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JOHN CROWE (say 1635–by 1689), son of John Crowe and Elishua Unknown
MEHITABLE MILLER (1638–1715), daughter of Reverend John Miller and Lydia Unknown
John Crowe was born say 1635. [1] He married Mehitable Miller by about 1656.
Mehitable Miller was born on 13 July 1638. [2] The widow Crowe of Nobscuset [Nobscussett] died on 23 February 1714/5, recorded in Yarmouth. [3]
Mehitable and five of her sisters are called by their married names in their aunt Susanna (Miller) White's will of 25 May 1681. [4]
John Crow was on the General Enquiry on 1 June 1658 and on a coroner's enquiry in October 1659 that found that Mary Chase of Yarmouth died of illness. [5, 3: 135, 172] He was on a coroner' enquiry on 20 October 1667 in Yarmouth that found that Nicholas Nickerson's child died when a piece of pumpkin shell became lodged in his windpipe. [5, 4: 170] On 3 June 1668 was one of several men sent for to explain why they had brought so much liquor into the colony. [5, 4: 183]
Mr. John Crow and Yelverton Crow are in the Yarmouth section of a 19 May 1670 list of freemen in Plymouth Colony. [5, 5: 232]
The estate of Mr. John Crowe, late of Yarmouth, was settled on 6 March 1688/9. It was noted that his daughters Mehitable Crowe and Lydia Crowe had already received their portion. The beneficiaries were his widow Mehitable, his eldest son John—who was to have his house and land after the death of his mother, Mehitable—and his other children Samuel Crowe, Jeremiah Crowe, Elizabeth Crowe, Susanna Crowe, and Hannah Crow, and his grandson Thomas Tobey. Inventory was taken on 14 March 1688/9 and it was sworn to by widow on 6 March 1688/9. [6]
Children of John Crowe and Mehitable Miller:
i. Mehitable Crowe married Thomas Tobey in 1677/8. [7]
ii. Lydia Crowe married Ebenezer Goodspeed on 15 February 1677 in Yarmouth. [8] Ebenezer was the son of Roger (Robert, Robert, Nicholas) Goodspeed of Barnstable and his wife Alice Layton. [9]. He was born in December 1655 and was living on 30 December 1746. [9] Ebenezer and Lydia had 13 children. [9]
Moriarty [9] discusses Ebenezer's English ancestry.
iii. John Crowell was born about 1662. He died on 15 October 1728 in Yarmouth. He married Bethiah Sears.
iv. Samuel Crowe was living on 6 March 1688/9.
v. Jeremiah Crowe married Hannah Rider on 29 November 1705 in Yarmouth. [3]
vii. Susanna Crowe
Susanna's great aunt Susanna (Miller) White left her cousin Mehitable's little daughter Suzanna ten shillings in her will.
vi. Elizabeth Crowe may be the Elizabeth who married Benjamin Lewis on 8 September 1702 in Yarmouth. [3]
viii. Hannah Crow was born on 1 April 1677 in Yarmouth. [8] She may be he Hannah who married Joseph Studley on 12 April 1706 in Yarmouth. [3]
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. Mary Isabella Preston, Bassett-Preston Ancestors (New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1930): 189.
3. Robert M. Sherman and Ruth Wilder Sherman, Vital Records of Yarmouth, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Camden, ME: Picton Press, 1993), 133–6.
4. "Susanna (Miller) White (abt. 1589–1687)," Wikitree, discussion page, accessed 21 November 2022, images and transcription.
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. "Barnstable County, Mass., Probate Records," Mayflower Descendant 10 (1908): 101.
7. Mrs. John E. Barclay, "Hannah (Swift) Tobey, Daughter of William Swift, and the Family of Ambrose Fish of Sandwich, Mass.," The American Genealogist 35 (1959): 41.
8. "Yarmouth, Mass., Vital Records," Mayflower Descendant 2 (1899): 208.
9. G. Andrews Moriarty, "Genealogical Research in England," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 82 (1928): 443–53.
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