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CROCKER, Deacon William Sr.
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Name CROCKER, William Prefix Deacon Suffix Sr. Birth 11 Feb 1614 Devonshire, England 
[1] Christening 11 Feb 1617 Modbury, Devonshire, England [1] Gender Male Burial Sep 1692 Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States [1, 2] Death 6 Sep 1692 Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States [3] WAC 12 Sep 1918 MANTI [1, 2, 3] _TAG Reviewed on FS Headstones 
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Father CROCKER, Hugh , b. 1598, Exeter, Exeter, Devonshire, England Exeter, Exeter, Devonshire, Englandd. Dec 1662, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States (Age 64 years) Mother MITCHELL, Thomasine , b. 1598, England Englandd. 1 Apr 1628, Devonshire, England (Age 30 years) Family ID F15207 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Sarah , b. Abt 1612, England England Marriage 1633 Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States [1] Family ID F15206 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 24 Jan 2022
Family 2 HOYT, Alice , b. 1615, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United Statesd. 4 May 1684, Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States (Age 69 years) Marriage 1636 Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States [3] Notes - ~SEALING_SPOUSE: Also shown as SealSp 24 Sep 1956
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Family 3 PARKER, Patience Cobb , b. 19 Mar 1641, Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United Statesd. 23 Oct 1727, Barnardstown, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States (Age 86 years) Marriage 1662 Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States [1] Family ID F15205 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 24 Jan 2022
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Notes - [These are notes on the early settling of Barnstable County, Massachusetts, concerning Henry Rowley, Samuel Fuller and others, from Simeon L. Deyo's "History of Barnstable County, Massachusetts: 1620-1890" See source information at end.]
[This is a basic history of the beginning of the Barnstable settlement. Henry Rowley was a member of John Lothrop's Congregation.]
[p.20]
Bartholomew Gosnold was the first European to explore the area of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He sailed from Falmouth, in Cornwall, [England] 'in a small bark, with thirty-two men,' and landed on 14 May 1602, 'on the eastern coast of Massachusetts, north of Cape Cod.' On 19 May 1602, Gosnold sighted 'the high lands of Barnstable and Yarmouth, and discovered and named Martha's Vineyard.' He returned to England on 23 July 1602.
In 1604, De Monts explored 'from the St. Lawrence river to Cape Cod and southward.'
'In 1607 a settlement was attempted at Kennebeck by the Plymouth Company, but the winter of 1607-8 being severe, and many discouragements interposing, the survivors returned to England in the following spring.'
In 1614, Captain John Smith sailed along the coast, and made a 'fine map' of the coastline, which he presented to King Charles in England. The area was named 'New England.'
In 1619, Sir Fernando Gorges sent Mr. Thomas Dermer to New England. He found a pestilence had swept over the Indian population, and some villages were utterly depopulated. Dermer was attacked by Indians, and nearly all his boat's crew were killed. Dermer escaped after receiving fourteen wounds.
[p.22]
At this time, Walter Raleigh and a group were beginning a settlement at Jamestown, Virginia, and the Dutch were establishing a settlement in New Amsterdam (later New York).
In July 1620, 'religious exiles at Leyden' who had fled England in 1608, were ready to embark for the New World. The first company of these 120 resolute emigrants sailed on the Mayflower and Speedwell, from Southampton, England. "The Speedwell proved unseaworthy and was abandoned, thus reducing the number" of passengers who could sail to America, to "101 on board the Mayflower, which, after many delays, left Plymouth, England, September 6, 1620." On 11 November 1620, 'after a voyage of sixty-six days,' they anchored in New England.
'After solemnly thanking God, it was proposed that the forty-one males who were of age should subscribe a compact, which was to be the basis of their government.'
'Hon. Francis Baylies, in his history of New Plymouth, says that this compact adopted in the cabin of the Mayflower "established a most important principle, a principle which is the foundation of all the democratic institutions of America, and is the basis of the republic."'
