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References
- ↑ New York. Surrogate's Court (New York County); New York. Prerogative Court; Robert H Kelby; and William Smith Pelletreau. Abstracts of wills on file in the Surrogate's Office, City of New York, 1665-1801. (New York, New York: Printed for the New York Historical Society, 1893-1909 [i.e. 1913])
25:106.
Page 401.—Richard Crab, Oyster Bay. ii Oyster Bay this 5th day of Second month 1680." "This declares unto all that it may in any way concerne, that I Richard Crab of Oyster Bay, being sicke and weake, and know not how the Lord may deal with me. Therefore while my understanding may remain, for settling my estate in Peace." Leaves to his daughter in law Lide Wright, " my house and Home lot on the east side of Samuel Andrews house lot," the way being between, and all the common rights that belong to said house lot, with one share of meadow in Great Meadow. To John Townsend, son of James Townsend, of Oyster Bay, my whole share of Land on Hogg Island. Leaves the rest of his estate to his wife Alse Crab, and makes her executor, and Matthew Ryer and Henry Towusend, Sr., overseers.
Witnesses Anthony Wright, John Johns. Proved at Court of Sessions held in Jamaica, June 9, and confirmed, December 30, 1680. E. Andross.
[One of the significant points is that all the legatees are from the family of his second wife Alice, and so this strongly suggests there were no children from his first marriage to an as-of-yet unidentified wife.]
- Prall, Richard Dwight. The Crabb family. (Albuquerque, New Mexico: R.D. Prall, c1997)
pg 71.
Richard Crabb (?), farmer, called "Goodman Crabb in Puritan New England
b. c1594 England
d. 4-6-1680 Oyster Bay, Long Is., NY., 86y.
[See Friends Record below, this evidently means 6 Apr 1680, i.e., new-style, even though the original record said the second month, i.e., old-style.]
m. ___ ? (Coe?)
Children: none documented
2nd m. after 1661, Long Is., Alice Wright b. c1614 England, d. 10-13-1685 will pro. Oyster Bay, Long Is., 70y plus, dau of Wm. Wright, widow of Peter Wright 1612-1663. Wm. son of Lord John Wright. Alice a distant cousin to Peter Wright.
In 1661 Robert Coe called Richard Crabb his "brother-in-law." Robert Coe may have m. Mary Crabb, sister of Richard Crabb, but no evidence has been found to prove it. Mary Crabb d. 1682, before Robert Coe or Richard Crabb sailed to Boston.
The will of Richard Crabbe is mentioned in an Oyster Bay deed in 1682.
[While no source is given by the author for the above, he does quote extensively from Cox ]
- ↑ "Records of the Society of Friends of the City of New York and Vicinity, from 1640 to 1800", in The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. (New York, New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society)
Vol. 7, p. 39.
Richard Crabb dyed ye 6th of ye 2'd m'o 1680.
[Note: In old-styles dates, the second month is April. More info may be found here.]
- Perrine, Howland Delano. The Wright family of Oysterbay, L.I. with the ancestry of and descent from Peter Wright and Nicholas Wright, 1423-1923. (New York: unknown, 1923)
p. 62.
says that he died 6 Feb 1680, but comparison with the Friends' Records above, shows this is a misinterpretation of the numeric month, the 2nd month being April in 1680, and not February.
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