"… Rebecca (_______) Smith, widow of Thomas Smith; she died at Newbury 1 November 1680 [EPR 3:416]. (On 28 March 1671 'Thomas Smith came into court and chose his father-in-law, Ens.
Tho[mas] Howlett, for his guardian, which was allowed' [EQC 4:345].) Just before her death she unsuccessfully sued her stepson William Howlett, in the course of which suit Thomas Dorman deposed that Ensign Thomas Howlett did not meddle with the geese and turkey's which belonged to his second wife 'for she hath been and is a good wife to me' [EQC 8:10-11]."