"The following is an exact copy of the compact:
"In the name of God, amen. We whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread sovereign lord, King James, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland king, defender of the faith &c., having undertaken for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, do, by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God and of one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof, do enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
"In witness whereof, we have hereunder subscribed our names, at Cape Cod, the 11th day of November, in the year of the reign of our sovereign lord, King James, of England, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth, anno Domini 1620."
[p.26]
In 1627 the colonists established a trading house at Manomet (Bourne), on the south side of Monument river, to facilitate trade with the Narragansett country, New Amsterdam, and the shores of Long Island sound.
[p.27]
By 1630, the population of the colony had reached 300 settlers.
[p. 28]
In 1636, "the only towns settled were Plymouth, Duxbury and Scituate."
[p. 29]
In the summer of 1639, 'the territory of Barnstable, Yarmouth and Dennis became settled.' 'In this year, 1639, so many had migrated to the towns of Barnstable, Yarmouth and Sandwich, that they were invested with the rights of towns and were each entitled to two delegates to an assembly for legislation. In October of the same year the authorities at Plymouth ordered a pound to be erected at Yarmouth, and established there a pair of stocks. The stocks of that day, in which the petty offenders were compelled to sit, were one of the mediums through which the Plymouth court would impress a notion of its dignity upon any who disregarded its authority."
"In 1641 the active ministers of Barnstable, Sandwich and Yarmouth were John Laythorpe[Lothrop], John Mayo, William Leverich, John Miller and Marmaduke Matthews. These each bore the title of Mister, that insignia of Puritan importance which at that time was only applied to the learned and the wealthy."
The communities of Barnstable, Sandwich and Yarmouth remained under the legal jurisdiction of Plymouth until 1685, when the Plymouth colony was divided into three counties-- Plymouth, Bristol, and Barnstable.
[p.367-369, Settlement at Mattacheese, (later Barnstable and Yarmouth] 1639, by Henry Rowley and others]
'Permission was granted by the Plymouth court in 1639 "for seating [establishing] a congregation," whose leaders had intended to settle at Sippecan (now Rochester). But a diversity of opinion arose, and the growing wish to settle at Mattacheese led to a division of the congregation into three companies, who should pray for direction in the election of committees " to set down the township." A former grant of Mattacheese to Mr. Callicot and others, of Dorchester, having been rescinded, and other impediments removed, the little band determined to seek the lands at Mattacheese. This was the Indian name of lands, now in Barnstable and the northern part of Yarmouth, adjoining the ancient Cummaquid harbor. The lands of this township contained other Indian tribes at the south and west, each having its sachem [ie., leader], by whom the community was ruled. The names of the small tribes and their tracts were identical. lyanough's land and tribe was south—midway between the bay and sound; his name was often spelled Janno and lanno and Hyanno. Chequaket, now Centreville; Coatuit, Santuit, Mistic, Skanton, partially in Sandwich; and Cotocheeset were communities and lands south of and around lyanough's. With the remembrance that Cummaquid harbor is now Barnstable harbor, the reader will be better able to follow the first settlement and further purchase of the town.'
'After the determination of the congregation to "set down at Mattacheese," on the 26th of June [1639] a fast was held at Scituate, where this colony were residing, " that the Lord in his presence" [would] go with them to this new land. Rev. John Lothrop, the beloved pastor of the church there, by his letters, found among Governor Winslow's papers, has furnished many facts concerning the trials of himself and associates as to where the settlement should be.'
'There is no other record of the settlement of Barnstable until the arrival of Rev. John Lothrop and his associates on the 21st of October, 1639 (N. S.). The greater part of Mr. Lothrop's church accompanied him to Barnstable, leaving the remaining few "in a broken condition." Besides Joseph Hull and Thomas Dimock and their associates as mentioned in the grant, we find here in the autumn of 1639, John Lothrop, the pastor, Mr. Mayo, Mr. Lumbard, sr., Isaac Wells, Samuel Hinckley, Samuel Fuller, Robert Shelley, Edward Fitzrandal, Henry Ewell, Henry Rowley, James Cudworth, William Crocker, John Cooper, Henry Cobb, George Lewis, Robert Linnell, William Parker, Edward Caseley, William Caseley, Henry Bourne, Anthony Annable, and Isaac Robinson.'
