Thankful Crosby
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1747 - Harwich, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 19 Nov 1770 - Harwich, Massachusetts 1
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Thomas Knowles (30 Jan 1744 - 27 Dec 1825) 2
Marriage: 26 Jan 1764 - Harwich, Massachusetts 3
Status:
Children:
1. Hannah Knowles (1765-1857) 3
2. Azubah Knowles (1767-1767) 3
3. Edward Knowles (Est 1769-1771) 3
Thankful Crosby
Sex: F
AKA: Thankfull Crosby 4
Individual Information
Birth: 27 Dec 1788 - Eastham, Massachusetts 5
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Joshua Crosby (1737-1811) 6
Mother: Ruth Rogers (1760-1795) 7
Spouses and Children
1. *Richard Higgins (16 Nov 1786 - )
Marriage: 20 Mar 1814 - Orleans, Massachusetts 8
Status:
Children:
1. Hannah Higgins (1815-1890)
2. Ruth C Higgins (1817- )
3. Caroline Higgins (1819- )
4. Thankful Higgins (1827- )
Thankful Crosby
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1735 - Harwich, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: After 1796 - Sandwich, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *John Arey (11 Sep 1714 - Bef 1795)
Marriage: 1757 - Harwich, Massachusetts
Status:
Children:
1. Joshua Arey (1760-1857)
2. Betsey Arey (Est 1767- )
Notes
Marriage Notes (John Arey)
Family details: NEHGR 86:396-7 (1932) Richard Arey and some of his Descendants
Thankful Crosby
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 7 Feb 1714 - Harwich, Massachusetts 9
Baptism:
Death: 17 Dec 1802 - Harwich, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Events
• Alt Birth, , Harwich, Massachusetts in Harwich, Massachusetts
Parents
Father: William Crosby (1673-Between 1755/1755) 10
Mother: Mercy Hinckley (1692-1735) 11
Spouses and Children
1. *Captain Scotto Clark (8 Nov 1709 - 31 Aug 1795)
Marriage: 22 Mar 1733 - Harwich, Massachusetts
Status:
Children:
1. Captain Elisha Clark (1734-1811)
2. Reuben Clark (1735-1814)
3. Tully Clark (1736-1766)
4. Mark Clark (1738- )
5. William Clark (1740- )
6. Mercy Clark (1741-1823)
7. Barnabas Clark (1743- )
8. Scotto Clark (1745-1836)
9. James Clark (1747- )
10. Abigail Clark (1748-1830)
11. Roland Clark (1750- )
12. Joshua Clark (1752- )
13. Fessenden Clark (1754- )
14. Thankful Clark (1757-1842)
Notes
Marriage Notes (Captain Scotto Clark)
births after 1745 are not in Harwich VR
Thankful J Crosby
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 3 Oct 1837 - Brewster, Massachusetts 12
Baptism:
Death: 16 Aug 1865
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Enoch E Crosby (1811- )
Mother: Irena Jerauld (1816-1841)
Spouses and Children
1. *Gideon H Eldridge (3 Apr 1838 - )
Marriage: 14 Oct 1858 - Harwich, Massachusetts
Status:
Children:
1. Thankful J Eldridge (1862-1862)
2. Clara J Eldridge (1860- )
Thankfull Crosby
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 22 May 1729 - Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Baptism: 29 Jun 1729 - Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Death: 30 Apr 1754 - Yarmouth, Massachusetts 13
Burial: in Worden cemetery, Dennis
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Theophilas Crosby (1693-After 1742)
Mother: Thankful Winslow (1697-1742)
Thankfull Crosby
Sex: F
AKA: Thankful Crosby
Individual Information
Birth: 25 May 1763 - Harwich, Massachusetts 14
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: James Crosby (1729-1806)
Mother: Sarah Hopkins (1729-Bef 1787)
Spouses and Children
1. *Uriah Linnell (16 Feb 1756 - ) 15
Marriage: 1783 - Harwich, Massachusetts
Status:
Children:
1. Zeruiah Linnell (1786- )
2. Jonathan Linnell (1789-1838)
3. Uriah Linnell (1791- )
4. Joshua Linnell (1793-1833)
5. Sally Linnell (1795- )
6. Washington Linnell (1797- )
7. Elijah Linnell (1799- )
8. James Linnell (1802- )
9. Haskel Linnell (1805- )
Thankfull Crosby
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 29 Feb 1772 - Harwich, Massachusetts 16
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Edmund Crosby (1741- ) 17
Mother: Thankful Myrick (1742- ) 17
