Susanna was born about 1670 in England, the younger of two known children, both daughters, of Percival and Thomasine Unknown Towle. (Percival was a Quaker, a prosperous baker, and one of the proprietors of New Jersey.)
When she was in her late teens, Susannah may have married Josiah Prickett in Burlington County, New Jersey. They had one known child, a son whom they named John.
N.B. It is by no means certain that Susannah was the daughter of Percival and Thomasine Towle. She is mentioned in their wills but she is not specified as a daughter. Nor is the amount of her legacy indicative of a filial relationship. (Patricia Prickett Hickin, 21 September 2018 )
For a time she and Josiah operated a "publick house" -- until it was shut down because of the rowdy behavior occurring there.
On 15 September 1687 in Burlington, Susannah was witness to the will of one James Martin.[1]
On 26 October 1691 she receives a legacy from "Percivil" Towle, baker, in Burlington, who may have been her father.[2]
On 9 November 1694, at the Quarter Court of Sessions & Common Pleas in Burlington, she testified that she was witness to an assault., . . . "The Court sett. . . . [Evidence] Anne Prickett attested, that the plaintiff called the defendant a rouge [ sic., i.e., rogue] and a Cheating Rouge [sic.], And the defendant said call mee not Rouge for I will not beare it; and that shee saw the plaintiff thereupon pull of[f] his neckcloth and lay it by, and then struck the defendant a box on the eare, and that hee the said plaintiff struck the defendant a second blow, and that then the defendant took the plaintiff by the collar and threw him downe."[3]
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Court case involving Josiah and Anne Prickett
Court case involving Josiah and Anne Prickett
Susannah died in 1696 in Amwell, Burlington (later Hunterdon) County.
N.B.: I am not at all convinced that the parents of Susanna were Percival and Thomasin Towle. Although both Percival and Thomasin left "Susanna Pricket(t)" (among a number of others) a legacy, neither named her as a daughter. [4]
I have seen no original source showing Susanna as their daughter. (Patricia Prickett Hickin, 20150126) There are secondary accounts, however, e.g., Janice Harshbarger, “Beeks line: Percival Towle abt 1620-1691, Immigrant and Quaker” Tuesday, August 18, 2015. [5]
↑Prickett Fence, Vol. 1, iss1, p16, citing New Jersey Archives, p 468.
↑ The Burlington court book : a record of Quaker jurisprudence in West New Jersey, 1680-1709. Washington, D.C.: American Historical Association, 1944.
↑ (Database. West Jersey History Project. West Jersey History Project. http://www.westjerseyhistory.org Liber B, Part 2,pp 432, 600, from NJArchives, Vol.21
Database. West Jersey History Project. West Jersey History Project. http://www.westjerseyhistory.org Liber B, Part 2,pp 432, 600, from NJArchives, Vol.21
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Susanna by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
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