Two Bangs Babies, died in Brewster, Massachusetts for Tombstone Tuesday

 This tombstone was photographed at the Ancient Burial Gound in Brewster, Massachusetts.

In Memory of                               In Memory of

    Isaac Sparrow Bangs                           Sukey Bangs       

                    who died april 12 1795                   who died octr 20th 1794     

            Aged one year                             Aged 2 Months     

    11 Months & 3 Days                        &12 Days         

Children of Mr Dean and Mrs Eunice Bangs

Happy the babes who privileged by fate

To shorter labor and a lighter wight

Received but yesterday the gift of breath

Ordered tomorrow to return to death. 

This sad, broken, and reset tombstone was dedicated to two children of Captain Dean Bangs (1756 - 1845)  and his wife Eunice Sparrow (1756 - 1818).  The carvings show a winged soul and also a fallen dove/bird.  Eunice was the daughter of Isaac Sparrow and Mary Hopkins (a Mayflower descendant).  They had two sons named Isaac Sparrow Bangs (1793 - 1795 and 1798 - 1874).  Captain Dean Bangs was a descendant of Edward Bangs of Chichester, England who came to the Plymouth Colony in 1623 on board the ship Anne.  

To cite/link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Two Bangs Babies, died in Brewster, Massachusetts for Tombstone Tuesday", Nutfield Genealogy, July 15, 2025, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2025/07/two-bangs-babies-died-in-brewster.html: accessed [access date]). 

Thomas Bangs, age 12, of Brewster, Massachusetts for Tombstone Tuesday

 This tombstone was photographed at Brewster, Massachusetts.

THOMAS BANGS

SON OF JOSHUA &

MEHETIBEL BANGS

AGED 12 YEARS

AND 8 DAYS DECd

DECEMBER YE 8th

1728

Thomas Bangs was born on 28 November 1716 in Harwich, Massachusetts and died on 8 December 1728.  He was the son of Captain Joshua Bangs and Mehitable Clark.  He was one of nine children (Nathan 1714 -1749, Thomas 1716 - 1728, Thankful 1720- 1749, Joshua 1723 - 1755, Mary 1724 - 1784, Mehitable 1728 - 1805, Thomas b. 1729, Susanna b. 1731, and Mary b. 1734). 

Captain Joshua Bangs was the son of Edward Bangs and Ruth Allen, and the grandson of  Jonathan Bangs and Mary Mayo, and the great grandson of Edward Bangs and Rebecca Hobart (immigrant ancestors) of Chichester, England, who came to the Plymouth Colony on board the ship Anne in 1623. According to the book The Great Migration Begins 1620 - 1633, Volume 1, page 86, Edward Bangs was an inkeeper at Eastham on Cape Cod.  

To cite/link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Thomas Bangs, age 12, of Brewster, Massachusetts for Tombstone Tuesday", Nutfield Genealogy, posted July 8, 2025, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2025/07/thomas-bangs-age-12-of-brewster.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ MAYO of Cape Cod and Boston, Massachusetts

Reverend John Mayo was probably from Oxfordshire, England, and little is known of his background or parentage.  In 1615, at age 17 he matriculated at Oxford University, at Magdalen College.   As a “non-conformist” he never received his degree, and came with his wife and five children to New England around 1640.  He became the teacher at the church in Barnstable where my other ancestor, Rev. Joseph Hull was the pastor. He briefly considered joining Gov. George Wyllys’ colony in Connecticut in 1643, but declined the offer.  Then he removed to Eastham around 1644 to be the minister at the new church.  He remained there until 1655 when he was called to Boston to be the new pastor of the new Second Church (also known as the Old North or Paul Revere church).

John Mayo was installed as the first minister of the Second Church on 9 November 1655.  He served as an overseer for Harvard College, and as a chaplain for the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, and for the General Court of Massachusetts. Mayo lived in a large brick house on Hanover Street that was later the home of Cotton Mather.  Already aged, he served as the pastor in Boston until 1673 when his associate minister, Increase Mather, took over his position. There are many entries in Mather’s diaries about Mr. Mayo. 

After his retirement, Rev. John Mayo removed back to Barnstable where he lived near his children and grandchildren.  He had founded two towns (Barnstable and Eastham) and three churches (Barnstable, Eastham and Boston’s Second Church).  He died without a will.  Samuel Eliot Morison wrote of Rev. John Mayo "I always supposed that Mayo was quite a person, but not a really outstanding one like Increase Mather.  But I dare say he has not had justice from the historians - quiet people of good character who mind their own business seldom do."

