Rev. Thomas Crosby

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Rev. Thomas Crosby Born before 26 Feb 1635 in Holme on Spaulding Moor, Yorkshire, England

By his wife, Sarah, he had twins and triplets, besides seven other children.

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Thomas Crosby

Born before 26 Feb 1635 in Holme on Spaulding Moor, Yorkshire, England

Son of Simon Crosby and Ann (Brigham) Thompson

Brother of Simon Crosby, Joseph Crosby and Anne (Thompson) Hayden [half]

Husband of Sarah (Unknown) Crosby — married 1662 (to 27 Jun 1702) in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Father of Thomas Crosby, Simon Crosby, Sarah (Crosby) Sears, Joseph (Crosby) Crosbe, John Crosby, John Crosby, William Crosby, Ebenezer Crosby, Ann (Crosby) Luce, Increase Crosby, Mercy Crosby and Eleazer Crosby

Died 27 Jun 1702 after age 67 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Profile last modified 27 Sep 2022 | Created 18 Feb 2011

Thomas Crosby migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1620-1640).

Biography

Birth

Thomas Crosby (incorrectly referred to as "Reverend" in some early biographies, and possibly named after his grandfather) was born to Simon Crosby and Ann Brigham in January or February 1635[1] in Spaulding Moor, Yorkshire, England[2] and baptized at Holme in Spalding Moore, Yorkshire, England, 26 February 1634/5[3].

Emigration

When 8 weeks old Thomas' parents took him aboard the ship Suzan and Ellen [4][5] and departed from London, England, bound for New England in the New World.

Early Life

He settled with his family in Newtown (later renamed Cambridge) no later than 3 Mar 1636 as that is when his father was admitted as a freeman.[6] His father died when Thomas was only four years old,[7] and when about 12 years old his mother remarried to the Reverend William Thompson (1598-1666) who may have influenced Thomas later in life to be involved in teaching religion.

Education

Thomas graduated from Harvard University in 1653, and although never ordained, he wrote two religious tracts.[8]

Preacher

He was hired in 1655 to preach in the church at Eastham, Massachusetts, succeeding Reverend John Mayo, and continued as a preacher there until 1670 at a salary of 50 pounds per annum.[9] He was apparently respected enough as a minister to be mentioned as a possible preacher when the Monomoit wanted to separate themselves from the Eastham colonists and have their own township, taking the matter to court.[10]

Residences

In 1665 he purchased a place in Eastham near the old burying-ground at Eastham, Massachusetts. In December, 1664, he was reported among those who kept for sale liquor, powder and shot."[11]

In 1666 Thomas "purchased a dwelling house and four acres of adjacent upland near the meeting house and the cemetery. The property was purchased from Jonathan Sparrow and his mother Pandora Sparrow." In 1673 he purchased six additional acres adjoining his four acres, but then in 1682 he sold those six acres to John Mayo. In 1703 "Granted to Thomas Crosby about four acres of meadow on Pochet flats. It was the twenty-seventh lot of thirty lots laid out the previous year." (I am unsure if this is Thomas Sr. or his son as Thomas had died the previous year.) Between 1682 and 1700 Thomas moved to Harwich where he continued as a merchant, and he was also founder of the new church there.[12]

Marriage and Children

In about 1662 he married Sarah Unknown. Their children, born in Eastham, Massachusetts,[13] were:

Thomas Crosby born April 7, 1663, died May 21, 1731.
Simon Crosby born July 5, 1665, died 1718
Sarah (Crosby) Sears born March 24, 1666/7, married Silas Sears
Joseph (Crosby) Crosbe born January 27,1668/9, died May 30, 1725.
John Crosby (1670-1714) born December 4, 1670 and died May 25, 1717
John a twin born December 4, 1670 who died February 11, 1670/1
William Crosby born March 28 1673
Ebenezer Crosby born March 28, 1675
Ann (Crosby) Luce triplet born 14 Apr. 1678 (married William Luce on July 5, 1704)
Mercy Crosby triplet born 14 Apr. 1678
Increase Crosby triplet born 14 Apr. 1678
Eleazer Crosby born March 31, 1680

After his death in 1702, his widow Sarah married widower John Miller of Yarmouth on April 8, 1703. John was the son of Reverend John and Lydia Miller and a prosperous local merchant.

