Susanna (Tarleton) Fleming (1661 - 1717)

Born 11 Oct 1661 in St. Peter's Parish, New Kent County, Colony of Virginia

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Died 7 Oct 1717 at age 55 in St. Peters Parish, New Kent County, Colony of Virginia

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Biography

Several different birth dates are cited (11 Oct 1661, 1663, 10 Dec 1667) indicating that the records of several women named Susannah may be comingled.

The cited will appears to be a conflation and the earlier (not quoted) reference to Samuel Jordon of the Sea Adventurer may also be conflation.

Research Notes

Trees and family group sheets are not record source documents.

Marriage Date: 1679 Marriage Place: New Kent County, VA or Nansemond, Virginia

Sources

• Tidewater Virginia Families. Davis, Virginia Lee Hutcheson, self published, Urbanna, VA, 1989, pp. 481-482

• Wulfeck, Dorothy Ford, Marriages of Some Virginia Residents 1607–1800 (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1986); Page 69; Quote: Jordan, Samuel, Col., b. 15 Feb., 1679; will dated 1760; prov. 1761, Amelia Co.; m. 10 Oct., 1703, Elizabeth Fleming, daug. of Col. Charles and Susannah (_______) of New Kent Co. From Quaker Records in Baltimore. 35V437; Halifax, p. 215.

• 35V437 (The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography); Quote: Fleming, etc., From Quaker Records. We are indebted to Mrs. P. W. Hiden, Newport News, Va., for the following notes from the Friends Registers, which supplement the genealogy of the Fleming family in Vols. XXIII and XXIV of this Magazine: Samuel Jordan married Elizabeth, daughter of Charles and Susannah Fleming, of New Kent, Oct. 6, 1703.

• A History of Halifax County, Virginia, by Wirt Johnson Carrington. 1924. p. 215. Image; Quote: ... Samuel Jordan, born February 15, 1679. (Called Colonel Samuel Jordan of Amelia). He married Elizabeth Fleming, daughter of Colonel Charles Fleming, of New Kent county, Va., October 10, 1703 (or 1713). These Quaker records preserved in Baltimore. [[Jordan-13595 | His will dated 1760, and probated 1761 in Amelia County, VA.