{The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, October 1992, page 322.}
On 31 July 1715 Susanna PATEE, wife of Richard, was "received to the Lord's Supper" at the Haverhill First Parish where the same year "ch. of Richard Pate" were baptized (First Parish, 2:51, 98). These are the first records to positively locate the family at Haverhill.
On 5 September 1729 Susanna was suspended from communion when the congregation voted her guilty "of public scandal in raising and publishing to so many persons an infamous report of Mrs. Lydia PEASLEE the wife of Nathaniel PEASLEE, Jun., in saying that "She was drunk or the worse for drink or words to that purpose', and for belying herself, and contradicting a confession which she gave under her hand to Mrs. PEASLEE aforesaid." In order to be restored to the Lord's Table she was required to publicly acknowledge her faults. This was apparently difficult for the impenitent Susanna, who instead submitted to the church a paper "in vindication of herself from those faults for which she was suspended [and] intimating that if there was any such confession twas brought about by very unfair means." The brethren disagreed, insisting that Susanna submit another confession. She eventually complied, and was finally restored to full church membership 4 June 1731