Death & Burial

There are conflicting dates for his death, yet all agree that it was June 1702. The dates I have seen are 11, 12, 13, and 27. If transcribed correctly, the most accurate date would seem to be 11 June 1702 as that comes from a transcription of his headstone: "[stone dim red; copied from Wyman]: 'Here Lyeth / Ye Body Of / Thomas Crosby / Aged 68 Years / Died June Ye / 11 1702.'" [14]]. ; [15] The headstone is no longer in existence, and so it is hard to verify.

Sources

↑ John Camden Hotten, The Original Lists of Persons of Quality... (London : Hotten, 1874), 62, digital images at Archive.org.
↑ Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume II, C-F (2001), 232-237 (Simon Crosby); digital images by paid subscription at Ancestry.com or AmericanAncestors.org.
↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975." Parish register transcripts, 1559-1650, digital images by free subscription at FamilySearch.
↑ John Camden Hotten, The Original Lists of Persons of Quality... (London : Hotten, 1874), 62; digital images, Archive.org.
↑ Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild Ship Suzan And Ellen
↑ Ernest Howard Crosby, "A Brief Account of the Ancestry and Descendants of William Bedlow Crosby...," The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 29 (1898):185, Archive.org.
↑ Henry F. Waters, "Early Records of Boston," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 4 (1850):55, digital images, Archive.org.
↑ "The work of a Christian. An Important CASE of Practical RELIGION OR, DIRECTIONS. How to make Religion ones Business," and also, "An Important CASE of Practical Christianity, Daily and deeply to be Considered by every Christian. Or, a brief Discourse on that Question; Seeing no man hath ones dayes certainty of Life, what may we do to be secured from being surprized by Death?" digital images at Evans Early American Imprints Online.
↑ John Langdon Sibley, "Thomas Crosby." Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1:382-83, digital images, Archive.org
↑ New Plymouth Colony. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England: Printed by Order of the Legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 6:4, digital images at Archive.org. Within the petition it said "that they are desirous to build a meeting house and to procure Mr. Crosbey or some other orthodox minnester[sic] to despence[sic] the word of God amongst them..." The petition apparently fell on deaf ears as the petition was not granted.
↑ Josiah Paine, Early Settlers of Eastham: Containing Sketches of All Early Settlers of Eastham 2:30, digital images at Archive.org.
↑ Thomas Crosby Land Records, digital images, Archive.org
↑ Births, marriages, deaths, 1649-ca.1840; intentions of marriage, 1700-ca.1905, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-9979-9XXK : 27 September 2022), FHL microfilm 007009735, image 112, Eastham, Massachusetts, Volume 2, Births, & Deaths, 1654-1797, Page 17.
↑ Ogden Codman, Gravestone Inscriptions and Records of Tomb Burials in the Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Mass., 71 (Salem: The Essex Institute, 1918), digital images at [https://archive.org/
%E2%86%91 Robert J. Dunkle and Ann S. Lainhart, Boston, MA: Old Cemeteries of Boston, 1649-1920. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2007, digital images by paid subscription at AmericanAncestors.org
See also:

Crosby, Eleanor Davis, Simon Crosby the Emigrant: His English Ancestry, and Some of His American Descendants (Boston: Press of Geo. H. Ellis Co., 1914), digital images at HathiTurst.org.
FamilySearch profile for Thomas Crosby.
Town records, 1654-1863 [Eastham, Massachusetts], database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-9979-QJ7X : 27 September 2022), , FHL microfilm 007009743, image 331, Eastham, Massachusetts, Volume 2, Transcribed by order of the Town in 1856 by, H. Doane 2d, Town Clerk, Marriages, Births, & Deaths, 1654-1797, Page 4.

Rev. Thomas Crosby Born before 26 Feb 1635 in Holme on Spaulding Moor, Yorkshire, England

By his wife, Sarah, he had twins and triplets, besides seven other children.

