Susanna (Foster) White (abt. 1616 - abt. 1688)

Born about 1616 in Wendover, Buckinghamshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of Nicholas White Sr — married 1643 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died about 1688 at about age 72 in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Susanna was born about 1616. She was baptized 14 Jul 1616 in Wendover, Buckinghamshire, England. In Thomas Foster's will written 23 Feb 1618 Susanna was named as his daughter.^[1]

Susanna Foster is mistakenly listed by many people as the daughter of Jonas Humphrey. However, Susanna was the daughter of Thomas Foster (1580 - 2 Mar 1618) and Elizabeth Seamer (c. 1580 - 18 Nov 1676). Her mother Elizabeth married Thomas, and they had four children before he died. Elizabeth then married Jonas Humphrey, and they had one son, Jonas, Jr. ^[1]

Susanna immigrated to Dorchester, Massachusetts, with her mother and step-father Jonas Humphrey around 1637. Jonas was admitted as a freeman of the Massachusetts colony in 1639.^[2] Though not "adopted" in the formal sense, Susanna most likely used Humphrey as her last name until she was married. In Jonas Humphrey's 12 Mar 1662 will he lists Susanna as his daughter bequeathing to "my daughter Susanna White, wife of Nicholas White" a token 10s.^[3]

She married Nicholas White in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1643. They had five children, one of which died at a very young age:

1) Elizabeth b. 9 Jun 1643 in Dorchester, Massachusetts ^[4]

2) Nicholas, b. abt 1647. ^[5]

3) John, b. 1649^[6]

4) Child, b. abt 1651 (living when Nicholas petitioned about his "five small children" in 1655) ^[5]

5) Joseph, b. abt 1653 ^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} "The American Genealogist," Vol. 68, No 1, pp 14-22 of Jan 1993.
2. ↑ Farmer, John, 1789-1838. A genealogical register of the first settlers of New England. Lancaster, Mass., 1829. (See also https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hnl3db;view=1up;seq=158)
3. ↑ Smith, Dean Crawford. The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton 1878-1908, Part IV. New England Historic Genealogical Society. 2000.
4. ↑ Family Data Collection - Individual Records.Birth year: 1643; Birth city: Dorchester; Birth state: MA. Ancestry.com Operations Inc. 2000.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} Bassett, Buell. One Bassett Family in America (F.A. Bassett Co., Springfield, Massachusetts, 1926). Pages 790-793
6. ↑ Lothrop, Thomas J.. The Nicholas White family : 1643-1900. C.A Hack & Son,Taunton, Mass., 1902. Pages 5-15. (See also: Lothrop, Thomas J. The Nicholas White Family (Lothrop, Boston,MA, 1902)

See also:

• U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Genealogical Publishing Co.; Baltimore, MD, USA; 2012

• Heritage Consulting. Millennium File. Ancestry.com Operations Inc. 2003.

• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R), Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998. Ancestral File Number 3H02-LH

• http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=75831541&pid=2355