Susannah West
| Charts | Ancestors of Jennie Luene Logan George Soule to Jennie Luene (Logan) Billings |
Susannah West, daughter of Francis West and Susanna Soule, was born say 1672.1 She died at Charlestown, Washington Co., Rhode Island, between 21 September 1755 and 4 April 1758.2
Susannah married, as his 2nd wife, Moses Barber at North Kingstown, Washington Co., Rhode Island, 24 March 1691/92.3,2,4,5
Susannah left a will dated 21 September 1755, with a letter of administration granted to son Benjamin of Hopkinton, 4 Apr 1758:
The Inventory totaled £1351 10s and included:
Susannah married, as his 2nd wife, Moses Barber at North Kingstown, Washington Co., Rhode Island, 24 March 1691/92.3,2,4,5
Susannah left a will dated 21 September 1755, with a letter of administration granted to son Benjamin of Hopkinton, 4 Apr 1758:
In the Name of God Amen This 21st Day of September & in the 29th year of his Majisties Reigne Georg ye Second King over Great Briton AD1755 - I Susannah Barber of Charlestown in Kings County and Coloney of Rhodeisland Widow Beeing in Helth of Body and Perfict Mind & Memory Thanks bee Given to almighty God
Therefore Calling to Mind ye Mortality of My body & knowing that it is appointed for Men Once to Die do Make and ordain this My Last Will & Testament That is to say Principally and first of all I Give and Recommend My Soul into ye Hands of Almighty God that Gave it and My body I Recommend to ye Earth to bee Buried in Christian Decent Buriel at ye Descrestion of my Executor Nothing Doubting but at ye General Resurection I shall Receive the Same again by ye Mighty Powr of God and as Touching such Worldly Estate Wherewith it Haith Pleased God to Bless Me with in this life I Give Demise and Dispose of ye same in ye Following Manner and forme------------
Imprimus: My will is and Hereby Order My Executors to pay all My just Debts and Funerall Charges out of My Estate-------
Item I Give and Bequeath unto my beloved Daughter Anne Kinyon my Great Bible Whose Name is written in Said Bible and to bee Delliverd to her by My Executor Before My Other Estate to my Children hereafter named------------
Item I Give and Bequeath unto My Beloved Daughters viz: Dinah Wilcock & to ye Heir of Lyda Mory and to Susannah Perry Wodow to Marthe Parker to Ruth Bently Marey Tift and Ann Kinyon all of the Remainder of my Estate to bee equally Devided Between them to them and theire Heirs for Ever----------
Lastly I Constatute Make and ordain My Beloved Son Benja Barber to be My whole and Soul Executor to this My Last Will and Testament and ye Reason I Know make this Will is Because I Cannot Have My former Will when Requested hereby Revokeing Disallowing and Disanulling all other former Wills Legaces and Bequeaths by Me Before Maid Rattifying & Confirming this and no other To bee My Last Will and Testament Witness Where of I Have Hereunt Set my hand and Seal ye Day and year first Before Written.
Seigned Sealeed Published Prounounced and Declard by ye Said Susannah Barber as her Last Will and Testament in presence of us ye Subscribers.
Therefore Calling to Mind ye Mortality of My body & knowing that it is appointed for Men Once to Die do Make and ordain this My Last Will & Testament That is to say Principally and first of all I Give and Recommend My Soul into ye Hands of Almighty God that Gave it and My body I Recommend to ye Earth to bee Buried in Christian Decent Buriel at ye Descrestion of my Executor Nothing Doubting but at ye General Resurection I shall Receive the Same again by ye Mighty Powr of God and as Touching such Worldly Estate Wherewith it Haith Pleased God to Bless Me with in this life I Give Demise and Dispose of ye same in ye Following Manner and forme------------
Imprimus: My will is and Hereby Order My Executors to pay all My just Debts and Funerall Charges out of My Estate-------
Item I Give and Bequeath unto my beloved Daughter Anne Kinyon my Great Bible Whose Name is written in Said Bible and to bee Delliverd to her by My Executor Before My Other Estate to my Children hereafter named------------
Item I Give and Bequeath unto My Beloved Daughters viz: Dinah Wilcock & to ye Heir of Lyda Mory and to Susannah Perry Wodow to Marthe Parker to Ruth Bently Marey Tift and Ann Kinyon all of the Remainder of my Estate to bee equally Devided Between them to them and theire Heirs for Ever----------
Lastly I Constatute Make and ordain My Beloved Son Benja Barber to be My whole and Soul Executor to this My Last Will and Testament and ye Reason I Know make this Will is Because I Cannot Have My former Will when Requested hereby Revokeing Disallowing and Disanulling all other former Wills Legaces and Bequeaths by Me Before Maid Rattifying & Confirming this and no other To bee My Last Will and Testament Witness Where of I Have Hereunt Set my hand and Seal ye Day and year first Before Written.
