Susannah (Piggott) Kemp (1724 - 1781)

Born 13 Mar 1724 in Nottingham, Susquehanna Hundred, Cecil, Province of Maryland

Ancestors

Wife of Richard Kemp — married 29 Jan 1746 in Goose Creek MM, Fairfax Co., Virginia

Descendants

Died 11 Sep 1781 at age 57 in Cane Creek, Orange County, North Carolina, USA

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Susannah was a Friend (Quaker)

Biography

Name: Susannah /Piggott/ ^[1]

Birth: 13 March 1724 in Nottingham, Cecil, Province of Maryland^{[2] [3]}

Father: John Piggott Sr, b: 1689 in Nottingham, Cecil, Maryland

Mother: Margery (Brown) Piggott, b: 1691 in Chester Co., Pennsylvania

Death: 11 Sep 1781 in Cane Creek, Orange, North Carolina, USA ^[4]

Burial: 13 Sep 1781 in Cane Creek, Orange (Chatham, Alamance) County, North Carolina, USA. ^[5]

Marriage: 29 Jan 1746 at Goose Creek MM, Fairfax County, Virginia.

Spouse: Richard Kemp

6 Children: ^[6]

1. Joseph Kemp, b. Abt. 1751, Bladen Co., North Carolina
2. Margery Kemp, b. 31 Oct 1759, Orange, North Carolina; d. 21 Mar 1798, Cane Creek MM, Orange, NC
3. Susanna Kemp, b. Abt. 1761, Cane Creek MM, Orange, NC
4. Richard Kemp, b. Abt. 1762, Cane Creek MM, Orange, NC
5. Prudence Kemp, b. Abt. 1767, Cane Creek MM, Orange, NC
6. Rachel Kemp, b. 24 Jan 1772, Cane Creek MM, Orange, North Carolina. d. Wayne County, Indiana, USA.

In August 1745, Susannah Piggott and her family joined other Quaker families who left the Nottingham area of Cecil Co., Maryland & Chester Co., Pennsylvania, to settle northern Virginia, at the newly-formed Hopewell Monthly Meeting there. That is where she met Richard Kemp, b: around 1721 in Fairfax County, Virginia; he was from an Eastern-Shore Maryland Quaker family. The couple were married in northern Virginia at Goose Creek MM, in a part of Fairfax County that became Loudon County in 1757. ^[7]

Three years later, on August 26, 1749, they obtained permission from their Quaker meeting to join a new pioneer movement south to the Piedmont region in North Carolina, settling first in Bladen County. Their original meeting change was for Carver's Creek MM. Unfortunately, the books of Carver's Creek MM, Bladen Co., NC are lost. Their oldest son, Joseph, was born about 1751 in Bladen County, NC. Some family genealogists attribute 2 more early sons to this couple: Moses Kemp, b: 1749 and Charles-Henry Kemp, b: ca. 1743, both in North Carolina, but if their WikiTree birth data is accurate, this is a confusion with a different Richard Kemp as Richard & Susannah (Piggott) Kemp married in Virginia in January 1746 and did not move south to NC until August 1749. ^[8]

In September 1753 Richard & Susannah (Piggott) Kemp joined some 30 other Quaker families at Snow Camp, then in Orange County, joining the Cane Creek MM, widely considered the first formally-established Quaker meeting in the Piedmont region of central North Carolina. ^{[9] [10]}

Susannah Piggott and Richard Kemp were members of the Society of Friends (Quakers), part of the Cane Creek Monthly Meeting (MM), Snow Creek, Orange / Chatham County, North Carolina in the 1770s when their 6th and last child, daughter Rachel Kemp, was born in January 1772. Susannah was nearly 48, considered quite mature to have a baby. She lived another 9 and a half years, dying in 1781 at 57 years old.^[11]

Daughter, Rachel Kemp (Williams), died on 18 August 1851 in Wayne Co., Indiana - See her Wikitree profile Kemp-1812 for family references and sources. ^[12]

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S-1637174376 Susannah PIGGOTT 594Q-07. Source Citation: "Ancestral File v4.19," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/MWDM-PRM : accessed 25 April 2012), entry for Susannah PIGGOTT.
2. ↑ Many genealogies say 13 Jan 1723 because they misread the old Quaker dating system used to 1753 (and sometimes later), where March was the 1st month. Susannah was born: 13 day, 1 month, 1723/24, which translates to March 13, 1724, by modern dating. Chet Snow, 15 April 2018. NOTE: Her Find A Grave Memorial says 1723 but that is NOT correct. Do NOT change the birth year based on that source, please.
3. ↑ Source Citation "Ancestral File v4.19," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/MWDM-PRM : accessed 25 April 2012), entry for Susannah PIGGOTT.
4. ↑ Source: #S-1637174376 Susannah PIGGOTT 594Q-07 Source Citation "Ancestral File v4.19," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/MWDM-PRM : accessed 25 April 2012), entry for Susannah PIGGOTT.
5. ↑ Source: #S-1637174376 Susannah PIGGOTT 594Q-07. Source Citation "Ancestral File v4.19," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/MWDM-PRM : accessed 25 April 2012), entry for Susannah PIGGOTT.
6. ↑ Ancestry of Lurah Louise Drew on RootsWeb: Susannah Piggott - Updated: 2008]; cites Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, and A History of the Piggott-Picket Family.
7. ↑ Ancestry of Lurah Louise Drew on RootsWeb: Susannah Piggott - Updated: 2008].
8. ↑ See Ancestry of Lurah Louise Drew on RootsWeb: Susannah Piggott - Updated: 2008] and WikiTree profiles noted.
9. ↑ Sept 1, 1753: Orange County NC land records show Richard Kemp purchased 90 acres of land from Anthony and Sarah Chamnose. Richard and Susanna Kemp were not listed as part of the original [Cane Creek] Meeting that was founded in 1751. From: Galen Hinshaw file 1982.
10. ↑ Cane Creek Friends Meeting article on Wikipedia. Snow Camp's county designation changed several times from Orange to Chatham in 1774 to Alamance in 1849; it is in Alamance Co., NC, today.
11. ↑ http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/j/u/s/Jeffery-Roger-Justice-SC/GENE5-0005.html
12. ↑ Susannah Piggott at Family Puzzles.

• Campbell/Kemp/Rothgery/Casper Family Tree: https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/7197772/person/46585029704/facts

• Find A Grave: Memorial #42245322 retrieved 15 Apr 2018: Susanna Piggott Kemp. NOTE: This memorial states she was born 13 Mar 1723 but early records say 13 Mar 1723/24, which is 13 March 1724. PLEASE DO NOT CHANGE HER BIRTH YEAR ON THIS PROFILE.

Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile Piggott-104 was created through the import of Weaver.ged on 03 January 2011.
• WikiTree profile Piggott-161 was created through the import of John the Elderged.ged on Sep 1, 2011 by Joe Bissett.
• WikiTree profile Piggott-441 was created by Robert Wilson through the import of E. W. Steele Family Tree.ged on Feb 24, 2016.
• Source: S-1637174376 Repository: #R-1697848848 Ancestral File v4.19 - FamilySearch.org Note:
• Repository: R-1697848848 FamilySearch.org Note: FamilySearch is the largest genealogy organization in the world.