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]). 

Surname Saturday ~ BEARSE of Cape Cod

BEARSE /  BEARCE /  BIERCE /  BEARS / etc.

My 9^th great grandfather, Augustin (AKA Austin) Bearse (1618 – 1686) arrived on the ship Confidence from Southampton, England on 24 April 1638.  He came to Barnstable on Capt Cod with the first settlers in 1639, and had a twelve acre house lot bounded by John Crocker and Isaac Robinson (another one of my 9^th great grandfathers).  He joined Rev. Lothrop’s church in Barnstable in 1643.  The road from the town of Hyannis to his land was known as “Bearse’s Way”, and is now Bearse Road, near Iannough Road at the Airport Rotary.  He was made a freeman in 1652.

Augustine Bearse’s name is at the head of the list of members of Rev. Lothrop’s church.  His wife was Mary, and they had eleven children, with baptisms all recorded at the Barnstable church on the first Sunday after their birth.  These babies include who was carried 2 miles to church at 2 day old in the cold of January for his baptism.  Apparently he was a very devout Puritan to want to save the souls of his children so promptly.  These are the facts we know about him from primary source material.  He was living in 1686, but dead sometime before 1697. There is no death record for Augustine Bearse.

Most of the compiled genealogy books and local histories of Barnstable written up until the 20^th century repeat these simple facts about Augustine Bearse.  Then another story began to emerge that described Augustine Bearse as a Gypsy, who had to leave England because of his Romany origins, so he came to Massachusetts.  No Puritan woman would marry him, so he married “Mary Hyanno”, the daughter of the sachem Iannough (Hyannis), who was a red headed princess with Viking blood.  Yes, these fantastic details were told and repeated about the Bearse family in several books, journals and online. 

These stories originated with a paper written in the 1930s by Frankin Bearse, also known as Ele-watum, “From Out of the Past – Who Our Forefathers Really Were, A True Narrative of our White and Indian Ancestors” who filed this with the State of Connecticut to obtain benefits as an American Indian.   These claims were based on a diary written by a Zerviah Newcombe, a descendant of Augustine Bearse.

“Austin Bearse and His Alleged Indian Connections”, by Donald Lines Jacobus, The American Genealogist, 1938,  Volume 15, pages 111 - 118  rejects these claims of an Indian marriage, based on the fact that the supposed diary of Zerviah Newcomb has never been examined, and is perhaps false. No record of this diary has ever been found.  Jacobus wrote 8 pages in TAG refuting each detail of the Indian and Gypsy story written by Franklin Bearse.

Even so, the Indian princess story continued to flourish.  You can read about it in books like Bearse-Bears-Barss Family: Genealogy of Augustine Bearse (1618 – 1697) and Princess Mary Hyanno (1625 – 1702) of Barnstable, Massachusetts, by Dale L. Burley, 1979.  This myth of Mary Hyanno, “the flame haired princess of the Wampanoags”, is even repeated in a 2005 book Kindred Spirits: A New World History of the Families of Henry Wickoff Rogers & Grace Dean McLeod, by Geordon Hartt Rogers.   The genealogy of the descendants of Augustine and Mary Bearse is accurate in these books, but the origins of the original immigrant husband and his native wife are lacking in evidence.

However, there is an interesting essay in the NEHGS journal NEXUS, 1985, Volume 2, pages 95 -96, “Keeping an Open Mind” by Rev. Robert J. Good, Jr.  This essay about Austin Bearse and his supposed Wampanoag wife refutes some of the claims made by Jacobus.  “We tend to take the word of those who have rightly earned a position as unassailable as Jacobus’s.  Yet there are mysteries like this one which continue to haunt us and remain unresolved.  They require that we make our own decisions.”  Rev. Good makes several good points about mixed marriages during the 1600s in Massachusetts between the Puritans and the native people.  It was not as improbable as Jacobus imagined. 

I encourage you to read ALL these journal articles, and the primary source material, before making up your own mind.

For more information:

See the books and journal articles mentioned above

“Bearce/Bearse/Bierce Descendants” group on Facebook (where the argument continues!): https://www.facebook.com/groups/303262653109082/

My BEARSE genealogy:

Generation 1:  Augustine Bearse, born about 1618 in England, died about 1686 in Barnstable, Massachusetts; married to Mary Unknown.  Eleven children.

