Person:Susanna Unknown (38)

Will of "Susannah Shepherd sen.", dated "7 Mar 1698-9" [sic, per Manwaring, date is not in text of will, appears to mean 1697-8], inventory taken 12 Apr 1698, proved 14 Apr 1698, mentions daughter Susanna Pratt, John Pratt Jr., son William Goodwin's daughter Susan, sons William & Nathaniel, Nathaniel Goodwin's daughter Mehetabell, Hezekiah Goodwin, William Goodwin's wife, son Nath: Goodwin's wife, three daughters. No executor named, administration to William Goodwin & John Pratt with will annexed.

"The date of [William's] marriage is not known, nor who his wife was, except that she had a sister Sarah Fruen" as shown by William's testimony mentioning "my wives Sister Sara fruen". His widow Susanna Goodwin m. about Aug 1691 John Shepard of Hartford.
[That this source both presents evidence that her sister is Sarah Fruen and then says her names is unknown is confusing. Susannah's will appears to treat the children as natural, making it unlikely these two data (testimony and widow's remarriage) apply to different wives, and since the testimony regarding Sarah Fruen is in regards to Sarah's being engaged to an underage man, Thomas Greenhill, it would suggest Sarah had not been married before, and Fruen was her maiden name. So the reluctance to even suggest the obvious conclusion that Susanna was probably Susanna Fruen seems strange.]