Hester Smallwood^[1]

1707 - 1769  (61 years)

• Name	Hester Smallwood  [1]
  Birth	07 Aug 1707	Charles, Maryland, British Colonial America
  Gender	Female
  Death	1769	Edgefield, South Carolina, British Colonial America
  Person ID	I312684220561	Oswald Genealogy
  Last Modified	15 Jun 2025

  
  

  Family	Thomas William Wells,   b. 1714, Richmond Magisterial District, Wise, Virginia, British America d. 09 Mar 1769, Jefferson, Georgia, British America (Age 55 years)
  Marriage	1764
  Family ID	F3176	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	15 Jun 2025

  
  

• Notes

  !Father's Will. Hester's father's accou !Father's Will. Hester's father's account by Bayne Smallwood 4 Jun 1736, shows payment of a Negro girl to Jacob Smith, as a legacy. !Marriage proven Charles Co. Will 21 p. 1 Administration Accounts 14 p. 258. !On November 21, 2753, Hester Linton, Administratrix of the estate of Jacob Smith, deceased, and her husband Edmund Linton filed an account of the estate. She seems to have lived appily with her second husband for nearly ten years. He died intestate in Loudoun County in 1759. The inventory of his estate was recorded in Loudoun, November 13, 1759, and same was signed by Benjamin Grayson and Nathaniel Grigsby. !Hester waited over a year before she married the third time. She married Wayman Sinkler of Dettinger Parish, Prince William County, Virginia. These contracting parties each had separate estates and children of their own so they made a pre-nuptial agreement November 19, 1760, which provided that "in case the said Hester should survive the said Wyman Skinkler, then that at and immediately after his death his whole estate shal descend and pass according to his last will and testament, all of his debts to be charged to his own estate, that the estate of said Hester Linton shall remain the absolute property to be used at her discretion and to descend as she sees fit." !Wayman Sinkler lived less than two years after his marriage to Hester for he made his will as of "Cameron Parish in Loudoun County" on April 12, 1762, and same was probated uly 13, 1762. . . . he made his "loving wife Hester" and brother John Sinnkler, joint executrix and executor of his will. !Hester married Thomas William Wells before June 12, 1764 for on that date, "Jacob Smith, orphan of Jacob Smith, deceased, came into court and made choice of Enoch Gribsby for his guardian with Robert Sanford as his security". The court ordered that certain trustees "divide the personal estate of Jacob Smith, deceased, and allot to the said Jacob Smith, the heir, his part, * * * and that they lay off and allot the dower in the lands of Jacob Smith, deceased, to Hester Wells, the wife of Thomas William Wells and report same to the court." !On November 21, 1769, Jacob Smith, Jr., and Hester Wells of Cameron Parish, sold to Landon Carter, Jr., a tract of land which had been "granted to Jacob Smith, deceased, by the proprietors of the Northern Neck by a patent dated January 15, 1724 * * * lying on the north side of Bull Run." This deed was witnessed by Smallwood Smith, brother of the above Jacob Smith, Jr.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1173462667] FamilySearch.org, Maryland, Register of Wills Records, 1629-1999, "Maryland, Register of Wills Records, 1629-1999," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GYMZ-NY2?cc=1803986&wc=SNYZ-DPV%3A146535701%2C148432701 : 20 May 2014), Charles > Wills 1734-1752 vol 4 > image 25 of 217; Hall of .