Susanna Kingsbury

Susan French was previously thought to have died young. New information was published by NEHGR, Spring, 2021. See “sources” tab.

Biography

Extracted from https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/French-813

Susan French was baptized St. Edmund's Parish in Assington, Suffolk, 22 April 1616, "the daughter of Thomas Ffrench and Susan his wife."[3][4][5]

Thomas French was a farmer at Assington.[6] The family "lived near Groton, Suffolk, the Winthrop family seat."[7][8][9]

Immigration

Susan had immigrated to Ipswich, Massachusetts Bay Colony, by 1636,[10] ​although she may be the unidentified "goodman Frenches" daughter who arrived with a sister in 1633 to serve the Winthrop family. In 2021, Byrne and Hardy suggest the two may have been Dorcas and Amy (not Susan).[11] (See Research Notes.)

At New England

Susan French married, perhaps at Ipswich, Massachusetts Bay Colony, say 1640, Henry Kingsbury. He was born about 1615,[12][13][14][15] presumably Suffolk, England, the son of Henry Kingsbury and his first wife, Jane Warren.[16]

In 1900, Arthur E. Gage wrote,[17]

John Gage and Henry Kingsbury occupied adjoining farms on the Merrimack in that part of the town of Rowley afterward Bradford. John Gage purchased his farm from Patience Jewett and Hannah (Jewett) Carlton. Henry Kingsbury's farm originally belonged to Philip Nelson.

Susan died Haverhill, then Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay, 21 February 1678;[18] Henry survived her. He died Haverhill, 1 October 1687.[19][20] The inventory of Henry's estate was taken 10 October 1687 by Josiah Gage and Jonathan Haynes; Joseph "Kinsbury" was appointed administrator.[21]

Family

Henry Kingsbury and Susan French married, perhaps Ipswich, say 1640. They were the parents of at least seven children.

1. Susannah Kingsbury, born, probably Ipswich, about 1641/2
2. John Kingsbury, born, probably Ipswich, say 1643
3. Ephraim Kingsbury, born, probably Ipswich, say 1645
4. James Kingsbury, born, probably Ipswich, say 1647
5. Samuel Kingsbury, born Ipswich, 25 March 1649
6. Thomas Kingsbury, born say 1651
7. Joseph Kingsbury, born Haverhill, about 1656 (he was age 85 at his death in 1741).

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Erroneous burial. A previous version of this profile reported Susan's burial, "16 June 1631," without further reference.

The same profile version also reported a post-mortem immigration date of "1633."
The parish extracts published by Linzee do not report a French burial in the year 1631, nor do they report a French burial of "16 June" in any years covered by the Assington records he published.[40]
Thomas and Susan French did bury a daughter at Assington, but that was Margaret French, baptized 12 March 1619/20, buried 24 November 1635.

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Torrey's "New England Marriages prior to 1700" records the marriage of Henry Kingsbury and Susanna "(Gage?)".

In Frederick John Kingsbury and Mary Kingsbury Talcott, "The Genealogy of the Descendants of Henry Kingsbury, Ipswich and Haverhill, Massachusetts" (Hartford, CT: Hartford Press, 1905), an association is made with John Gage and Henry Kingsbury in that their ages are close, they both came from Suffolk England, and they both lived in Ipswich around the same time. Henry Kingsbury was an appraiser of the estates of both John Gage on March 26, 1673 and Jonathan Gage on March 15, 1674/5. The inventory of Henry Kingsbury's estate was done by Josiah Gage. Therefore, it is thought that Henry married John Gage's sister, but there is no substantive proof of this. Also, in Anderson's "The Great Migration Begins", on March 27, 1669 a son of Henry Kingsbury said that the swine by the riverside were his "uncle Gage's" hogs suggesting that Henry Kingsbury married a sister of John Gage. If her maiden name was Gage, she was probably the daughter of John Gage, Sr. & his wife, Penelope (Darcy). However, I could not find Susanna in this family, so it is doubtfull that she was a Gage.

GEDCOM Note

Backstory (1) The Gage and Kingsbury wives

Clues that John Gage and Henry Kingsbury were somehow brothers-in-law a rise from third party testimony in 1669 claiming Henry's Kingsbury's so n referred to John Gage as an "uncle." From Robert Charles Anderson's a rticle about John Gage,[1]

"Alexander Sessions deposed on 27 March 1669 that 'Goodman Kingsburough 's son said [the swine by the riverside] were his uncle Gage's hogs,' s uggesting that Henry Kingsbury had married a sister of Gage, or vice ve rsa, or that the two men had married sisters."[2]

John Gage married twice, first to "Amy ____," as the mother of his know n children, and second to Sarah (____) Keyes, widow of Robert.[3] Henry K ingsbury married Susannah _____.[4]

To my knowledge, no one has discovered the historical records that migh t confirm and clarify a further relationship between the two men and an y of the three known wives. Might other WikiTree-ers confirm if they ha ve found otherwise?