'The town [of Barnstable] was incorporated September 3, 1639, and on the first Tuesday of December, the same year, its deputies took their seats in the general court. Others came to the town during the fall, winter and spring following, so that in 1640 we find here these heads of families in addition to those already mentioned [notice that many of these additional settlers have the same last names of the original settlers, and were relatives]:
Thomas Allyn, Nathaniel Bacon, Austin Bearse, William Bills, Abraham Blush, John Bursley, John Caseley, Henry Coggen, John Crocker, Dolor Davis, Richard Foxwell, Roger Goodspeed, James Hamblin, Thomas Hatch, Thomas Hinckley, Thomas Huckins, John Hull or Hall, Samuel Jackson, Laurence Lichfield, Thomas Lothrop, John Smith, Thomas Shaw, John Scudder, John and Samuel Mayo, Thomas Lombard, Bernard Lombard, and Robert Linnet.
Before the lands were divided others had arrived, among whom were: Richard Berry, Francis Crocker, John and Nicholas Davis, William Tilley, David Linnet, Benjamin and James Lothrop, Nathaniel Mayo, Samuel Lothrop, John Foxwell, Thomas Blossom, John Blower, Thomas Boreman, William Pearse, John Russel, Nicholas Sympkins, Laurence Willis, and Samuel House.'
[p. 370, Barnstable established rules]
'The proprietors [of Barnstable] were yet very careful as to the character of newcomers, concerning which rules were made by the general court. In 1661 William Crocker and Thomas Huckins were empowered to take notice of any who should intrude themselves without the town's consent. The underlying reason, however, for such surveillance was that religions not orthodox should be kept away. There was room in town for more people if they were of the right faith, as the entire territory between the Long pond and Shoal pond had no settlers yet, and it was made "commons [ie., a shared grazing area] for the town's cattle."'
[p. 371-373, the town of Barnstable was surveyed and roads were planned]
'In 1685 the court ordered a road opened through Barnstable, and sixteen men, whose names appear at the bottom of the survey, were empaneled as a jury to lay it out. The road has been since known as the "county road," and is the main street of Barnstable village.' [The town boundaries were described.] "The names of ye Jury: Capt. Lothrop, Lieut. Rowland, Ensign Dimock, James Gorham, Jabez Lumbart, James Cob, Saml Cob, Nathl. Bacon, Ensign Lumbart, Lieut. James Lewis, John Phinney, Job Crocker, Samuel Hinckley sr., Joseph Blish, Josiah Crocker, James Hamblin jr."
'The town, tiring of long trips to Plymouth for grinding [the grains raised on their farms], in 1687 ordered that a wind mill be built, either on Cobb's hill or the old Meeting House hill, and appropriated money and land to pay for it. Thomas Paine of Eastham constructed one on Meeting House hill, much to the satisfaction of Barnabas Lothrop and Samuel Allen, who were the committee to oversee the work.'
Also, in 1687, John Andrews and others were granted a tract of eight or ten acres next to a river, to build a fulling mill, where wool and flax could be processed, spun and woven into cloth.
Roads were rapidly laid out, branching from the county road.
