c 1657 "Elizabeth Gardiner, b. Gardiner's Island 14 September 1641 [Gardiner Gen 4, citing family Bible]; m. by 1657 Arthur Howell, son of Edward Howell (1638, Lynn) [TG 5:10-11; EHTR 1:128-34, 140, 192, 226]. [1]
1683 "Arthur Howell, Southampton. March 28, 1683. " Being sicke and weak." Leaves to his eldest son Elisha, when of age, one half of my dwelling house and home lot and one half of my land at home adjoining my dwelling house and after the decease of my wife Hannah, he is to have the other half. To my son Lemuel, all that my parcel of land lying and adjoining eastward to Ezekiel Sandfords home lot, and that piece of land lying near Hackers Hole, and that parcel of land at Swan creek neck, which my son Arthur deceased gave him. And all my piece of land at Mecox plain after my wife's decease. All other lands with a £100 right of Commonage are left to his sons Ellsha and Lemuel. Leaves to daughter Elizabeth Loper, £5, "she having received most of her portion already." Leaves to his six other daughters, Hannah, Abiah, Martha, Eleanor, Thoraason and Penelope each £20, when 18 years of age. Arranges for the comfortable support of his wife Hannah, and makes her executor, and she has the use of one half the house and lands. Mentions an expected child. Leaves to his two sons his windmill. Makes Job Sayre, John Howell, Jr., and Mathew Howell, Supervisors of his estate. Witnesses, Job Sayre, John Howell, Jr. Proved at Court of Sessions, held at Southold, July 5, 1683. Inventory. Taken May 15, 1683. Land at Home 43 acres with house, etc., £335 ; 10 acres on Mecox Plains, £30; 20 acres by Ezekiel Sandfords, £40; 28 acres at Sagg Pond, £42; 10 acres by Hackers Hole, £68. Land at Hog neck, £19; Windmill, £20. Total, £887. [Note.—Arthur Howell was one of the sons of Edward Howell, the Founder of the town of Southampton, Long Island. His first wife Elizabeth, was the daughter of Lyon Gardiner of Gardiner's Island, the daughter Elizabeth Loper was her only child. The homestead of Arthur Howell was at Meacox near Bridge Hampton, and on the south side of the road running east to the bridge over Sag Pond, the other lands are in that vicinity. - W. S. P.]" [2]
[1] Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Vol. 3, G-H (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2003), 11, in biosketch of Elizabeth's father Lyon Gardiner, [AmericanAncestors].
[2] William S. Pelletreau, Abstracts of Wills on file in the Surrogate's office: city of New York, Vol. 1, 1665-1707 (New York: The New York Historical Society, 1893), 125, Liber:page 1-2.466, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive], [GoogleBooks].