I descend from Reverend Mayo’s eldest son, Samuel Mayo (about 1620 – 1663) who was a mariner in Boston and Cape Cod.  He also was ordained as a “teaching elder” on 15 April 1640. Samuel became Master of his most important ship, the bark Desire, in 1650.  The Desire was the third vessel built in Massachusetts, (1636 in Marblehead) and it ran between Barnstable and Boston.   He died in Boston in 1663, leaving nine children. His estate was settled on 26 April 1664. I descend from his daughter Mary, who married Jonathan Bangs in 1664.

Rev. Mayo's son Nathaniel married Hannah Prence in 1650.  She was a granddaughter of Elder William Brewster of the Mayflower.  Thus the General Society of Mayflower Descendants has preserved her lineage in their books, archives and library, including that of Rev. Mayo.  

Some MAYO resources:

Several articles in the NEHGR, Volume 95, pages 39 – 49, and also pages 100 – 108, and Volume 103, pages 32 – 42

Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, William Brewster, GSMD, 2015, pages 147 - 162

The Winthrop Papers, Volume 4, page 262

My MAYO lineage:

Generation 1:  Rev. John Mayo, b. probably Oxfordshire, died 3 May 1676 in Yarmouth, Massachusetts; married Thomasine Unknown.  She died 26 February 1682 in Yarmouth.  Eight children.

Generation 2: Samuel Mayo, born about 1620 in England, died about 1663, married to Thomasine Lumpkin, daughter of William Lumpkin and his wife Thomasine.  She died 16 January 1709 in Eastham or Harwich, Massachusetts.  Nine children.

Generation 3:  Mary Mayo, born about 1645 in Barnstable, died 26 January 1711 in Brewster, Massachusetts; married on 16 July 1664 in Eastham to Jonathan Bangs, son of Edward Bangs and Rebecca Hobart.  He was born 16 July 1644 in Plymouth, Massachusetts and died 9 November 1728 in Brewster.  Twelve children.

Generation 4:  Hannah Bangs m. John Crosby

Generation 5:  Jonathan Crosby m. Hannah Hamblin

Generation 6:  Ebenezer Crosby m. Elizabeth Robinson

Generation 7:  Rebecca Crosby m. Comfort Haley

Generation 8:  Joseph Edwin Healy m. Matilda Weston

Generation 9:  Mary Etta Healey m. Peter Hoogerzeil

Generation 10:  Florence Etta Hoogerzeil m. Arthur Treadwell Hitchings

Generation 11:  Gertrude Matilda Hitchings m. Stanley Elmer Allen (my grandparents)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~  MAYO of Cape Cod and Boston, Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted June 30, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/06/surname-saturday-mayo-of-cape-cod-and.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ BANGS of Plymouth and Eastham, Massachusetts

Capt. Jonathan Bangs, Ancient Burial Ground,
Brewster, Massachusetts on Cape Cod

The third ship to arrive in Plymouth Colony, after the Mayflower and the Fortune, was the Anne in 1623.  My 9^th great grandfather, Edward Bangs (1591 – 1678) was on board the Anne, and he received four acres of land.  In the 1627 Plymouth division of cattle, Edward Bangs was the 13^th person in the 12^th company list.  He was a freeman in 1633.   In 1635 he was on the staff of Governor Bradford of the Plymouth Colony, and is listed along with Captain Myles Standish (another one of my ancestors),  Thomas Prence, John Howland (also my ancestor), John Alden and Stephen Hopkins.

 By 1645 Edward Bangs had removed to Eastham, further out on Cape Cod. He was an innkeeper, and called “yeoman” in records.  In 1657 he became licensed as a merchant in Eastham, and was engaged in trade.  I descend from his youngest son, Jonathan Bangs (1644 – 1728) who was born in Plymouth and lived on his father’s farm in Eastham, and later in Harwich.  He was Captain of the local militia, a farmer and a member of the legislator.  Jonathan’s gravestone (see the photo above) names him as Captain.  His two older brothers left on descendants, but Jonathan had three wives and twelve children.

