I'm trying to intrepret an administration.
A man died without leaving a will in 1758. A neighbor became the administrator of his estate. 
There are no additional records about the estate until seven years later. Then a record indicates that he had daughter who by this time was deceased. The daughter had an estate which I presume was the one which had belonged to her father in 1758. She appears to have been his only offspring. A woman who I believe was the man's widow became the administratrix of the daughter's estate.
Thus the administratrix was either the mother or the step-mother of the deceased daughter. I'm trying to decide which.
Question: Were there any inheritance laws which prevented a step-mother from becoming the administratrix of a step-daughter? Or can I reasonably conclude that she would have been the daughter's mother?

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