Seigned Sealeed Published Prounounced and Declard by ye Said Susannah Barber as her Last Will and Testament in presence of us ye Subscribers.
The Inventory totaled £1351 10s and included:
1 Chince gown
1 Damask gown
1 Black Callicomingo mrng. Gown
1 Black Calaminco gown
1 Black Wrsted gown
1 Brown Holland gown
1 Single Dammask gown
1 Cotton & Linning Gown
1 old Duroy gown
1 Wrapper
1 old Black Gown
1 Black Worsted petticoat
1 Duroy Petticoate
1 Quilted petticoat
1 old Quilted Black petticoat
1 Striped flannel petticoat
2 Striped flannel petticoats
1 Black Worsted Cloake with silver Clasps
1 old head Cloth 2 pair old stays
1 paire of Staies
8 pair of Stocking all
2 pair of Shoews
14 Shifts
13 Handkerchiefs
9 aprons all
16 Goff all
2 Hodd, all
1 Silk Bunnit & ___hot
5 pair of goloves 1 pair of thread---ing
fore Knapkins all
Garterr ___ding strings & old lining
fan old flannill Waistcoat
27 Skains of Thread
All pocket & sudry Small things
Pocket booke & money
Drinking Glass & Claler
9 Sheats all
7 Bolster Cases
2 Pillow cases & Table Cloath
2 flanil Blankets som old flannel
2 Silver Spoones Silver Buckels and Buttons and other Silver
A Little Trunck and fore Clas all
1 Two Year old bull
1 Bible Which Wee prise & Which is Given in ye Will to Ann Kinyon & to bee Deliverd Before a Devision of ye other Estate
Tee Kittel and Linning yearne all
1 Trunck
A Seat of Callico Curtains Balance and Teaster Cloath
A Set of White Curtains Balance and Tester Cloath
A Set of Linning Curtains & Tester Cloath
1 Trunck
2 Cheast & 1 Box
Puter platter basons & other small puter things
Wooding Waire
2 Shuger Boxes
Stone Ware
Earthin Ware
Old Box iron beaters & Bottels
Sundry old Things in a Chest
1 Old Hetchel & old Candle sticks
1 Large Trammell
---------------Ware
Old Wooden Ware
Wheals
3 old tables all _________
1 old Ceader Tub
1 Nightmug
6 Chears
Warming Pan
2 Coverlid, one rug and ye other tow and 3 pillows all
1 Bed tick and fethers
1 Bedtick and fethers
2 Bollsters and a pillow
2 Shag Blankets
2 old Coverlids
1 Coverlid at
1 Coverlid
1 Coverlid
3 old Bedsteds under beds and bed Cords
Money Due by Bond and Note
1 Trunck
Old Pillion and other small articles
1 Cow
1 Last Springs Calf
A Slue and old Brdel.6
1 Damask gown
1 Black Callicomingo mrng. Gown
1 Black Calaminco gown
1 Black Wrsted gown
1 Brown Holland gown
1 Single Dammask gown
1 Cotton & Linning Gown
1 old Duroy gown
1 Wrapper
1 old Black Gown
1 Black Worsted petticoat
1 Duroy Petticoate
1 Quilted petticoat
1 old Quilted Black petticoat
1 Striped flannel petticoat
2 Striped flannel petticoats
1 Black Worsted Cloake with silver Clasps
1 old head Cloth 2 pair old stays
1 paire of Staies
8 pair of Stocking all
2 pair of Shoews
14 Shifts
13 Handkerchiefs
9 aprons all
16 Goff all
2 Hodd, all
1 Silk Bunnit & ___hot
5 pair of goloves 1 pair of thread---ing
fore Knapkins all
Garterr ___ding strings & old lining
fan old flannill Waistcoat
27 Skains of Thread
All pocket & sudry Small things
Pocket booke & money
Drinking Glass & Claler
9 Sheats all
7 Bolster Cases
2 Pillow cases & Table Cloath
2 flanil Blankets som old flannel
2 Silver Spoones Silver Buckels and Buttons and other Silver
A Little Trunck and fore Clas all
1 Two Year old bull
