Susannah Soule

     Susannah was born circa 1644 at the Plymouth Colony. She was the daughter of George Soule and Mary Becket. Susannah married Francis West. On 11 August 1677, her father left her & her sister, Mary, each twelve pence. In the year 1924, a Diary, or Memorandum, was found in an ancient house not distant from Boston that contained her name and proved that she was married to one FRANCIS WEST, who had come from England soon after the first settlement, by whom she had seven sons and two daughters whose names were written down under her own. This discovery caused considerable excitement among genealogists throughout New England at the time it became known, and a full account of the finding with a fac-simile of the page of the Diary on which the family record was written, clearly legible, was published in the Boston Evening Transcript. Continued research may reveal much more concerning her children and descendants. In his will her father had given her "twelve pence," a meagre legacy that was a hint of some disaffection.