Susannah DAVIS

   Other names for Susannah were Susanna DAVIS and Susanna THORNBURY.

  Noted events in her life were:

• Estate: widow's claim for maintenance, 1745, Chester County, PA.
Robert died intestate (no will) and Susannah Thornbury qualified as administrator and posted bond of 400 pounds with sureties Thomas Thornbrough and Benjamin Hawley. An inventory of the estate was made on 23 July 1745 by Michael Morgan and Benjamin Hawley. The bond and inventory were filed on 3 August 1745. Susanna signed with an "S".

Estate Papers of Robert Thornbrough - Chester County, Pennsylvania
(Information from Jane Beekman and Charles White) In the Estate papers of Robert Thornbury, widow Susanna made claim for maintenance of all children who were under 8 years of age, at 6 pounds per year. Mary was born "after the desease of her father" and was claimed for 8 years, hence that period evidently was the benchmark--perhaps a child could be bound out at age 8, and no longer had to be supported at home. Claims for the other children: Susanna= 0.75 year; Thomas 1.5 years; Hannah 4 years plus an additional claim for 2 of those years "whilst she was lame"; John 6 years. Birth dates were computed from these spans, given that the inventory of the estate was made on 23 July 1745, by Michael Morgan and Benjamin Hawley. Sussanah "S" Thornbury qualified as administrator and posted bond of 400 pounds with sureties Thomas Thornbrough and Benjm. Hawley. This was done and the inventory filed 3 Aug 1745.

Robert and Alice or Alsie are presumed to be children of Robert and Susanna Davis Thornbury; they were too old to be treated in mother Susanna Thornbury's claim for maintenance. Their proximity, relative marriage ages, and Robert II's estate papers led me to include them here. Other Thornbury records fail to include them as members of other families. There may be at least one other child missing from this group, given the age estimates.

• Land: 219 acres, 1751, West Bradford Township, Chester County, PA. A land grant for Susanna Thornbury, widow, for 219 acres on 9 April 1751 in West Bradford Township. The land is mentioned in a mortgage recorded 9 January 1755 by William Pyle of West Bradford. The land description includes "bounded by...land of Widow Thornbrough..." T. Woodward was one of the witnesses to the mortgage.

• Estate: final account for the estate of Robert Thornbury, 1761, Chester County, PA.
Susanna Thornbrough married second to Thomas Liggitt before filing a final account for the estate of Robert Thornbury in 1761.

Susannah married Robert THORNBURGH, son of Edward THORNBURGH Esq and Jean BROOKBANK, on 11 Oct 1729 in Birmingham Monthly Meeting, Chester County, PA. (Robert THORNBURGH was born about 1704 in Armaugh, Ireland and died on 3 Aug 1743 in Chester County, PA.)

  Marriage Notes:

Susanna Davis was the daughter of John & Mary Davis of Thornbury, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Her sister Charity Davis married Thomas Thornbrough, brother of Robert on the same date at Birmingham Monthly Meeting. The same people signed both wedding certificates.

Susanna's mother, Mary Davis, signed the wedding certificate as did brothers John, Abraham, and Daniel Davis. Robert Thornburg's brothers, Walter & Edward Thornburg, signed as did his sister, Elizabeth Thornburg.

Susannah next married Thomas LIGGITT about 1760 in West Bradford, Chester County, PA. (Thomas LIGGITT was born about 1705.)