Col. William Crowne, Esq.

Not a known son of John Crowne

I was a parliment member in England and was with Oliver Cromwell and was given Nova Scotia the French kicked us out and we came to America. My son John went to Harvard and my son Henry became an attorney and lived in Portsmouth and New Castle New Hampshire.

Town clerk and selectman of Mendon, Massachusetts.

Col. William Crowne, Esq. was born circa 1617 at of Shropshire, England; Age 50 in 1667.1,2,3 He married Agnes Mackworth, daughter of Richard Mackworth, Esq. and Dorothy Cranage, between 1635 and 1638 at of Shropshire, England; They had 3 sons (William; John; & Henry) & 1 daughter (Agnes).1,2,3 Col. William Crowne, Esq. left a will on 24 December 1682.2,3 His estate was probated on 26 February 1683 at Boston, Suffolk, MA.2,3

Notes

http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/crowne_william_1E.html

CROWNE (Crown), WILLIAM, colonizer, independent minister in the Parliament of Cromwell, colonel in the British militia, Rouge-Dragon; b. 1617 (nothing is known of his place of birth or of his education); d. 1682 in Boston, North America.

William Crowne married, between the years 1635–40, Agnes (Mackworth) Watts, widow of Richard Watts and daughter-in-law of John Watts, an alderman and lord mayor of London, 1606. Mrs. Crowne was the sister of Humphrey Mackworth of Breton Grange, county of Shrewsbury. Three children were born to Agnes and William Crowne; the eldest, John, became a well-known English dramatist.

Agnes Crowne did not accompany her husband to America. That she was alive in 1674 is known because at that date Crowne was ordered to return to her in England. John Crowne also stayed in England and was forced by the loss of his patrimony to earn his living as a playwright.

Re: Possible clues to the birthplace of Col. William Crowne
Nathaniel Taylor Mar 4, 2008, 6:32:42 PM < soc.Gen.medieval >

Nothing is known about the parentage and birth of Col. William Crowne
of New England, which is surprising for such an important personage
(Rouge-Dragon, brother-in-law of Col. Humphrey Mackworth, friend of
Col. Thomas Temple, etc.). Some descendants of his son Henry Crowne
of New Hampshire are traced in Noyes-Libby-Davis, _Genealogical
Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire_.

http://books.google.com/books?id=p_yzpuWi4sgC&pg=RA1-PA921&dq=%22wi...
e%22+mackworth&lr=&sig=r9BdGK8z_o4xvyB9PNLkmCkljA4#PRA1-PA485,M1

In a biography of another son, the English dramatist John Crowne,
William's early career is summed up briefly:

"William Crowne was born in England about 1617. Nothing is known of
his extraction or of his education, but in 1636, in his nineteenth
year, he was a member of the suite of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel,
when that nobleman went as Charles I's ambassador extraordinary on a
mission to th Emperor Ferdinand II."

http://books.google.com/books?id=m7EnAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA11&dq=%22humphre...
%22+crowne&lr=#PPA8,M1

William Crowne's wife Agnes was the widow of Richard Watts, son of Sir
John Watts, Lord Mayor of London. The 1634/5 London visitation shows
that Richard and Agnes had children Richard, George, Humphrey, and
Dorothy:

http://books.google.com/books?id=MhfOE9_8AJgC&pg=PA55&dq=buckingham...
&lr=#PPA332,M1

The following records are found in the extracted IGI pertinent to this
--

Epping, Essex
--Richarde Wattes, son of Richarde, bapt. 3 June 1630
--Gorge Wattes, son of Richard, bapt. 1 Oct. 1631
--Humphrey Watts, son of Richard and Agnes, bapt. 28 Nov. 1632

These are clearly the children of Richard and Agnes (Mackworth) Watts,
as the sons are named in the Visitation in that precise order:
Richard, George, Humphrey.

In the same parish, we find other baptisms possibly of interest:

--Nicolas Crowne, son of Willm. Crowne, bapt. 1 Dec. 1605
--Mary Crowne, dau. of Wm. Crowne, bapt. 26 April 1607
--Jane Crowne, dau. of Willm. Crowne, bapt. 21 Jan. 1609

Are these possibly the older siblings of Col. William Crowne?

Why not? How good are the Index Library volumes of Essex wills? If
there's one for a William Crowne of Epping in the years after 1609, it
would be worth consulting.

References

• “Colonel William Crowne, and his Family”. By William H. Davis, MD, of Boston, Volume Name 57, Page 406-410. (1903) The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.) < AmericanAncestors >; (document attached)