Edwin E Crosby
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1853 - Orleans, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 2 Apr 1853 - Orleans, Massachusetts
Burial: in Orleans Cemetery 1
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Solomon Crosby (1825-1895) 2
Mother: Eliza Snow Higgins (1828-1853) 3
Eleazer Crosby
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 5 Jan 1711 - Harwich, Massachusetts 4
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Eliezer Crosby (1680-Abt 1760) 5
Mother: Patience Freeman (1689-1732)
Spouses and Children
1. *Lydia Godfrey (Est 1712 - )
Marriage: 20 Oct 1735 - Harwich, Massachusetts 6
Status:
Children:
1. Kezia Crosby (1740-1824)
2. Hester Rider (Est 1712 - )
Marriage: 1733
Status:
Notes
Marriage Notes (Lydia Godfrey)
Marriage 1 Lydia GODFREY [which one?]
Children, in Harwich
Eleazer CROSBY b: 14 OCT 1736
Keziah CROSBY b: 6 JAN 1739
Watson CROSBY b: 23 MAR 1741
Rebecca (twin) CROSBY b: 15 MAY 1744
Isaac (twin) CROSBY b: 15 MAY 1744
Reuben CROSBY b: 12 MAY 1747
Lydia CROSBY b: 16 MAY 1752
Eleazer P Crosby
Sex: M
AKA: Eleazer F Crosby
Individual Information
Birth: 13 Mar 1840 - Orleans, Massachusetts 7
Baptism:
Death: 11 Jan 1856 - (Boston, Massachusetts)
Burial: in Orleans Cemetery 1
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Franklin Crosby (1803-1852) 8
Mother: Martha R Nickerson (1804-1873)
Eliezer Crosby
Sex: M
AKA: Eleazer Crosby
Individual Information
Birth: 31 Mar 1680 - Eastham, Plymouth Colony 9
Baptism:
Death: Abt 1760 - Harwich, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Events
• Alt Birth, , Yarmouth, Plymouth colony in Yarmouth, Plymouth colony
Parents
Father: Rev. Thomas Crosby (1635-1702) 10
Mother: Sarah Fitch (1631-After 1703) 11
Spouses and Children
1. *Patience Freeman (1689 - 28 Jan 1732)
Marriage: 24 Oct 1706 - Harwich, Massachusetts 12
Status:
Children:
1. Keziah Crosby (1708-1732) 13
2. Rebecca Crosby (1709- )
3. Eleazer Crosby (1711- )
4. Sylvanus Crosby (1712- )
5. Phebe Crosby (1714-After 1787)
6. Sarah Crosby (1716-1724)
7. Isaac Crosby (1719-1815)
8. Mary Crosby (1722- )
9. Sarah Crosby (1725- )
10. Patience Crosby (1728- )
11. Eunice Crosby (1731-1731)
2. Hester Rider (Apr 1699 - 31 Jul 1729)
Marriage: 1733 - Harwich, Massachusetts
Status:
Children:
1. Prince Crosby (1735- )
2. Sylvanus Crosby (1739-Bef 1818)
3. Zerviah Crosby (1741- )
Notes
General:
Death dates seen for 1759 and 1760 are presumably dates for will and probate.
