Susannah Keezer

Susannah Emerson

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• Birth: June 19 1711 - Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America
• Parents: Benjamin Emerson, Sara Silver
• Spouses: Caleb Heath, John Keezer
• Children: Priscilla Follansbee (born Heath), Caleb Heath, Joshua Heath, Benjamin Heath, Lt. Jonathan Heath, Joshua Heath, Ezekial Heath, and name of one more daughter
• Siblings: Sarah Gile (born Emerson), Robert Emerson, Benjamin Emerson, Charles Emerson, Hannah Philbrick, Rachel Brown (born Philbrick), Benjamin Philbrick

Family

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Heath-1269

Caleb Heath was born in 1704 in Haverhill, son of John Heath and Frances Hutchins.[1]

On 26 March 1730, Caleb married Susanna Emerson.[2][3] She was also of Haverhill, the daughter of Benjamin Emerson and Sarah Silver.

Caleb and Susanna had the following children, all baptized in Haverhill, Massachusetts:[4]

1. Priscilla, b. 7 Mar. 1732/33
2. Caleb, bpt. 30 Mar. 1735
3. Joshua, bpt. 9 Jan. 1736/37
4. Benjamin, bpt. 21 May 1738
5. Jonathan, bpt. 25 Jan. 1740/41
6. Joshua, bpt. 28 July 1742
7. Ezekial, bpt. 21 July 1744, and
8. Susanna, bpt. 13 July 1746.

Caleb and his brothers were early settlers of this land, well before it became Hampstead officially. The following reference states that "three families of the name of Ford, Heath and Emerson, moved into the place about the year 1728".[5] The same reference states "Robert Ford, Sr., one of the largest land owners in the southwestern part of Timberlane, sold tracts to William, Caleb, Benjamin and Nathaniel Heath, sons of John and Frances (Hutchens) Heath of Haverhill, in 1730, who took immediate possession".[6] Caleb was one of the citizens that signed a petition to the authorities in 1744, asking for jurisdiction of this area be clarified, and this is what eventually led to the formation of Hampstead in 1749.[7]

Susannah lost her husband when Caleb died in Hampstead, NH in 1753.[8]

She re-married on 16 Jan. 1755, with John Kezar.[9] The marriage record notates her as a widow. John Kezer or Keezer died in 1760.

References

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Emerson-4837
• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG1V-BGWW : 7 May 2022), Caleb Heath and Susanna Emerson, 26 Mar 1730; citing Marriage, , Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009726.
• "New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLDL-LDV : 1 August 2022), John Kezer and Susanna Heath, 1755.
• "New Hampshire Marriages, 1720-1920", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FDGN-V8K : 24 January 2020), Susannah Heath in entry for John Keezer, 1755.
• https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/massachusetts-vital-rec...
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Heath-1269
  • Vital Records of Haverhill, Massachusetts: To the End of the Year 1849 (Topsfield Historical Society, 1910)| Page 168
  • Massachusetts Marriage Records, Haverhill| Marriage, Heath - Emerson
  • Vital Records of Haverhill, Massachusetts: To the End of the Year 1849 (Topsfield Historical Society, 1910)| Page 162
  • Vital Records of Haverhill, Massachusetts: To the End of the Year 1849 (Topsfield Historical Society, 1910)| Pages 168-171
  • A Memorial of the Town of Hampstead, New Hampshire (G.B. Reed, Boston, Mass., 1899-1903)| Page 28
  • A Memorial of the Town of Hampstead, New Hampshire (G.B. Reed, Boston, Mass., 1899-1903)| Page 151 < Archive.Org >
  • A Memorial of the Town of Hampstead, New Hampshire (G.B. Reed, Boston, Mass., 1899-1903)| Page 3
  • New Hampshire Death Records, Hampstead| Death, Caleb Heath
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Keezer-56
  • "New Hampshire Marriages, 1720-1920", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FDGN-V82 : 24 January 2020), John Keezer, 1755.
  • "New Hampshire Death Records, 1654-1947," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FS2N-SZS : 23 February 2021), John Keezer, 1760; citing Hampstead, Bureau Vital Records and Health Statistics, Concord; FHL microfilm 1,001,088.