Tuesday

Susannah Watson

Born 24 April 1680 in Ireland to Elizabeth Thompson and Samuel Watson
Married Mark Carleton 25 January 1698 in Ireland
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Died about 1745 in Chester County, Pennsylvania

Susannah and her husband Mark were members of the Society of Friends.  In 1711 they applied to their meeting as they were leaving for America with their six surviving children.  They arrived in America later that same year, but Mark had died at sea.  Susannah married Richard Parks, also a Friend, on 26 June 1713, a widower from England who had arrived in Pennsylvania around the same time Susannah had.

Susannah and Richard were married for about 20 years before he died in Chester County in about 1732/3.  On 17 September 1735 Susannah married John Fincher in the Kennett Meeting.  She died in Chester County in about 1745.


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