Susannah Byram

GEDCOM Note

Category: Halifax, Yorkshire Category: Bridgewater, Massachusetts

Biography

Susannah Shaw was born to Abraham Shaw and Elizabeth Best in May 1617 in Halifax, Yorkshire, England, to Abraham Shaw and Bridget Best. She was baptized 25 May 1617.<ref>West Yorkshire Archive Service; Wakefield, Yorkshire, England; Yorkshire Parish Records; New Reference Number: WDP53/1/1/5. [https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=2256&h=893...] (Ancestry subscripstion needed)</ref><ref>Chamberlain Abraham Shaw's will mentions his son-in-law Nicholas Byram.</ref>

Marriage

She married Nicholas Byram about 1635 in Weymouth, Suffolk, MassachusettsBay.<ref>Genealogical Publishing Co.; Baltimore, MD, USA; Volume Title: New England Marriages Prior to 1700, pg 130</ref>

Death and Burial

Susanna died Aug 1696 and was buried 21 Aug 1698 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay.

Sources

<references />*Chamberlain: Chamberlain, George Walter. History_of_Weymouth_Massachusetts, Volume 4, Weymouth Historical Society, Weymouth, Mass. (Wright & Potter Printing Co., Boston, Mass.), 1923 On Hathitrust.org* Jordan, John W. Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (Lewis Historical Pub. Co., New York,1915, Vol. 3. pg. 1186-1189)

Susannah's grave is not marked with a headstone. In his book, "Epitaphs in Old Bridgewater", Williams Latham wrote:"The adult persons living and dying in this part of old Bridgewater previous to 1703, and probably buried in this yard, so far as is known, were N. Byram, 1688, and his wife, Robert Latham and wife, 1685-1688; Jonathan Cary, of Beaver, 1695; Experience Mitchell, of Elmwood, 1689; Mercy Harris, wife of Issac Harris, about 1682. No other public place of burial is known to have been used; and we find a very few private burying-grounds in the early settlement of the town, here, or elsewhere, in old Bridgewater."

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Susanna married Nicholas Byram about 1636. They had children, all born in Weymouth:
Nicholas - born about 1640
he married Mary Edson in 1676
Abigail Nicholas - born about 1642
she married Thomas Whitman in 1656
Deliverance - born about 1644
she married John Porter in 1660
Experience - born about 1646
she married John Willis
Susanna - born about 1648
she married Samuel Edson
Mary - born about 1650
she married Samuel Leach

Susannah was the Executrix of the will of her husband. She made an oath to the inventory on June 16, 1688.

Susannah made her will on September 7, 1698. She bequeathed to her children and grandchildren, and gave freedom to her negro Tom and her maid. As part of her probate records, the inventory of her estate begins with "A true inventory of the estate of Susannah Byram widow deceased the 28th of November 1700 in the town of Bridgewater in the county of Plymouth in New England"

Gravesite Details
There is no headstone.