Susannah Hall

Biography

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Susannah Lovett married Renold Bush in his old age, with a prenuptial agreement made on September 2, 1678 in place: "Reynold Bush, Cambridge, planter, for and in consideration of the great love that I have and bear unto Susanna Lovell late of Beverly in the County of Wilts in Old England, whom I purpofe forthwth to marry," created a trust for her with John Fay of Watertown and John Thorn of Cambridge as trustees, On this same day appears in Cambridge records the marriage of Renold and Susannah Lovett....There were two children by this marriage. Their names are not known, but when Renold Bush's estate was settled in 1686, a daughter of 4 years and a son of 16 months are mentioned. The widow then married Thomas Hall, then of Worcester, Massachusetts, and they may have removed to Norwich, Connecticut.[1]

Susannah Lovett married Renold Bush on 2 September 1678 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts.[2]

Renold and Susannah had the following children:

1. Hannah Bush b 1682 [1] married George Rood
2. Unknown Son Bush b abt. 1684 [1]

Susannah Bush married second Thomas Hall, probably in 1701 or early 1702 in Worcester, Massachusetts or Norwich, CT[1] Susannah, a widow, had remarried Thomas Hall while her daughter, Hannah had been away from home, living as a “drudge sometime in one house and sometime in a nother."[3]

With Susannah's help, her daughter Hannah was raped by her stepfather, Thomas Hall.[4]

"Despite [Thomas] Hall’s denials and his accusation that Hannah’s mother Susannah confessed under the influence of witchcraft, the Court of Assistants found Hall guilty of incest and Susannah guilty of being an accessory to the crime."[5]

"On May 29th, the Halls were both sentenced under Connecticut’s new marriage law passed in 1702, which eliminated the death penalty for sexual crimes. Instead, Thomas and Susannah were to stand at the gallows with a rope around their necks for one hour, receive a whipping not to exceed forty stripes, and wear a capital “I” two inches long and “proportional bigness in a contrasting color” for the rest of their lives."[6]

Research Notes

• Bush, Randall/Renold/Randolph & 1/wf Elizabeth ___?; b 1632 [sic?]; Cambridge
• Bush, Randoll & 2/wf Susanna Lovett/Lovill?/Lowell, m/2 Thomas Hall b 1686; m cont 2 Sep 1678; Cambridge[7]

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Sources

1. De Forest, Louis Effingham. James Cox Brady and His Ancestry page 101
2. Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT, Film # 0496864. Ancestry. Massachusetts, Compiled Marriages, 1633-1850 Ancestry Record 7853 #116448
3. Alicia Desiree Martin-Cowger A Great Appearance of Force: Puritan Family Government in Colonial Connecticut, 1672-1725 Thesis. August 2010, page 65
4. Alicia Desiree Martin-Cowger A Great Appearance of Force: Puritan Family Government in Colonial Connecticut, 1672-1725 Thesis. August 2010, page 66
5. Alicia Desiree Martin-Cowger A Great Appearance of Force: Puritan Family Government in Colonial Connecticut, 1672-1725 Thesis. August 2010, page 4
6. Alicia Desiree Martin-Cowger A Great Appearance of Force: Puritan Family Government in Colonial Connecticut, 1672-1725 Thesis. August 2010, page 72
7. Torrey's marriage index should not be considered a source, but an index to sources. It is best to search Torrey for referenced sources and subsequently access those sources. Torry, Clarence A. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004, page 125 Image
8. Recs. Ct. of Assts., Lacy transcript, II 412-415, 417-418 Conn. Archives, Crimes and Misdemeanors, 1st Ser., I 325