My 7^th great grandmother was Hannah Bangs (1676 – 1715).  She married John Crosby of Harwich and had six children.  This was the last generation in this lineage to live on Cape Cod, because her oldest son, my 6^th great grandfather, Jonathan Crosby, removed to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.

For more information on the BANGS family:

Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines, by Mary Walton Ferris

The Great Migration Begins, by Robert Charles Anderson, Volume 1

The History and Genealogy of the Bangs Family in America, by Dean Dudley

My BANGS genealogy:

Generation 1:  Edward Bangs, son of John Bangs and Jane Chavis, born 28 October 1591 in Panfield, Braintree, Essex, England, died 16 Feb 1678 in Eastham, Massachusetts; married first about 1633 to Lydia Hicks, daughter of Robert Hicks, one children.  Married second before 1636 in Eastham, Massachusetts to Rebecca, possibly the daughter of Edmund Hobart and Margaret Dewey, mother of 8 more Bangs children. 

Generation 2:  Jonathan Bangs , born 16 July 1644 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, died 9 November 1728 in Brewster, Massachusetts; married first on 16 July 1664 in Eastham to Mary Mayo, daughter of Samuel May and Thomasine Lumpkin, mother of 12 children. Married second to Sarah Unknown, and married third in 1720 to Ruth Cole, widow of John Young.

Generation 3:  Hannah Bangs, born 14 March 1676 in Eastham, died 1715; married about 1703 to John Crosby, son of Thomas Crosby and Sarah Unknown.  He was born 4 December 1670 in Eastham, died 25 May 1717 in Harwich, Massachusetts.  Six children.

Generation 4:  Jonathan Crosby m. Hannah Hamblin

Generation 5:  Ebenezer Crosby m. Elizabeth Robinson

Generation 6:  Rebecca Crosby m. Comfort Haley

Generation 7:  Joseph Edwin Healy m. Matilda Weston

Generation 8:  Mary Etta Healey m. Peter Hoogerzeil

Generation 9:  Florence Etta Hoogerzeil m. Arthur Treadwell Hitchings

Generation 10.  Gertrude Matilda Hitchings m. Stanley Elmer Allen (my grandparents)

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To cite/link to this blog post:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ BANGS of Eastham and Plymouth, Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted June 23, 2018, (  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/06/surname-saturday-bangs-of-plymouth-and.html: accessed [access date]). 

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Jerusha Foster Bangs, 1801 in Brewster, Massachusetts

This tombstone was photographed at the Old Burial Ground in Brewster, Massachusetts (Cape Cod)

Here lies the Body of

Mrs. Jerusha Bangs

late wife of Solomon

Bangs who Departed

this life December 

24, 1801 in

ye 77th year of her 

age. 

Jerusha Foster was born 9 December 1727 in Harwich, Massachusetts, and died on 14 December 1801.  She was the daughter of Chillingsworth Foster and Susannah Gray Sears. Jerusha married Solomon Bangs on 2 April 1769 in Harwich.  He was born in 1729 and died on 19 January 1797, a Revolutionary War Patriot.

Jerusha's tombstone is surprisingly modern in design.  Most of the tombstones in this cemetery are traditional New England designs with winged cherub's heads.  Her husband, Solomon Bangs, is my 2nd cousin 7 generations removed.

This tombstone can be found at Find A Grave at this link:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=45656947 

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Copyright 2013, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Capt. Solomon Bangs, 1797, Brewster, Massachusetts

This tombstone was photographed at the Old Burial Ground, Brewster, Massachusetts (Cape Cod)

In memory of

Cap. SOLOMON BANGS

who died Jany 19th

1797

Aged 68

Solomon Bangs, son of Seth Bangs and Deborah Chipman, was born 23 May 1729 and died on 19 January 1797.  He was married to Jerusha Foster, daughter of Chillingsworth Foster and Susannah Gray.  He was also married to Experience Berry.

Solomon Bangs was a Revolutionary War patriot. According to the Massachusetts Sailors and Soldiers in the War of the Revolution, he was a private in Captain Abijah Bang's Company under Major Zenas Winslow's regiment.  His company marched on the alarms at Bedford and Falmouth in September 1778.

Solomon Bangs is my second cousin 7 generations removed on both his maternal and paternal sides.  His paternal great grandparents are Jonathan Bangs and Mary Mayo, also my 8th great grandparents, and his maternal great grandparents are John Chipman and Hope Howland, my 9th great grandparents.  Hope's parents were the Mayflower passengers, John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley.


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Copyright 2013, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Tombstone Tuesday ~ More Bangs Boys buried in Brewster

This tombstone was photographed in the Old Burial Ground, 

Brewster, Massachusetts on Cape Cod. 

In Memory of two sons of

Mr. BENJn & Mrs. DESIRE BANGS

Viz JOSHUA BANGS died

at Rhode Island Febry. 3rd 1778

Aged 26 Years & 11 Months

ISAAC BANGS died at 

Virginia Sept. 12th, 1780

Aged 27 Years & 9 Months

When the last trump that rends the skies

Shall bid those distant atoms rise

It instantly must be obey'd

And they will rise to Christ their head. 

Benjamin Bangs was born 24 June 1721 in Harwich, Massachusetts, died on 31 October 1769 in Brewster; married on 4 January 1749 in Harwich to Desire Dillingham.  She was born on 30 November 1729 in Harwich, and died 13 August 1807 in Brewster.

The son Joshua Bangs was born on 26 March 1751 in Harwich, and died on 3 February 1778 in Rhode Island.  He was married on 10 February 1774 in Eastham to Mary Hatch, and had two sons.  The other son, Isaac Bangs was born in 1752 and died on 12 September 1780 in Virginia.  Both of these young men were soldiers and died during the Revolutionary War.  Their stone was honored with a bronze marker by the DAR.

Another post with a photograph of two young Bangs boys from this same family in the same cemetery
http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/08/tombstone-tuesday-two-bangs-boys-in.html 

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Copyright 2013, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Benjamin Bangs, died 1814

This tombstone was photographed at the Ancient Burial Ground in Brewster, Massachusetts on Cape Cod.  I have posted about other members of the Bangs family previously, look for the links in the story below, or click on "Bangs" the keyword in the list in the right hand column of this blog.  This stone caught my eye because of the beautiful intricate carving, unlike most of the other stones in this cemetery. The epitaph is an excerpt of a poem by Thomas Campbell, "The Pleasures of Hope", 1799 .

In memory of 

BENJAMIN BANGS, ESQ

who died

march 9, 1814

AET 56.

Cold in the dust this perish'd heart must lie

But that which warmed it shall never die

That shall resist the triumph of decay

When time is o'er and worlds are pass'd away

Shall beam on Joy's interminable years

Unveil'd by darkness - unassuag'd by tears. 

Benjamin Bangs was born 24 July 1758 in Harwich, Massachusetts, and died 9 March 1814 in Brewster.  he was the son of Captain Benjamin Bangs (1721 - 1769) and Desire Dillingham (1729- 1807).  He married Mary Hatch about 1780 and had eight children born in Harwich.

1.) Benjamin Bangs, born 10 December 1783
2.) Nancy Bangs, born  22 December 1785
3.) Isaac Bangs, born 10 October 1787
4.) Desire Bangs, born 10 February 1789
5.) George Bangs, born 22 May 1791
6.) William Bangs, born 10 March 1793
7.) Jonathan Bangs, born 21 May 1795, married Polly Lincoln in 1818
8. ) Philander Bangs, born 1797, died 1797

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Copyright 2012, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Mr. Benjamin Bangs and wife Desire

This tombstone was photographed at the Old Burial Ground, Brewster, Massachusetts

Here are deposited the Remains of

Mr. BENJAMIN BANGS

who departed this Life

October 31st Anno Domini 1769

Aged 48 Years and 4 Months

Some hearty friend shall drop his tear

On my dry Bones and say

"These once were strong as mine appear

And mine must be as they"

Thus shall our moulding Members teach

What now our senses learn

For Dust and Ashes loudest preach

Man's infinite Concern

Desire Bangs Widow of

Benjamin Bangs

Died August 18th

1807 aged 78 years

Dear to her children

Loved by all who knew her

Her memory will be cherished

So long as there surivive

But for Immortality

[the rest is illegible]

Captain Benjamin Bangs was born on 24 June 1721 in Harwich, Massachusetts and died 31 October 1769 in Harwich.  He was the son of Captain Edward Bangs (1694 - 1756) and Sarah Clark. He was the great grandson of John Bangs (1644 - 1728) and Mary Mayo, my 8x great grandparents.

