Susanna Keator

Probably NOT Susanna Brown

• http://www.ancestralcurios.com/tmp_na_marriages_1639-1801.htm#610
• https://homepages.rootsweb.com/~rbillard/na_marriages_1639-1801.htm

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Three Centuries of the Keator Family in America
https://archive.org/details/threecenturiesof00keat_0/page/n29?q=cor...

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 con¬ temporary 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.
Late in 1674, or early in 1675, Melchior moved, or was sent, to Marbletown where he settled probably near the present village of Rosendale, and where the first three generations of the Keator family lived. From the beginning, he was a soldier of the local militia, al¬ though we do not find his name recorded until 1687, where it appears on “A List* of the Fottman of Capten Tomas Gershames Com¬ pany” as “Melier Celeson.” Ca. 1680, his name was appended to a petition** of “Several Inhabitants of Esopus” for a minister of the gospel preaching both in English and Dutch, as “Melgar Claus.”
The last record we have of Melchior (Melchert) was on 21 Sept. 1701 when he and Susanna acted as witnesses at the baptism of 1 5 A. Lelie, dau. of Thomas Kinnev and 4. Mary Melchertse. No doubt he died shortly after. Children, b. Marbletown:
2. Nicholas, b. ca. 1675.
3. Rut (Richard), b. ca. 1676.
4. Mary, b. ca. 1677
5. Elisabeth, bpt. 8 D. 1678 (K.).
6. Anna, bpt. 18 June 1682 (K.).

• Cf. New York State Historical Report , 1897, Colonial Series, Volume 2.
  • Cf. Calendar of New York Colonial Manuscripts, Vol. II, p. 92.

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• Reference: WikiTree Genealogy - SmartCopy: Nov 11 2022, 17:47:33 UTC

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