Person:Susanna Eastman (2)

- husband Thomas and a dau were killed in an Indian attack in 1697.

- she remarried Capt. John Swan in 1699 and had 7 children. In the history of Haverhill, MA there is a story about an Indian attack that was made on her and John Swan’s home on 29 Aug 1708. The Indians were pushing against the door and had started to enter the home when Susanna skewered them with the baking spit. Susanna and John moved to Stonington, CT shortly thereafter. There is also a story of when Susanna and John moved to Connecticut. Susannah put her young son down in a basket and told her husband that the basket needed to be loaded onto the wagon. Sometime later (about 2 miles down the road) it was discovered that the baby had been left behind. (History and Genealogy of the Eastman Family of America)

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} 4 Philip² Eastman, in Hoyt, David W. The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts. (Providence, RI, 1897-1919)
   1:143.

   "26 Susanna (Eastman),³ b. ab. 1673*; m. 1st, May 19, 1693[Hv], Thomas Wood, who was killed by the Indians, March 15, 1696-7; 2d, Aug. 1, 1699, Capt. John Swan; rem. to Stonington, Ct., ab. 1708. She was twice captured by Indians, but d. Dec. 20, 1772, 'in her 100th year.'
   
   *Susanna was not ment. in the will of Philip Eastman; but at Salem is a deed of Philip and wife Mary, formerly of Hv., now of New Roxbury alias Woodstock, to Thomas Wood, formerly of Ip., but now of Hv., dated May 18, 1693, the day before the mar. of Susanna to Wood. There may have been other unrecorded chil. by 1st wife."

2.   20. Susannah Eastman³, in Rix, Guy S. History and Genealogy of the Eastman Family of America: Containing Biographical Sketches and Genealogies of Both Males and Females. (Concord, N. H.: Press of Ira C. Evans, 1901)
   19-20.
3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Susanna Swan, in Find A Grave.