Desire Dillingham married Captain Benjamin Bangs on 4 January 1749 in Harwich, Massachusetts.  She was born 30 November 1729 in Harwich and died 13 August 1807 in Brewster.  She was the daughter of John Dillingham (1702 - 1763) and Mehitable Gray.

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Copyright 2012, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Two Bangs Boys in Brewster, Massachusetts

This tombstone was photographed at the Old Burial Ground in Brewster, Massachusetts

In Memory of PHYLANDER

Son of Mr. BENJAMIN

& Mrs. MARY BANGS

who departed this Life Decr. 4th

1797. Aged 6 Months.

Also Mr. JOSHUA BANGS

who was lost at Sea Oct. 21st

1798 Aged 23 Years

&& 9 Months

Philander Bangs is the son of Benjamin Bangs and Mary Hatch.  Joshua Bangs, lost at sea, is the cousin of Philander, and son of Joshua Bangs, also the brother of Benjamin Bangs.   Benjamin and Joshua Bangs were sons of Benjamin Bangs and Desire Dillingham, and the great great grandsons of John Bangs (1644 - 1728)  and Mary Mayo (my 8x great grandparents).  

I can only guess that perhaps these two young cousins, one infant and one a young unmarried man, were memorialized together on the same stone because they died within a year of each other?  Just a guess. 

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Copyright 2012, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Surname Saturday ~ Crosby

Robert Crosby is my 9x great grandfather, born about 30 October 1596 in Holme-on-Spaulding-Moor, Yorkshire, England, and died before 1640 in Rowley, Massachusetts.  His third cousin, Thomas Crosby, was born about 1575 in Holme-on-Spaulding-Moor and died on 6 May 1661 in Rowley, too.  These two families have a common ancestor in Yorkshire- John Crosby born about 1440. 

Not only is this confusing, but Robert had a great grandfather named Thomas Crosby, born in 1510 in Holme-on-Spaulding-Moor, married to a Jannett Unknown.  Thomas had a 2x great grandfather named Thomas Crosby, born in 1505 in Holme-on-Spaulding-Moor, married to a Jannett Unknown (but widow of a John Bell).  Often I see family trees where these two Thomas Crosbys are merged into one man married to one woman named Jannett, making Robert and Thomas closer cousins.  However, this is not true. 

All of Robert Crosby’s children were baptized in Holme-on-Spaulding-Moor, including the youngest child Hannah, who was baptized on 31 October 1634.  They must have come to New England after this date.  His wife Constance received a grant of land in 1643, so he must have been dead by this time.

Thomas Crosby, the distant cousin, was well to do, according to tax records in England.  They arrived in New England with a group of Rev. Ezekiel Rogers followers before 1640.  They are thought to have lived for a time with the widow of their son, Simon, in Cambridge, before removing to Rowley.   Simon Crosby came on the ship “Susan and Ellyn” in 1635 with the followers of Rev. Thomas Shepard.   Simon died young and his wife married Rev. William Tompson of Braintree (now the town of Quincy), Massachusetts.

The Crosbys were a fairly well off family in England and immigrated for religious reasons as part of the Puritan Great Migration. The records in England have been well documented by genealogists. 

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Some good Crosby sources (there are many!):

Ancestors and Descendants of Timothy Crosby, Jr. by Paul W. Prindle, Orleans, MA, 1981.

The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, by Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, Boston, MA: NEHGS, 2003, Volume 2, pages 232-236.

Simon Crosby the Emigrant: His English Ancestry and some of his Descendants, by Eleanor Davis Crosby, 1914.

There will be Dancing: The History of a Johnson Family, by Susan E. Keats, Boston, MA, 2000, pages 285 – 312.

“The Yorkshire Ancestry of the Three Crosby Sisters of Rowley, Mass”, by Paul W. Prindle,  New England Historic Genealogical Society Register, Vol. 119,  pages 243 - 248, October 1965.

"The Watson Ancestry of Constance (Brigham) Crosby of Holme-upon-Spalding Moor, Yorkshire, and Rowley, Mass., And Notes on the Southeron and Millington Families" by Walter Lee Sheppard,  New England Historic Genealogical Society Register,  Vol. 120, 1966, pp. 21-25.  

“The Crosby Family of New York”, by Ernest Howard Crosby, October 1898, New York Genealogical and Biographical Record.