(2) Errors in print about immigrant John Gage suggested he was the son o f John Gage, Baronet, and wife Penelope.

I find no mention of Henry Kingsbury's wife in the erroneous work. It s eems likely that Susannah became linked to the the erroneous lineage by t hose who also entered the speculative link reporting she was the sister o f John Gage, immigrant.

(a) For examples of the early errors in print concerning the parentage o f immigrant John Gage, see

Rev. M. T. Runnels, _History of Sanborton, New Hampshire_, 2 vols, (188 2, 1881), 2:288-292.

"Gage Genealogy,"_Granite Monthly_ 6 (1883):62-64 [November 1882]; 208 [ April 1883].

For notice of the correction about immigrant John Gage, see

Comment by "G. K. C." [George Kuhn Clarke] in "Notes and Queries," _New E ngland Historical and Genealogical Register_ 45 (1891):86, as below.

In my 'Genealogy of the Descendants of Nathaniel Clarke of Newbury, Mas s.,' published in 1885 … page 35 … I refer to an assertion which has be en in print, that John Gage of Rowley was a younger son of Sir John Gag e, created a baronet, March 26, 1622. It seems to me that the evidence i s conclusive that this assumed relationship is purely fictitious, and t hat the ancestry of John Gage of Rowley must be sought for elsewhere."

See also the more extended coverage of the correction as Arthur E. Gage , "Some Descendants of John Gage of Ipswich, Mass.," _New England Histo ric and Genealogical Register_ 62 (1908):254.[5]

"Some have claimed, on the authority of Horatio Somerby, that he was fr om Stoneham, in Suffolk, England, and was the second son of Sir John Ga ge, Bart., who married Penelope, widow of George Trenchard: but that Jo hn Gage, the second son of Sir John and Penelope, married one Mary Bake r and died in England, without issue, leaving a will dated July 17, 168 2, proved April 27, 1688, he could not have been our John Gage the immi grant."

(b) No report otherwise of dau. Susannah to John Gage, Baronet and wife P enelope.

Burke's Peerage of 1852 reports about family of John Gage, Baronet, and w ife, Penelope Darcy--it does not call out a daughter Susannah. This acc ount provides eight children, including four daughters--Frances, Penelo pe, Elizabeth and Ann.

See John B. Burke, _A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peera ge and Baronetage of the British Empire_ 14th ed. (1852), 419; digital i mages, _Google Books_ (accessed 2014).

References

• Find a Grave: Susanna French Kingsbury
• http://www.jeaniesgenealogy.com/2012/01/john-gage-of-ipswich-massac...
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Bay_Colony
• https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LLQB-6VB/susanna-gage-1617-1678