Son of Simon Crosby and Ann (Brigham) Thompson

Brother of Simon Crosby, Joseph Crosby and Anne (Thompson) Hayden [half]

Husband of Sarah (Unknown) Crosby — married 1662 (to 27 Jun 1702) in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Descendants descendants

Father of Thomas Crosby, Simon Crosby, Sarah (Crosby) Sears, Joseph (Crosby) Crosbe, John Crosby, Thomas Crosby, William Crosby, Ebenezer Crosby, Ann (Crosby) Luce, Increase Crosby, Mercy Crosby and Eleazer Crosby

Died 27 Jun 1702 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

In about 1662 he married Sarah Unknown. Their children, born in Eastham, Massachusetts, were:

   Thomas Crosby born April 7, 1663, died May 21, 1731.

   Simon Crosby born July 5, 1665, died 1718

   Sarah (Crosby) Sears born March 24, 1666/7, married Silas Sears

   Joseph (Crosby) Crosbe born January 27,1668/9, died May 30, 1725.

   John Crosby (1670-1714) born December 4, 1670 and died May 25, 1717

   John a twin born December 4, 1670 who died February 11, 1670/1

   William Crosby born March 28 1673

   Ebenezer Crosby born March 28, 1675

   Ann (Crosby) Luce triplet born 14 Apr. 1678 (married William Luce on July 5, 1704)

   Mercy Crosby triplet born 14 Apr. 1678

   Increase Crosby triplet born 14 Apr. 1678

   Eleazer Crosby born March 31, 1680 

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His wife may not have have been Sarah Fitch. Details are shown at the end of this section.

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From http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/18111190/person/684330554/media/2?pg...

This originally was a study of the descendants of Freeman Crosby (1802-1861)

http://fcrosby.com/freeman/a_crosby1.html

"In the summer of 1995 George Crosby provided the following portion of his work which gave us information the ancestors of Captain Freeman Crosby back to The Reverend Thomas Crosby shown below."

Reverend Thomas Crosby was baptized at Holme on February 26, 1635, named after his grandfather. He was brought to New England by his parents on 2 October 1635 (8 months old).

He graduated from Harvard College in 1653. Although never ordained, he was hired in 1655 to preach in the church at Eastham, MA and continued as minister succeeding Reverend John Mayo there until 1670 at a salary of 50 pounds per annum. Reverend Crosby was also engaged in trade and in 1664 was among those who kept for sale "liquor, powder and shot".

In about 1662 he married Sarah Fitch.

Their children born in Eastham, MA were:

        1. Thomas born April 7, 1663, died May 21, 1731.

        2. Simon born July 5, 1665, died 1718

        3. Sarah born March 24, 1666-7, married Silas Sears

        4. Joseph born January 27,1668-9, died May 30, 1725.

     5-6. JOHN (3) born December 4, 1670 and died May 25, 1717 

             and twin who died  February  11, 1670/1

        7. William born March 1672-3

        8. Ebenezer born March 28, 1675

    9-11. Anne, Mercy and Increase born April 14, 1678

            (Anne married William (2) Luce, (Henry 1) on July 5,1704)

       12. Eleazer born March 31, 1680

Later he became a merchant at Harwich, MA and was one of the founders of the church in that town. On a business trip to Boston he was found dead in bed there on the 13th or 27th of June 1702, age 67 years. He is buried in the Old Granary Cemetery in Boston, MA. After his death, his widow Sarah married John (2) Miller of Yarmouth on April 8, 1703, son of Reverend John and Lydia Miller.

Note: Thomas' great grandson was Enoch Crosby, born 1749, alias Harvey Birch, hero in James Fenimore Cooper's book The Spy.

Note: Thomas' son, Thomas, was a deacon in the First Parish Church in Harwich on March 25, 1717. He married Hannah _________ who died January 8, 1728/9.

Note: Massachusetts, The American Guide Series, Houghton Mifflin 1937, states on page 503 that the Prince Hurd House, now privately owned, located on Samoset Road, Eastham was built about 1750 and was formerly known as Tom Crosby's Tavern. Twenty-three men from the British frigate Spencer were taken prisoner there during the War of 1812. This is not the Thomas Crosby referred to in this section since he died in 1702 although it may have been one of his grandchildren not in our direct line.

