Person:William Crowell (12)

Ohio, Tax Records, 1800-1850

Name: William Crowell
Civil Date: 1829
Civil Place: Rome Township, Ashtabula, Ohio
Reference ID: 163
FHL Film Number: 514138
Source Information
Ancestry.com. Ohio, Tax Records, 1800-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
Original data: Ohio Tax Records, 1800-1850. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.

1820 United States Federal Census
Name: Wm Crowell
Home in 1820 (City, County, State): Richfield, Ashtabula, Ohio
Enumeration Date: August 7, 1820
Free White Persons - Males - Under 10: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 15: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 15: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 45 and over : 1
Number of Persons - Engaged in Agriculture: 1
Number of Persons - Engaged in Manufactures: 1
Free White Persons - Under 16: 3
Free White Persons - Over 25: 2
Total Free White Persons: 7
Total All Persons - White, Slaves, Colored, Other: 7

RICHFIELD WAS LATER RENAMED ROME.

1830 United States Federal Census
Name: W Crowell
Home in 1830 (City, County, State): Rome, Ashtabula, Ohio
Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 50 thru 59: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 30 thru 39: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 50 thru 59: 1
Free White Persons - Under 20: 1
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 3
Total Free White Persons: 6
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 6

1840 United States Federal Census
name: William Crowell
Home in 1840 (City, County, State): Rome, Ashtabula, Ohio
Free White Persons - Males - 60 thru 69: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 30 thru 39: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 60 thru 69: 1
Persons Employed in Agriculture: 1
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 1
Total Free White Persons: 3
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 3

1850 United States Federal Census
Name: William Crowell
Age: 78
Birth Year: abt 1772
Birthplace: Connecticut
Home in 1850: Rome, Ashtabula, Ohio, USA
Gender: Male
Family Number: 1397
Household Members:
Name Age
William Crowell 78
Ruth Crowell 78
Emeline Crowell 40

William Crowell
Birth: Jul. 10, 1771
East Haddam
Middlesex County
Connecticut, USA
Death: Jul. 15, 1852
Rome
Ashtabula County
Ohio, USA

Known as one of the first residents of Rome Township, Ohio


Family links:
Parents:
Samuel Crowell (1742 - 1811)
Jerusha Tracy Crowell (1751 - 1842)

Spouse:
Ruth Peck Crowell (1771 - 1856)

Children:
Jairus Crowell (____ - 1844)*
David Crowell*
Franklin D Crowell*
Sybil Crowell House (1795 - 1818)*
William C. Crowell (1796 - 1871)*
Ezekiel Crowell (1797 - 1888)*
Ruth Crowell Selleck (1799 - 1873)*
John Crowell (1801 - 1883)*
Susan Crowell Church (1803 - 1876)*
Samuel Crowell (1805 - 1805)*
Emeline L. Crowell (1810 - 1876)*

Siblings:
William Crowell (1771 - 1852)
Samuel Crowell (1772 - 1854)*
Hezekiah Crowell (1789 - 1871)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial:
North Cemetery, Rome,
Ashtabula County
Ohio, USA

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Created by: Smith
Record added: Aug 20, 2010
Find A Grave Memorial# 57387761

THE HISTORY OF ASHTABULA COUNTY, OHIO
Published in Philadelphia by Williams Brothers in 1878

"WILLIAM CROWELL, SR. -The pioneers of the Connecticut Western Reserve, with few exceptions, were from New England, and a large majority of them from the State of Connecticut, which formerly owned the territory. The character and habits of New England people made and left a deep impression on the early settlements, which remains influential to the present day. Mr. Crowell was born at East Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, July 10, 1771. His father, Samuel Crowell, was born at Chatham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, March 16, 1742, and was descended from Puritan stock that emigrated from England at an early day and settled in that county. He (Samuel Crowell) emigrated to Connecticut, and married Jerusha Tracy, and had six children, William, Samuel, Eliphaz, John, and Hezekial, and a daughter that died in infancy. - The subject of this sketch was the oldest son, and at the age of fourteen was apprenticed to Mr. Mack to learn the joiner's trade, and served the full term of seven years. He (William) was married to Ruth Peck, August 20, 1792, and had nine children, one of whom died in infancy, and after his removal to Ohio the number increased to fourteen; only two of whom are now living, - a son in the city of Cleveland and a daughter at Rock Creek.

The first settlers of the Western Reserve were generally intelligent and enterprising men, capable of enduring the fatigues, hardships, and privations of a new country, which they were compelled to bear. On his journey to Ohio (William) was in company with two other families, and they traveled in covered wagons drawn by oxen and were more than forty days on the way. They traveled through Pennsylvania, over the mountains, to Pittsburgh, and thence to Ohio, and reached the end of their journey the last of November, 1806. From Bristol to Rome, a distance of more than twenty miles, then an unbroken wilderness, without a house to shelter them, and they were obliged to camp out for the night in the most primitive style. The darkness and gloom of that November night were rendered more hideous to the weary travelers by the wolves howling around the campfire, and seeming to take offense at the intrusion of strangers upon their ancient domain, occupied in common by savage beasts and men for unnumbered generations. The log cabin which had been built for them, and in which they spent the winter, stood near the dwelling-house of the late Joseph D. Hall. The building, not a large one for three families, was divided by a stone wall five or six feet high, and extending partly across the room. On each side of the wall fires were built for comfort and convenience, and over these an opening was left in the roof for the smoke to escape. One part of the log cabin thus fitted up was occupied by Mr. Crowell and his family (the writer of this was one of them), and the other part by the two families already mentioned. With the thermometer at zero, the apartments of the cabin could not be esteemed very extravagant or luxurious by the most prudent and economical. In the spring Mr. Crowell built a log house on his farm, and at once commenced clearing it up for cultivation. He soon found emplyment at his trade in the older settlements, where frame houses soon took the place of log cabins, not only in different parts of this county but in the adjoining counties, for he was esteemed a very good workman at his trade.

His family lived upon his farm at Rome, to which he retired in later life, and where he died, July 15, 1852, at the age of eighty years. He became a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church when the diocese of Ohio was organized, and was frequently a member of the diocesan convention, in the time of Bishop Chase, and when the bishop resigned, voted to accept his resignation, and also in favor of the election of his successor, Bishop McIlvaine, whom he esteemed very highly as a great and good man. Bishop Chase speaks of him very kindly in his "Reminiscences," published several years before his death, and both of the bishops were always his welcome guests in their diocesan visitations. He was a very ernest and devoted member of that communion, and organized a parish and built a church in the neighborhood of his residence, and in the graveyard attached to it his remains now repose. His wife survived him several years, and died at the age of eighty-four, June 12, 1856, and was laid by his side."

U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970
Name: Calvin Church
Birth Date: 1794
Death Date: 1856
SAR Membership: 74520
Role: Ancestor
Application Date: 8 Nov 1951
Spouse: Susan Crowell
Children: Lavera Susan Church
Claiming membership through Susan Crowell.
Patriot was Susan's grandfather, Samuel Crowell. Samuel was the father of William Crowell. William was the father of Susan. Susan was the mother of Laverna. Laverna was the mother of Harry Church Oberholser who was the SAR member.