Generation 2:  Sarah Bearse, born 28 March 1646 in Barnstable, died 30 March 1712 in Barnstable; married in August 1667 in Barnstable to John Hamblin, son of James Hamblin and Anne Unknown. He was born 26 June 1644 in Barnstable, and died in 1718 in Barnstable.  Twelve children.

Generation 3:  Benjamin Hamblin m. Hope Huckins

Generation 4:  Hannah Hamblin m. Jonathan Crosby (removed from Cape Cod  to Nova Scotia)

Generation 5:  Ebenezer Crosby m. Elizabeth Robinson (descendant of Isaac Robinson above)

Generation 6:  Rebecca Crosby m. Comfort Haley

Generation 7:  Joseph Edwin Healey m. Matilda Weston (removed from Nova Scotia to Massachusetts)

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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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ BEARSE of Cape Cod”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted  September 23, 2017, (https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/09/surname-saturday-bearse-of-cape-cod.html: accessed [access date]). 

Tombstone Tuesday ~ A Crosby child on Cape Cod, died 1840

ELLEN P.

dau. of

Hatsel and J. H.

CROSBY

died Oct. 18, 1840

AEt. 3ys.  8 ms.

I saw this little tombstone when I was looking for CROSBY ancestors at the Ancient Burying Ground in Brewster, Massachusetts.  This one intrigued me with the name “Hatsel”.  Who was Hatsel Crosby?  I couldn’t wait to get home to find out!

A google search led me to the Google Book search and the book History of Barnstable County, Massachusetts: 1620 – 1890, edited by Simeon L. Deyo.  On Pages 491 and 492 was this paragraph:

Hatsel Crosby, born in 1807, is the only surviving child of Abijah and Desire Crosby, and grandson of Elisha Crosby.  He was a shoemaker in Brewster for fifteen years, prior to 1848, when he came to South Yarmouth, where he was engaged in salt making until 1883.  He was married in 1836 to Jerusha S. Homer, who died in 1854, leaving five children: Susie, Abbie, Hattie E., Herbert F., and Nellie P., who died November 2, 1864.  Mr. Crosby was married in 1856 to Elizabeth S. Bangs who died the same year.  He was married in 1858 to Hannah, daughter of Jabez Nye.  They have two sons: Benjamin B. and Chester L..

From this little family sketch I was able to figure out how Hatsel Crosby and his little daughter Ellen fit into my Crosby family tree. 

History of Barnstable County, Massachusetts: 1620 - 1896, edited by Simeon L. Dayo, New York: Blake, 1890, preprinted by Higginson Company, Salem, Massachusetts,  available to read online at Archive.org and through the Google Book search. 

Our kinship:

                                           Simon Crosby (1609 - 1639) m. Ann Brigham (1606 - 1675)

                                                  Thomas Crosby m. Sarah Unknown

                                                     John Crosby m. Hannah Bangs

                                                                           I

Thomas Crosby m. Mary Crosby                                 John Crosby m.  Hannah Bangs

                        I                                                                                 I

Elisha Crosby m. Pheobe Hopkins                                Jonathan Crosby m. Hannah Hamblin

                         I                                                                                I

Abijah Crosby m. Desire Crosby                                   Ebenezer Crosby m. Elizabeth Robinson

                        I                                                                                 I

Hatsel Crosby m. Jerusha S. Homer                               Rebecca Crosby m. Comfort Haley    

                        I                                                                                 I

          Ellen P. Crosby                                                    Joseph Edwin Healy m. Matilda Weston

                                                                                                          I

                                                                                        Mary Etta Healey m. Peter Hoogerzeil

                                                                                                          I

                                                                                        Florence Etta Hoogerzeil m. Arthur Hitchings

                                                                                                          I           

                                                                                        Gertrude M. Hitchings m. Stanley E. Allen

                                                                                        (my grandparents)

P.S.  Mary Crosby and Desire Crosby above, both wives of men named Crosby, are also descendants of Thomas Crosby (1656 - 1702), the ancestor born in Holme-on-Spaulding-Moor, Yorkshire, England who removed to Boston when he was 8 weeks old with his parents, and is buried in the Granary Burying Ground. 

