Susannah 17
89
Vaughton
cal.
of Manuscripts,
151.
18
susannah Leisler Vaughton was the first born (bap. 2/10/1664) of Jacob Leisler and widow of Else Sussanna Tymens. ("Records of the Dutch Reformed Church", N.Y. Genealogical and Biographical Record, VI, (1875), 156. She grew up in a wealthy home. Her father, Jacob Leisler, had married a wealthy widow and strengthened his new fortune through his own mercantile successes. Susannah probably remained in her father's home until her marriage to Michael Vaughton in 1687 after her twentythird birthday. (NYG&BR, V, (1874), 174). She may have moved to Bergen, New Jersey, near the time her son Michael was born in 1688. (Edwin R. Purple, "Leisler", NYG&BR, VII, (1876), 147). Sometime between 1688 and 1695, the time of her appeal for her portion of the land grant in Dutchess County, her husband died. Her husband's death, her father's execution, probably followed by years of quiet persecution during the appeals for her father's pardon were undoubtedly difficult years. She may have lived with her mother until she married Leonard Huygen de Kleyn in 1704. (NYG&BR, XII, (1881), 41). Little is known of her personal life except hel regular appearances as sponsor at the baptisms of the first four of her son's six children. There is no record of her life following the baptism of her grandson, Johannes, in 1720. (NYG&BR, XIX, ( 1888), 15). 19 u1ster
County Clerk, Deeds, Liber AA, 259; George .S. Van Vliet, "Pawling Patent, Alias Staatsburg, and Some of Its Early Families", Yearbook, Dutchess Co. Historical Soc., 2 (1916), 28-30. 20 Land Papers,
3,
15.
21 Land Papers, 4, 13. The actual acreage of the whole of Pawling's Purchase probably did not exceed eight thousand acres. N.Y. State Archives, Deed~, Henry Pawling, Liber 20, 581. 22 Land Papers,
3,
16.
23 Land Papers,
3,
17.
24 Land Papers,
3,
30.
25 Paul M. Hamlin, Charles E. Baker, eds., Supreme Court of Judicature of the Province of New York, 16911704, (New York, 1952), II, 86. (hereafter cited as Supreme Court.)