Theodorus Crosby
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 19 Dec 1739 - Harwich, Massachusetts
Baptism: 23 Dec 1739 - Harwich, Massachusetts
Death: 20 Aug 1814 - Southeast, Dutchess, New York
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Joshua Crosby (1712-1795) 18
Mother: Lydia Hopkins (1713-1781)
Spouses and Children
1. *Mercy Foster (Cir 1744 - 20 Aug 1811)
Marriage: Cir 1761
Status:
Notes
Marriage Notes (Mercy Foster)
Children
Mary CROSBY b: 22 AUG 1762
Enoch CROSBY b: 16 MAR 1764
Sarah CROSBY b: 25 JAN 1766
Thankful CROSBY b: 25 MAR 1768
Joshua CROSBY b: 16 JAN 1770
Elijah CROSBY b: 09 JUN 1772
Theodore CROSBY b: 19 AUG 1774
Ruth CROSBY b: 04 FEB 1777
Mercy CROSBY b: 02 OCT 1779
Roswell CROSBY b: 27 FEB 1782
Stephen CROSBY b: 19 JUN 1784
Nancy CROSBY b: 01 JAN 1787
Sources:
NEHGS
Page: 1948, Jan, p 53
NYG&B
Records of Philippi, now Southeast
Author: H. Calkins, Jr.
Page: Vol 32, # 2, 1901, p 102
Theophilas Crosby
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 31 Dec 1693 - Eastham, Massachusetts 19
Baptism:
Death: After 1742 - Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Events
• Alt Birth 20, , Yarmouth, Massachusetts in Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Parents
Father: Joseph Crosby (1669-1725)
Mother: Mehitable Miller (1670-1743)
Spouses and Children
1. *Thankful Winslow (1697 - 16 Sep 1742)
Marriage: 14 Feb 1723 - Harwich, Massachusetts 21
Status:
Children:
1. Josiah Crosby (1724-1743)
2. Lemuel Crosby (1726-1769)
3. Thankfull Crosby (1729-1754)
4. Theophilus Crosby (1732-1751)
Notes
Marriage Notes (Thankful Winslow)
Children
Edward or Edmund (twin) Crosby b: 24 SEP 1726 in Yarmouth or Harwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts
Samuel Crosby b: 12 NOV 1727 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts c: 12 NOV 1727 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Anne Crosby b: 4 OCT 1735 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Bethiah Crosby b: 26 JUL 1738 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Mary Crosby b: 2 AUG 1742 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts
(sillum)
Theophilus Crosby
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 31 Jan 1732 - Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 31 Aug 1751 - Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Burial: in Worden cemetery, Dennis
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Theophilas Crosby (1693-After 1742)
Mother: Thankful Winslow (1697-1742)
Notes
General:
stone:
Here lyes ye Body of
Theophilus Crosby
Son of Mr Theophilus
& Mrs Thankfull
Crosby Who Died
Aug'st 30th 1751 in ye
19th Year of His Age 13
Theophilus Crosby
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 4 Apr 1806 - Brewster, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 20 Jul 1852 - Chicago, Illinois
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Nathan Crosby (1768-1838)
Mother: Anne Pinkham (1767-1854) 23
Thomas Crosby
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 20 Jul 1753 - Harwich, Massachusetts 14
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: James Crosby (1729-1806)
Mother: Sarah Hopkins (1729-Bef 1787)
Thomas Crosby
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1777 - (Harwich, Massachusetts)
Baptism:
Death: Bef 1835 - Eastham, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Patty Rogers (3 Jun 1780 - 3 Feb 1842)
Marriage: Sep 1799 - Harwich, Massachusetts 24
Status:
Children:
1. Caroline Crosby (1800-1879) 25
2. Mary Crosby (1802- )
3. Mercy Crosby (1804-1882)
4. Martha Crosby (1805-1882)
5. Crosby (1806- )
6. John Crosby (1810-1867)
7. Deborah Crosby (1812-1812)
8. Crosby (1813- )
Notes
Marriage Notes (Patty Rogers)
neither seen in Harwixh VR births
Thomas Crosby
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1 Sep 1765 - Petersham, Massachusetts 27
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Elisha Crosby (1737-1792)
Mother: Tabitha Harrington (Est 1740- )
Rev. Thomas Crosby
