Susannah Lindsley

Susanna Culpeper of Connecticut Female, #10419, (say 1637 - 2 Feb 1699.

She married Francis Lindsly at Branford, New Haven Colony, Connecticut, on 24 Jun 1655

disputed origins

Nothing certain is known about the ancestry of Susannah Culpeper. Her place of birth may have been either England or perhaps Virginia, where her father based his shipping business. Her birth in England is more likely, in as much as her father would have been quite young to have established himself in Virginia at age twenty-one. It is possible that she sailed on board her father's ship on one of his visits to New England and met Francis Lindsley there.

John Culpeper, the Merchant:

John Culpeper, born in 1606, could be the ancestor of most American Culpeppers. And yet little is known about him for certain. First, John was clearly a ship owner with business interests throughtout the colonies. He had been away from England for some time when he returned to protect his brothers estate in 1651. Their interests were probably more entangled than just their common ownership of the 'Thomas and John.' It would appear that they may have owned a trading company with points of presence in England, Barbados, New England, and Virginia. Indeed, John probably had sons or sons-in-law in those places to carry out their trading business.

I suspect that Hannah who married Edward Frisbie and Susannah who married Francis Lindley were both daughters. Edward Frisbie was from another prominent merchant trading family in Norfolk County, VA and removed to New England. Francis Lindley ended up in New Jersey after having lived in New England.

From http://www.culpepperconnections.com/ss/p10419.htm

The Culpeper/Culpepper Sisters of 17th Century Connecticut By Lew Griffin5 and Warren Culpepper6

Numerous sources suggest that there were one or more Culpeper (Culpepper) sisters living in Connecticut in the mid 17th century. The reported sisters include Hannah, Susanna and Abigail.

Susanna Culpeper

Susanna Culpeper of Connecticut married Francis Lindsly on 24 Jun 1655 in Branford, New Haven Colony (now New Haven Co., CT). It was once speculated that she was the daughter of John Culpeper the Merchant, born 1606. The speculation is based on the fact that he was the right age to have been her father, and was thought to have had business dealings in New England and Virginia. It is possible that he lived in New England for a while, although he seems to have left few if any records there.

Based upon the preceding article by Donald Jacobus, it seems more likely that Susanna was the daughter of a Culpeper widow in England who remarried there and immigrated to Branfordw with her new husband and daughter at the time of its founding in 1644, or shortly thereafter. The identity of which Culpeper family this was in England is a mystery.