Susanna was the tenth and last child of Maskell and Mary Ewing. She spent part of her youth in Philadelphia. There she married William Ferguson, a distinguished officer of Revolutionary fame. He was killed in the line of duty. They had one child. After seven years of widowhood, she married Ercuries Beatty, the eighth of sixteen children of the Rev. Charles Beatty who was the founder of the Neshaminy of Warwick Presbyterian Church in Bucks county Pennsylvania. They were devout Christians and active in the church. 23
