Susanna Hoyt

Children include Joshua

Susanna was the wife of Simon Hoyt, one of the first settlers of Charlestown, Massachusetts, and later of Windsor, Fairfield and Stamford in Connecticut. Her maiden name is not proved. A genealogy published in 1944 calls her Susanna Smith and suggests she was a relative of John Smith, an early settler of Dorchester, where Simon lived from about 1630. The Scituate minister's list of houses has an entry "The Smiths. Goodma Haits brother", which was read as a brother-in-law. Robert Charles Anderson, in The Great Migration Begins (1995), found no evidence that she was a Smith and read the entry as a blacksmith's household. He dates her marriage to Simon by 1632. David W. Hoyt, who compiled the family genealogy in 1871, thought Simon married twice and that his sons Walter, Nicholas and John were of the first marriage. The younger children, Moses, Joshua, Samuel and Benjamin, and the daughters who married Thomas Lyon, Samuel Finch and Samuel Firman, were hers. Benjamin was born at Windsor on 2 February 1644/5.

Simon died at Stamford on 1 September 1657. Susanna then married Robert Bates of Stamford, as his third wife according to the 1944 account. Bates had come from Wethersfield with the first colony of Stamford settlers in 1641 and was one of the thirty men who paid a hundred bushels of corn to the New Haven men who had bought the land. His will left bequests to his son John, his daughter Mary Ambler and his son-in-law John Cross, and disposed of enslaved Black servants, who were to be freed at forty years of age. He had married Margaret, widow of William Cross of Fairfield, in 1657, so Susanna was his third wife, married after Margaret's death. He died at Stamford on 11 June 1675.

Susanna died before him, early in 1674. That year her children met and divided her estate by a written agreement entered on the Stamford records, in which they call her their "deceased mother Susana Bates".

She and Simon joined the church at Scituate together on 19 April 1635, "Symeon Hayte ... and their wives joyned", in the minister's own words. In 1662 her son-in-law Samuel Firman gave a receipt to "mother Hoyt" for all demands from Simon's estate, which shows she was managing what Simon left five years after his death.

Children

Joshua Hoyt d. 1690

Sources

David W. Hoyt, A Genealogical History of the Hoyt, Haight, and Hight Families (Providence, 1871), archive.org genealogicalhist00hoyt, p. 291.

E. B. Huntington, History of Stamford, Connecticut (Stamford, 1868), archive.org historyofstamfor00hunt, p. 28.

E. B. Huntington, History of Stamford, Connecticut (Stamford, 1868), archive.org historyofstamfor00hunt, pp. 34-35.

"Scituate and Barnstable Church Records", New England Historical and Genealogical Register 9 (1855), p. 279, archive.org newenglandhistor009wate.

"Scituate and Barnstable Church Records", New England Historical and Genealogical Register 10 (1856), pp. 42-43, archive.org newenglandhistor010wate.

Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, vol. 1 (Fairfield, 1930), HathiTrust uva.x000303029, p. 38.

David W. Hoyt, A Genealogical History of the Hoyt, Haight, and Hight Families (Providence, 1871), archive.org genealogicalhist00hoyt, pp. 290-291, quoting the Stamford records. E. B. Huntington, History of Stamford, Connecticut (Stamford, 1868), archive.org historyofstamfor00hunt, pp. 28, 34-35. Raymond E. Dale, "A Branch of the Haight Family", The Nebraska and Midwest Genealogical Record, vol. 22, no. 2 (Lincoln, April 1944), pp. 13-16. John Lothrop's Scituate church records, NEHGR 9 (1855) p. 279 and 10 (1856) p. 42. Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, vol. 1 (1930), p. 38. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins (1995), 2:1028-33, as summarized.

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