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Tombstone Tuesday ~ Ebenezer Crosby and Sarah Richardson, Chebogue Cemetery, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

This tombstone was photographed at the Chebogue Cemetery, at Town Point, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

EBENEZER CROSBY

DIED

Nov, 1863

aged 91 yrs

SARAH RICHARDSON

DIED

Oct. 1823

Aged 47 yrs

CROSBY

Ebenezer Crosby is my 4th Great Grand Uncle, son of Ebenezer Crosby and Elizabeth Robinson.  He was born in 1772 and died on 13 December 1863 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.  He married Sarah Richardson, the daughter of Reuben Richardson.  He was the brother of my 4th great grandmother, Rebecca Crosby (b. 1789), who married Comfort Haley (1787 - 1874).  Ebenezer lived to be 91 years old, which was quite a feat in those times!

Ebenezer Crosby, senior was an early settler at Chebogue.  He arrived in Nova Scotia with his parents, Jonathan Crosby and Hannah Hamblin, with the six families that sailed up the coast from Connecticut.  The Crosby family originally lived on Cape Cod, and they are Mayflower descendants.  You can see a blog post with a photo of Jonathan and Hannah Crosby's tombstone in the Chebogue cemetery HERE.

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Tombstone Tuesday ~ Revolutionary War Patriot Elkanah Crosby, Brewster, Massachusetts

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

In memory of

Capt. ELKANAH CROSBY

who died April 30, 1806

AEt 46

Also

An Infant died July 21, 1790

and

Sophia died May 19, 1805

AEt 2 years and 4 mos

Daughters of

Capt. E. & Mrs. M. Crosby

In

memory of

Mrs. MERCY

wido' of

Capt. Elkanah Crosby

who died

March 4, 1833

AEt. 71

Elkanah Crosby, son of James Crosby and Sarah Hopkins, was born 10 May 1761 in Harwich, Massachusetts on Cape Cod, and died 30 April 1806.  He married on 26 March 1784 to Mercy Cobb, daughter of Eleazer Cobb and Keziah Crosby.  She was born 28 September 1762 and died 4 March 1833 as his widow. 

On his mother's side of the family Elkanah was a descendant of Stephen Hopkins, a Mayflower passenger and a Jamestown, Virginia survivor.  Stephen Hopkins also survived the shipwreck of the Sea Venture in Bermuda in 1609.  He is a celebrated adventurer of early colonial America. 

Captain Elkanah Crosby served as a seaman during the American Revolutionary War.  There was an SAR (Sons of the American Revolution) bronze marker on his grave, as well as an American flag. The honorific "Captain" refers to his profession as a mariner, not to his military service. 

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Tombstone Tuesday ~ CROSBY from Brewster, Massachusetts (Cape Cod)

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

In memory of

MRS RUBY

wife of

Capt. Nathaniel Crosby

who died June 17, 1855

AEt. 72 yrs. 17 days.

(inscription illegible)

ELIZABETH CROSBY

died at Portland, Oregon

Aug. 20, 1851:

AEt. 29 yrs 3 mos.

Ruby Foster, daughter of Chillingsworth Foster and Sarah Freeman, was born 31 May 1783 in Brewster, Massachusetts on Cape Cod, and she died 17 June 1855 in Brewster. Her husband, Captain Nathaniel Crosby died in 1856 in Hong Kong, on a merchant voyage. 

   

Ruby and Nathaniel's daughter Elizabeth was born 13 April 1822 in Brewster and died 20 August 1851 in Portland, Oregon.  Capt. Crosby used to sail from Oregon to Hong Kong, leaving his family behind. He was sent to Oregon territory by the US government in the 1850s to supply the new settlers with goods from Boston. He took his whole family with him to Oregon, but apparently this young daughter died there and his wife eventually returned to Cape Cod.  Some of the family stayed in Oregon. 

Ruby Foster Crosby is a descendant of Edward Winslow of the Mayflower.  Ruby and Capt. Nathaniel Crosby have a famous descendant, too- Entertainer Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby (1903 - 1977), raised in Oregon.

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Surname Saturday ~ Two Brigham sisters came to Massachusetts!

BRIGHAM

Sometimes in genealogy you hear stories about “two brothers came to America”.  Well, in my family tree we have two BRIGHAM sisters who came to Massachusetts.   They were the daughters of Thomas Brigham and Isabel Watson of Holme-on-Spaulding Moor, Yorkshire, England.   The eldest sister, Constance, married Robert Crosby and came to America after their first child was baptized in Holme-on-Spaulding Moor in 1634.  They settled in Rowley, but Robert was dead by 1642 and left Constance with five children.    Constance lived a long life, and died in 1684 in Rowley, Massachusetts.

