Notes for Susanna Wilterton?: [Brøderbund WFT Vol. 15, Ed. 1, Tree #2202, Date of Import: Jun 11, 2000]
Susannah ........, also known as Susannah Wolterton, was the wife of the emigrant, Nathaniel Merrill. For many years she was thought to be the sister of Gregory Wolterton of Hartford, Conn. Later research shows that she is the daughter of Gregory's wife, Susannah Sheppard by a previous marriage.
From "A Merrill Memorial" by Samuel Merrill, Cambridge, MA 1917-1928
After the death of Nathaniel Merrill his widow married Stephen Jordan (or Jourdain). Nathaniel Merrill, son of Nathaniel and Susanna Merrill, gave a deed, under date of 16 Aug 1661, to Peter Godfrey of Newbury, in which the phrase occurs, "after the decease of my mother Susanna Jordan," and out of this fact the error regarding the maiden name of Nathaniel's wife grew.
The conjecture has been advanced, and it has even been stated as a face, that the wife of Nathaniel Merrill was Susanna Wilterton (or Wolterton.)
Gregory Wilterton of Hartford was childless: Susanna Merrill of Newbury was a widow with five sons and a daughter, most of them in their minority. It would have been natural for Gregory Wilterton under these circumstances to write to his kinswoman in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and offer a home and modest fortune to one of the boys. But Gregory Wilterton may have been a more distant relative, or merely a friend. Until other evidence is brought forward the conscientious genealogist must say that the maiden name of Nathaniel's wife in unknown.
More About Susanna Wilterton? and Nathaniel Merrill: Marriage: September 23, 1633, Wherstead, Suffolk, England.2878
Children of Susanna Wilterton? and Nathaniel Merrill are:
Susanna Wilterton? (b. Aft. 1610, d. January 25, 1672/73)
Notes for Susanna Wilterton?: