Susanna Battle

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GEDCOM Note

She was a French Huguenot who escaped from France hidden in bales of silk.

GEDCOM Source

Jesse Battle— b. Hertford Co., N. C., July 8, 1738 1 ; d. Hancock Co., Ga., Aug. 25, 1805 (See will. Chap. V) ; reared by grandfather, William Battle, in Nansemond Co., Va.; Revolutionary soldier (See Chap. XII); removed 1777 to Swift Creek, Edgecombe Co., N. C., and thence, Feb. 20, 1787, to Greene (now Hancock) Co., Ga.; Baptist; m. Nansemond Co., Va., 1756, Susanna Faucette (b. France, Oct. 7, 1738 1 ; d. Hancock Co., Ga., May 8, 1819, a French Hu¬ guenot who escaped from France hidden in bales of silk).

The Battle Book: a Genealogy of the Battle Family in America, with Chapters Illustrating Certain Phases of Its History Battle, H. B., Lois Yelverton, and William James Battle Montgomery, Ala.: Paragon, 1930. Archive.org. 26 April 2018. Web. <https://archive.org/details/battlebookgeneal00batt> p. 202.

GEDCOM Source

Georgia, Probate Records, 1742-1990 "Georgia, Probate Records, 1742-1990." Citing County probate courthouses, Georgia. images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-30356-1573-11?cc=1999178 : accessed 11 March 2016), Hancock > Wills and administration records 1803-1826 vol C-F > image 140 of 687; county probate courthouses, Georgia; Jesse Battle, 1805.

GEDCOM Note

A French Huguenant. Born in France and escaped hidden in a bale of silk.