The younger daughter, Ann, married Simon Crosby,  a distant cousin to her sister’s husband.  She had three  children (the first baptized also in Holme-on-Spaulding Moor in 1635) and her husband also died young in 1639.  But Ann remarried to Reverend William Thompson as his second wife.  Unfortunately the Rev. Thompson was “afflicted with melancholia” and did not work for seven years before he also died in 1666.  This caused many financial problems for the widow because he died intestate.  Ann lived until 1675 with her son Joseph in Braintree, Massachusetts.

Both of my BRIGHAM lines daughtered out in the first generation.  There were BRIGHAM kin from Holme-on-Spaulding Moor who came to live in Massachusetts, including Thomas Brigham who died in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1653 and had five children who all married and left descendants, including three sons, Thomas, Jr., John and Samuel Brigham.  These are the ancestors of most of the New England Brighams you can read about in the book The History of the Brigham Family: A record of several thousand descendants of Thomas Brigham, the Emigrant, 1603- 1653, by W. I. Tyler Brigham and Emma E. Brigham, 1907, and a second volume published in 1927 by Emma E. Brigham.  Thomas Brigham’s father, John Brigham (abt. 1574 – 1621) was the brother of Constance and Ann’s father, Thomas Brigham (1576 – 1633).

My Brigham lineages:

Generation 1:  Thomas Brigham, born 1576 in Holme-on-Spaulding Moor, Yorkshire, England, and died on 19 March 1633 in Holme-on-Spaulding Moor; married on 4 February 1601 in Holme-on Spaulding Moor to Isabel Watson, daughter of James Watson.  She was baptized on 21 February 1561 in Holme-on-Spaulding Moor, and died on 25 June 1634 at Holme-on-Spaulding Moor. 

A.

Generation 2: Constance Brigham, born about 1692 in Holme-on-Spaulding Moor, died 25 January 1684 in Rowley, Massachusetts; married on 22 July 1622 in Holme-on-Spaulding Moor to Robert Crosby, son of John Crosby and Jane Webster.  He was baptized on 30 October 1596 in Holme-on-Spaulding Moor, and died in 1640 in Rowley, Massachusetts.  Five children.

Generation 4: Mary Crosby m. Richard Langthorne

Generation 5: Constance Lanthorne m. Jonathan Mooers

Generation 6: Sarah Mooers m. George Munroe

Generation 7:  Andrew Munroe m. Lucy Mixer

Generation 8: Andrew Munroe m. Ruth Simonds

Generation 9:  Luther Simonds Munroe m. Olive Flint

Generation 10: Phebe Cross Munroe m. Robert Wilson Wilkinson

Generation 11: Albert Munroe Wilkinson m. Isabella Lyons Bill

Generation 12: Donald Munroe Wilkinson m. Bertha Louise Roberts (my paternal grandparents)

B.

Generation 2: Ann Brigham, born about 1606 in Holme-on-Spaulding Moor, died 11 October 1675 in Braintree, Massachusetts; married first to Simon Crosby, son of Thomas Crosby and Jane Sothern.  He was born about 1609 in Holme-on-Spaulding Moor, and died September 1639 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  Three children.

Generation 3: Thomas Crosby m. Sarah Unknown

Generation 4: John Crosby m. Hannah Bangs

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 Healey 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 maternal grandparents)

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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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Tombstone Tuesday ~ Deacon Thomas Crosby

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

HERE LYES Ye BODY

OF DEACON THOMAS

CROSBIE OF HARWICH

WHO DECd APRIL

ye 21st 1731

IN ye 69th YEAR

OF HIS LIFE

Deacon Thomas Crosby is my 7 x great grand uncle.  His parents, Reverend Thomas Crosby (1635 - 1702)  and Sarah, were my 8 x great grandparents.  Thomas was born 7 April 1663 in Eastham, Massachusetts, and died on 12 April 1731 in Harwich, Massachusetts.  He married Hannah Unknown.  He was elected deacon in Harwich on 25 March 1716. 

