John Crosby

John Crosby

• Birth: December 04, 1670 Eastham, Cape Cod, Plymouth Colony
• Death: May 25, 1717 (46) Harwich, Barnstable County, Province of Massachusetts
• Place of Burial: Old Burial Ground, Brewster, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States
• Son of Rev. Thomas Crosby and Sarah
• Husband of Hannah Bangs

Family

From https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/9MTQ-K2X?cid=partn...

Married

1. 1703 in Harwich, Massachusetts to Hannah Bangs, daughter of Jonathan Bangs & Mary Mayo. ref: “The Illinois Society of the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America, genealogy done for William Spencer Crosby, 21 July 1926”

Children

• Thomas Crosby 1704–1781 • LVYS-NV9​
• Jonathan Crosby 1705–1782 • LZX8-8LB​
• John Crosby 1707–Deceased • L6JN-D13​
• David Crosby 1709–1793 • LZ63-GKR​
• Joshua Crosby 1712–1795 • LJTS-V17​
• Abiel Crosby 1714–1772 • LH7Y-WHQ​

Family Notes

From https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36901782

• Father: - Rev. Thomas Crosby from England
• Mother: - Sarah Fitch Crosby from Massachussetts

According to the headstone and the Massachusetts Vital Records, John Crosby died on 25 May, 1714, not April.

From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Crosby-219

John Crosby/Crosbe was born on December 4, 1670, in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, the son of Thomas Crosby/Crosbe.[1]

There is no evidence that Sarah's last name is Fitch.. There is no record of a marriage between father Thomas and Sarah, his wife.

John and Thomas were twins. Thomas died at birth.

Links

• "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCQ8-T6X : 4 December 2014), John Crosbe, 04 Dec 1670; citing , EASTHAM, BARNSTABLE, MASSACHUSETTS, 2:179F2CT; FHL microfilm 905,406.
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36901782
• Harwich death index
• FamilySearch AFN: 9JKV-T2
• "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VQ6G-HLC : 10 February 2018), John Crosby in entry for Thomas Crosby, 17 Apr 1704; citing HARWICH,BARNSTABLE,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 0001250 V. 2, 0001251 V. 4, 0001251 V. 5, 0161967 V. 11, 0161967 V. 6, 0161967 V. 7, 0161967 V. 8, 0161969 V. 13, 0161971 V. 19, 0161971 V. 20, 0161972 V. 23, 0161972 V. 24, 0161975 V. 33, 0161975 V. 34.
• The Mayflower Descendant, Vol IV, 1902, Eastham, MA-VR, p 31. This child was one of a double birth.
• BIRTH: Cape Cod Library of Local History and Genealogy, Leonard H. Smith Jr, Vol 2, page 1240; The Crosby Family of Yarmouth, No 83.
• BIRTH: The Mayflower Descendant, vol. 56, 1902, Eastham, MA-VR, p 30.
• Simon Crosby the Emigrant: Crosby, Eleanor Davis: 1914, p 58. DEATH: TOWN OF HARWICH, MA; Vital Records; 1694-1850; Vol 1, p 115; Harwich Historical Society; Harwich, MA; pp. 18, 29, 75.
• DEATH-BURIAL: Wellfleet, Truro, & Cape Cod Cemetery Inscriptions, Section Five, From the Gravestones in the Old Burial Ground in Brewster, Massachusetts, with Biographical and Genealogical Notes, Charles E. Mayo Ed. Page 20. FHL book 974.492 V3w pt 5.
• BURIAL: The Mayflower Descendant, Vol IV, 1902, Eastham, MA-VR, p 31.