Elijah Crosby
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1771 - Harwich, Massachusetts 14
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: James Crosby (1729-1806)
Mother: Sarah Hopkins (1729-Bef 1787)
Elijah Crosby
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 4 Dec 1800 - Harwich, Massachusetts 15
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Captain James Crosby (1767-1829)
Mother: Sally Foster (1769-1818)
Elijah Crosby
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 7 Jun 1742 - Harwich, Massachusetts
Baptism: 11 Jul 1742 - Harwich, Massachusetts
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Joshua Crosby (1712-1795) 16
Mother: Lydia Hopkins (1713-1781)
Elijah Cobb Crosby
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 5 Mar 1821 - Chatham, Massachusetts 18
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Rowland Freeman Crosby (1799- )
Mother: Sally Nickerson (1803- )
Spouses and Children
1. *Emeline Taylor (22 Sep 1823 - )
Marriage: 16 Mar 1842 - Chatham, Massachusetts 19
Status:
Elijah Cobb Crosby
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 22 Dec 1796 - Harwich, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 19 Jul 1819 - At Sea
Burial: in Lower Road Cemetery, Brewster
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Nathan Crosby (1768-1838)
Mother: Anne Pinkham (1767-1854) 21
Elisha Crosby
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1800 - (Maine)
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Sarah (Est 1800 - )
Marriage:
Status:
Children:
1. Sarah A Crosby (1828- )
Elisha Crosby
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 18 Nov 1856 - Brewster, Massachusetts 22
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Captain Elisha Crosby (1818-1885) 11
Mother: Ann Pinkham Crosby (1821- ) 18
Elisha Crosby
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 29 Jun 1802 - Harwich, Massachusetts 23
Baptism:
Death: Bef 1818
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Captain Elisha Crosby (1772-1857)
Mother: Lydia Snow (Est 1774-1818)
Elisha Crosby
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 17 Sep 1787 - Eastham, Massachusetts 25
Baptism:
Death: 17 Oct 1858 - Orleans, Massachusetts 26
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Joshua Crosby (1737-1811) 27
Mother: Ruth Rogers (1760-1795) 28
Spouses and Children
1. *Miriam Linnell (23 Nov 1790 - 11 Feb 1876)
Marriage: 28 Oct 1817 - Orleans, Massachusetts 29
Status:
Children:
1. Miriam G Crosby (Est 1820- )
Notes
Marriage Notes (Miriam Linnell)
In 1823 Elkanah Linnell petitioned to have his pension for Revolutionary War service returned (he won). Part of his poverty plea included supporting his daughter Miriam and her daughter, because her husband was in prison for life.
Elisha Crosby
Sex: M
AKA: Elishua Crosby
Individual Information
Birth: 10 Dec 1736 - Harwich, Massachusetts 30
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Thomas Crosby (1704-1757)
Mother: Mary Crosby (Cir 1700- )
Spouses and Children
1. *Phebe Hopkins (12 Apr 1737 - )
Marriage: 12 Nov 1761 - Harwich, Massachusetts 31
Status:
Children:
1. Phebe Crosby (1764- )
2. Mary Crosby (1766- ) 32
3. Benjamin Crosby (1768-1795)
4. Abijah Crosby (1770-Bef 1821)
5. Captain Elisha Crosby (1772-1857)
6. Patience Crosby (1775- )
Captain Elisha Crosby
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 16 Dec 1772 - Harwich, Massachusetts 32
Baptism:
Death: 9 Dec 1857 - Brewster, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death: mortification of feet
Parents
Father: Elisha Crosby (1736- )
Mother: Phebe Hopkins (1737- )
Spouses and Children
1. Lydia Snow (Est 1774 - 11 May 1818)
Marriage: Aug 1799 - Harwich, Massachusetts 33
Status:
Children:
1. Elisha Crosby (1802-Bef 1818)
2. Lydia C Crosby (1808- )
3. Samuel S Crosby (1810- )
4. Benjamin Crosby (1813-1833)
5. Eliza Crosby (1814- )
6. Emeline Crosby (1815- )
7. Captain Elisha Crosby (1818-1885) 11
2. Phebe Lincoln (1778 - 16 Feb 1819) 11
Marriage: 1818 - Brewster, Massachusetts
Status:
3. *Betsey Clark* (Est 1790 - Bef 1828)
Marriage: 1820 - Brewster, Massachusetts
Status:
4. Betsey Buck (28 Mar 1795 - 6 May 1868)
Marriage: 1828
Status:
Children:
1. Betsy Buck Crosby (1829- ) 34
2. William Taylor Crosby (1831- ) 34
3. John F Crosby (1832-1899) 34
4. Benjamin Crosby (1834- )
Notes
Medical:
age 85Marriage Notes (Betsey Buck)
husband
seaman
b & res Brewster
s/o Elisha & Phebe Crosby 22
1850 US census, Brewster
Elisha Crosby, 77
Betsy Crosby, 56
Betsy Crosby, 20
William F Crosby, 19
John F Crosby, 17
Benjamin Crosby, 15
Elisha Crosby
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 10 Jan 1737 - Shrewsbury, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 1792
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Tabitha Harrington (Est 1740 - )
Marriage: Cir May 1763
Status:
Children:
1. Frederick Crosby (1764- )
2. Thomas Crosby (1765- ) 35
Notes
General:
Children
Frederick CROSBY b: 8 Aug 1764 in Petersham, Mass.