1 Bible Which Wee prise & Which is Given in ye Will to Ann Kinyon & to bee Deliverd Before a Devision of ye other Estate
Tee Kittel and Linning yearne all
1 Trunck
A Seat of Callico Curtains Balance and Teaster Cloath
A Set of White Curtains Balance and Tester Cloath
A Set of Linning Curtains & Tester Cloath
1 Trunck
2 Cheast & 1 Box
Puter platter basons & other small puter things
Wooding Waire
2 Shuger Boxes
Stone Ware
Earthin Ware
Old Box iron beaters & Bottels
Sundry old Things in a Chest
1 Old Hetchel & old Candle sticks
1 Large Trammell
---------------Ware
Old Wooden Ware
Wheals
3 old tables all _________
1 old Ceader Tub
1 Nightmug
6 Chears
Warming Pan
2 Coverlid, one rug and ye other tow and 3 pillows all
1 Bed tick and fethers
1 Bedtick and fethers
2 Bollsters and a pillow
2 Shag Blankets
2 old Coverlids
1 Coverlid at
1 Coverlid
1 Coverlid
3 old Bedsteds under beds and bed Cords
Money Due by Bond and Note
1 Trunck
Old Pillion and other small articles
1 Cow
1 Last Springs Calf
A Slue and old Brdel.6
Family | Moses Barber b. 1652, d. bef. 17 Dec 1733 |
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| This person was last edited on | 16 Dec 2017 |
Citations
- [S647] John E. Soule, Milton E. Terry and Louise Walsh Throop, Mayflower Families In Progress: George Soule of the Mayflower and His Descendants for Four Generations, 5th ed. (Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2006), 6-7, further cited as Soule, Terry, and Throop, MFIP (Soule).
- [S650] Ruth Wilder Sherman, "Ancestry of Benjamin Perry Barber of Westerly," The American Genealogist 50 (July 1974): 157-166, further cited as Sherman, "Benjamin Perry Barber of Westerly."
- [S602] James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island. 1636-1850: First Series: Births, Marriages and Deaths. A Family Register for the People, 21 vols. (Providence, Rhode Island: Narragansett Historical Publishing, 1891-1912), 5:1:8, 49, further cited as Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island.
- [S651] George Ernest Bowman, "Susanna2 Soule's Husband Identified: She Married Francis West," Mayflower Descendant 26 (Jan 1924): 1-11, further cited as Bowman, "Susanna Soule's Husband."
- [S1872] Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, 3 vols. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011), 84, further cited as Torrey, New England Marriages (2011).
- [S631] Lois J. (Barber) Schroeder, Moses Barber of South Kingstown, Rhode Island and Many Descendants 1652-1984 (Decorah, Iowa: Anundsen Publishing, 1984), 7-8, further cited as Schroeder, Moses Barber of South Kingstown. For the will, Schroeder cites Charlestown's oldest book, I A:291, and Book II A:237 for with other estate records.
- [S913] John Osborne Austin, The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island: Comprising Three Generations of Settlers Who Came Before 1690 (With Many Families Carried to the Fourth Generation). Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1887, 13. CD-ROM reprint, Compendium of New England Pioneers: A Collection of 14 Classic Genealogical Dictionaries of Early New England Settlers (Columbia, Maryland: Archive CD Books USA, 2006), further cited as Rhode Island Dictionary.