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JOHN CROWE (pr. c. 1590–pr. soon after 1652)
ELISHUA UNKNOWN (pr. b. by 1610)
John Crowe was probably born about 1590. [1] He probably died soon after 2 March 1651/2. [1] He probably had at least one wife before he married Elishua.
Elishua Unknown was probably born by 1610, based on her marrying, coming to New England alone, and buying a house by 1634.
Elishua Crowe came to Charlestown in 1634 and was admitted to the Charlestown church on 4 January 1634/5. [2] She bought the house of William Jennings [Jennison] upon arrival. [1] Her husband came soon after. [1]
John Crowe of Eilpeck and family appear on the passenger list of the Hopewell from Weymouth, England. A puzzle is that it might seem reasonable that John was from Norfolk, where Crowe and Yelverton families lived in the same parishes, or from the west country—Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, and Somerset—where the other passengers were from. However, there is no place name that is a variant if Eilpeck in Norfolk or the west country, only further north. It is possible that ancient documents and bad penmanship led to a transcription error. [3]
On 16 June 1638 Mr. John Crow sold his house and land in Charlestown to Mathew Avery and John and Elishua moved to Yarmouth. [4] Mr. John Crowe took the oath of allegiance and fidelity on 18 December 1638 in Yarmouth. [5, 1: 107]. He was propounded for freeman on 7 January 1638/9 and admitted a freeman on 2 June 1640. [5, 1: 108, 155]
Mr. John Crowe was on the committee for Yarmouth on 5 March 1638/9. The committee and four others were to divide the planting land at Yarmouth "to each man according to his estate and quallitie." on 3 March 1640 the court noted that the resulting division had been complained of as unfair, but the court "well approved it." [5, 117, 142]
In early June 1641, Thomas Makepeace, gentleman of Boston, petitioned the court to confirm his purchase of a house and 200-acre farm from Mr. Crowe, sometime of Charlestown. [6]
John and Yelverton are in the Yarmouth section of the 1643 list of those between 16 and 60 able to bear arms in Plymouth Colony. [7]
On 2 June 1640 and 5 June 1644, Mr. John Crowe of Yarmouth and two others were appointed to hear and determine all small causes and controversies in Yarmouth, Barnstable and Sandwich. [5, 1: 155; 2: 73]
On 7 September Mr. Edmond Freeman was directed to inflict such punishment on Mr. Crow's maidservant as was just for pilfering John's goods. [5, 2: 24]
Mr. John Crow was on the committee for Yarmouth on 7 June 1642 and 7 June 1648. [5, 2: 57, 128]
On 7 June 1648 John was granted 100 acres of upland and 20 acres for his farm; he remitted 20 acres. [5, 2: 128–9]
On 7 March 1648/9 Mr. Crow, Sr. was presented for receiving stolen goods, but was cleared of the charge. [5, 2: 137]
On 2 October 1650 many men sued Mr. John Crowe and two others for damage and on 2 March 1651/2 Mr. John Crowe sued John Wing for damages. [8] After this, Mr. John Crow disappears abruptly from the records.
On 22 March 1704/5 Seth Perry of Boston, brewer, and Deborah Man of Boston, widow, the only surviving heirs of John Crowe's daughter Elizabeth Perry, sold land in Woburn that had belonged to their grandfather, Mr. John Crowe, formerly of Charlestown, gentleman, deceased. [1]
Given the gap between the ages of John's second and third child, it seems likely that Elishua was not their mother.
Children of John Crowe and a first wife:
i. Yelverton Crowe was born say 1615. He died about 24 October 1683. He married Elizabeth Unknown.
ii. Elizabeth Crowe was born say 1617. [1] She married first Arthur Perry by 1637. [1] She married second John Gillet by 1654. [1] She married third William Wardwell by a 4 December 1657 contract in Boston. [1]
Children of John and Elishua Crowe:
iii. John Crowe was born say 1635. He married Mehitable Miller.
iv. Moses Crowe was baptized on 24 June 1637 in Charlestown. [1] There is no further record of him.
References:
1. "Great Migration 1634–1635, C–F," digitized book, AmericanAncestors.org, originally published as: Robert Charles Anderson,, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634–1635, Volume II, C–F (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001), 245–8.
2. "Record Book of the First Church in Charlestown," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 23 (1869): 191.
3. Ernest Hyde Helliwell, III, "Passengers of the Hopewell from Weymouth, England, to New England, 8 May 1635,"New England Historical and Genealogical Register 167 (2013): 180–4.
4. Stephen W. Gifford, "Yelvertown Crowell of Yarmouth, Mass.," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 125 (1971): 231–6.
5. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Records of Plymouth Colony: Court Orders, vol. 1, 1633–1640, vol. 2, 1641–1651, vol. 3, 1651–1661, vol. 4, 1661–1668, vol. 5, 1668–1678, vol. 6, 1678–1691 (Boston: William White, 1855, 1866).
6. "Great Migration 1634–1635, M–P," digitized book, AmericanAncestors.org, originally published as: >Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634–1635, Volume V, M–P (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2007), 3.
7. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, "List of Those Able to Bear Arms in the Colony of New Plymouth 1643," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 4 (1850): 258.
8. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Records of Plymouth Colony: Court Orders, Judicial Acts, 1636–1692 (Boston: William White, 1857), 50, 57.
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