Dartmouth, Mass. Dec. 15, 1723, Æ 74; on Jan. 10, 1693/4 she and husband Jonathan Russell gave brother Deliverance their receipt for her legacy from her father's estate; m. Feb. 5, 1678/9 at Dartmouth, Jonathan Russell, s. of John & Dorothy Russell, b. circa 1648 at Marshfield, Mass. He d. at Dartmouth Dec. 5, 1727. Five children of the family. Jonathan and Hasadiah are ancestors of British statesman Sir Winston Churchill.
• ii. John Smith, Jr., b. Oct. 1, 1651, d. after Mar. 15, 1692, but there is no known record of marriage or children.
• iii. Eleazer Smith, b. Apr. 20, 1654, d. testate before July 4, 1733; m. Aug. 12, 1680 at Dartmouth, Mass., Ruth Sprague, dau. of John Sprague & Ruth Bassett, b. Feb. 12, 1658/9 at Marshfield, Mass. She d. after July 4, 1733. Seven children of the family.
• iv. Hezekiah Smith, b. Nov. 28, 1655, d. testate Feb. 28, 1726/7 at Dartmouth, Mass., Æ 72; m. circa 1681 an unknown Mary, who d. at Dartmouth in 1737. Eleven children of the family.

All four of the above children were left legacies in the July 4, 1674 will of their maternal grandfather, Arthur Howland of Marshfield, Mass.:

• Item. I give and bequeath unto my grandchild Amadiah [sic, Hasadiah] Smith the full sum of five pounds to be paid by the friends, executors, administrators and assigns of my dear wife Mary Howland immediately after her decease.
• Item. I give and bequeath unto the three brothers of the said Amadiah (sic) the sum of five pounds to be equally divided among them.

Deborah Howland and John Smith had no son named Josiah (alternately called Joseph), as claimed by the Kirby Genealogy (1898). The Josiah Smith b. of record at Plymouth, MA April 16, 1652 to "John Smith" was not Deborah and John's son. See Robert S. Wakefield and Robert M. Sherman: "Arthur Howland of Plymouth, Mass., 1640, His Wife Margaret (--) Walker, and Their Children" (NGSQ, 71[1983]:86).

Caleb H. Johnson: Henry Howland of Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire, Father of Mayflower Passenger John Howland; Pilgrim John Howland Society, 2016.

“The Pilgrim Migration” does not list Deborah as one of his children, but Pope in “The Pioneers of Massachusetts”does and shows her as Deborah Smith, but does not list her in the will.

Inscription

As Deborah was an early member of the Society of Friends, she has no gravestone.

From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Howland-116

This profile is part of the Howland Name Study.

Deborah Howland was probably born before 1630 in England.[1]The parish registers of Fenstanton do not start until 1612, but Bishop’s Transcripts exist for the years 1604-1605, 1608, and 1610, providing a few extra years of coverage not available in the surviving original registers. However, no birth or baptism record was found for Deborah Howland in the parish registers of Fenstanton or in the parish registers of London.

She married at Plymouth January 4, 1648/9, John Smith Jr.[1][2]

She had to be at least 18 years old to marry him, so she would be born sometime before 1630.

John Smith and his wife, Deborah of Plymouth, were fined in October 1660 for being att Quakers meetings.[3]Then they moved to Dartmouth by 1665 when John Smith, with the consent of his wife Deborah, traded their house and land in Plymouth for land in Dartmouth.[1][4] Deborah must have died after their move to Dartmouth, but before 3 July 1674 when she was not mentioned in her father's will. Her four children were mentioned.[1]

