Person:Susannah Unknown (263)

Susanna - d. Jan. 25, 1672/3, Newbury, Essex Co., MA. Although son John was executor and major legatee of Gregory WOLTERTON, Susanna was not the sister of Gregory, a tanner of Hartford, Hartford Co., CT. The birth of her first four children are reported in Lawrence I. Shepard's "In Search of English Origins: Edward Shepard Part II," HERITAGE QUEST, No. 24, page 38. Susanna married second Stephen JORDAN (d. Feb. 8, 1669/70, Newbury, MA) who had two daughters by a prior marriage.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Stephen Jordan, 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).

   [Married] (2) By about 1660 Susanna (_____) Merrill, widow of Nathaniel Merrill. She died at Newbury on 25 January 1672/3. (Mary Lovering Holman believed that she was a sister of Gregory Wolteron [Pillsbury Anc 1037-41], but in 1993 Sanborn, Anderson and Smith demonstrated that this could not be, and her maiden surname remains unknown [TAG 68:160-75].

2. ↑ Shepherd, Lawrence. Search for the Origins of Edward Shepherd. Heritage Quest
   24:196.