Thomas CROSBY b: 1 Sep 1765 in Petersham, Mass
Lucy CROSBY b: 28 Jul 1767 in Shrewsbury, Worcester Cty, Mass.
Mary CROSBY b: 10 Aug 1769 in Shrewsbury, Worcester Cty, Mass.
Leonard CROSBY b: 10 Jul 1771 in Shrewsbury, Worcester Cty, Mass.
Walter CROSBY b: 30 Sep 1773 in Shrewsbury, Worcester Cty, Mass.
Gardner CROSBY b: 28 Aug 1775 in Shrewsbury, Worcester Cty, Mass.
Fanny CROSBY b: 3 Aug 1779 in Shrewsbury, Worcester Cty, Mass.
Henrietta CROSBY b: 6 Sep 1781 in Shrewsbury, Worcester Cty, Mass.
Captain Elisha Crosby
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 11 May 1818 - Brewster, Massachusetts 36
Baptism:
Death: 8 Jul 1885 - Boston, Massachusetts 11
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Captain Elisha Crosby (1772-1857)
Mother: Lydia Snow (Est 1774-1818)
Spouses and Children
1. *Ann Pinkham Crosby (4 Apr 1821 - ) 18
Marriage: 23 Jun 1844 - Brewster, Massachusetts 22
Status:
Children:
1. Elisha Crosby (1856- )
Notes
General:
"Born in Brewster, May 11, 1818. George W. Higgins, Esq., writes his recollection of Captain Elisha Crosby as follows:
I do not know much of his early years at sea. In 1843, '44 and '45, I was with him as a boy before the mast in the barque "Leouesa," in two voyages around Cape Horn to the coast of Central America and California. We made about the same sort of voyages as in Dana's "Two Years Before Mast," except that our hides were collected ready for us. He was mate of the barque on these voyages.
The next year he was made captain of the schooner "Indiana," of about ninety tons. Freeman Mayo, Jr., was his mate, sailing along the coast of Central America. His cargo was "a little of everything." He traded from there to San Francisco and China. My brother, John Higgins, was with him on that voyage. He afterwards made voyages to the Mediterranean, but soon left the seas, and, being without employment, came out to Chicago, and remained the winter of 1876-77. He died soon after leaving Chicago." - Brewster Ship Masters 11
Eliza Crosby
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 6 Sep 1814 - Brewster, Massachusetts 34
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Captain Elisha Crosby (1772-1857)
Mother: Lydia Snow (Est 1774-1818)
Eliza Crosby
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 4 Jun 1801 - Orleans, Massachusetts 38
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Joseph Crosby (1771- )
Mother: Elizabeth Snow (Cir 1773-1853) 39
Spouses and Children
1. *James Hurd (10 Nov 1796 - 1825) 40
Marriage: 10 Mar 1822 - Orleans, Massachusetts 41
Status:
Eliza Crosby
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1820 - (Orleans, Massachusetts)
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Heman Snow (13 Feb 1817 - 6 Feb 1894)
Marriage: 1840 - Orleans, Massachusetts
Status:
Notes
Marriage Notes (Heman Snow)
this Heman tentative, Eliza unidentified and not seen in Orleans cemetery
Sources
1. index to Orleans, Massachusetts cemeteries (1970. Excel file at Orleans Historical Society, http://orleanshistoricalsociety.org/collections.html).
2. births by family 1628-1855, in "Vital Records of Eastham and Orleans, Massachusetts" (2002. Oxford, Mass: Holbrook Research Institute (2 CDs). files H01_01a - H01_01g), 79.
3. Katharine Elizabeth Chapin Higgins, Richard Higgins, a resident and pioneer settler at Plymouth and Eastham, Massachusetts, and at Piscataway, New Jersey, and his descendants. (1918. Worcester, Mass.: Higgins, 811 pgs.), 405. This is a major source, which seems accurate. .... births by family 1628-1855, in "Vital Records of Eastham and Orleans, Massachusetts" (2002. Oxford, Mass: Holbrook Research Institute (2 CDs). files H01_01a - H01_01g), 87.
