Family:Whitney, Susanna (c1691-?)

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Susanna4 Whitney (Thomas3, Thomas2, John1), daughter of Thomas3 and Elizabeth (Lawrence) Whitney,[1] was born circa 1691.[2]

Susanna married, 1 Nov 1715, Charlestown, MA, Robert Foskitt both "of Charlestown", by Rev. Simon Bradstreet,[3] as his second wife, son of John and Elizabeth (Leach) Foskitt.[4] He was born 4 Apr 1672, Charlestown, MA,[5] and died after 1741, Bolton, MA.[6] He had married firstly, Mercy Goodwin, 27 Mar 1700, Bolton, MA.[7]

She was named in her father's will.[8]

Children of Robert and Susanna4 (Whitney) Foskitt:

i. Joshua Foskitt, b. 7 Apr 1717, Charlestown, MA; m. Hannah Wheeler.
ii. Susanna Foskitt, b. 17 Sep 1720, Lexington, MA; d. before 1736.
iii. Elizabeth Foskitt, baptized 2 Nov 1718, Lexington, MA.
iv. Jacob Foskitt, b. 23 Aug 1722, Lexington, MA; b. 23 Aug 1727, Lexington, MA; m. Lois -----.
v. Susanna Foskitt, baptized 29 Aug 1736, Lexington, MA; m. Josiah Davis circa 1752 at Lexington, MA.

References

1.^  Source of parentage

2.^  Source of birth

3.^  "Robert Foskitt & Susannah Wittney, both of this town, m. by Simon Bradstreet, Min., Nov. 1, 1715," according to Roger D. Joslyn, F.A.S.G., comp. and ed., Vital Records of Charlestown, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1984), p. 243.

4.^  Source of parentage

5.^  Source of birth

6.^  Source of death

7.^  Source of marriage

8.^  Frederick Clifton Pierce, The Descendants of John Whitney, Who Came from London, England, to Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1635 (Chicago, IL: 1895), p. 31.


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