Susanna (Adams) Martin

1734 - 1816  (82 years)

• Name	Susanna (Adams) Martin
  Birth	18 Jun 1734	Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
  Gender	Female
  Death	2 Dec 1816	Surry County, North Carolina, USA
  Burial	Deep Creek Friends Meeting Cemetery, Yadkinville, Yadkin County, North Carolina, USA   [1]
  Person ID	I27790	Tulpehocken Genealogy
  Last Modified	11 Mar 2023

  
  

  Father	Moses Martin,   b. 9 Jan 1686, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 1738, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 51 years)
  Mother	Margaret Battin,   b. 6 Nov 1689, Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 1737 (Age 47 years)
  Marriage	1714
  Family ID	F10069	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	William Adams,   b. 1734   d. 1816 (Age 82 years)
  Family ID	F10070	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	11 Mar 2023

  
  

• Notes

  She was the daughter of Moses and Margaret Battin Martin, members of the Chester Monthly Meeting (MM) of the Society of Friends in Pennsylvania. She transferred to the nearby Goshen MM on 3/30/1737. In 1754, she married William Adams, a non-Quaker. Soon afterward, Goshen MM requested that member, John McCord, find out why Susannah Martin Adams was absent from the meeting on 8/19/1754 and why she had not acknowledged her error in marrying out of the Society. On 9/9/1754, McCord reported to the meeting that Susannah had accompanied her husband toward Virginia and that she desired a certificate to a Friends meeting there. They ended up in Bedford County, VA, where their first child was born in 1755. They soon moved again to North Carolina where Susannah was received by the Cane Creek MM on 2/7/1756 on a certificate from Goshen MM. William was received on request on 9/4/1762. They were both received by the Deep River MM in 1787 and were among the original members of the Deep Creek Monthly Meeting formed in 1793. It is assumed that the majority of the Adams living in Surry and Yadkin Counties today are descended from this couple whose twelve children were: Jane (Jean) b. 2/15/1755 m. Thomas Brown d. 11/21/1842 Rachel b. 1/2/1757 m. John or Peter Moon Mary b. 2/9/1759 m. Richard Brown Ann b. 1/24/1761 m. Issac Perkins Jonathan Adams b. 1/22/1763 m. Ann Brown d. 9/29/1851 Sarah b. 1/25/1765 m. Unknown Johnson William Adams b. 7/30/1767 m. Millicent Barnard Moses Adams b. 8/18/1769 m. Elizabeth Horn (?) George Adams b. 10/7/1771 m. Lorey Cannon (?) d. 3/21/1827 James Adams b. 11/14/1773 d. 11/18/1773 Margaret Adams b. 11/11/1775 John Adams b. 12/12/1778 d. 1/3/1857 Most of this information is from the Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. I, by William Wade Hinshaw. Other information comes from data compiled by the late Zeno Jack Adams. My copy of his notations is cut off, but I can read "Quaker Room, Guilford College Library, Greensboro, NC." and then he's boxed the following reference: Book Qu..kr CS 71 S4.35" If anyone has sourced, additional, or corrected information, please contact me and I'll update the bio. My goal is to have a virtual cemetery for all of William & Susannah's descendants born before 1920.

  
  

• Sources

  [S64] Website: Find a Grave [text], https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/85147604/susanna-adams.