Person:Esther Smith (104)

esther ye Daughter of Joseph Smith Jun was born febu'ry: 16 1711
[Note: this is probably 1710/11 based on spacing of sibling births. Depending on whether the gravestone is aged 15 (what the gravestone might say, except that the age is not readable) or in 15th year (the technical meaning of ae 15, what Jacobus says the gravestone says), the age at death supports either 1710/11 or 1711/12, and neither Jacobus, nor the context of these records, seems to indicate one way or the other.]

Esther y^e
Daughter of
[m^r??] Joseph &
Annah Smith
died Oco^r y^e
[chipped] 17 [blank] Aged
[chipped] Years.
[Note: following Jacobus, it is assumed the 17 is the day of the month and no year was inscribed. However, the chip may have been to remove a mistake, and the blank after the 17 could have been left to add the year later?]

Children of Joseph Hannah (Hale) Smith: 3) Esther, b. 16 Feb 1711 [citing New Haven VR], d. 17 Oct [1725] ae. 15 [citing gravestone].