Susannah (Shelley) Tanner (1709 - aft. 1760)

Born 1709 in Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island

Ancestors

Wife of Joseph Hall — married 1723 in Westerly, Kings, Rhode Island

Wife of John Tanner — married 14 Aug 1759 in Richmond, Kings, Rhode Island

Descendants

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Biography

Susannah Shelley (1709 - Aft. 1760) was the daughter of Benjamin Shelley (1679 - 1718) and Jane (Wilcox) Shelley (1648 - 1748). She was born 1709 in Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island.

Susannah married Joseph Hall, the son of James Hall and Sarah Babcock, at Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island between 1723 and 1730.

She died after 1760.

The Shelley Name

The Shelley name is a very rare name in the New England records, and is found very early in the records of the Plymouth Colony.

It appears the Shelley's removed early to New London, Co., CT.

Robert Shelley was born about 1610 and died 6 Sep 1692, and he was located in Scituate as early as 1636, when he had lands granted to him. On 14 May 1637, he became a member of the church in Scituate, was made a freeman of Plymouth Co. in 1638, and in 1640 he removed to Barnstable, MA.

Robert Shelley married Judith Garnett of Boston on 9/26/1636 and they had:

• Hannah 7/2/1637,
• Mary 10/2/1639, and
• John 7/31/1642.

John Shelley married Susannah and they had

• Benjamin,
• Samuel,
• Mary,
• Elizabeth, and
• Sarah.

Benjamin married Jane, parents of Susannah Shelley. John Tanner was the son of William Tanner and Mary Babcock, and grandson of Job Babcock and Jane Crandall.

Siblings

Jane and Benjamin Shelley, had the following children:

• Sarah who married William Worden,
• Jane who married John Tanner,
• Benjamin,
• Samuel,
• Mary who married __Warren and
• Susannah Shelley who mar. Joseph Hall.

Marriage to Joseph Hall

More About Susannah Shelley and Joseph Hall:

• Marriage 1: Bet. 1723 - 1730, Westerly, Kings Co., Rhode Island.
• Marriage 2: Abt. 1723, Westerly, Washington Co., Rhode Island.
• Marriage 3: Abt. 1730

Children of Susannah Shelley and Joseph Hall are:

• i.      +Joseph Hall, b. 1732, Westerly, Kings County, Rhode Island628, 629, 630, d. September 06, 1780, Jamestown, Newport Co., Rhode Island631.

JOSEPH HALL

• Father: James Hall
• Mother: Sarah Babcock
• Born: 8 Jul 1703 Westerly, RI
• Died: 5 Dec 1755 Westerly, RI
• Married: Susannah Shelley
• Issue: Benajah Hall (1738-aft.1762)

Joseph Hall was willed the eastward part of his fathers homestead, plus 80 acres in Westerly, and continued to live there until his death in 1755 at the age of 52. Little more is known about his life. Joseph married Susannah Shelley, daughter of Benjamin Shelley and Jane. About 1716 her widowed mother married Robert Burdick, Deacon of the Seventh Day Baptism Church.

Children and Grandchildren

• Ezekial b/a 1730,
• Hezekiah b. 1736 d. 8/22/1789 Stephentown Rensselaer Co., NY m. Dorcas Peckman on 10/11/1759,
• Joseph b/a 1732 d. Jamestown, Newport Co., RI m. Tamzon Wilcox on 12/18/1758 ,
• Ebenezer b/a 1734 m. Elizabeth Warren on 4/21/1754 at Newport Trinity Church Newport, RI,
• Benajah b/a 1738,
• Susannah b/a 1740.

BENAJAH HALL

• Father: Joseph Hall
• Mother: Susannah Shelley
• Born: 1738 Westerly, RI Died: Aft. 1762 Dutchess Co., NY
• Married: [Ruth Warren?]
• Issue: Asa, Jesse and Benajah, Jr.

Little is known of Benajah Hall except that he was a great scout and upon one occasion he traveled on foot from Duchess County, NY to Montgomery Co., Va. to see his sons, Asa and Jesse and then returned home. It is also believed that Benajah served in the Revolutionary War with his sons. It is also believed, without any proof at this point, that he married Ruth Warren, sister of Elizabeth Warren who married his brother Ebenezer.This Ruth and Elizabeth were the daughters of Mary Shelley (sister of Susannah Shelley) and ____ Warren.

