Susannah (Brasseur) Duvall (abt. 1655 - 1692)

Born about 1655 in Nansemond County, Virginia

Ancestors

Wife of Mareen Duvall I — married 1673 (to 1692) in Anne Arundel County, Maryland

Descendants

Died 1692 at about age 37 in Anne Arundel County, Maryland

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Biography

Name

Susannah /Brasseur/

Susannah /Brashears/

Susannah Marie /BRASSEUR/

Susannah Marie BRASHEARS

Source: Pitard.net

This quote is from the page for her father at Pitard.net (cited above): "His last name variously appears as Brasseur, Brasher, Brashear, Brashears, Brassieur. He arrived in Nansemond Co., Virginia in 1637. He was the first Huguenot to settle in Maryland. He called his plantation "Brashear's Purchase" in the Upper Cliffs of Calvert Co."

It appears that different descendants of her father (Benjamin or Benoit Brasseur) used several different Americanized spellings of the name. From what I've seen it appears that Susannah used the Brashears variant. I have left Brasseur as last name at birth because it appears that was the original spelling of her father's surname. Still, I have seen no birth record and can't say for certain that such a record, if it exists, wouldn't give one of the Americanized spellings.

Birth

Date: abt 1655

Place: Nansemond County, Virginia.

Source: Pitard.net

Date: ABT 1640^[1]

Date: 1640

Place: Calvert County, Maryland, USA^[2]

Birth:

Date: 1645

Place: Nansemond, Virginia, USA^[3]

Marriage

Susannah married Mareen Duvall at Middle Plantation, Anne Arundel, Maryland about 1679.^[4]

Death

Date: abt 1692

Place: Anne Arundel County, Maryland.

Source: Pitard.net

Sources

• Source: S69 Pitard.net. NOTE: 2nd wife of Mareen Duvall, "The Emigrant" and mother of Mareen Duvall, Jr., "The Younger." Link is to husband's page. Link to her page. The two pages linked above cite the following works as sources:

1) Mareen Duvall of Middle Plantation: A Genealogical History of Mareen Duvall and His Descendants with Histories of the Allied Families of Tyler, Clarke, Poole, Hall, and Merriken., Harry Wright Newman, (Washington), pp. 20-56, a vital source.

2) The Hall Family of West River and Kindred Families, Thomas John Hall III, (Denton, MD: Rue Publishing), pp. 205-08.

3) Ancestral Colonial Families: Genealogy of the Welsh and Hyatt Families of Maryland and their Kin, Luther W. Welsh, (Independence, MO: Lambert Moon), pp. 204-05, though more recent work has been done.

4) The Founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland, J.D. Warfield, (Baltimore: Regional Publishing Co.), p. 104, though more recent work has been done.

5) The Huguenot Society of Maryland, 1968-2004, Henry C. Peden, Jr., (Huguenot Society of Maryland), pp. 57-60.

• From Cindy Butler: This genealogy information is based upon Montgomery County Historical Society records; Maryland State Archives; Book by Harry Wright Newman (1952) "Mareen DUVALL of Middle Plantation." (see also books cited under Pitard.net).
• Source: S98 Title: Nuckolls, Charles R., The Roses: The Nuckolls Family, the Lyman Family, and One Hundred Fifty Immigrants Who Helped Shape America. Repository: #R6 Call Number: 929.107207 NUC Nuckolls, Charles R.. The Roses: The Nuckolls Family, the Lyman Family, and One Hundred Fifty Immigrants Who Helped Shape America. Bloomington, Indiana: iUniverse, Inc, 2010.
• Repository: R6 Name: King County Library System

1. ↑ Daughters of American Colonists, Vol. 8, 1949 . Page: 71-74
2. ↑ Source: #S98 Page: Mareen Duvall Pages 401-402 Data: Text: [(John Dedrick Yoes, Emily Jane Boydstun), (John Pruitt Boydstun, Serenia Elizabeth Boydstun), (Robert Washington Boydstun, Rachel Griffin), (Chisholm Holland Griffin, Polly Briggs), (Orlando Griffin, Elizabeth Gaither), (William Griffin, Comfort Duvall), (John Duvall, Mary Elizabeth Jones), (Mareen Duvall, Huguenot, Susannah Brasseurs)] CONT and CONT [(John Dedrick Yoes, Emily Jane Boydstun), (John Pruitt Boydstun, Serenia Elizabeth Boydstun), (Robert Washington Boydstun, Rachel Griffin), (Chisholm Holland Griffin, Polly Briggs), (Orlando Griffin, Elizabeth Gaither), (John Gaither, Ann Ruley), (John Gaither, Elizabeth Duvall), (Captain John Duvall, Mary Elizabeth Jones), (Mareen Duvall, Huguenot, Susannah Brasseurs)] CONT Mareen Duvall was born in 1627 in Laval, Normandy, France. He died August 5, 1694, at Anne Arundel County, Maryland. He married Susannah Brasseurs, daughter of Benois Brashears and Mary Richford. Mary Richford was born about 1620 at the Isle of Thanet, England. Benois Brashears was born in France. Susannah Brasseurs was born about 1640, probably in Calvert County, Maryland. Mareen owned slaves and was a wealth plantation owner. (Baltz 1984, 5; Newman 1952). President Obama is a descendent of Maureen Duvall, along with President Truman and Warren Buffett.
3. ↑ Source: #S98 Page: Barack Hussein Obama Connection Pages 510-511
4. ↑ Consolidated Update to the Register of Qualified Huguenot Ancestors of The National Huguenot Society. Fifth Edition. San Antonio, Texas: the National Huguenot Society, Inc., 2012. Page 16.

Acknowledgments

• WikiTree profile Brasseur-1 created 16 July 2009 by David McDougle. See the Changes page for details of edits.
• WikiTree profile Brashears-43 created through the import of mcdougle 2010-06-30.ged on 01 July 2010 by David McDougle. See the Changes page for details of edits.
• WikiTree profile Brashears-25 created through the import of Rodney Timbrook Ancestors and Relatives_2010-09-10.ged on 10 September 2010. See the Changes page for details of edits.
• WikiTree profile UNKNOWN-55347 was created through the import of LaBach Family TreeApril28_2011.ged on 05 May 2011 by Bill LaBach. See the Changes page for details of edits.
• WikiTree profile Brashear-59 created through the import of export.ged on Jul 19, 2011 by Chérie Woodlief. See the Changes page for details of edits.
• WikiTree profile BRAshear-128 created through the import of export.ged on Jul 19, 2011 by Chérie Woodlief. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Chérie and others.
• WikiTree profile BRAShear-135 created through the import of export.ged on Jul 19, 2011 by Chérie Woodlief. See the Changes page for details of edits.
• WikiTree profile Brashears-31 created through the import of Remus Wikitree.ged on Feb 12, 2012 by Fred Remus. See the Changes page for details of edits.
• WikiTree profile Brashears-64 created through the import of Ledbetter01.ged on Jun 8, 2013 by Scott Ledbetter. See the Changes page for details of edits.
• Brasseurs-1 was created by Ila Jones through the import of Sources Cited Tree_2014-07-22.ged on Jul 22, 2014.