Susanna (Merrill) Burbank (abt. 1640 - 1690)

Born about 1640 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Wife of John Burbank II — married 15 Oct 1663 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 10 Oct 1690 at about age 50 in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut Colony

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Biography

Susanna, daughter of Nathaniel and Susanna Merrill, was born in Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638; She married John, son of John and Ann Burbank, in Newbury, Essex County on 15 October 1663; Susanna died in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut Colony on 1 June 1709.

Susanna died at age 34 and was survived by her husband John and their four children. Susanna was buried at Old Center Cemetery, Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut, British Colonial America.

Birth

Susanna Merrill, the daughter of Nathaniel Merrill and Susanna^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}, was born in 1640, probably in Lawford, England or Newbury, Massachusetts.

Marriage

On October 14, 1663 she married John Burbank in Newbury ^[6], ^{[1] [2] [3] [5]}.

Children

The known children of John and Susanna Merrill Burbank:

1. Mary Burbank baptized June 24, 1666^{[1] [3]}
2. Timothy Burbank, born May 30, 1668^{[1] [3]}, who married Rebecca Darling^[7]
3. John Burbank, born August 1670^{[3] [5]}, who married Mary Granger^{[1] [4] [8]}
4. Ebenezer Burbank, born March 4, 1673^{[3] [5]}, who married Rebecca (Taylor) Pritchard, the daughter of Samuel and Ruth (Cogan) Taylor, and the widow of William Pritchard^{[1] [9]}

Death

Susanna died on October 10, 1690^{[1] [2] [3] [5] [10]}

Timeline

• 1640, about - birth in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colonny
• 1661 - became of age, received her inheritance from her father's estate
• 1663, 14 Oct - married John Burbank in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts
• 1666, - birth of eldest known child, Mary, in Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony
• 1666 to 1668 - removed to Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony
• 1668 to 1674 - births of 3 children in Haverhill
• 1674 to 1690 - removed to Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut Colony
• 1690, 10 Oct - death at age 50 in Suffield. ^[11]
• 1690 - burial at Old Center Cemetery, Suffield ^[12]
• 1692 - widower husband marries second Sarah Hart in Springfield, Hampshire, Provence of Massachusetts

Research Notes

• Susanna's parents arrived from England and were living in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638, Susanna was likely born there. Vital record remains undiscovered.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6} Merrill Memorial: An Account of the Descendants of Nathaniel Merrill, an Early Settler of Newbury, Mass., Volume 1, page 161. by Merrill, Samuel A. (Cambridge, Mass., 1917–28)
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England by Savage, James. (Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1862), See Volume 1, page 300
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6} Genealogy of the Burbank Family and Families of Bray, Wellcomme, Sedgley [Sedgeley and Welch (Farmington, Me)] by Sedgley, George Burbank: Knowlton & McLeary, 1928) See page 11
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Contribution to the Genealogy of the Burbank and Burbanck Families in the United States by Ridlon, Gideon Tibbetts, (Saco, Me.: C. P. Pike, 1880). John Burbank is person 4, found on page 2. Son John is person 6, and the following pages provide detail on his descendants
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4} History of Suffield in the Colony and Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, 1660–1749, by Sheldon, Hezekiah Spencer, Documentary (Springfield, Mass.: Clark W. Bryan, 1879), see page 30 for John and Susanna (Merrill) Burbank
6. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29G-GQ98 : 5 November 2017), John Burbanke and Susana Merrill, 15 Oct 1663; citing Marriage, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 877,468
7. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29G-GHN3 : 5 November 2017), Timothy Burbanke and Rebecka Darling, 03 Jul 1695; citing Marriage, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 877,468.
8. ↑ [https://archive.org/details/launcelotgranger00gran/page/64Launcelot Granger of Newbury, Mass., and Suffield, Conn., A Genealogical Historyby Granger, James Nathaniel. (Hartford, Conn., 1893), see page 64 for John son of John and Susanna who married Mary Granger
9. ↑ Sergeant William Pritchard of Ipswich and Brookfield Massachusetts by Frederick C Warner, publishe din Volume 38 (1962), page 136 of The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .)
10. ↑ Mary Lovering Holman, “Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury: complied for Helen Pendleton (Winston) Pillsbury”, 1938, Vol 2, page 1041, viewed on Ancestry.com.
11. ↑ 1690 Death for Susanna Burbank in "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP7Y-RTQT : 15 April 2022), Susannah Burbank, ; citing Death, Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, Compiled by Lucius A. and Lucius B. Barbour, housed at State Library, Hartford, Connecticut; FHL microfilm 008272223.
12. ↑ 1690 Burial for Susanna Merrill Burbank in Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29T-8HJH : 16 December 2020), Susannah Merrill Burbank, ; Burial, Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States of America, Old Center Cemetery; citing record ID 152567526, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.

See also http://records.ancestry.ca/susanna_merrill_records.ashx?pid=33232948