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 26 Feb 1635 - Holme-on-Spaulding, York, England 17
Baptism:
Death: 27 Jun 1702 - Boston, Massachusetts 17
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Simon Crosby (1608-1639) 17
Mother: Anne Brigham (Est 1610- ) 17
Spouses and Children
1. *Sarah Fitch (24 Jul 1631 - After 1703) 17
Marriage: 1662 17
Status:
Children:
1. Deacon Thomas Crosby (1663-1731) 29
2. Simon Crosby (1665-1718) 30
3. Sarah Crosby (1668-1705)
4. Joseph Crosby (1669-1725)
5. John Crosby (1670-1671) 31
6. William Crosby (1673-Between 1755/1755) 10
7. Ebenezer Crosby (1675- ) 31
8. Anne Crosby (1678-After 1734) 31
9. Mercy Crosby (1678- ) 31
10. Increase Crosby (1678-1678) 31
11. Eliezer Crosby (1680-Abt 1760) 31
12. John Crosby (1674-1714)
Notes
General:
Thomas graduated from Harvard College in 1653. By 1655, he was in Eastham as an unordained teacher of the Church. 17Marriage Notes (Sarah Fitch)
They had 12 children, including one set of twins and one of triplets. They left Eastham about 1670 and settled in [what would be] Harwich, where Thomas was a merchant. Thomas, with sons Thomas and Simon, were organizers of the Church in Harwich.
Sarah secondly married John Miller of Yarmouth, after Thomas died suddenly.
The [unreferenced] CROSBY book says: Rev. Thomas "... he contined as a mnister there (Eastham) until 1670. Later he became a merchant at Harwhich, MA, and, while on a business trip to Boston, was found dead in bed there in 1702,
aged 67 years. ..... His descendants were numerous and of high respectability; continued on Cape Cod for many generations, and about 1780 some of them went to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia." 17
Deacon Thomas Crosby
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 7 Apr 1663 - Eastham, Plymouth Colony 29
Baptism:
Death: 12 Apr 1731 - Harwich, Massachusetts 32
Burial: in Old Burial Ground, Brewster
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Rev. Thomas Crosby (1635-1702) 28
Mother: Sarah Fitch (1631-After 1703) 17
Spouses and Children
1. *Hannah (1673 - 8 Jan 1729)
Marriage:
Status:
Children:
1. Thomas Crosby (1705-1781)
Notes
General:
Thomas was elected Deacon in Harwich on 25 Mar 1716. 17
Thomas Crosby
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 17 Apr 1704 - Harwich, Massachusetts 33
Baptism: 2 Jan 1708 - Harwich, Massachusetts
Death: 30 Sep 1757 - Harwich, Massachusetts 13
Burial: in Old Burial Ground, Brewster
Cause of Death:
Events
• Alt Death, , Patterson, Dutchess, New York in Patterson, Dutchess, New York
Parents
Father: John Crosby (1674-1714)
Mother: Hannah Bangs (1676-After 1714) 34
Spouses and Children
1. *Mary Crosby (Cir 1700 - )
Marriage: 6 Oct 1725 - Harwich, Massachusetts 35
Status:
Children:
1. Tabitha Crosby (1726-1809)
2. James Crosby (1729-1806)
3. Martha Crosby (1731- )
4. Eunice Crosby (1733-1757)
5. Elisha Crosby (1736- )
6. Solomon Crosby (1740- )
7. Lemuel Crosby (1741-1830)
Thomas Crosby
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth:
Baptism: 19 Aug 1705 - Harwich, Massachusetts
Death: 13 Dec 1781 - North East, Dutchess, New York
Burial: in Mountain cemetery, North East
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Deacon Thomas Crosby (1663-1731) 29
Mother: Hannah (1673-1729)
Spouses and Children
1. *Elizabeth Hopkins (21 Apr 1711 - 6 Aug 1801)
Marriage: 9 Aug 1733 - Harwich, Massachusetts 36
Status:
Notes
Marriage Notes (Elizabeth Hopkins)
"Crosbys of Dutchess and Putnam Counties, NY
report from J. Kelsey Jones
"It is believed that most of the Crosbys of Putnam County, New York are descended from Thomas, David, Joshua, and Isaac Crosby who removed there in the mid eighteenth century from Harwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts. They settled on a section of the Philipse Patent, which comprised nearly the present county of Putnam (then Dutchess) County, granted in 1697 to Adolph Philipse. Of the four Crosbys, Joshua and David were brothers, and cousins to Thomas and Isaac, the latter two also being cousins to each other.
