SUSANNAH ADAMS

Our sixth great-grandmother, Susannah Adams, was born in Providence, Montgomery, PA in 1697... 320 years ago! I find it amazing to be thinking about Susannah today...our ancestor who I had never heard about before I became a family historian. This afternoon, I spent a few hours learning  where she lived and bore her children in her short time period of 50 years. For instance, I learned that Providence Township was in southeastern Pennsylvania. Initially the township was part of Philadelphia County, which gives me the idea that the Custers were living close to the city of Philadelphia in their first years of marriage. Susannah and Conrad Custer were married in Montgomery County in 1715 and started their family there. Here are their children's names and birth years below:
1716 Charity
1718 Arnold
1722 William, our ancestor
1729 Susannah
1730 John
1730 Paul
1732 Nicolas
1735 Conrad
1738 Isaac
1740 Ezekial
1741 Benjamin
1741 Noah
1745  Catherine

According to Conrad's records, he and his sons moved to Virginia c. 1762. However, in Susannah's records, Susannah was in Brock's Gap, Augusta, VA when she died, in 1747, and was buried at  the Custard  Family Cemetery in Fulks Run, Augusta, VA. This discrepancy prompted the reason why I spent time looking at these locations, trying to find some substantial evidence for the truth of this matter. Well, I didn't solve the problem but here are some more words about their residences in Virginia:
Today, Fulks Run is an unincorporated community, full of deer and guns, located in Rockingham  County, VA. It is located north of Harrisonburg and south of Bergton, just to the west of Broadway on route 259, near the border of West Virginia and the edge of George Washington National Forest. The North Fork Shenandoah River flows past the community. 
"The town is made up of almost 4 stores, which means gun stores make up 25 percent of Fulks Run's economy, if it had one. It includes Fulks Run Elementary School, and that really shady forest behind the school. Fulks Run also has Turner Hams, where you can buy ham. The Fulks Run Ruritan Park is a popular get together spot to drink a quick beer with a friend and watch a quick game on the baseball field. This small town also includes the childhood home of legendary superstar George Michael, the greater member of Wham!"[quoted from a blurb about the early settlers and villages of the Shenandoah Valley.]

Brock's Creek lies in northern Rockingham County. It is a north flowing tributary of Turley Creek, which discharges into the North Fork of the Shenandoah near Brock's Gap. 

Now you know as much as I do about the Custer's places of residence. I had hoped to find some comments about the Custers being early settlers in Brock's Gap c. 1745, but didn't. Therefore, I am letting the records of this family speak for themselves until I find better evidence of WHEN they ALL  lived in Virginia. 


SUSANNAH ADAMS
BORN: 1697 in Providence, Montgomery, PA
MARRIED: 1715 in , Montgomery, PA
DIED: 1 Feb 1747 in Brock's Gap, August
a, VA
BURIED: Custard Family Cemetery in Fulks Run, Augusta, VA
SOURCES:
Mrs. Elsie Foster, "Our Brokaw/Bragaw Heritage"; Find a Grave.