[p. 375-376, Barnstable public meetings were held at the church meeting house until 1840]
[pp. 378-379, 1640, the proprietors decided that they would get the first opportunity to purchase lands within Barnstable;
1641, the lands of Barnstable were to be surveyed, the town selected training grounds (for the town militia to practice), stocks and a whipping post were planned (as had been used at Plymouth);
1642, public punishments were decided]
[p.379, Barnstable Town Events of 1643, 45 voters were in Barnstable;
1645, duties of the town officers were increased;
1646, Barnstable arranged for men of the town to fill a quota required for the Narragansett expedition, a new meeting house was now used for public gatherings, "as was the custom; and this invariable rule, to construct the meeting house for civil and religious meetings as soon as possible after a plantation had been seated, has followed the descendants of the Pilgrims wherever they have planted a colony,";
1651, 'In 1651 the order was made to record the bounds and titles of lands in the plantation, and gate keepers were appointed ;"
1655, "it was ordered that Captain Miles Standish and Mr. Hatherly [military leaders from Plymouth] have authority to settle all difficulties with the Indians, which might be submitted to them by the deputies [of Barnstable];"
1662, the Barnstable town meeting "ordered that the sons of the present inhabitants shall be successively received as inhabitants and allowed equal town privileges in the Commons and other privileges of the present inhabitants, at the day of their marriage, or at the age of 24, whichever happens first," and at that meeting Samuel Bacon, Samuel Fuller, Caleb Lumbard, Jabez Lumbard, Samuel Fuller, jr., Joseph Benjamin, Nicholas Bonham, James Hamblin, Thomas Lumbard, Samuel Norman, Samuel Hicks, James Cobb, Edward Coleman, John Rowland, John Sargeant, John Crocker, Edward Lewis, Daniel Stewart, Thomas Ewer and John Lewis were admitted, making the number of voters in the town sixty-five, which number was increased to eighty-nine in 1670 by other additions.
In 1670 a List of Freemen and Voters was recorded in Barnstable. "The list of freemen and their widows not heretofore given, were: John Thompson, Henry Taylor, Edward Taylor, Moses Rowley [son of Henry Rowley], Mark Ridley, Samuel Storrs, John Scudder, William Sargeant, John Phinney, sr., John Phinney, jr., Jabez and Jedediah Lumbard, Benjamin Lumbard, Caleb Lumbard, Widow Lothrop, Widow Lumbard, John Otis, Robert Parker, Joshua Lumbard, sr., Melt. Lothrop, Joseph Lothrop, Ralph Jones, John Jenkins, John Huckins, John Rowland, John Hinckley, Barnabas Lothrop, Widow Lewis, Thomas Lewis, John Lewis, James Lewis, Edward Lewis, Shubael Dimock, Nathaniel Fitzrandal, John Fuller, Matthew Fuller, Samuel Fuller, sr., Samuel Fuller, jr., Samuel Fuller, son of Matthew, John and Nathaniel Goodspeed, Samuel Allyn, Nathaniel Bacon, jr., Peter Blossom, John Chipman, James Claghorn, James Cobb, Job Crocker, Josiah Crocker, Robert Davis, Thomas Dexter, William Dexter, William Troop, Thomas Walley, sr., John Gorham, Joseph Hallett, Bart. Hamblin, James Hamblin, sr., and James Hamblin, jr." ]
[p.381] TOWN OFFICERS OF BARNSTABLE [Henry Rowley was a Barnstable Representative to the General Court at Plymouth in 1643]
[p.383-385] CHURCHES OF BARNSTABLE COUNTY
[A background of Reverend John Lothrop's Congregation, of which, Henry Rowley and family were members]
'In 1616 Rev. Henry Jacobs organized a Congregational church at Southwark, London, [England] of which John Lothrop became pastor. In 1634 about thirty of this church, with Mr. Lothrop, immigrated to this continent, locating in the wilderness of Scituate, where they were joined by thirteen of the church who had previously arrived. October 31, 1639, Mr. Lothrop, with the majority of the Scituate church, as already appears, came to Barnstable. A few days after the arrival a fast was held
"to implore the grace of God to settle us here in church estate, and to unite us together in holy walking, and to make us faithful in keeping covenant with God and one another."
That the church here progressed and worked harmoniously is evinced by Mr. Lothrop's diary, which says:
"April 15, 1640, a day of fasting and prayer on occasion of the investing of Br. Mayo with the office of teaching elder, upon whom myself, Mr. Hull and Br. Cobb lay our hands; and for the Lord to find out a place for meeting, and that we may agree in it."
Tradition has it that the first meetings held in Barnstable were on and around a large rock westerly of Coggin's pond, on the north side of the county road. This rock has ruthlessly been removed, but a portion of it has been permanently placed at the southeast corner of the premises of Edward Scudder, in the north line of the highway.'
'The lapse of 250 years renders tradition dim, and even the small amount of records extant cannot definitely give the date of the building of the first meeting house or where it stood. It is clear that none had been built in March, 1644, for Mr. Lothrop said in his diary, March 24th,
"our meeting being held at the end of Mr. Burseley's house."