4. Louise H. Kelly and Dorothy Straw, compilers; Wynn, Rachel Linnell, author, Vital records, town of Harwich, Massachusetts, 1694-1850 (1982. Harwich MA: Harwich Historical Society), 8. poorly indexed.
Please note: Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts is 100 miles from Hardwick, Worcester, Massachusetts. There is no "Harwick."
5. Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 12 (MD4:31). Col. Leonard H Smith, Jr. and Norma H Smith. Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans. An authorized facsimile reproduction of records published serially 1901-1935 in "The Mayflower Descendant." With an added index of persons.
1980, 1993. Baltimore MD: reprinted for Clearfield Co. by Genealogical Pub. Co.
6. Louise H. Kelly and Dorothy Straw, compilers; Wynn, Rachel Linnell, author, Vital records, town of Harwich, Massachusetts, 1694-1850 (1982. Harwich MA: Harwich Historical Society), 65.
7. births by family 1628-1855, in "Vital Records of Eastham and Orleans, Massachusetts" (2002. Oxford, Mass: Holbrook Research Institute (2 CDs). files H01_01a - H01_01g), 10.
8. births and marriages 1740-1841, in "Vital Records of Eastham and Orleans, Massachusetts" (2002. Oxford, Mass: Holbrook Research Institute (2 CDs), files H01_02a - H01_02g), 181.
9. Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 12 (MD4:31).
10. Rootsweb.com. .... Percy Fielitz Rex, The Prolific Pencil. A biography of Joseph Crosby Lincoln, Litt.D. (1980. William S. Sullwold Publishing. Taunton MA).
11. Percy Fielitz Rex, The Prolific Pencil. A biography of Joseph Crosby Lincoln, Litt.D. (1980. William S. Sullwold Publishing. Taunton MA).
12. Louise H. Kelly and Dorothy Straw, compilers; Wynn, Rachel Linnell, author, Vital records, town of Harwich, Massachusetts, 1694-1850 (1982. Harwich MA: Harwich Historical Society), 45.
13. Robert Paine Carlson, Cape Cod Gravestones, 2003 ff. Eastham MA. CapeCodGravestones.com.
14. Harwich Massachusetts vital records (http://plymouthcolony.net/barnstable/vitalrecords/harwich/harlinktable.html
pages numbers refer to "Vital records, town of Harwich, Massachusetts, 1694-1850" 1982. Harwich Historical Society), 83. Please note: Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts is 100 miles from Hardwick, Worcester, Massachusetts. There is no 'Harwick.'
15. George Ernest Bowman, editor, Vital Records of the town of Brewster, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849 (1904. Boston: Mass. Society of Mayflower Descendants [online]), 21.
16. Rootsweb.com, dhoward (Diantha B. Howard).
17. George Ernest Bowman, editor, Vital Records of the town of Brewster, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849 (1904. Boston: Mass. Society of Mayflower Descendants [online]), 114.
18. George Ernest Bowman, editor, Vital Records of the town of Brewster, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849 (1904. Boston: Mass. Society of Mayflower Descendants [online]), 114. .... Sheila M. Dann Westgate and Anna Lowell Tomlinson, Vital Records of Chatham, Massachusetts, 1696-1850. vol. 1 (1991. Chatham Mass.: Chatham Historical Society), 1:300.
19. Sheila M. Dann Westgate and Anna Lowell Tomlinson, Vital Records of Chatham, Massachusetts, 1696-1850. vol. 1 (1991. Chatham Mass.: Chatham Historical Society), 1:277.
20. George Ernest Bowman, editor, Vital Records of the town of Brewster, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849 (1904. Boston: Mass. Society of Mayflower Descendants [online]), 46.
21. George Ernest Bowman, editor, Vital Records of the town of Brewster, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849 (1904. Boston: Mass. Society of Mayflower Descendants [online]), 15, 20, 47.
22. Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910 (Massachusetts Archives. [online at AmericanAncestors.org (NEHGS) and FamilySearch.org]), Brewster.
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pages numbers refer to "Vital records, town of Harwich, Massachusetts, 1694-1850" 1982. Harwich Historical Society), 277.