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Sibley's Harvard Graduates, Vol I

From "Sibley's Harvard Graduates, Vol I" by Clifford Kenyon Sibley

Thomas Crosby, B.A., of Eastham and of Harwich, Massachusetts, oldest son of Simon and Ann Crosby, was born in England. In 1635, when eight weeks old, we was taken on board the "Suzan and Ellin" by his father, who came to Massachusetts and settled in Cambridge on what was afterward known as the Brattle estate, part of which is now occupied by the University Press. ... In 1655 the Reverend John Mayo, of Eastham, having been called to settle over the Second Church in Boston, Crosby succeeded him, being "employed to conduct public service on Lord's days'; to whom was promised a salary of L50 per annum." He continued his ministerial labors til 1670 without being ordained. Subsequently he became a merchant in Harwich. He was found dead in bed at Boston, 27 June, 1701.

By his wife, Sarah, he had twins and triplets, besides seven other children.

Works. The Work of a Christian, An Important Case of Practical Religion: Or, Directions, How to Make Religion One's Business. "Found in the Hand-writing of the truly religious Mr. Thomas Crosby, Educated at Harvard College in Cambridge, Sometime a Preacher of God's Word, and afterward a Merchant in Harwich in N.E. Who Died Suddently at Boston, June 27, 1702. Accompanied with another discourse on Preparation of Sudden Death; which also bears this Company in the present Publication. Boston. 1736 sm. 12 mos. pp. 34. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

http://www.crosbygenealogy.com/crosby_history.htm

11. THOMAS11 CROSBY, REV (SIMON10, THOMAS9, ANTHONY8, THOMAS7, MILES6, JOHN5, SIR PIERCE4, SIR ODO3 DE CROSBY, SIR SIMON2, SIR CHARLES1) was born 26 Feb 1634/35 in HOLME, YORK, ENGLAND, and died 27 Jun 1702 in BOSTON, MA.. He married SARAH FITCH (OR SNOW ?). She died Unknown.

Notes for THOMAS CROSBY, REV:

Emigrated 8 weeks old , grauated from Harvard in 1653, had 12 children and Alonzo Crosby's records show that his brother Simon married a Rachel Bracket; despite the difference in spelling, it may be that the brothers married sisters.

Thomas 7 Crosby, was born at Holme-on-Spaulding, was brought to Boston in 1635, and in1655 he was engaged by the church in Eastham, Mass. to conduct public services on the Lords Day.

I now quote from A CROSBY FAMILY LINE compiled by Emerson Crosby

Kelly  "He was a 'religious teacher,' not a pastor;  this difference carries a   nice distinction.  He filled the position for fifteen years,  altough he never     was ordained as a minister.  Subsequently he became a merchant in Harwich.  Mass,  and wrote several religious books."

Notes for SARAH FITCH (OR SNOW ?):

Had 12 children before her second marriage to John Miller of Yarmoth.

Children of THOMAS CROSBY and SARAH FITCH (OR SNOW ?) are:

12. i. SIMON12 CROSBY, b. 05 Jul 1665, EASTHAM, BARNSTABLE, MA.; d. 19 Jan 1717/18, Harwich, Barnstable, MA.

                 ii.    SARAH CROSBY, b. 24 Mar 1666/67, EASTHAM, BARNSTABLE, MA.; d. Unknown; m. SILAS SEARS; d. Unknown.

13. iii. JOSEPH CROSBY, b. 27 Jan 1668/69, EASTHAM, BARNSTABLE, MA.; d. 30 May 1725.

14. iv. JOHN CROSBY, b. 04 Dec 1670, EASTHAM, BARNSTABLE, MA.; d. 25 May 1714, HARWICH, BARNSTABLE, MA..

                  v.    SON (DIED INF.) CROSBY, b. 04 Dec 1670, EASTHAM, BARNSTABLE, MA.; d. 11 Feb 1670/71, EASTHAM, BARNSTABLE, MA..

vi. WILLIAM CROSBY, b. Mar 1672/73, EASTHAM, BARNSTABLE, MA.; d. Unknown; m. MERCY HENCKLEY, 26 Apr 1711; d. Unknown.
15. vii. EBENEZER CROSBY, b. 28 Mar 1675, EASTHAM, BARNSTABLE, MA.; d. Unknown.