...
"Thomas Crosby b. c. 1705 bpt 19 Aug 1705 Harwich, Massachusetts son of Thomas and Hannah Crosby, m. 9 Aug 1733 at Harwich, Elizabeth Hopkins b. 21Apr 1711 Harwich daughter of Nathaniel Hopkins and Mercy Mayo and a fifth generation descendant of Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. Thomas and his family resided at Harwich and the births of eight children were recorded there. Thomas appears on the tax list in Fredericks Precinct, Dutchess County in 1747, but evidently had not removed his family there by that date, since it is related that his son, Enoch Crosby was three years old when they moved to New York state, which would place the date at 1753. Futhermore, youngest son, Thomas who was born in 1752 is recorded in Harwich vital records. Thomas was dismissed 1 Aug 1756 from the First Parish Church ofHarwich "to ye church in or near ye Oblong, under ye care of ye Rev. Kniblow." He and his family are related to have settled in what is now the present town of Carmel, Putnam County and occupied a farm, which included the old Gilead burying ground. He was living there in 1754 and 12 Apr 1762 on a survey of lot no. 6 (now Carmel). In 1766 the farm was leased by Philip Philipse to James Dickison "formerly in possession of Thomas Crosby." He is related to have removed to the eastern portion of the town of Southeast, which town borders Carmel on the east. However, if they resided in the town of Southeast, they then removed to the town of Northeast as he was assessed at Northeast, Dutchess County from 1771-9 and listed in a return of inhabitants of Northeast Precinct, Dutchess County, 5 July 1775 who signed the Revolutionary pledge of Assocatioan [sic]. Thomas d. 13 Dec 1781 77y (ts)buried Mountain Cemetery, North East (Patterson), Putnam County, New York. Elizabeth d. 6 Aug 1801 92y (ts) buried Gilead Burying Ground, Carmel.
5. Bethiah Crosby b. 22 Mar 1734 bpt 15 Apr 1739 Harwich, Massachusetts d.12 June 1752.
6. Phoebe Crosby b. 28 June 1736 bpt 15 Apr 1739 Harwich.
7. Hannah Crosby b. 14 July 1739 bpt 22 July 1739 Harwich.
8. Elizabeth Crosby b. 12 Jan 1741/2 bpt 24 Jan 1741/2 Harwich.
9. Benjamin Crosby b. 9 Aug 1744 bpt 19 Aug 1744 Harwich.
10. Jeremiah Crosby b. 11 Feb 1746/7 bpt 15 Feb 1746/7 Harwich.
11. Enoch Crosby b. 25 Dec 1749 (Harwich vr) 4 Jan 1750 (his own record) bpt 31 Dec 1749 Harwich.
12. Thomas Crosby Jr., b. 3 Feb 1752 bpt 3 Feb 1752 Harwich.
Captain Timothy Crosby
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 4 Apr 1807 - Orleans, Massachusetts 37
Baptism:
Death: 12 Oct 1840
Burial: in Orleans Cemetery 38
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Joseph Crosby (1771- )
Mother: Elizabeth Snow (Cir 1773-1853) 39
Spouses and Children
1. *Louisa F Smith (1 Nov 1808 - 28 Nov 1888)
Marriage: 28 Nov 1830 - Orleans, Massachusetts 40
Status:
Children:
1. Mary Elizabeth Crosby (1831-1919)
2. Louisa Adila Crosby (1833-1912)
3. Timothy Francis Crosby (1837-1908)
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