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References

1. a new article to the Source Tab: from Spring 2021 NEHGR on "Three French Daughters and Their Husbands: Three Unrecorded Marriages from Early Ipswich, Massachusetts, Amy (French) Gage, Susan (French) Kingsbury, and Anne (French) Hardy. link
2. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/French-813 cites
   1. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols. (Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), pp 703-705 (Thomas French article), in particular, 705; digital image by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
   2. Melinde Lutz Byrne and John Edward Hardy, "Three French Daughters and Their Husbands ... Amy (French) Gage, Susan (French) Kingsbury, and Anne (French) Hardy," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 175 (2021):105-119, in particular, p. 105; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
   3. Susan Ffrench 1616 baptism in "Extract from the Parish Register of St. Edmund's, Assington ...," John William Linzee, The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles ... (Boston, Mass.: Priv. Print. [S. Usher], 1913), 412; digital image, Hathi Trust.
   4. Citing "Transcriber unknown, handwritten copy of original Assington parish register, about 1900, transcription at Society of Genealogist, London, examined there by author Byrne in 2004 ...," Melinde Lutz Byrne and John Edward Hardy, "Three French Daughters and Their Husbands ... Amy (French) Gage, Susan (French) Kingsbury, and Anne (French) Hardy," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 175 (2021):105-119, in particular, p. 105; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors; authors report that seven other baptisms at Assington are attributed to Thomas and Susan French "between 1608 and 1625.".
   5. Susan French 1616 baptism, "The Registers of Assington, Suffolk (Baptisms, marriages, burials, 1598-1683"; digital image, FamilySearch (img 18 of 85); entries appear in a more modern hand (surname as French); right side of ledger apparently worn off, Susan's baptismal date is "25th" [1616].
   6. John William Linzee, The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles ... (Boston, Mass.: Priv. Print. [S. Usher], 1913), 416; digital image, Hathi Trust.
   7. Quoted from, Melinde Lutz Byrne and John Edward Hardy, "Three French Daughters and Their Husbands ... Amy (French) Gage, Susan (French) Kingsbury, and Anne (French) Hardy," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 175 (2021):105-119, in particular, p. 106; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
   8. In the will of John Gurton of Assington, dated 6 December 1621, proved 10 October 1623, he makes a bequest of "all my lease or farm lands tythes &c. in Assington ... the messuage or farm house where in one Thomas French doth now in habit, called Garland's ..." citing "Water's Gen. Glean. in England: 954-5," John William Linzee, The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles ... (Boston, Mass.: Priv. Print. [S. Usher], 1913), 416; digital image, Hathi Trust.
   9. Citing "Swann 99" for the Will of John Gurdon of Assington ... 6 December 1621, proved 10 October 1623, Henry F. Waters, Genealogical gleanings in England (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1901), 2 vols., 2:954-5; digital images, Hathi Trust.
   10. Melinde Lutz Byrne and John Edward Hardy, "Three French Daughters and Their Husbands ... Amy (French) Gage, Susan (French) Kingsbury, and Anne (French) Hardy," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 175 (2021):105-119, in particular, p. 106; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
   11. Melinde Lutz Byrne and John Edward Hardy, "Three French Daughters and Their Husbands ... Amy (French) Gage, Susan (French) Kingsbury, and Anne (French) Hardy," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 175 (2021):105-119, in particular, pp.108, 112, 118; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
   12. George Francis Dow, Records and files of quarterly courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, 9 vols. (1911-1975), 4:117n, for deposition of "Henry Kingsbery" in "Mr. Symon Bradstreet v. John Gage"; digital images, Hathi Trust; "Henry Kingsbery, aged about fifty-four years, deposed. Sworn 26: 1: 1669, before Simon Bradstreet."
   13. Melinde Lutz Sanborn, Ages from Court Records (Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2003), multiple vols., 1:122; reports "Henry Kingsbury" deposed 1669, age 54.
   14. Arthur E. Gage, "Kingsbury and Gage," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 54 (1900):260; digital image, InternetArchive.
   15. Citing "Depositions Essex Court Papers. Vol. 14, pp. 46, 47," Arthur E. Gage, "Kingsbury and Gage," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 54 (1900):260; digital image, InternetArchive.
   16. Melinde Lutz Byrne and John Edward Hardy, "Three French Daughters and Their Husbands ... Amy (French) Gage, Susan (French) Kingsbury, and Anne (French) Hardy," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 175 (2021):105-119; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
   17. Without further reference, Arthur E. Gage, "Kingsbury and Gage," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 54 (1900):260; digital image, InternetArchive.
   18. Susannah Kingsberie 1678 death in "Haverhill Deaths," "Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910"; digital image, FamilySearch (image 560 of 814); roll titled, "Court Records [Essex County Court House, Salem, Mass.]: Births, Marriage & Deaths, 1670-1747.".
   19. Henry Kingsberry 1687 death in Haverhill death register, " "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"; digital image, FamilySEarch; roll titled, "Court Records [Essex County Court House, Salem, Mass.]: Births, Marriage & Deaths, 1663-1786"; image 410 of 610.
   20. Citing, in part, "Ct. R.." Henry Kingsbery 1687 death entry, Vital Records of Haverhill, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Topsfield, Mass.: Topsfield historical society, 1910-11), 2 vols., 2:434; digital images, Hathi Trust; he is "Henry, h. Susannah"; age as "77 y. Ct. R."
   21. Peabody Essex Museum collections [formerly Essex Institute Historical Collections] (Salem, Mass.: Essex Institute, 1859-1993), 130 vols., 4 (1862):174; digital images, Hathi Trust; for "Henry Kingsbury 1687" entry; inventory totaled £40 19s 6d; reports Henry's death, 1 October 1687.
