It’s been awhile since I’ve written on this blog. That’s not because I’ve been inactive in my
genealogical research. Probably the
biggest thing of late has been the use of the site “Early Colonial Settlers of
Southern Maryland and Virginia’s Northern Neck Counties” by Mike Marshall. Mike has a tremendous amount of documented
research on this site. His work used to
be on RootsWeb.
I have long been confused about the Susanna Waters who married
George Robertson as described by my great grandfather, William Edwin Muncaster,
in an article he wrote about his grandmother in the yearbook of the American Clan
Gregor Society: “She went to live with him at his home, Milton Farm. This place was bought by his father, George
Robertson, in 1772. The following year
he married Susanna Waters, daughter of Samuel 3rd, who with his
brothers, William and Richard, came to Western Maryland in its early
settlement.”
Somehow I had this Samuel Waters married to Phebe Manning,
daughter of George Manning and Joanna Wallys.
I don’t have any dates or anything on any of these folks. Looking on RootsWeb I found a lot of
references to these folks, but none of them had Samuel marrying Phebe, it was
always a James Waters. Moreover, George
and Joanna were in the 1500’s over in England.
So I am deleting all these folks from my database.
The question then, is who was Susanna’s father?