  

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Lineage A:

Generation 1:  John Crosby born about 1440, married Agnes Unknown

Generation 2:  John Crosby born about 1470

Generation 3:  Thomas Crosby born about 1505 in Holme-on-Spaulding-Moor, died 1555 in Holme-on-Spaulding-Moor;  married to Jennett Unknown. Six children.

Generation 4: Richard Crosby, born about 1532 in Holme-on-Spaulding-Moor; married Margaret Stevenson

Generation 5: John Crosby, born about 1556 in Holme-on-Spaulding-Moor, died about 1604 in Holme-on-Spaulding-Moor; married on 31 August 1594 to Jane Webster.

Generation 6: Robert Crosby, baptized on 30 October 1596 in Holme-on-Spaulding-Moor, died before 1640 in Rowley, Massachusetts; married on 22 July 1622 in Holme-on-Spaulding-Moor to Constance Brigham, daughter of Thomas Brigham and Isabel Watson.  She was born in 1602 in Holme-on-Spaulding-Moor, and died on 25 January 1684 in Rowley, Massachusetts. Five children.

Generation 7:  Mary Crosby, baptized on 4 December 1629 in Holme-on-Spaulding-Moor, died on 29 November 1667 in Rowley; married on 16 January 1647 in Rowley to Richard Langthorne, son of John Langthorne and Jane Clement.  He was born about 1622 in Holme-on-Spaulding-Moor, and died on 13 February 1668 in Rowley. Ten children.

Generation 8. Constance Langthorne married Jonathan Mooers. 

Generation 9: Sarah Mooer and George Munroe

Generation 10: Andrew Munroe and Lucy Mixer

Generation 11:  Andrew Munroe and Ruth Simonds

Generation 12:  Luther Simonds Munroe and Olive Flint

Generation 13: Phebe Cross Munroe and Robert Wilson Wilkinson

Generation 14: Albert Munroe Wilkinson and Isabella Lyons Bill

Generation 15: Donald Munroe Wilkinson and Bertha Louise Roberts (my grandparents)

  

Lineage B:

Generation 1:  John Crosby born about 1440, married Agnes Unknown

Generation 2:  Miles Crosby born about 1483, died after 1538

Generation 3: Thomas Crosby, born 1510, died on 16 March 1559 in Holme-on-Spaulding-Moor; married about 1542 to Jannett, widow of John Bell. Four children.

Generation 4: Anthony Crosby, born about 1545; married about 1570 to Alison Blanchard

Generation 5: Thomas Crosby, born about 1575 in Holme-on-Spaulding-Moor, died 6 May 1661 in Rowley; married Jane Sothern, daughter of William Sothern and Constance Lambert.

Generation 6: Simon Crosby, born 1609 in Holme-on-Spaulding-Moor and died September 1639 in Cambridge, Massachusetts; married on 21 April 1634 in Holme-on-Spaulding-Moor to Ann Brigham, daughter of Thomas Brigham and Isabel Watson. Three children.

Generation 7: Reverend Thomas Crosby, born 26 February 1635 in Holme-on-Spaulding-Moor, died 13 June 1702 in Boston; married Sarah Unknown.  Twelve children.

Generation 8: John Crosby, born 4 December 1670 in Eastham, Massachusetts, died on 25 May 1717 in Harwich, Massachusetts; married about 1703 to Hannah Bangs, daughter of Jonathan Bangs and Mary Mayo. She was born on 14 March 1676 in Eastham, died about 1715. Six children.

Generation 9: Jonathan Crosby, born 2 November 1705 in Harwich, died 26 July 1782 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada; married before 7 March 1734 to Hannah Hamblin, daughter of Benjamin Hamblin and Hope Huckins. Eleven children.

Generation 10: Ebenezer Crosby, born 26 August 1747 in Mansfield, Connecticut, died 26 February 1826 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia; married on 8 September 1774 to Elizabeth Robinson, daughter of Jabez Robinson and Tabitha Green.  She was born 17 June 1750 in Falmouth, Massachusetts; died 27 July 1837 in Nova Scotia.  Eleven children.

Generation 11:  Rebecca Crosby, born 19 December 1789 in Yarmouth; married on 12 August 1808 in Chebogue, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia to Comfort Haley, son of Comfort Haley and Abigail Allen. Comfort was born 9 October 1787 in Chebogue, and died 3 December 1874 in Chebogue.  Eleven children.

