Person:Susannah Burnet (1)

Letter from Susanna Moseley:

Worthy Sir:

My husband havinge some bussines downe ye river was grone from home two howers before your servant came, soe I finding what ye contents of your letter did import, have in my husband's absence made bould to answer it, and with all I knowe he referrs ye sale of them to me. Sir, in regards you cannot miss out of your stocke no more than fower younge Cowes and one elder and fower oxen, I will not press you beyond what you are willing to doe, but will accept of your proffer by reasons of my greate wante of Cattle, and withall I have rayther your wife should weare them then any gentle woman I yet know in ye country; but good Sir have no scruple concerninge their rightnesse, for I went my selfe from Rotterday to ye haugh (The Hague) to inquire of ye gouldsmiths and found y't they weare all Right, therefore thats without questions, and for ye hat band y't alone coste five hundred gilders as my husband knows verry well and will tell you soe when he sees you; for ye Juell and ye ringe they weare made for me at Rotterdam and I paid in good rex dollars for sixty gilders for ye Juell and fivety and two gilders for ye ringe, which comes to in English monny eleaven poundes flower shillings. I have sent the sute and Ringe by your servant, and I wish Mrs. Yeardley health and prosperity to weare them in, and give you both thanks for your kind token. When my husband comes home we will see to gett ye Cattell home, in ye meantime I present my Love and service to your selfe & wife, Mr. Chandler and his wife and ye youngue gentle women and Old Capt. and commit you all to God and remaine,
Your friend and servant,
Susan Moseley.
Elizabeth River, this Last July, 1650.
To Francis Yeardley (son of Gov. Sir George Yeardley), one of theleaders of the Cromwellian party in Virginia and the last husband of Sarah Offley.

Information from the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, published quarterly by The Virginia Historical Society, for the YearEnding June, 1898, Volume 5, Moseley Family, p. 329.

From "A Moseley Genealogy", Thomas B. Moseley, Jr. 1985, beginning onpage 13: "Susanna, daughter of Ralph Burnet, citizen and draper(cloth merchant) of London, who lived in the parish of St. Benet Fink,she was baptized there on 7th December, 1605. (St. Benet Fink is sortof Northeast of Central London.) She married first, Arthur Blackmoreand had by him an only child, a daughter named Susanna. ArthurBlackmore died between 01 May 1632 and 30 Apr 1633, and his widowmarried very soon after, certainly before 22 Dec 1634, William Moseley, also an English Merchant Adventurer, living in Delft. On thelatter date, as husband of Susanna, he was sued by the widow ofCornelius Michielsz van Ring for the rent of a house in Delft, rentedby her late husband Arthur Blackmore from 01 May 1632 to 30 Apr 1633,and judgment was entered for the plaintiff. William Moseley laterremoved to Rotterdam, where he was Steward (Schafmeister) of theEnglish House on 13 Aug 1643." Another source (probably moreoreliably) cites her baptismal date as 7 Dec 1595.

Sources: NEHGS Register 100 (Oct 1946): 292-295 by G. A. Moriarty isBurnett family ancestry. Pages 297-317 of Gayle King Blankenship;Julia Moseley Combs, Moseley Origins and Insights (Hampstead, N>C.:Privately Printed, 1990) pages 1-26 [seen at N. C. Aarchives atRaleigh Jan. 1997]. See below next line: the above is the correctcitation form (Cited Wrong in Sept 1996 N.'G.S. Quarterly article on aMoseley family); Moseley Family of Lower Norfolk, Princess Anne &Henrico Counties, VA about 1983 by Alice Granbery Walter still alive1996 in Norfolk area but no longer corresponding with Genealogicalresearchers, about 1994 Clearfield Pub. of Baltimore was selling Mrs.Walter's remaining supply of the charts. We don't know if they haveany left or not. (Note: Walter's Charts have some errors). Thegenealogical research for our book was complete in the autumn of1999--almost exactly the 350th anniversary of the record of Susannah,William and their family's arrival in North America! (From ThjeDescendants of William Moseley 1605/1606 - 1655 of Norfolk, Va., page2, Special Collections, University of Virginia.