Individual Details
Susanna (wife of Nathaniel Merrill and Stephen Jordan) (UNKNOWN)
(Say 1610 - 1673)
Events
| Birth | Say 1610 | ||||
| Marriage | Say 1630 | Nathaniel MERRILL |  | ||
| Marriage | Bet 1655 and 1660 | Stephen JORDAN | |||
| Marriage | By Abt 1660 | Stephen JORDAN | | ||
| Death | 1673 | | |||
| Death | 15 Jan 1672/73 | | |||
| Death | 25 Jan 1672/73 | Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British America | | ||
| Probate | 29 Mar 1673 | Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British America | | ||
| Living | 1674 | | |||
| Alt name | Susanna JORDAN |  | | ||
| Alt name | Susanna MERRILL | ||||
| Alt name | Susanna WILTERTON/WOLLERTON | | |
Families
| Spouse | Nathaniel MERRILL (1601 - 1654) |
| Child | Nathaniel MERRILL (1634 - 1682) |
| Child | John MERRILL (1635 - 1712) |
| Child | Abraham MERRILL (1636 - 1722) |
| Child | Susanna MERRILL (1640 - 1690) |
| Child | Daniel MERRILL (1642 - 1717) |
| Child | Abel MERRILL (1643 - 1689) |
| Spouse | Stephen JORDAN (1590 - 1669) |
Notes
Alt name
Great Migration, vol. 4, p. 116 says that her maiden name is unknown. "Jordan" is the name of her 2nd husband.Merrill Memorial, pp. 159-61 has a discussion of the mistake and considers the possibility that her maiden name was Wilterton.
Alt name
Some sources speculate that this is her maiden name, because her oldest son, Nathaniel, went to Connecticut with Gregory Wilterton, who, when he died, left most of his property to Nathaniel. There does not seem to be any proof, though.Endnotes
1. "New England Marriages to 1700 [Torrey]," database index with images, New England Historic Genealogical Society, AmericanAncestors (https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1568/i/21175/1030/426896292: accessed 20 December 2022), "MERRILL, Nathaniel (1601-1655) & Susanna WILTERTON?/?WOLLERTON (-1673), m/2 Stephen JORDAN; ca 1630?, in Eng?, 16 Mar 1635?; Newbury; citing many sources.
2. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, 7 volumes (Boston: New England Historical Genealogical Society, 1999-2011), vol. 4, p. 116; indexed database of page images, NEHGS, AmericanAncestors.org (https://www.americanancestors.org/search/category-search/503850/great-migration-study-project : accessed 19 December 2022).
3. "New England Marriages to 1700 [Torrey]," database index with images, New England Historic Genealogical Society, AmericanAncestors (https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1568/i/21175/1030/426896292: accessed 20 December 2022), "MERRILL, Nathaniel (1601-1655) & Susanna WILTERTON?/?WOLLERTON (-1673), m/2 Stephen JORDAN; ca 1630?, in Eng?, 16 Mar 1635?; Newbury; citing many sources.
4. Samuel Merrill, A Merrill Memorial: An Account of the Descendants of Nathaniel Merrill, an Early Settler of Newbury, Massachusetts (Cambridge, MA: self-published, 1917–1928), pp. 159-162; online page images, Ancestry, North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61157/ : accessed 19 December 2022) > M > Merrill > "A Merrill Memorial: An Account of the Descendants of Nathaniel Merrill, An Early Settler of Newbury", images 168-171 of 735.
5. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, 7 volumes (Boston: New England Historical Genealogical Society, 1999-2011), vol. 4, p. 116; indexed database of page images, NEHGS, AmericanAncestors.org (https://www.americanancestors.org/search/category-search/503850/great-migration-study-project : accessed 19 December 2022).
6. "Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988," database index of page images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2495/: accessed ), Susannah Jordan, d. 25 Jan 1672, Newbury; citing Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts, Massachusetts Vital and Town Records; Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook).
7. "Essex, Massachusetts Probate Records, 1648-1840," database index, (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/4592/: accessed ), Susanna Jordan, prob. 29 Mar 1673, file #15247.
8. "Essex County, Massachusetts Probate Records Supplement, 1644 - 1691," database index, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/3357/: accessed ), Susan Jordan, d. 1673, prob. Mar 1673 (inventory), Essex ; citing Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, USA.
9. David W. Hoyt, The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts with some Related Families of Newbury, Haverhill, Ipswich, and Hampton, collated publication of all 13 parts (1897-1916; reprint, Providence, RI: n.p., n.d.), p. 243, 1 Nathaniel Merrill; searchable digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/cu31924025963772 : accessed 19 December 2022.
10. Joshua Coffin, A sketch of the history of Newbury, Newburyport, and West Newbury, from 1635 to 1845 (Boston: Samuel G. Drake, 1845), pp. 309-310; page images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/sketchofhistoryo00coffrich/ : accessed 19 December 2022).
11. "New England Marriages to 1700 [Torrey]," database index with images, New England Historic Genealogical Society, AmericanAncestors (https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1568/i/21175/1030/426896292: accessed 20 December 2022), "MERRILL, Nathaniel (1601-1655) & Susanna WILTERTON?/?WOLLERTON (-1673), m/2 Stephen JORDAN; ca 1630?, in Eng?, 16 Mar 1635?; Newbury; citing many sources.
12. William Richard Cutter, compiler, Genealogical and family history of northern New York: a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation, 3 vols. (New York: Lewis historical publishing company, 1910), pp. 18-20, "Merrell" family; page images, HathiTrust.org (https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010685931 : accessed ).