24. Rachel L Wynn, "The Descendants of Robert Linnell" (http://home.comcast.net/~linnellfamily/DRL1h.htm
http://home.comcast.net/~linnellfamily/DRL2h.htm
dates but few places, unreferenced). .... George Ernest Bowman, compiler, "Vital records of Eastham and Orleans, Massachusetts" (Mayflower Descendant [several sections]), 34:61. highly incomplete
25. George Ernest Bowman, compiler, "Vital records of Eastham and Orleans, Massachusetts" (Mayflower Descendant [several sections]), 34:61. .... births by family 1628-1855, in "Vital Records of Eastham and Orleans, Massachusetts" (2002. Oxford, Mass: Holbrook Research Institute (2 CDs). files H01_01a - H01_01g), 180.
26. Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910 (Massachusetts Archives. [online at AmericanAncestors.org (NEHGS) and FamilySearch.org]), Orleans.
27. Jay Mack Holbrook, compiler, Records of Eastham and Orleans, Massachusetts 1637-1892, 2002. Oxford MA: Archive Publishing (page images on CD), H01_03f.
28. Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 122 (MD27:105).
29. marriages, circa 1761-1844. from Book 2, in "Vital Records of Eastham and Orleans, Massachusetts" (2002. Oxford, MA: Holbrook Research Institute (2 Cds), files H01_04a - H01_04f), 41 (C).
30. Louise H. Kelly and Dorothy Straw, compilers; Wynn, Rachel Linnell, author, Vital records, town of Harwich, Massachusetts, 1694-1850 (1982. Harwich MA: Harwich Historical Society), 40.
31. Harwich Massachusetts vital records (http://plymouthcolony.net/barnstable/vitalrecords/harwich/harlinktable.html
pages numbers refer to "Vital records, town of Harwich, Massachusetts, 1694-1850" 1982. Harwich Historical Society), 122.
32. Harwich Massachusetts vital records (http://plymouthcolony.net/barnstable/vitalrecords/harwich/harlinktable.html
pages numbers refer to "Vital records, town of Harwich, Massachusetts, 1694-1850" 1982. Harwich Historical Society), 134.
33. Harwich Massachusetts vital records (http://plymouthcolony.net/barnstable/vitalrecords/harwich/harlinktable.html
pages numbers refer to "Vital records, town of Harwich, Massachusetts, 1694-1850" 1982. Harwich Historical Society), 222.
34. George Ernest Bowman, editor, Vital Records of the town of Brewster, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849 (1904. Boston: Mass. Society of Mayflower Descendants [online]), 60.
35. Vital Records of Petersham, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (1904. Worcester MA: Franklin P. Rice
online), 20. "The territory of this town was granted in 1733 to John Bennett, Jeremiah Perley and others, for services rendered in the Indian wars. Joseph Willson and Simeon Houghton were among the early settlers. This town was incorporated April 20, 1754 ; and its name was probably adopted in remembrance of Petersham, in England. Its Indian name was Nitchawog" - Nason & Varney, 1890
36. Percy Fielitz Rex, The Prolific Pencil. A biography of Joseph Crosby Lincoln, Litt.D. (1980. William S. Sullwold Publishing. Taunton MA). .... George Ernest Bowman, editor, Vital Records of the town of Brewster, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849 (1904. Boston: Mass. Society of Mayflower Descendants [online]), 60.
37. George Ernest Bowman, compiler, "Vital records of Eastham and Orleans, Massachusetts" (Mayflower Descendant [several sections]), 34:134.
38. George Ernest Bowman, compiler, "Vital records of Eastham and Orleans, Massachusetts" (Mayflower Descendant [several sections]), 34:134. .... births by family 1628-1855, in "Vital Records of Eastham and Orleans, Massachusetts" (2002. Oxford, Mass: Holbrook Research Institute (2 CDs). files H01_01a - H01_01g), 130.
39. Robert P Smith, "Historic Records of the Federated Church of Orleans, Massachusetts"
annotated marriage records, 1772-1828 (Mayflower Descendant 46:109-120, 47:21-26, 47:111-116, 48:49-58, 48:141-148), 47:25.
40. George Ernest Bowman, compiler, "Vital records of Eastham and Orleans, Massachusetts" (Mayflower Descendant [several sections]), 34:61.
41. marriages, circa 1761-1844. from Book 2, in "Vital Records of Eastham and Orleans, Massachusetts" (2002. Oxford, MA: Holbrook Research Institute (2 Cds), files H01_04a - H01_04f), 47 (H).