Appendix 1
Susanna shall be her name

Susanna Newcome’s name has been spelled in many ways, and is spelled differently almost every time it is in print (Susana, Susannah, Susan, Newcomb, Newcombe, Newcomen, Newcomer, Comus, etc.). However, “Susanna Newcome” is the correct spelling as seen on all of her baptism and marriage records, her gravestone, and in her husband’s own hand, inscribed in his copy of Enquiry left to St. John’s College (below).




Susanna’s grave at the St. Bene’t Church in Cambridge, and shares a plot with her mother Mary. Her stone reads: “A woman of an excellent understanding and an upright heart, who constantly employed her great talents to the honor of God and the good of mankind through the course of a long life.”