16. viii. ANNE CROSBY, b. 14 Apr 1678, EASTHAM, BARNSTABLE, MA.; d. Unknown.

                ix.    MERCY CROSBY, b. 14 Apr 1678, EASTHAM, BARNSTABLE, MA.; d. Unknown.

x. INCREASE CROSBY, b. 14 Apr 1678, EASTHAM, BARNSTABLE, MA.; d. Unknown.
xi. ELEAZER CROSBY, b. 30 Mar 1680, EASTHAM, BARNSTABLE, MA.; d. Unknown; m. PATIENCE FREEMAN, 24 Oct 1706; d. Unknown.
17. xii. THOMAS CROSBY, b. 07 Apr 1663, Brewster Mass. (8); d. 21 May 1731.

Crosby Descendants in NS: http://www.americanancestors.org/crosby-family-online-exhibit/

Birth

abt 1634

Marriage

1662 to Sarah

Death

27 Jun 1702

Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA

links

• http://records.ancestry.com/thomas_crosby_records.ashx?pid=11530031
• http://www.flora.org/nancy/lunenburg/genealogy/w/j/r/Thomas_Crosby....
• http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=20712442

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The Mysterious Case of Sarah Fitch

Can hundreds of online genealogies be wrong? Utterly wrong? Well, apparently you can't always believe what you read, especially in internet genealogies. Sarah Fitch, 1631 - 1696, is listed in many online genealogies as the wife of Thomas Crosby. Yet the published work done by professional genealogists on the Crosby family like, "Simon Crosby the Emigrant," by Mrs. Eleanor Davis Crosby are consistent in listing Thomas Crosby's wife Sarah as having an unknown surname. Who's right? What is the case for Sarah Fitch being Thomas Crosby's wife?

The good thing is there was a Sarah Fitch and she was living in New England at roughly the same time as Thomas Crosby. She also appears to be the same person these online genealogies have been linking to Thomas Crosby: birth and death dates match, parents names match, and even the name of her husband, John Burr, matches. And, to make matters simpler, there doesn't appear to have been another Sarah Fitch in New England at the time.

So let's look at the facts, as we know them, of Sara Fitch's life to see if it's even possible that she could have Thomas Crosby's wife. First, there is the problem that she was married to another man, John Burr (1633 - 1694), according to Torrey's, "New England Marriages Prior to 1700," a fact noted by a number of online genealogies that list Burr as Sarah's first husband. The only problem with this is that he didn't die until 1694, only two years before Sarah's death in 1696. Without having divorced John Burr, which is unlikely, Sarah Fitch was unavailable to marry Thomas Crosby, or anyone else.

Sarah Fitch's death in 1696 also presents a problem, at least for her having been the wife of Thomas Crosby. Thomas Crosby's wife Sarah was very much alive when he died visiting a friend in Boston in 1702, six years after the death of Sarah Fitch. In fact, his widow Sarah was so alive she remarried in 1703 the widower John Miller, Esq. of Yarmouth, was still alive in 1711 as Miller's widow, and may have shortly married a third time, to the neighbor and recent widower, Capt. Jonathan Bangs. None of which makes it likely (or even possible) that Sarah Fitch and the Sarah married to Thomas Crosby were the same person.

Finally, there is a problem of distance -- hundreds of miles actually. Sarah Fitch and her husband, John Burr, and their children lived out their lives in Fairfield, Connecticut while Thomas Crosby and his wife Sarah and their children lived out there lives, a world away, in the Cape Cod towns of Eastham and Harwich. But this doesn't stop online genealogies from joining these two anyway, even if it's in the after-life. Some cover this by simply listing Sarah Fitch as being born in Eastham in 1638. Of course, a quick check of the facts shows settlement of the town (by europeans) didn't begin until 1644, six years letter, when seven men from Plymouth settled the town (and not a one was a Fitch).

