Susanna Hooe

Rice Hoe and his wife Susanna had an indentured servant named John Price (Prise) who ran away. A jury determined he had starved to death and did not die from the beating he got from Susanna a week earlier:

9 January 1662: "We whose names are hereunto subscribed being upon the Jury concerning the death of John Prise do find to the best of our knowledge that the said John Prise did come to his untimely end by the reason of his running away from his Mr. Rice Hoe and so was starved for want of victuals which running away we do apprehend was by the means of the sad stripes that appeared upon his body given him by his Mrs. Susanna Hoe upon the 2nd of January but we do not find any mortal wound upon him. Daniel Clarke, Neal Sincler, ffer. Aston, Wm Gillum, Rich. Bradford, John Hattly, Tho. Calloway, Tho Turner, Phillp Owen, Tho. Richard, Jeoffrey Momford, Jno Parish. (Charles City County Court Orders 1661-1664, 357)

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Rice Hooe, II b. bef 1634, James City Co., VA, d. by 1 Oct 1694, Merchant's Hope, Charles City Co., VA, m. bef 16 Nov 1660, Susannah. It is not known what Susannah's maiden name was but on 10 Sep 1660, "It is ordered that a sequestracon be made of the estate & portion of Susanna ye daughter of Richard Nicholas, dec'd, according to his nuncupative will, out of the hands of Mr. Rice Hooe who married the relict of ye sd Decedt. ..." Hooe was required to give security "until full age or marriage of the said orphan."

Sources

• http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/000600/0...
• http://www.sleepydog.com/genealogy/john/fam119.html
• Reference: RootsWeb's WorldConnect - SmartCopy: Jul 24 2017, 3:54:18 UTC
• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kell/dad/hooe.html