Esther Smith

iii. Richard. Born in 1630 in Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England. At the age of <1, Richard was baptized in Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England, in Dec 1630. Richard died in Wickford, Washington Co., RI, in 1692; he was 62. Occupation: Merchant.

Richard married Esther ?. They had no children. She was deceased when Richard Smith, Jr.'s, will was probated on July 12, 1692.

Comments

Death date updated March 2019:

“I am researching Esther Smith for a chapter in a book about the Women of Smith's Castle. I am wondering what the source of her death date as 1699 is. I have read Wilkins Updike's The History of the Narragansett Church, David Updike Berkeley's Richard Smith the First English Settler of the Narragansett Country, and Carl Woodward's Plantation in Yankeeland. They all indicate that she died around the same year as her husband, Richard, Jr., in 1692. She had been named executrix for his will along with their nephew Lodowick. However, when the will was probated, Capt. Lodowick Updike was the sole executor.”

References

• A History of the Episcopal Church in Narragansett, Rhode Island by Wilkins Updike
• Richard Smith First English Settler of the Narragansett Country, Rhode Island by Daniel Berkeley Updike with letters written by Richard Smith, Jr.
• http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sam/rsmith.html