Person:Simon Crosby (5)

Name	Simon Crosby
Gender	Male
Birth`^?`	Aug 1637	Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage	15 Jul 1659	to Rachel Brackett
Residence`^?`	1660	N. Side of Bare Hill on Bedford Rd.
Occupation`^?`	From 1672 to 1686	Innkeeper--food, drink, post office, gathering place for politics and gossip
Occupation`^?`	From 1690 to 1698	Constable and Deputy to Massachusetts General Court
Death`^?`	22 Jan 1725/26	Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

References

Barnes, Shirley Moore. Pioneers of Billerica Settling the Shawshine Wilderness: 1654-1660. (Billerica, Mass.: Billerica Historical Society, 2005)
pp. 218 , 2005.

pp. 58-61 information re:Simon Crosby's parents, wife, children, and his occupations in Billerica MA. Book published by the Billerica Historical Society.
Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
1:477.

SIMON, Billerica, s. of the preced. freem. 1668; rep. 1692, 7, and 8; m. 15 July 1659, Rachel, d. of Richard Bracket, had Rachel, b. 20 Aug. 1660; Simon; Thomas, 10 Mar. 1666; Joseph, 5 Mar. 1669; Hannah, 30 Mar. 1672; Nathan, 9 Feb. 1675; Josiah, 11 Nov. 1677; Mary, 23 Nov. 1680; and Sarah, 27 July 1684. Descend. are spread thro. Maine, Mass. and New Hampsh