But by the same diary it appears that
" May, 1646, met in our new meeting house."
Where this first meeting house was located is in doubt. There are those who say it was near the present Baptist church in the village of Barnstable, but all there is in the records to substantiate the tradition is that Mr. Lothrop, the pastor, was given land near that meeting house and he first lived nearly opposite the present court house. Mr. Palfrey said the first was one-fourth of a mile -west of the present East Parish church, on the west side of the old burying ground. Mr. Otis says,
"The first meeting house stood in the ancient graveyard on the opposite of the road from Mr. Hull's house."
It was undoubtedly near the old burying ground by the present Methodist Episcopal church.'
'Mr. Lothrop died November 8, 1653, and tradition says it was in the house now occupied by the Sturgis Library."
[p. 394-395]THE VILLAGE OF BARNSTABLE, [Henry Rowley being an early resident.]
"Village of Barnstable.
—Like some other villages of the county, the settlement of this is contemporaneous with that of the town, the first settlement of the plantation being the nucleus of the present village. The names of the first pioneers have been given for the town, and we will now endeavor to place them in their first residences in the village.
In 1640, when their first primitive dwellings had been erected, Rev. John Lothrop's was where the present hotel of Mr. Eldridge stands, nearly opposite the court house:
Henry Rowley near Mr. Lothrop's;
Isaac Wells near where the court house stands;
George Lewis, sr., near the site of the Ainsworth house;
Edward Fitzrandal on the corner by the Hyannis road;
Henry Cobb near the present Unitarian church, and the hill was named Cobb's hill from this fact;
Richard Foxwell near the present Agricultural Hall;
Bernard Lumbert, further east, near the old mill;
and Nathaniel Bacon, John Smith, Roger Goodspeed, Thomas Huckins, John Scudder, Samuel Mayo and Thomas Dimock were also in the eastern part of the present village, east of John Lothrop's.
Around Coggin's pond were settled Henry Bourne, Thomas Hinckley, Henry Coggin, Laurence Litchfield. James Hamblin and William Tilley.
Between Coggin's pond and the present court house were Isaac Robinson, James Cudworth, Samuel Jackson, Thomas Allyn, John Mayo, John Caseley, Robert Linnell, William Caseley, Thomas Lothrop and Thomas Lumbert. Several, including John Bursley, settled west of Coggin's pond, the settlement, like the present village, being scattered along for a space of three miles. The center of the village then was a little east of Coggin's pond.
"Many of these first houses [in Barnstable] were made of timber and lumber brought from the saw mill at Scituate, the distance by water being short and transportation by boats easy. The house in which Governor Hinckley lived and died was just east of Marcus M. Nye's store, on the north side of the county road, near the head of " Calf Pasture lane." The governor's former house was on the opposite side of the county road, and here, under a stone wall, is the well which he used. His dust rests under a suitable slab, inscribed with record of his virtues, in the Methodist burying ground east of where he lived. Stone houses were early built in the western part of the then village or community, and houses with the first story of stone were very common.
The so-called Scudder lane of later years was "Calf Pasture lane" in the early days of the village, and led to common lands held at that time by the proprietors, and which are known to this day as the calf pasture lands. It is in tradition that the first comers to this town and village first settled at this pasture land, and the next year moved back from the water. The lane was opened prior to the laying out of the county road in 1686. Later it was the outlet to the harbor for fishing, and early in the present century Nelson and Daniel Scudder built a wharf on the harbor communicating with the lane, and from it several fishing vessels were sent out in connection with others of a fleet of forty that were made up from the rendezvous wharf and Cobb & Smith's wharf. For several years this fleet went and came regularly, and a lucrative business in mackerel fishing was carried on. Rendezvous lane is the street that runs northerly from the present Baptist church. The other wharves were located on the present "Poverty lane" that runs to the harbor from near Masonic Hall.'
