AMERICA THE GREAT MELTING POT

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 FATHER

Thomas Bingham

MOTHER

Isabel Watson

HUSBAND

Robert  Crosby

CHILDREN

1. John Crosby
    bap. 25 Jan 1623/4:
    d. young

2. Jane Crosby    
    bap. 22 Apr 1627
    m. in Rowley, Mass., 29 Oct 1644, John Pickard

3. Mary Crosby
    bap. 4 Dec 1629
    m. in Rowley, Mass., 16 Jan 1647/8, Richard Longhorne

4. Robert Crosby
    bap. 22 July 1632
    d. young

5. Hannah Crosby
    bap. 31 Oct 1634
    m. in Rowley, Mass., 6 Dec 1655 John Johnson

Simon Crosby the emigrant : his English ancestry, and some of his American descendants by Eleanor Davis Crosby, 1914

Widow Constance Crosby was born about 1602 in Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, County York, England, and was a sister to Anne Brigham, who in 1634 married, in Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, Simon" Crosby of Cambridge, Mass. As "Constance Brigham alias Crosby" she is named as an administratrix of the estate of her father, Thomas Brigham of Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, 19 Mar. 1632-3 (Administration Act Books, Harthill Deanery, P. and E. Court of York); and as "Constance Crosby my daughter" she is mentioned in the will of her mother, Isabel (Watson) Brigham of Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, dated 8 June 1634 (P. and E. York Wills, vol. 42, fol. 281).
Mrs. Constance Crosby and her children were in New England before 1643; but the exact time of their emigration is unknown, although it is likely they came with Rev. Ezekiel Rogers' company in the autumn of 1638. On 10 Jan. 1643/4 a survey was taken of the town of Rowley and a record made of all land holdings at that time. The homestead of Mrs. Crosby is thus described: "On Wethersfield Streete. To Custins Crosby one house-Lott, containing one acre and a halfe, bounded on the north side by a peece of ground unlaid out, and the end of the streete" (Rowley Town Records, p. 6). Richard Wicom had the adjoining lot on the south. She also had received various grants of upland and marsh, amounting to twenty-one acres (ibid., pp. 7, 12, 14, 16, 21, 22, 26, 30, 31, 34, 38).
In 1650 "Wid. Crosby" had one calf; and in 1653 "Uxor Crosby" had two cows (ibid., pp. 59, 84).

Early Settlers of Rowley MA  created by by George Brainard Blodgette,

Amos Everett Jewett and Amos Jewett, 1933

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