Born in Gardiners Island, New Haven Colony
Ancestors 
Daughter of Lion Gardiner
and Mary Willemson (Deurcant) Gardiner
Sister of
David Gardiner I and Mary (Gardiner) Conklin
Wife of
Arthur Howell
— married
23 Feb 1657 in Colonial North America
Descendants 
Mother of
Elizabeth (Howell) Loper
Died
at age 16
in East Hampton, Long Island (then part of the New Haven Colony), British America
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Biography
Elizabeth (Gardiner) Howell was a witchcraft accuser in the Salem Witch Trials
Elizabeth (Gardiner) Howell died from complications arising from the birth of Elizabeth Howell.
Daughter of Lion Gardiner and Mary Willemsen Deurcant.
Elizabeth married Arthur Howell and died when she was only sixteen. It is assumed she died in childbirth. Her daughter Elizabeth Howell survived. On her deathbed, Elizabeth accused a local woman, Goody Garlick of bewitching her. She had known Goody Garlick since their days in Lynn, MA. Goody Garlick was Elizabeth wife of Joshua Garlick Blanchard-2571, [1]
In Winthrop's court, Goody Garlick was not convicted.
Death
- FEB 1658 childbirth
- Also shown as 1664, Easthampton, Suffolk Co, NY. (Family Search)
Sources
- ↑ Howell, George Rogers. The Early History of Southampton, L. I., New York, with Genealogies, 2nd ed. (Albany: Weed, Parsons and Company 1887)
- "Descendants of Edward Howell (1584-1655) of Westbury Manor, Marsh Gibbon, Buckinghamshire, [England] and Southampton. Long Island, New York" By Emma Howell Ross, 1st Edition, The University Press, Winchester, Massachusetts 1968, Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 68-58987, and 2nd Edition, Gateway Press, Inc., Baltimore 1985, Revised and prepared for publication by David Faris, Genealogist, Edward Howell Family Association
- Ancestry Profile [1]
- Hedges, Henry. Records of the Town of East Hampton, Long Island, Suffolk Co., N.Y. (Sag-Harbor, J. H. Hunt, Printer, 1887-1905) Vol. 1, Page 128
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Categories: Maternal Mortality | Salem, Massachusetts | Salem Witch Trials | Witchcraft Accusers of New England | English of Colonial Long Island
Also, following up on your comment about (Unknown) Barthold, I removed him as a husband of Elizabeth. Looks like a gedcom full of misinformation was uploaded and then abandoned.
Hanc, John. (October 25, 2012). "Before Salem, There Was the Not-So-Wicked Witch of the Hamptons." Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved from http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/before-salem-there-was-the-not-so-wicked-witch-of-the-hamptons-95603019/