Born about in Scotland
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Richard (Cavet) Cavett
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Died
at about age 75
in Knox, Tennessee
Profile last modified
| Created 28 Oct 2013
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Biography
Susanna Whitley was baptised on 09/05/1718 in Plymouth, Devon, England. [1]
Richard Cavett and Susannah (Whitley) Cavett had the following children: Moses (born in approximately 1746), John, Alexander, Michael, Richard, George, and Margaret. [2]
On September 25, 1793, Cavett's Station (home of Alexander Cavett and his family) were attacked by around 1,000 Cherokee and Creek warriors who massacred everyone present. [3]
Sources
- ↑ The National Archives of the UK; Kew, Surrey, England; General Register Office: Registers of Births, Marriages and Deaths surrendered to the Non-parochial Registers Commissions of 1837 and 1857; Class Number: RG 4; Piece Number: 1091
- ↑ Faulkner, Charles. Massacre at Cavett's Station. The University of Tennessee Press/Knoxville. 2013.
- ↑ Alexander Cavett by W. Dale Carter, copyright 2000, Kingsport, TN
See also:
- Massacre at Cavett's Station, available for purchase on Amazon.
- Distinguished Professor of Humanities at The University of Tennessee at Knoxville Dr. Charles H. Faulkner.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Susannah by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Susannah:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Susannah by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Susannah:
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~0.39%
Scott Lowery
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23andMe, GEDmatch EM8355654 [compare]
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A276899 [compare], Ancestry member scott_hou
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T714343 [compare], FTDNA kit #B403117
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~0.39%
Charles Sheard :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member CRSheard
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