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Susannah HEATH

Susannah HEATH[1]

Female Abt 1632 - Aft 1676  (~ 45 years)

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  • Name Susannah HEATH 
    Born Abt 1632  England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Gender Female 
    FamilySearch ID C856-HN2 
    _UID 2FBE420B39CC432FBD3219C03FA1E2316C62 
    Died Aft 1676  Charles, Maryland, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Person ID I10287  Carney Wehofer Feb 2024 Genealogy
    Last Modified 13 Dec 2022 

    Father William HEATH,   b. Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Mother Anne WHITEINGE,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Family ID F14122  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Col Edward SWANN,   b. 1630, Denton Court, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 26 May 1708, Charles, Maryland, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 78 years) 
    Married 16 Jul 1644  Lea Marston, Warwickshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Samuel SWANN,   b. Abt 1642, Charles County, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     2. Susannah SWANN,   b. 1662, St. Mary's, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Feb 1739, Charles County, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 77 years)
     3. James SWANN, Sr.,   b. 1668, Charles, Colony of Maryland, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Jun 1707, St. Mary's, Colony of Maryland, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 39 years)
     4. Thomas SWANN,   b. Abt 1674,   d. Between 15 Apr 1762 and 14 Sep 1763  (Age ~ 88 years)
    Last Modified 13 Dec 2022 
    Family ID F5106  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Photos
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  • Notes 
    • Susannah Swann married Edward Swann and had children Samuel, Susannah, Thomas, Edward, William, James, John, Judith, Richard, Henry

      The last record of Susanna is her name of the land transaction when Edward Swann and Susanna sold Chesnut Point to Gilbert Corner, tailor. 11 Aug 1666
      Eggleston Manor for Death?


      Charles County Circuit Court, Liber B, 28 Jul 1663, Page 125
      John Piper and Samuell Dobson bind themselves never to trouble nor molest Edward Swan of a parcel of land containing 100 acres which the said Swan was possessed of before any of us had any relation to the one half of the said land; 14 Jan 1662; /s/ John Piper (mark); Samuell Dobson; wit. Susan Swan (mark)
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      Charles County Circuit Court Liber D, Page 75
      Acknowledgment by Edward Swan and Susanna Swan to Wm. Ward:
      17 Aug 1658; John Lugar, late sec'y to the Province, for transporting several persons, due land which was granted to James Walker, assignee of John Lugar, son of John Lugar; a parcel of land on the west side of Wicomico; called WALKER'S RUNN; containing 200 acres; /s/ Josias Fendall; recorded, Philip Calvert, Sec'y
      James Walker assigns his rights in above 27 Jan 1658; /s/ James Walker; wit. Robert Hiscok (mark), Richard Grayner (mark)
      John Piper and Sam. Dobson acknowledge ownership of the 200 acres by Edward Swan; /s/ John Piper (mark), Sam. Dobson; wit. Susanna Swan (mark)
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      Charles County Circuit Court Liber D, Page 79
      9 Mar 1668; Indenture from Edward Swan to William Ward; for 15,000# of tobacco; a parcel of land formerly granted to James Walker; /s/ Edward Swane (mark); wit. John Morren (mark), Jonathan Marler

      Birth: 1630, England
      Death: 1699
      Charles County
      Maryland, USA

      My Swann family begins with Edward Swann and Susannah Heath who emigrated (at different times) from England and settled in the mid-1600s in Charles County, Maryland. Edward is thought to have been born about 1630 and we are still researching to determine where.
      Edward Swann arrived in Maryland before March 1653* and married Susannah Heath, possibly by 1658. It is usually thought that Edward was born before 1630 in Kent County, England. He died about 26 May 1708 at Eagleton, Charles County, Maryland. He married Susannah Heath daughter of William Heath b~1605 and Anne MNU (maiden name unknown)) about 1660 in Charles County, Maryland. Susannah was born in Jan 1629/30 in Surrey County, England and baptized 25 February 1630 at St. Thomas Parish Southwark, Surrey County. She died about 1693 at Eagleton Plantation, Charles County, Maryland. It has been claimed that there are no probate records for Edward Swan and that he died ~1678** in St. Mary's County, Maryland.(I think not.)
      [Sources: (1) Maryland Prerogative Court, Inventories & Accounts, Liber 2, pp. 153, 156, and 202, and Liber 4, pp 256 and 524, and (2) Hall, Robert W., Early Landowners of Maryland, Volume 5: St. Mary's County, 1633-1710, p. 223.] However, a court record which follows proves otherwise.

      *Edward first appeared in the Maryland court records in 1653 when he stood good for a debt incurred by Francis Posey of St. Mary's County. He was Constable in Charles County in 1663 and also Coroner. He was a Juror 1665-1666. Edward Swann shows in the 1696 AIS/GRS database in Maryland Colony.

      **CC, May 3, 1742. The deposition of John Thorn, age about 45 years, who says that the place where he now stands, being on the point of a small hill near the dwelling house of William Thorn, decd, that the sd William Thorn told him, about 6 years ago (1736), that on this place, old Edward Swann told him {about 48 years ago) (1694) stood a bounded red oak, a bounded tree of old Thomas Stonestreet's land called Burch Den, and further says that the sd William Thorn, decd, told him, if it should ever come in dispute, he would prove it, and this deponent further says that Samuel Swann told him that his father, Edward Swann, showed the sd Thomas Stonstreet where to take up the sd land.

      The first known record for Edward Swann indicates that he was in Maryland as early as 1653. In March 1653, Francis Posey sells to Edward Swann and mentions Walter Beane with witnesses John Hatch and Wm. Marshall*.
      *A Wiliiam Marshall is shown 'Cavaliers and Pioneers' as transported in 1653 by Major John Weathrope to Charles City. Also a William Marshall as transported in 1643 by William Erwins to James City.
      Susannah (Heath) Swann was christened 25 February 1630 at St. Thomas Parish in Surrey County, England. Her father is shown as William Heath (15 Dec 1605 ? 29 May 1652). At this time, it is thought that her mother was Hannah or Anne maiden name unknown who died in childbirth in 1646/47 and was buried 14 Feb 1646/47 at Southwark, St. Thomas Parish, Surrey County, England.
      . When Edward died, James, the eldest son inherited Eagleton Plantation. Upon James' death, his wife, Judith Goldsmith Nyfinger Swann, would have had a dower right to a third of his estate. However, since she remarried to Samuel Williamson, Eagleton Plantation passed to James Swann's eldest son, Thomas Swann b.1692.



  • Sources 
    1. [SAuth] Jim Carney, compiled by James H Carney [(E-ADDRESS), & MAILING ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE], Buderim, Queensland 4556 AUSTRALIA.

    2. [S1160] FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 13 Dec 2022), entry for Susannah HEATH, person ID C856-HN2. (Reliability: 3).