Person:Susanna Hanford (1)

Susanna probably came to New England with her uncle Timothy Hatherly.

"Susanna Brooks, wife of William Brooks of Scituate" and her children received Ð12 and a heifer in the will of Timothy Hatherly of Scituate dated 12 December 1664; he added "I acquitt her of her first husband's debt to mee".

On 18 February 1666/1667 William Brookes and Susannah wife of the said William of Scituate gave a receipt to Joseph Tilden, administrator of the estate of Mr. Timothy Hatherly, for their share of Hatherly's estate.

On 6 March 1682/1683 she was mentioned as wife Susanna in the will of William Brooks of Scituate.

1. ↑ Holman, Mary Lovering; Winifred Lovering Holman; and Helen Pendleton Winston Pillsbury. Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and his wife, Frances Helen Miller: Compiled for Helen Pendleton (Winston) Pillsbury. (Concord, New Hampshire: Rumford Press, 1948, 1952)
   p. 485-489.
2. ↑ Oscar Frank Stetson. The Descendants of Cornet Robert Stetson of Scituate, Massachusetts, Sixteen Hundred and Thirty-Four. (Stetson Kindred of America, 1933)
   p. 30.

   Marriage... (2) by 1665 Susanna (Hanford) Whiston, daughter of Jeffrey and Eglin (Hatherly) (Downe) Hanford and widow of John Whiston [Stevens-Miller Anc 1:485-86; GMB 3:1975]; she was named in her husband's will on 6 Mar 1682/3.

3. ↑ William Brooks, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
   pp. 412-415.
4. ↑ Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
   1:260-263.
5. ↑ ^5.0 5.1 Eglin Hanford, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
   III:206.