Susanna (Fenn) Blackleach (1669 - 1699)

Born 4 May 1669 in Milford, Connecticut

Ancestors

Wife of William Joseph Hooker Sr — married Feb 1685 in Surrey, Virginia

Descendants

Died 10 Nov 1699 at age 30 in Farmington, Connecticut

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Susanna Fenn

• DID NOT GO TO SOUTH CAROLINA
• HAD ONE DAUGHTER Susannah Hooker, one son John Blackleach

Biography

Birth 4 May 1669 Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States^[1][2]

Christening 9 May 1669 Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States First Congregational Society^[3]

Alt Christening 29 May 1669 Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States First Congregational Society^[1]

Marriage bef 1690 Based on estimated date of birth of only known child to William Hooker^[4]

Marriage bet 1 Jan 1689/90 and Oct 1693 to John Blackleach^[4]

Death bef 10 Nov 1697^[5]

From "Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records:"

Page 39—(Vol. VI) 13 April, 1698: "This Court appoint John Hooker to be Guardian to Susannah, daughter of William Hooker Decd.^[6]

Page 53— "1st September, 1698: This Court do appoint Capt. Thomas Hart of Farmington and Ensign Thomas Bunce of Hartford to make Division of the Estate of Mr. William Hooker, Decd, which was by his last Will given as followeth: 1-2 of his whole Estate, both Real & Personal, to the Relict, and the other 1-2 to his daughter Susannah. And according to the intent of the Testator the Division was made, Mr. John Blackleach, who married the Relict, being dead, and his wife also, they having had the Estate above mentioned in their possession and Improvement."^[6]

Page 15—(Vol. VII) 30 June, 1701: "This Indenture, made this 7th day of October, in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred Ninety and Eight, in the 10th year of the Reign of King William of England, fidei de fensor, between John Hooker of ffarmington, in the County of Hartford, within his sd. Majty's King William his Colony of Connecticott in New England, as Guardian to Susannah Hooker, daughter of William Hooker, late of said ffarmington deceased, on the one party, and John Olcott of the Town of Hartford, within the above mentioned Colony of Connecticott, as Guardian to John Blackleach, sonn of John Blackleach, late also of said ffarmington deceased, on the other party, Witnesseth: That they the said John Hooker and John Olcott, as Guardians to their respective Wards abovenamed, have mutually agreed, & do by these presents mutually agree and covenant each with the other, that the Estate of the above named William Hooker Deed which he stood possessed of, either in his own right or in right of his wife Susannah (after wife of the above named John Blackleach decd) at the time of his decease, both real and personal, whether in Old England or in New England, and also all the rents, debts and dues what so ever to the said Estate belonging, shall be divided equally in value betwixt them the said Susannah Hooker, daughter of Willm Hooker above named deced, and John Blackleach above named, also deced."^[6]

DID NOT GO TO SOUTH CAROLINA

Some researchers have mistakenly posited that she went to South Carolina (sometimes North Carolina or even Virginia) and was the maternal ancestor of a family line in the South. As the above probate records and births, marriages etc. show this is not possible. She had only two husband and two children all of whom stayed in New England.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Benjamin Fenn, in Abbott, Susan Woodruff, and Jacquelyn Ladd Ricker. Families of Early Milford, Connecticut. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1979), 251. "Susannah (Fenn) b 4 May 1669 (Milford Vital Records) bpt (Milford) 29 May 1669 mar/1 William Hooker of Farmington, Conn, mar/2 John Blackleach of Farmington, Conn."
2. ↑ Milford Vital Records [NEHGS], in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, 68. "Fenn, … Susannah, d. Benjamin & Susannah, b. May 4, 1669 [1:14]" "Fenn, … Susannah, d. Benjamin & Susannah, b. May 4, 1669 [OL:28]"
3. ↑ Connecticut, United States. Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920, Volume 071 Milford:151. "Fenn, … Susanna, d. Mr. [_____] Fen, bp. May 9, 1669 [1:11]"
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Torrey 2:786 HOOKER, William (1663-1689) & Susanna [FENN] (1669-), m/2 John BLACKLEACH by 1693; by 1689; Farmington, CT {Flagg Anc. 207; Dwight 1045; Hamlin (,2) 37; Hooker 18; Hartford Prob. 1:408; TAG 24:130}
5. ↑ Harris, Gale Ion. John Blackleach, Merchant, of London and New England. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jan 1994), 148:33. (""… Susannah (Fenn) Hooker, … daughter of Benjamin and Susannah (Wade) Fenn, and widow of William Hooker of Farmington. She died soon before 10 November 1697 while her husband was 'gone to sea'.")
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2} Hooker, William, Farmington, in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06), 1:468-70. "Probate Records. Vol. 5, 1687 to 1695. Page 98"

• Baldwin, Charles Candee (1881) Baldwin Genealogy from 1500-1881. Leader printing co., Cleveland, Ohio. (pg 50)

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