Susanna "Susan" Williams

Susanna "Susan" Cole

• Birth abt 1626, Probably England
• Death after 1680, Branford, Essex, New Jersey Province

Marriage

1. aft 16 Mar 1645 1Matthew Williams b abt 1620, Probably England Death aft 11/13/1654 and bef 7/8/1659, Probably Wethersfield, Connecticut Father Richard Williams

Children born in Wethersfield

• Amos, born March 14. 1645;
• Matthew, October 27, 1647, died an infant;
• Matthew born May 14, 1651:
• Samuel, born January 4, 1653-54, died at Elizabethtown, 1706

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family notes

• "Sister" of James Cole, of Hartford an early settler at Wethersfield and in 1639 an original planter at Hartford. He was "cousin" to Henry Cole, of Wallingford. Comment: they do not seem to have been in the same generation; James was born before 1600, Susanna well after.
• Son Amos was born out of wedlock. Matthew and Susannah were "whipped for fornication"
• " ... Miss Lyons records give a daughter Ruth, born between the two Matthews, m Caleb Pierson, and died before 1680, but of this we have no record." (Stiles, Families of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut, VOLUME 2 ONLY page 825)

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court records

From The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut [1636-1776] ... edited by James Hammond Trumbull, Charles Jeremy Hoadly

On March 5, 1644, Susan was sentenced as follows: Susan Coles for her rebellious cariedge towards her mistress, is to be sent to the house of correction and be kept to hard labor and a course diet, to be brought forth to the next lecture day to be publicly corrected, and so to be corrected weekly until order be given to the contrary. page 143
On July 10, 1645, Mathew Williams and Susan Cole were convicted of fornication. Mathew was sentenced to be twice whipped an pay a fine of 5 pounds (2012 equivalent 661). Susan was sentence to be twice whipped on that day and once more whipped on the 'next lecture'. page 129

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On December 4, 1645 Mathew was sentenced to pay support for his child being carried by Susan; who would become Amos. Page 143

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At Hartford, May 15, 1662, This Court orders, that the Bible that was sent to Goodwife Williams be by Serg' John Not delivered to Goodwife Harrison, who engageth to this Court to giue vnto ye children of ye said Williams, a bushel of Wheat a peice, as they shal come out of their time. And John Not doth engage to giue each ofye childrn 2 shillings a piece as they come out of their time, to buy them Bibles; and John Not hath hereby power granted him as is ordered, to dispose of ye rest ofye books, to ye children of ye said Williams. page 381

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At Hartford, March 11, 1663. The Magestrates ordr Sam Boreman to deliuer the little Bible and a paper book, vnto Amos Williams, wch was giuen to him by his mother, and that he and Will Goodrich distribute the estate to ye Creditors. page 396

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At Hartford, Octob 13th, 1664. This Court orders Sam Boreman, Mr. Chester & Sam Wells to dispose of the estate of Math: Williams his wife, for the payment of what debts are due from the estate, so farr as it will goe.. page 433

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From Stiles, Families of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut, VOLUME 2 ONLY page 825

" ... There certainly is no record of Amos Williams at Wethersfield after the appraisement and div of his father's estate, est 1680. The destruction of Court and Church records during the Revol. War leave much to be desired."

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biography

http://williamsfamilyhistoryessexnj.blogspot.com

Matthew Williams, of Wethersfield, was a brickmaker by trade, and a yeoman, which is proved by the earmarks of his cattle , which were recorded in the records. After 1655 he was for a time at Long Island, and eventually at the Barbadoes, though still a householder at the Wethersfield colony, where his family were still living. January 14. 1678, according to Hutton's emigration records, he was granted a ticket of leave back to the colonv with his servant, a slave. His death probably occurred the following year (1679), for in 1680 his widow, Susanna Williams, asked the court at Wethersfield to appraise the estate and divide between the sons, and this step on her part probably fixes a conclusive date for the departure of the widow and her three sons as follows: Amos, now thirty-five years of age, with his wife and three children-: Matthew, twenty-nine years of age. Samuel, twenty-seven, all coming to Essex county. New Jersey, in the second Branford emigration. Samuel settling at Elizabethtown, and Amos near-by. Samuel died in 1706.

sources

• The History of Ancient Wethersfield [matthewortiz.us/genealogy/ancestor%20photos/Williams/Mathew%20Williams%20in%20The%20History%20of%20Ancient%20Wethersfield%20CT.jpg link]
• The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut [1636-1776] ... edited by James Hammond Trumbull, Charles Jeremy Hoadly
• New England Marriages Prior to 1700. "Williams, Matthew (-1664) & 2/wf? Susannah [Cole?]; b 1645(6?); Wethersfield, CT"
• page 826 of Families of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut, VOLUME 2 ONLY. Descendants of Matthew Williams, the Wethersfield Settler, in the line of his son Matthew, Jr.
• page 114 of The Founders and Builders of the Oranges: Comprising a History of the ... By Henry Whittemore "The Williams Family"
• http://www.condit-family.com/ps03/ps03_400.html
• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=tibart&id...
  • History of the Oranges to 1921 : reviewing the rise, development and progress of an influential community Author: Pierson, David Lawrence Publication: New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1922, IV volumes, 1372 pages
• Williams, Lyle Keith. 1994. Matthew Williams (c1612-c1666) of Wethersfield, Connecticut, and descendants: (principal collateral lines, Ackerman, Baldwin, Brundage, Crane, Edison, McCandless, Ogden, Swaine, Tapp, Treat, VerPlanck, Winfrey). Fort Worth, Tex. (5000 Rock River Dr., Fort Worth 76103-1226): L.K. Williams.
• http://matthewortiz.us/genealogy/williamsline.htm#MathewWilliams1605
• page 371 of Genealogical Record of the Condit Family: Descendants of John Cunditt, a ... By Jotham Halsey Condit