   22. Charles Edward Banks, The planters of the Commonwealth ..., 1620-1640 (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1961), p.73; digital images, InternetArchive
   23. David W. Hoyt, The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts (Providence, Rhode Island: Snow & Farnum, 1887), p. 166; digital images, InternetArchive.
   24. Charles Edward Banks, The planters of the Commonwealth ..., 1620-1640 (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1961), p.viii (Preface); digital images, InternetArchive.
   25. Charles Edward Banks, The planters of the Commonwealth ..., 1620-1640 (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1961), p.71 (Appendix); digital images, InternetArchive.
   26. David W. Hoyt, The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts (Providence, Rhode Island: Snow & Farnum, 1887), p. 166n; digital images, InternetArchive.
   27. Citing "BChR 14," Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols. (Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), pp 703-705 (Thomas French article), in particular, 703, 705; digital image by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
   28. John William Linzee, The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles ... (Boston, Mass.: Priv. Print. [S. Usher], 1913), 412; digital image, Hathi Trust.
   29. Citing "Transcriber unknown, handwritten copy of original Assington parish register, about 1900, transcription at Society of Genealogist, London, examined there by author Byrne in 2004 ...," Melinde Lutz Byrne and John Edward Hardy, "Three French Daughters and Their Husbands ... Amy (French) Gage, Susan (French) Kingsbury, and Anne (French) Hardy," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 175 (2021):105-119, in particular, p. 106; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors
   30. Thomas Gostlin was married to Jane Winthrop, the sister of Gov. John Winthrop, see Jane Winthrop in "Latin Pedigree, 1498-1625," Joseph James Muskett, Evidences of the Winthrops of Groton ([Boston]: Priv. print., 1894-96), 6; digital images, Hathi Trust.
   31. Gostlin to Winthrop, Jr., letter dated Groton, 11 June 1633, Winthrop Papers: Volume III (1631-1637) ([Boston]: The Massachusetts Historical Society, 1943), p. 124-125; digital images, Hathi Trust.
   32. As quoted by, citing "Pierce, Records of the First Church of Boston [1961], 2," Melinde Lutz Byrne and John Edward Hardy, "Three French Daughters and Their Husbands ... Amy (French) Gage, Susan (French) Kingsbury, and Anne (French) Hardy," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 175 (2021):105-119, in particular, p. 107-108; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
   33. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols. (Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), pp. 703-705 (Thomas French article), in particular, 703, 705; digital image by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
   34. Writing, "Dorcas and Susan came in 1633," Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols. (Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), pp 703-705 (Thomas French article), in particular, 705; digital image by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
   35. Melinde Lutz Byrne and John Edward Hardy, "Three French Daughters and Their Husbands ... Amy (French) Gage, Susan (French) Kingsbury, and Anne (French) Hardy," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 175 (2021):105-119, in particular, pp.108, 112, 118; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
   36. Melinde Lutz Byrne and John Edward Hardy, "Three French Daughters and Their Husbands ... Amy (French) Gage, Susan (French) Kingsbury, and Anne (French) Hardy," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 175 (2021):105-119; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
   37. Citing "Depositions Essex Court Papers. Vol. 14, pp. 46, 47," Arthur E. Gage, "Kingsbury and Gage," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 54 (1900):260; digital image, InternetArchive.
   38. George Francis Dow, Records and files of quarterly courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, 9 vols. (1911-1975), 4:117n, for deposition Alexander Session, (sworn 27 :1 : 1669) in "Mr. Symon Bradstreet v. John Gage"; digital imagesHathi Trust.
   39. New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015), multiple vols., 2:898; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors; works consulted as "Reg. 13:157, 54:260, 106:144 [106 (1952) at AmericanAncestors]; Granberry 265; Windsor CT 2:427 [426-427]; Ipswich Ant. Papers 97; Kingsbury (,1) 88-9 [85-89]; Gage (1908) 3; Ruggles 40 [see Franklin Ladd Bailey, Genealogy of Thomas Ruggles of Roxbury ... (1896), 40]; Winchester (1912) [144]."
   40. John William Linzee, The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles ... (Boston, Mass.: Priv. Print. [S. Usher], 1913), 412; digital image, Hathi Trust. See also--
   41. William B. Trask, “Abstracts from the earliest wills on record in the county of Suffolk, Mass.,” The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 10 (1856):176 for “John Kingsbery, of Dedham”; digital images, Hathi Trust.
   42. Frederick John Kingsbury and Mary Kingsbury Talcott, The Genealogy of the Descendants of Henry Kingsbury Ipswich and Haverhill, Mass. ([Hartford, Conn.]: Hartford Press, 1905), 29-76 (English Kingsbury records); digital images, Hathi Trust. Extensive group of extracts and abstracts from English registers and other records pertaining to surname Kingsbury.
   43. John Ward Dean, “Henry Kingsbury and his descendants,” The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 13 (1859): 157-160; digital images, Hathi Trust. Among other information, reports he was born "about 1615," referencing the 1669 deposition.
   44. Louis Effingham DeForest and Ann Lawrence DeForest, Moore and Allied Families; the Ancestry of William Henry Moore (1938), 334-339, for "Henry^1 Kingsbury"; digital images available at OpenLibrary (borrow).
   45. Addison Kingsbury and Joseph Addison Kingsbury, A pendulous edition of Kingsbury genealogy, gathered by Rev. Addison Kingsbury (1901), 14, 19, latter for Henry (11) Kingsbury, son of Henry and Margaret (Alabaster) Kingsbury; digital images, Hathi Trust.
   46. "Susan French" in "Family Tree"; database, FamilySearch; contributed by various users