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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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Surname Saturday ~ Longhorn / Langthorne of Rowley, Massachusetts

LANGTHORNE/LANGHORNE/LONGHORNE

Rowley First Church and Pharmacy
photo by Fletcher6 at Wikipedia Commons

Richard Langthorne arrived in the New World from Holme on Spalding, Yorkshire, England and he was granted 100 acres in Rowley, Massachusetts in 1666.  He received land in the Hog Island marsh in 1667.  Richard died in 1668, only a month and a half after his wife, and at about the same time as three or four children. I don’t know if some un-named disease swept through the family.  Six children were left orphaned.  Within five months the two youngest sons were also dead.  The children were taken in by relatives in Cambridge and Rowley. Richard’s brother in Cambridge was Thomas Longhorn. 

The last will and testament of Richard Longhorne of Rowley in the county of Essex made Februarie 10.1668.

First give to my daughter Elizabeth a Double portion whom also I constitute and appynt to be the executresse of this my last Will and Testament together with my beloved brother Thomas Longhorne whom also I constitute and appoynt to be the other Executor with my Daughter Elizabeth and if the sayd Elizabeth shall die without heirs of her owne body my will is that the one half of the Estate given her by this my last Will and Testament be equally divided between my other three daughters.

I give unto Samuel Wood my servant the sume of 10 £ to be payd to him within the space of one yeare after my death and if Obadiah Wood the father of the said Samuel shall be willing that his son shall serve out his time untill he comes to the full age of Twenty one years with my brother John Johnson of Rowley then my will is that ten pounds more be added and the whole 20 to be payed unto (him) when he hath served out his full time and in case the said Samuell shall die before he hath served out his full time that then no part of the 20 £ be payd unto him butt that 20 £ shall be divided equally amongst my children then living. My will is also that my daught(er) Elizabeth shall have the 20 £ above forementioned over and above her double portion untill it shall be due unto the aforesayed Samuel and if the Sayd _______ Wood shall presently take away his son then 10 li: of the twenty shall be equally divided between my children and then all my estate both of lands houses cattle household stuffe and all my moveables to be divided equally (my debts being first paid) amongst my children, my daughter Elizabeth haveing a doube portion as aforesaid lastly

I constitute and appoynt John Peckard, John Johnson and James Bailey (all of Rowley aforesaid) to be overseers to see this my will performed.

[No signature]

Witness:

Anthony Crosbie

Daniell Ela

John Ward

Proved in Ipswich Court Mar. 30, 1669, by the Witnesses.

DEPOSITION of Jonathan Platts that going to Haverhill when Richard Longhorne was sick, with John Pickard, he left the latter on this side the river and went over with the daughter of Richard Longhorne to see him and told him his brother Pickard was on the other side. He told Deponent that he was very glad of it, for he had a great desire to speak with him, that he knew not how God might dispose of him and he desired Deponent to come to him again when his brother being with him, and he, having told his mind to his brother Pickard, the latter told Longhorne that he would relate what he said to Deponent for fear of spending him. Concerning his children's disposal, John Pickard said to leave them to the disposal of their Grandmother to which Longhorne replied that he would and also to their two Aunts, and that he would have them advise with Goodwife Bayly who was a good woman, whom he believed loved them Well. This was about three days before he died. John Pickard affirmed the same.

Sworn 30.1m; 1669, Ipswich Court.

For more information on the early Langthornes of Rowley, Massachusetts there are several good books to read, including The Pioneers of Massachusetts by Charles H. Pope [the entry for Constance Crosby Pope is wrong, Mary Crosby’s husband is NOT Nicholas Longhorne] and also The History of Rowley, Massachusetts by Thomas Gage.  In the Rowley and Cambridge vital records please see LONGHORN as well as LANGTHORNE. 

There was an article on Richard Longhorn in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Volume 68, pages 12 -13. 

My Langthorne lineage:

Generation 1: Richard Langthorne, born about 1662 at Holme on Spalding, Moor, Yorkshire, England, died on 13 February 1668 at Rowley, Massachusetts; married on 16 January 1647 in Rowley to Mary Crosby, daughter of Robert Crosby and Constance Brigham.  She was born before 4 December 1629 in Holme on Spalding Moor, and died 29 November 1667 in Rowley.  Ten children.

Generation 2: Constance Langthorne,  born in September 1652 in Rowley; married on 10 May 1670 in Newbury, Massachusetts to Jonathan Mooers, son of Edmund Mooers and Anne Unknown.  He was born on 23 April 1646 in Newbury.  Nine children.

