Susanna was enslaved in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. She eventually gained her freedom and on June 26, 1733 or 1735, she married freed African American, Heber Honestman of Easton Massachusetts. The couple had at least one child, Adam, born on September 23,1738, in Easton. In 1737, Heber purchased from a Josiah Pratt “one sixty-third part of one right” to land in newly established Huntstown (now Ashfield), a tiny community in what was then the wilds of Western Massachusetts. He did not move there immediately. Huntstown proprietors began to draw 50-acre house lots on July 24, 1739, and Heber drew Lot #1 for “Josiah Prat in his Father's Right viz Samll”. Heber sold his Easton land to Josiah Pratt in 1740, and by 1743, the family was living in Huntstown. In June of 1743, he purchased for £12 another 50 acres adjacent to his first lot and built his home there. The Honestmans may have been the only purchasers of lots to live in Huntstown. Unlike Heber and Susanna, who saw this as a good area for a promising new start, other lot owners might have decided the area was too unsettled for them and probably sold their rights to those who didn't mind living on the “frontier.”
Heber died on March 6, 1768, and is buried in an unmarked grave in the Baptist Corner cemetery in Ashfield (or perhaps the Beldingville cemetery.) Susanna's death and place of burial are unknown.
Sources Consulted
History of the Town of Ashfield, Frederick G. Howes & Rev. Dr. Thomas Shepard, 1834, p. 55
History of the Town of Easton, Massachusetts, William L. Chaffin, 1837, p. 434