One definite connection Benajah Hall, Sr. had between Westerly, RI, Stonington, CT, Dutchess Co., NY and Montgomery Co., VA is Azariah Crandall, Sr., who was an original settler of the Beekman Patent. Azariah was born 18 May 1739 in Stonington, CT and married Rebecca Reynolds, daughter of James Reynolds and Rebecca Burdick of Westerly, RI. Rebecca Burdick was the daughter of Robert Burdick and Rebecca Foster, and Robert Burdick's parents were Robert Burdick and Ruth Hubbard. After Ruth Hubbard's, death, Robert married the widow Mrs. Jane ___ Shelley whose daughter Susannah Shelley married Joseph Hall, Benajah's parents. End of Biography.

Second Marriage to John Tanner

Susannah Hall, the widow of Joseph Hall, was the third wife of John Tanner; they were married on 14 Aug 1759 at Richmond, RI. ^[1] Susannah (Shelley) Hall, was the youngest sister of Jane (Shelley) Tanner, John Tanner's first wife.

Genealogical Records

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Biographic and Genealogical References

The following genealogy, despite what appear to be errors in the Tanner parental naming, tightly links by marriage, three of the known children of Wm Tanner Sr. with the Frances and Susannah (Soule) West Sr. family:

• Secondary Source, John E. Soule, others; George Soule of the Mayflower and his Descendants for Four Generations. "Mayflower Families in Progress." ^[1] Data Extract:

1. ) Soule Genealogy, Page 28, 29: William West, son of Susanna (Soule) West, was born 31 May 1681. He married first Abbiah Sprague who died sometime prior to April 1721. William married second, before 1723 Jane Tanner, daughter of Frances and ____ (Babcock) Tanner. {Editorial; dau. of Wm and Mary Babcock?}
   1. ) 27 July 1741. William West, wife and children were ordered by the Charlestown RI town Council to be transported to No. Kingstown. In July 1742, Benjamin Tanner was ordered to provide an explanation to the town council regarding his guests William West and Family.
2. ) Soule Genealogy, Page 28, 29: 22 June 1733 Clement West, son of Susannah (Soule) West, sold 140 Acres of land in East Greenwich, to Benjamin Tanner.
3. ) Soule Genealogy, Page 99, 100: Susannah West, daughter of Francis West Jr., and grandaughter of Susanna (Soule) West, born ca. 1700 at North Kingstown, RI.; died prior to 14 Aug 1759. On 9 May 1723 she married John Tanner (1694-1777), son of William and Mary (Babcock) Tanner. John Tanner probably married first Jane Shelley, by whom he had Joseph and Jane, and third Susannah Hall on 14 Aug 1759 at Richmond, RI.
4. ) Soule Genealogy, Page 106, 107: Thomas Barber (19 Oct 1699 - ~9 Nov 1762), son of Susannah (West) Barber, and grandson of Susannah (Soule) West married 18 April 1723 at South Kingstown, RI Avis Tanner, daughter of William and Hannah (Tibbetts) Tanner. {Editorial: dau. of Wm and Mary Babcock}

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Soule, John; Terry, Milton; and Wakefield, Robert;George Soule of the Mayflower and his Descendants for Four Generations. "Mayflower Families in Progress." Second Edition 1995, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2015.

Other Sources

The following section provides a listing of source material that is pertinent to the profile subject, but not presently cited in the narrative text of the profile.

• "Rhode Island Marriages, 1724-1916", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F8KT-FLV : 22 January 2020), John Tanner, 1759.

• Rhode Island, U.S., Vital Extracts, 1636-1899; (Ancestry.com database on-line). Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Arnold, James Newell. Rhode Island Vital Extracts, 1636–1850. 21 volumes. Providence, R.I.: Narragansett Historical Publishing Company, 1891–1912. Richmond, RI VR; page 19: John Tanner, of Richmond, and Susannah Hall of Hopkinton, m. by Thomas Kenyon, Justice; 14 Aug 1759.

• Doherty, Frank J. The Settlers of the Beekman Patent (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2016), (Orig. Pub. by Frank J. Doherty, Pleasant Valley, NY. Frank J. Doherty, The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Dutchess County, New York: An Historical and Genealogical Study of All the 18th Century Settlers in the Patent, ten volumes. 1990–2003). Vol. 6, page 72.

Web based Genealogies

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• Genealogy.com profile for Susannah Shelley by Judith-Allison-Hall.