Generation 3: Sarah Mooer m. George Munroe

Generation 4: Andrew Munroe m. Lucy Mixer

Generation 5: Andrew Munroe m. Ruth Simonds

Generation 6: Luther Simonds Munroe m. Olive Flint

Generation 7: Phebe Cross Munroe m. Robert Wilson Wilkinson

Generation 8: Albert Munroe Wilkinson m. Isabella Lyons Bill

Generation 9: Donald Munroe Wilkinson m. Bertha Louise Roberts

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Surname Saturday ~ Mooers of Newbury, Massachusetts

Newbury, Massachusetts in 1640

Captain Edmund Mooers arrived in the New World aboard the Confidence in 1638.  The log book spells the name “Mooers”.  He was probably not the son of Francis Mooers and his wife Katherine Unknown in Kingston Magna, Dorsetshire, England, as reported in many on-line records. 

Jonathan Mooers, son of Edmund, was a soldier, too, and was listed in the Militia of Newbury in 1707.  He was promoted from corporal to cornet it 1689.  He maintained a garrison house at “Wataquo Dock” during the King Phillips War.

 Jonathan wrote a will in 1692, which was submitted to probate in 1693.  According to the Essex Antiquarian, Volume 2, page 131 – 132 “May 12, 1714, Richard Mooer of Lexington and John, George and Daniel Munroe (three brothers who married three sisters) joined in petitioning the court that John Mitchell, their "father-in-law" might administer upon the estate of Lt. Jonathan Mooer "which was not already disposed of."  This action we interpret to mean that the mother, Constance, was then deceased, and that the widow's dower was to be divided among the heirs”

There is one book about the Mooers family, Some Descendants of Edmund Mooers 1614 – 1677 of Newbury, Massachusetts by Amy Mooers William, Detroit, Michigan, 1956.  No major article has been written about the early Mooers in Massachusetts.  There are a few mentions of Mooers in the book History of Newbury, Massachusetts 1635 – 1902 by John J. Currier, 1902, but no genealogical sketches or biographies.  The best places to find information on the Mooers family are the vital records in Essex County.

There is a Mooers Family newsletter.  See the website:

 http://www.mooers-law.com/MooerMemoriesOpeningPage.htm  

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My Mooers genealogy:

Generation 1: Edmund Mooers, born about 1614 in Kingston Magna, Dorsetshire, England, died 19 April 1669 in Newbury, Massachusetts; married to Anne Unknown, she died on 7 June 1676 in Newbury.  Six children.

Generation 2: Jonathan Mooers, born 23 April 1646 in Newbury, died between 1692 and 1693; married on 10 May 1670 in Newbury to Constance Langthorne, daughter of Richard Langthorne and Mary Crosby.  She was born in September 1652 in Rowley, Massachusetts.   Ten children.  Constance was married second to John Mitchell on 1 November 1697.

Generation 3: Sarah Mooers, born 1677 in Newbury, died 4 December 1752 in Lexington, Massachusetts; married to George Munroe, son of William Munroe and Martha George.  Nine children.  Sarah’s sister, Hannah, married John Munroe.  Her sister, Dority, married Daniel Munroe about 1716.  Three Munroe sisters married three Mooers brothers.

Generation 4: Andrew Munroe m. Lucy Mixer

Generation 5: Andrew Munroe m. Ruth Simonds

Generation 6: Luther Simonds Munroe m. Olive Flint

Generation 7: Phebe Cross Munroe m. Robert Wilson Wilkinson

Generation 8: Albert Munroe Wilkinson m. Isabella Lyons Bill

Generation 9: Donald Munroe Wilkinson m. Bertha Louise Roberts

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The Nathaniel Page House- Featured on PBS’s This Old House!

The Bedford Flag is a famous flag carried by the Bedford Militia during several wars.  Generations of the Page family served as flag bearer, and carried this flag, which gave them the right of the title “Cornet”.  I’ve been to many colonial battle re-enactments, and in 2000 I saw the 225^th anniversary re-enactments of the events of 19 April 1775. At the battle at the “Bloody Angle” about 200 Bedford and Lincoln men responded to the Lexington Alarm and fired on the British as they retreated back towards Boston.  The soldiers were carrying this flag.  It is the oldest existing flag in the United States.

