Person:Thomas Crosby (6)
Rev. Thomas Crosby
chr.26 Feb 1634/35 Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, Yorkshire, England
d.13 Jun 1702 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. 21 Apr 1634
  1. Rev. Thomas Crosby1634/35 - 1702
  2. Simon Crosby1637 - 1725/26
  3. Joseph Crosby1638/39 - 1695
Spouse and Children
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m. Abt 1662
  1. Deacon Thomas Crosby1663 - 1731
  2. Simon Crosby1665 - 1718
  3. Sarah Crosby1666/67 - 1705/06
  4. Joseph Crosby1668/69 -
  5. Thomas Crosby1670 - 1670
  6. John Crosby1670 - Bef 1670/71
  7. William Crosby1672/73 -
  8. Ebenezer Crosby1675 -
  9. Ann Crosby1678 -
  10. Mercy Crosby1678 - Aft 1702
  11. Increase Crosby1678 -
  12. Eleazer Crosby1680 - 1759
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Facts and Events
Name Rev. Thomas Crosby
Gender Male
Immigration[2] 1635 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Baptism[1] 26 Feb 1634/35 Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, Yorkshire, England
Emigration[2][3] 18 Apr 1635 Yorkshire, England"Susan and Ellen"
Degree[1] 1653 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United StatesHarvard
Residence[1] Bet 1655 and 1670 Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage Abt 1662 to Sarah _____
Occupation[1] Aft 1670 Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United StatesMerchant
Death[1] 13 Jun 1702 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Alt Death[4] Dec 1702 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Burial? Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Crosby, Eleanor Davis. Simon Crosby the emigrant: his English ancestry, and some of his American descendants. (Boston: Geo. H. Ellis Co., 1914)
    p 58.

    i. Rev. Thomas7, bapt. in Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, 26 Feb. 1634/5, named for his grandfather, was brought to New England in infancy by his parents, and graduated at Harvard College in 1653. Two years later he was engaged at an annual salary of £50 to preach in the church at Eastham, Mass., and, although never ordained and settled as pastor, he continued as a minister there until 1670. Later he became a merchant at Harwich, Mass., and while on a business trip to Boston was found dead in bed there, 13 June 1702, aged sixty-seven years...

    He m., about 1662, Sarah ______, and she m., about 1704, as his second wife, John2 Miller, Esq., of Yarmouth, Mass., b. in England in Mar. 1631/2, son of Rev. John1 and Lydia Miller.

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Crosby, in Cutter, William Richard (ed.). Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts. (New York, New York : Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1908)
    Vol 1; p 153-154.

    (I) Simon Crosby, the immigrant ancestor, was born in England in 1608. He was a husbandman. He sailed from England in April, 1635, in the ship "Susan & Ellen" with his wife Anne, then aged twenty-five years, and young son Thomas...

  3. ↑ Crosby, Eleanor Davis. Simon Crosby the emigrant: his English ancestry, and some of his American descendants. (Boston: Geo. H. Ellis Co., 1914)
    p 44.

    Arriving at the metropolis, he found several vessels about to sail for New England, and secured passage in the Susan and Ellen, Capt Edward Payne master, embarking 18 Apr. 1635.

  4. ↑ Crosby, in Lee, Francis Bazley. Genealogical and memorial history of the state of New Jersey: a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation. (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1910)
    Vol IV; p 1291.

    He removed to Boston, where he died December, 1702.

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