In brief

Born about 1618 in England. April 24, 1638: Suffrana and her parents Walter and Elizabeth, her siblings Thomas, John, Josias, Suffrane, and Mary, and 3 servants (or farmhands) John Blanford, John Riddot, and Richard Biddlecomb departed from England aboard the ship Confidence bound from Southampton, England to Boston, Massachusetts. She married about 1639 in Watertown, Massachusetts. She died July 22, 1682, in Watertown, Massachusetts.

Family

Children

  • Jonathan Treadway
    b. November 11, 1640, in Sudbury, Massachusetts
    m. Judith Thurston, March 1, 1666[1667], in Medfield, Massachusetts
    d. May 28, 1710, in Sudbury, Massachusetts
  • Mary Treadway
    b. August 1, 1642, in Sudbury, Massachusetts
    m. John Fisher, September 12, 1665, in Sudbury, Massachusetts
    m. Timothy Hawkins, July 21, 1675, in Watertown, Massachusetts
    d. May 14, 1677, in Watertown, Massachusetts due to childbirth
  • James Treadway
    b. Abt. 1644
  • Elizabeth Treadway
    b. April 3, 1646, in Watertown, Massachusetts
    m. Shadrack Hapgood, October 21, 1664, in Sudbury, Massachusetts
    m. Joseph Hayward, March 23, 1676[1677], in Concord, Massachusetts
  • Lydia Treadway · in this line
    b. Abt. 1648–1649, in Watertown, Massachusetts
    m. Josiah Jones, October 2, 1667, in Weston, Watertown, Massachusetts
    d. c. 1743 · Weston, Massachusetts
  • Josiah Treadway
    b. Abt. 1650 in Watertown, Massachusetts
    m. Sarah Sweetman, June 9, 1674, in Watertown, Massachusetts
    m. Dorothy Bell, February 3, 1698[1698], in Charlestown, Massachusetts
    d. January 15, 1731[1732], in Charlestown, Massachusetts
  • Deborah Treadway
    b. August 2, 1657, in Watertown, Massachusetts
    m. Joseph Goddard, March 25, 1680, in Watertown, Massachusetts
    d. June 8, 1714, in Roxbury, Massachusetts

Siblings

  • Elizabeth Haynes
    b. England
    m. Roger Gourd
  • Thomas Haynes
    b. England
    d. July 28, 1640, in Sudbury, Massachusetts
  • Mary Haynes
    b. England
    m. Thomas Noyes
    m. ____ Bacon
    d. March 1, 1697[1698]
  • John Haynes
    b. 1621 in England
    m. Dorothy Noyes, October 13, 1642, in Sudbury, Massachusetts
    d. Abt. 1697
  • Josiah Haynes
    b. 1623 in England
    m. Elizabeth Noyes in 1654

Life story

A Family Voyage

Suferana Haynes was born around 1618 in England, daughter of Walter Haynes, and crossed the Atlantic with her parents and siblings in April 1638 aboard the ship Confidence, settling in Watertown, Massachusetts, where she married Nathaniel Treadway around 1639. As a child, her grandmother Alice Haynes had left her small household items in a 1621 will. Suferana died in Watertown on July 22, 1682.

Sources (4)
  1. Nathan Henry Jones, The Ancestors of My Daughters (Poultney, Vermont: Nathan Henry Jones, 1914).
  2. Elbert Smith, The Descendants of Joel Jones (Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Company, 1925).
  3. Dean Crawford Smith and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton 1878-1908 Part I: The Ancestry of Warren Francis Kempton 1817-1879 (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996); digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/ancestryofevabel01smit : accessed 14 August 2026).
  4. Frances Haynes, Walter Haynes of Sutton Mandeville, Wiltshire, England, and Sudbury, Massachusetts (Haverhill, Massachusetts: Record Publishing Company, 1929); digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/walterhaynesofsu00hayn_0 : accessed 15 August 2026).