"The will of John Smith of Dartmouth, dated June 8, 1691, witnesses attested 12 November 1692, left all stock and movables to [second] wife Ruhama Smith and names sons Judah Smith and Gershom Smith; daughters Hassadiah wife of Jonathan Russell, Mehitabell wife of John Russell, Hannah Smith, Sarah Smith, and Deborah Smith; son Eliazer Smith and his sons James Smith; Deliverance Smith; and Micah Smith son of his son Hezekiah; wife Ruhamah and son Deliverance to be executors; he named Seth Pope and brother-in-law Recompense Karby to oversee his will. Confirmation of Hasadiah's name is in the receipt for her share of the estate, signed by Hasadiah and Jonathan Russell 10 January 1693/4.[5]Although my six sons are mentioned in the record book copy of the will, only five are named therein.[6](The original is missing from the file.) The sixth son was evidently Eliashib Smith, whom Judah Smith calls brother in a deed of land 25 June 1707."[1][7]

Children of John, Jr., and Deborah (Howland) Smith, all of Plymouth are as follows:[1][8]

• Hasadiah Smith [daughter], b. 11 January 1649/50
• John Smith, b. 1 October 1651
• Eliazer Smith, b. 20 April 1654
• Hezekiah Smith, b. 28 November 1655

Mrs. Deborah (Howland) Smith probably died at Dartmouth between 1665 and July 1674.[1]

Sources

1. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49388519/deborah-smith cites
   1. Caleb H. Johnson: Henry Howland of Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire, Father of Mayflower Passenger John Howland; Pilgrim John Howland Society, 2016.
   2. “The Pilgrim Migration” does not list Deborah as one of his children, but Pope in “The Pioneers of Massachusetts”does and shows her as Deborah Smith, but does not list her in the will.
2. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Unknown-498678 Cites
   1. Thomas Lechford, Edward Hale (ed.), Note-Book Kept by Thomas Lechford, Esq., Lawyer, in Boston, Massachusetts Bay, from June 27, 1638, to July 29, 1641 (Cambridge, 1885), 297-299.
   2. Ancestry.com. London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Original data: Church of England Parish Registers, 1538-1812. London, England: London Metropolitan Archives. Reference Number: P69/GIS/A/002/MS06419/003. Saint Giles Cripplegate, 1634-46 https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/1624/31281_a101525-00012. Text: "[1634] Grace wife of Arthur Howland Lether dresser Buried in the new church yard [December] 4 Excomuni."
   3. Johnson, Caleb H. Henry Howland of Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire: Father of Mayflower Passenger John Howland. The Pilgrim John Howland Society (www.pjhs.starchapter.com), 2016, https://pjhs.starchapter.com/images/downloads/henry_howland_of_fens...
3. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Howland-116 Cites
   1. Wakefield, Robert S. and Robert M. Sherman, "Arthur Howland of Plymouth, Mass., 1640, His Wife Margaret (_____) Walker, and Their Children," NGSQ (June 1983) Vol. 71, pp. 86-87.
   2. https://www.dartmouthhas.org/uploads/1/0/0/2/100287044/records_new_...
   3. Shurtleff and Pulsifer. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, Boston 1855-1861, Vol. 8, p. 103.
   4. The Mayflower Descendant, Vol. 32, p. 35.
   5. Bristol County, Mass., Probate Records, Vol. 1, pp. 55, 161-2.
   6. Bristol County, Mass., Probate Records, Vol. 1, p. 55.
   7. Bristol County Land Records, Vol. 3, p. 285.
   8. The Mayflower Descendant, Vol. 16, pp. 121, 237; Vol. 17, p. 71.
   9. https://www.dartmouthhas.org/uploads/1/0/0/2/100287044/records_new_...
   10. Johnson, Caleb. "Henry Howland of Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire: Father of Mayflower Passenger John Howland." The Howland Quarterly, Vol. 81, No. 1, 2016, p. 14
   11. Dwight, Melatiah Everett. The Kirbys of New England. (Trow Print, New York, 1898), p. 233.
   12. Edmund West, comp. Family Data Collection - Marriages. (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2001).
   13. Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900. (Provo, UT, USA, The Generations Network, Inc., 2004).
   14. Clemens, William Montgomery. American Marriages Before 1699. (Pompton Lakes, New Jersey, USA: Biblio Co., 1926).