The Nathaniel Page Homestead
before rennovations

I recently opened my member’s magazine from WGBH Boston, and saw that their production of “This Old House” was going to renovate the Nathaniel Page house in Bedford, Massachusetts.  I knew exactly where to look in my family tree for information about the family.  I’m not a Page descendent, but since I have some Middlesex County ancestors , I looked and saw that we are connected through several marriages.  I had four generations of Nathaniel Pages in my notes, including the two who were flag bearers and the one who built the Page house in Bedford.   Several Cornet Pages had wives who were both 1^st and 2^nd cousins many generations removed from me, related through the Larkin, Blanchard, Wheeler, Whipple, and Crosby lines. I have a Page lineage from Hampton, New Hampshire which is unrelated to the Bedford Pages.

The Page Genealogy:

Generation 1:  Nathaniel Page born about 1645 in England, died 12 April 1692 in Boston; married Joanna Unknown.

                1. Nathaniel Page (see below)

                2. Elizabeth; m. John Simpkins

                3. Sarah; m. Samuel Hill, Jr.

                4. Jane, died young

                5. Christopher, b. 1690

Generation 2: Cornet Nathaniel Page, born 1679 probably in England, died 2 March 1755 in Bedford; married first on 6 November 1701 in Bedford to Susanna Lane, daughter of John Lane and Susanna Whipple, born 24 January 1683 in Bedford, died 2 September 1746 in Bedford; married second to Mary Grimes.

                1.  Cornet Nathaniel Page; (see below)

                2. Cornet John;  (see below)

                3. Christopher, b. 16 July 1707;m. Susannah Webber

                4. Susannah, b. 29 April 1711; m. Samuel Bridge

                5. Joanna, b. 1714; m. Josiah Fassett

Generation 3. Cornet Nathaniel, born 4 September 1703 in Bedford, died 4 April 1779 in Bedford; married abt 1729 to Hannah Blanchard, daughter of John Blanchard and Mary Crosby, born 24 October 1704 in Billerica, died 7 September 1763.

                1. Nathaniel, b. 22 May 1729

                2. Thomas, b. 5 May 1733; m. Anna Merriam

                3. Hannah, b. 15 May 1732; m. Jonas French

                4. William, b. 19 Feb 1737/8; m. Pattie Hill

                5. David, b. 4 April 1740; m. Abigail Jones

                6. Susannah, b. 22 January 1742

                7. Abigail, b. 15 September 1744; married Nathaniel Brown

Generation 3.   Cornet John born 11 October 1704 in Billerica, died 18 February 1782 in Bedford; married first on 23 December 1731 in Concord to  Rebecca Wheeler, daughter of Ebenezer Wheeler and Mary Minot, born 2 September 1712 in Concord, died 12 July 1755 in Bedford.  Fourteen children born in Bedford; married 2^nd 15 January 1756 in Lexington to Amity Cutler; married 3^rd 3 June 1773 in Bedford to Rachel Blanchard.

                1. John, b. 2 September 1733

                2. James, b. 12 May 1735

                3. Ebenezer (Bedford militia), b. 3 June 1737

                4. Susanna,  b. 21 October 1739, died young

                5. Timothy (Bedford militia), b. 11 June 1741

                6. Minuteman Nathaniel, b. 20 June 1742; m. Sarah Brown (had nine children including another Nathaniel, born 25 October 1775).

                Eight more children

Generation 3. Christopher; m. Susannah Webster

                1. Sergant Christopher (Minuteman)

                2. Mary; m. Nathan Reed

                3. Susannah, died young

                4. Job, died young

                5. Susannah, died young

                6. Lucy, died young

You can read about the Bedford Flag at this link from the Bedford Public Library (page 53 has a vintage photo of the house that will star on the PBS series “This Old House”: http://www.bedfordlibrary.net/pdf_files/BedfordFlagUnfurled.pdf

You can read all about the PBS project at this link: http://www.pbs.org/thisoldhouse/articles/viewer.php?item=bedford-mass

You can see the grave of Cornet Nathaniel Page here: http://gravematter.smugmug.com/Massachusetts/Bedford/Old-Burying-Ground/4496828_BMk6M/3/264701498_NXkGT

You can read about the Bedford Flag and the Bedford Minutemen Company (re-enactors) at this link: http://www.bedfordminutemancompany.org/Flag   Check out their website, it’s very interesting and informative!

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