Hester Sutton

Hester

• maiden name seen as Talbot
• She was 1st married to Henry Caplin.
• She married 2nd to Thomas Besson.
• She married 3rd by 1680 to Thomas Sutton.

Source: Colonial Families of Anne Arundel County, Maryland, pp. 78-82.

Ann Hester Besson was the daughter of Captain Thomas Besson and Hester Sutton Besson. Hester, her mother, was the widow of Henry Caplin

Will of Thomas Besson

Maryland Calendar of Wills

Besson, Thomas, Sr., South River, A. A. Co., 15 Oct 1677; 29 Apr 1679.

• To son John and hrs, land adjoinging son Nicholas Gassaway's.
• To son William and hrs, land at Little Necke
• To son Thomas, the younger, and hrs, land on branch of Little Necke.
• To dau. Martha and hers, personalty.
• Wife Hester, execx. and residuary legatee together with child afsd.
• Overseer: Son Thomas, the elder.
• Test: Edward Burgess, Robt. Ward, Jno. Greene. 10. 42.
• Maryland Calendar of Wills: Volume 1

Source Information:

Cotton, Jane Baldwin, Maryland Calendar of Wills, Vol 1-VIII (8). Baltimore, MD: 1904

Martha BESSON was the forth child of four children born to Captain Thomas Phillip BESSON, Sr. and his second wife Hester TALBOT who had previously been married to Henry CAPLIN.

By his first wife Elizabeth Anne unknown Anne BESSON was first born 1638 in Plymouth, Devon, England. Their second child Thomas Phillip BESSON, Jr was born in 1741 in England. Apparently the wife Elizabeth Anne died about 1650 shortly after arriving about 1648 in America at the port of Annapolis Maryland with her husband and two young children.

The two children of Captain Thomas Phillip BESSON, Sr. and his first wife Elizabeth Anne were:

1. Anne BESSON, born 1638 England, died 1692 Anne Arundel County, Maryland, married 1672 Nicholas GASSAWAY

2. Thomas BESSON, born 1641 England, died 1717 Anne Arundel County, Maryland, married 1670 Margaret SAUGHIER

Apparently by 1650 Captain Thomas Phillip BESSON, Sr. was a widower in the new country and a new community of Anne Arundel County, Maryland with a twelve year old daughter Anne and an nine year old son Thomas who needed a mother. He soon found a widow Hester TALBOT (CAPLIN) who had just arrived in America whose husband Henry CAPLIN had died soon after their arrival at the port of Annapolis Maryland. Thomas and Hester were most likely married by 1652 in All Hallows Parish, Anne Arundel County, Maryland.

The four children of Captain Thomas Phillip BESSON, Sr. and his second wife Hester TALBOT (CAPLIN) were:

1. John BESSON, born 1656, died 1676, married 1676 Elizabeth SMITH.

2. William BESSON, born 1658, died 1692

3. Hester BESSON, born 1660, died 1692

4. Martha BESSON, born 1662, died 19 Oct 1719. married 1679 Nicholas ALDRIDGE IV

Martha married her neighbor Nicholas ALDRIDGE IV in 1679 in Anne Arundel County, Maryland when she was 17 and he was 26. The name BESSON has been more typically spelled BEESON by the descendants.

Source: Colonial Families of Anne Arundel County, Maryland, pp. 78-82.

J. D. Warfield stated that as shown by Thomas BESSON's will, that Nicholas GASSAWAY married his daughter Hester. (11) While BESSON's will did show that a daughter married Nicholas GASSAWAY, her first name was not given in the will. While Thomas BESSON's second wife was named Hester, there is no evidence of his having a daughter of that name.

References

• Colonial Families of Anne Arundel County, Maryland, pp. 78-82
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/125641381/hester-besson_sutton
• https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I7593...
• Birth seen as 26 March 1620 at Romsey in Hampshire