Susanna Brown

Biography

Susanna van Waert Garland Brown (ver Planck) was born in 1642 in Beverwyck, Nieuw-Nederland and was baptized on May 25, 1642 in Reformed Dutch Church. Her parents were Abraham Isaacsen ver Planck and Maria de la Vigne.

Susanna was married three times. She is probably NOT Susanna the widow of Pierre Richards who married Melchoir Claessen Keater.

She first married Marten van Waert on December 4, 1660. Together they had the following two children:

1. Jacobus van Waert;
2. Guyleyne van Waert (called Von Leijer in his step father John Garland's will).

Susanna secondly married John Garland, Indian Trader on April 20, 1669 in New Netherlands (Present New York), (Present USA). Together they had the following three children:

1. Sylvester Garland;
2. Sudt Garland;
3. Matthias Garland.

Susanna lastly married Daniel Brown after June 30, 1679. Together they had one son:

1. Daniel Brown, Jr.

She died circa 1680 in Lower Counties on the Delaware.

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Children of Martin Van Waert and Susanna Verplanck are these two:
1. Gilijn Van Waert Baptized in Holland on 4 Oct 1662 - Martin Van Waert had been banished for the New York Colony and they went back to Holland where there first son was baptized
2. Susanna returned to New Colony on the 27th of Sept. 1663, she had one child with her age 1 1/2 years old and on the 18tth January 1664 she baptized a second child Jacobus Van Waert. So, Susanna was pregnant on her return home. But Martin did not come with her. Either he died or they divorced. Susanna used only her maiden name in documents VerPlanck.
John Garland Wrote his will on 5 July 1673, it was Recorded 26 February 1674. Children between John and Susanna were these
1. Sylvester Garland
2. Mathias Garland
3. Mary Garland who married William Thompson, Who is mention as Daniel Browne's Daughter-in-law and Son-in-law in his will. Dated: Written: 17 Sept. 1695, Proved: 30 Oct 1695 • Kent Co., Delaware / Province of Pennsylvania
Children of Daniel Browne, Sr. and Susanna Verplanck (widow of Waert, Garland) had only one child together: Daniel Browne, Jr. who married Elizabeth Pemberton
per https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Clements-2864 at
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Keater-6

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http://www.iment.com/maida/familytree/anderson/johngarland.htm
V. - Susannah Verplank

This I take to be the maiden name of John Garland's wife and assume that she was a daughter of Abraham Isaacson Verplank, whose children have just been enumerated.
For, first, John Garland, in his will, calls his wife Susannah, mentions as his brother, Mr. Guyline Verplancke, and appoints him as one of his executors - the other being Francis Rombout, who was an intimate associate of the celebrated Gulian, son of Abraham Verplaok.
Secondly, we find in a list of marriage licenses published under the title, "New York Marriages," in which are "Licenses by Secretary of the Province of New York," the following: - "John Garland and Susannah Verplank, April 20, 1669." [This is taken from a part entitled, "Orders, Warrants and Letters," Vol. I, p.417] Again, Susannah Garland's history seems to be so connected with the Verplanks both in New York and Delaware, as to admit of only one solution - that she was a Verplank herself.
Moreover, we discover that her son Silvester called one of his children Abraham, probably after his maternal grandfather.

She must have been born as early as 1640 or 1645, and her birthplace was doubtless New York, or, as it was called then New Amsterdam.

She was married three times: -

1. First, to a man named Von Leijer, by whom she had at least one son, Guyleyne Von Leijer {van Waert}.
2. Secondly, to John Garland, as above stated, by whom she had two sons - Silvester and Matthias.
3. Thirdly, to Daniel Brown, by whom also she may have had children.

Until her second husband's death in 1673 or 1674, she seems to have resided in New York, and, daring at least part of the time after her marriage to her third husband, she lived in Kent Co., Delaware, but said to be "in the territory of Pennsylvania," of which Delaware once formed a part; and here she was after her third husband's death as late as January 4, 1700, when we lose all trace of her. Her father had land in Delaware (see p. 8), and this may have been given to her, and thus her footsteps may have been directed thither.

It was her lot to administer on the estates of both her second and her third husbands, and Jan. 4, 1700, spelling her name Bruin, she gave a power of attorney to her "well-beloved son, Silvester Garland," to look after her material interests in New York, and recover any property there belonging to her. The witnesses to this last document were Abraham Verplank and Daniel T. D. B. Brown, and they appeared at New Castle, Delaware, May 6, 1701, to oonfirm their signatures.

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All of her children were born in New Amsterdam.

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Disputed Origins

The author of Three Centuries of Keators in America wrote:

Who was Susanna Richards?
This has been a major problem and we can offer in solution only a guess.
The tradition has been that she was the widow of a British soldier, a theory no doubt inspired by James Riker who in his Brief History of Harlem (N. Y. 1904) mistranslated the phrase “Van op fort” in the marriage record as “From Oxford.”
A safe assumption is that Richards is either a patronymic, or the name of a former husband.
A search of the contemporary church records indicates that the person most likely to have met this requirement was Susanna Verplanck, the widow of Pierre Richards who came from Paris ca. 1660.

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links

https://archive.org/details/documentsrelativ12brod/page/n25/mode/2u...
http://www.ancestralcurios.com/cgi-bin/VitalSearch.pl?stext=ver+Pla...
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=9aU0AAAAMAAJ&pg=GBS.PA396&h...
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