Given all this, no matter how much we want them to be a couple, it's hard to see how this Sarah Fitch could have been married to Thomas Crosby -- and just as hard to see how anyone could have thought she could be. The real mystery is where this fiction came from and why it stubbornly persists, replicating from one family tree to another. Obviously, part of the reason is that people often populate their own online genealogies by copying from other online genealogies, without checking for accuracy or even feasibility. In this way, mistakes propagate until they're so common they take on the aura of fact, making them even less likely to be questioned the next time. Also, just as nature abhors a vacuum, so do occasional genealogists. Empty branches of family trees begged to be filled in and unknown surnames are intolerable.

But where did this all start? There may be an answer. While Sarah Fitch couldn't have married Thomas Crosby, there was a relative of Thomas Crosby's who did marry a Sarah Fitch. In fact, Josiah Crosby, III, the great grandson of Thomas Crosby's brother, Simon Crosby, Jr., married Sarah Fitch, daughter of Joseph Fitch and Sarah Grimes, in Bedford in 1750. While the time and place are wrong, it's tempting to think a distortion of this even -- along with a truly unknown surname for Thomas Crosby real wife Sarah -- might have started all this off.

Whatever the cause, it's time to clean up our Crosby genealogies and leave Sarah Fitch (and her husband John Burr) at rest in Fairfield, Connecticut.

Now for some pure conjecture on the subject of Sarah's real surname. As a result of the Great Migration, where whole families and even communities immigrated together, and the Great Migration's abrupt end with the culmination of the civil war in England, the early residents of New England were an unusually closely knit group, where one man's wife was someone else's daughter, sister, or cousin. This made for great genealogy, with people leaving multiple traces of their identity through a network of family relationships. But even with possibly three marriages we don't know our Sarah's surname. Why? Maybe she had no network of family relationships in New England because she and her family hadn't come over in the Great Migration. Maybe she was someone Thomas Crosby met and married in England. In fact, there is some indication he may have made one or more trips to England to settle estate matters. Uncovering this would be no easy matter but it might be a better place to look.

https://sites.rootsweb.com/~nhcsandw/Bios/john_crosby.html

Children of THOMAS CROSBY and SARAH (unknown): All born at Eastham MA;

1. Thomas born 7 Apr 1663; died 21 Apr 1731; married Hannah ((unknown) who died 8 Jan 1728/9.

+2. Simon born 5 July 1665 Eastham MA; died 19 Jan 1718; married 27 Aug 1691 Mary Nickerson born July 1668 Yarmouth MA; died 17 Apr 1746 Harwich MA; daughter of Nicholas Nickerson and Mary Darby. His will is recorded in the Barnstable Co. MA courthouse.

3. SARAH born 24 Mar 1666/7 Eastham MA; died 20 Mar 1705/6; married about 1692 SILAS SEARS born 1661Yarmouth MA; died there 1732; son of Silas Sears and Anna (unknown); possibly Anna Bursell.

4. Joseph born 27 Jan 1668/9; died 31 May 1725 Yarmouth; married 16 Feb 1692 Mehitable Miller.

5. A twin of John; born 4 Dec 1670; died about 11 Feb 1671.

+6. John born 4 Dec 1670; died 25 May 1717; married about 1703 Hannah Bangs; daughter of Jonathan Bangs.

7. William born Mar 1672/3; died 1755 Eastham MA; married 1712 Mercy Hinckley.

8. Ebenezer born 28 Mar 1675.

9. Anne born 14 Apr 1678; married William Luse.

10. Mercy born 14 Apr 1678; unmarried in 1702.

11. Increase born 14 Apr 1678; died young.

12. Eleazer born 31 Mar 1680; died 20 July 1760; married 24 Oct 1706 Patience Freeman born about 1682; died 21 Jan 1731 Harwich MA; daughter of John Freeman and Sarah Mercy Merrick.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Crosby-115

n 1662 in Eastham, he married Sarah (Unknown) Crosby (abt.1641-1719), whose last name at birth is not known (but it was not Fitch!). [4] Thomas and Sarah had twelve known children born between 1663 and 1680, including a set of triplets. They were married for almost 40 years and lived to see numerous grandchildren in Eastham and nearby Cape Cod settlements before his death in 1702.

See http://thomascrosby.blogspot.com/2005/11/ for a succinct, documented explanation showing why Sarah (Fitch) Burr (1637-1696) of Fairfield CT definitively did not marry Rev. Thomas Crosby of Eastham and Harwich.