Generation 12: Joseph Edwin Healey married Matilda Weston

Generation 13: Mary Etta Healey married Peter Hoogerzeil

Generation 14: Florence Etta Hoogerzeil married Arthur Treadwell Hitchings

Generation 15: Gertrude Matilda Hitchings married Stanley Elmer Allen (my grandparents)

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Copyright 2012, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Mrs. Judith (Cobb) Crosby

 This tombstone was photographed at the Old Burial Ground in Brewster, Massachusetts

MRS.

JUDITH CROSBY

Died Sept. 26, 1850

AEt. 78

Here on earth no more I wander

My communion is on high

Kindred spirits greet me yonder

Jesus calls me to the sky.

Her Husband

Benjamin Crosby

Died in Africa 1795

AEt. 27

Judith Cobb was born about 1772 in Eastham, Massachusetts, baptized on 3 August 1772.  She died on 26 September 1850 in Brewster.  She married Benjamin Crosby on 14 September 1793 in Harwich to Benjamin Crosby, just two years before he died in Africa.  He was born on 1 February 1768 in Harwich, the son of Elisha Crosby and Phebe Hopkins.  

Elisha Crosby is my first cousin, 7 generations removed.  His grandparents, John Crosby and Hannah Bangs, are my 7 x great grandparents.  Elisha's mother was Mary Crosby.  Her grandparents, Thomas Crosby and Sarah Unknown are my 8x great grandparents.  Phebe Hopkins's great grandfather, Giles Hopkins, came on the Mayflower in 1620 with his father, Stephen Hopkins! 

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Copyright 2012, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Tombstone Tuesday ~ An odd stone for the Bangs family

These tombstones were photographed at the Ancient Burial Ground, in Brewster, Massachusetts on Cape Cod.  This odd cement case for these three old tombstones was apparently an attempt at protecting them from further erosion or weathering.  

HERE LYES Ye BODY

OF SARAH ye WIFE OF

CAP JONATHAN BANGES

WHO DECd JUNE

1719 IN THE 78th

YEAR OF HER AGE

HERE LYES BURIED

Ye BODY OF CAPt

JONATHAN BANGS

AGED 88 YEARS

DECd NOVEMBER Ye

19th  1728

HERE LYES Ye BODY OF

MARY BANGES WIFE

TO JONATHAN BANGES

DECd JANUary Ye 26th 1711

 IN THE 66th YEAR

OF HER AGE

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Copyright 2012, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Captain Jonathan Sparrow

Sorry, this is not Captain Jack Sparrow of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies.

These gravestones were photographed at the 

Cove Burial Ground, Eastham, Massachusetts on Cape Cod. 

HERE LYES BURIED

YE BODY OF CAPT

JONATHAN SPROW

AGED 73 YEARS

DIED MARCH YE 21ST

1706/7

HERE RUSTS THE DUST

OF

RICHARD SPARROW

AND HIS WIFE

PANDORA

WHO CAME FROM KENT COUNTY ENGLAND

ABOUT 1633 AND SETTLED IN PLYMOUTH

ABOUT 1650 THEY CAME TO EASTHAM

AND SETTLED NEAR THIS PLACE

WHERE HE DIED JANUARY 8, 1660

HERE ALSO RESTS

JONATHAN SPARROW

ONLY CHILD OF RICHARD

TOGETHER WITH HIS FIRST TWO WIVES

REBECCA BANGS & HANNAH PRINCE

SETTLED IN THE PART OF EASTHAM

NOW EAST ORLEANS WHERE

AFTER FILLING MANY OFFICES OF HONOR

AND TRUST IN BOTH CHURCH AND STATE

HE DIED MARCH 21, 1706 AGED 73 YEARS

IN MEMORY OF

THESE EARLY SETTLERS OF OUR COUNTRY

WE THEIR DESCENDANTS HAVE ERECTED

THIS TABLET IN THIS CENTENNIAL YEAR

OF OUR AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE A.D. 1876

The slate on this stone
has begun to split, but it looks like
it was repaired with resin

Captain Jonathan Sparrow married Rebecca Bangs on 26 October 1654.  She was the sister to my 8x great grandfather Jonathan Bangs (1644 - 1728).  His other wife, Hannah Prince/Prence, was the granddaughter of William Brewster (1566/7 - 1644), a passenger on the Mayflower.  

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