Among the early industries here was that of salt making. Nathaniel Gorham boiled sea water and made salt, on Sandy neck, during the revolutionary war. Many of the present residents of Barnstable village remember when the " Common field "—the marsh in the rear of the Unitarian church—was a field of salt works."
[pp.395-397] BUSINESSES OF BARNSTABLE
In 1639, the town of Barnstable gave Thomas Lumbert permission "to keep victualling, or an Ordinary [an Inn, or Tavern] for the entertainment of strangers." Of course " to draw wines" was the main business of the tavern in those days. Several others operated taverns in the area."
"As early as taverns and places "to draw wines" existed in this village, the primitive store, with its rum, molasses and other staples, was also a contingent necessity. The variety of goods increased with the desires and growth of the village and surrounding town."
In colonial times, three regularly scheduled boats, or, "packets" at the village wharf shipped goods, passengers and mail, regularly between Barnstable and Boston, before the railroad. There were formerly store-houses located on the wharf, and a fishing industry.
[Henry Rowley died in 1673, shortly after purchasing land in, or moving to, Falmouth, Massachusetts. Falmouth was twenty-one miles southwest of Barnstable. Henry's son, Moses Rowley, continued to live in Barnstable, Massachusetts, until a few years after Henry's death, at which time Moses moved to Falmouth.]
SOURCE
Simeon L. Deyo, History of Barnstable County, Massachusetts: 1620-1890 (Salem, Massachusetts: Reprinted by Higginson Book Company, 1890), 368, 381, 394; digital scanned image, openlibrary.org, Internet Archive
http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Crocker-7
Deacon William Crocker, b. 11 Feb 1615/6 Modbury, Devon, England; d. Sep 1692, Barnstable, Massachusetts. He was one of the founders of Barnstable, Massachusetts (1639). He met Alice Foster (AKA: Hoyt) before emigrating to the Colonies, and they were married in Roxbury, England.[1]
In Barnstable he became Deacon of the Church, and its Deputy to the General Court 1670, 1671, 1674. In 1643 he moved to West Barnstable, where he died in 1692. Alice Foster Hoyt, was born before 1636, and died in 1684.[2]
William and Alice's children are[3]:
1. John, b. 1 May 1637
2. Elizabeth b. 22 Sep 1639
3. Samuel b. 3 July 1642
4. Job b. 19 Sep 1644
5. Josiah b. 19 Sep 1647
6. Eleazer b. 21 July 1650
7. Joseph (Sgt) b. 1654
Deacon William Crocker, a native of Lyneham, Devonshire, emigrated to New England in 1634 or 1635. Lived first Roxbury or Scituate. Removed to Barnstable in 1639, year in which the town was settled. (p. 414)[4]
He was a deacon in the church, and was an influential citizen and the owner of a large landed estate. (p. 1122) [5]
He first settled in the easterly part of Barnstable, but in 1643, removed to the westerly part where in 1655, he owned one hundred and twenty six acres of upland and twenty two acres of meadow. (p. 1122) [5] He was often employed in the business of the town and in settling estates. He acquired a large landed estate and for many years was the richest man in the town. (p. 876) [6]
Accomplishments & Occupations
1636: Built a frame house in Scituate, the fourty forth in that town.
1636: Dec. 25: Deacon William Crocker united with Rev. Mr. Lothrop's church in Scituate.
1639: October: Removed to Barnstable in October 1639, and was among the first settlers.
1644: Constable.
1654: 1655: 1657: 1661: 1667:1675: Grand Juror.
1668: Salesman.
1670: 1671: 1674: Deputy to the General Court at Plymouth. (p. 876) [6]
1643: The three deacons of the church Dimmock, Cobb, and Crocker each complied with the order of the Colony Court and built fortification houses, aided by their neighbors, in case of a sudden assault by the Indians. The buildings were to be a common place for refuge (p. 211)[7].
Deacon Crocker married his first wife Alice Foster[8] in 1636 at Scituate. She was the mother of all his children and died soon after 1683. (p. 1122) [5] He married second, Patience (Cobb) Parker, widow of Robert Parker and daughter of Elder Henry Cobb (p. 876) [6] (p. 1122) [5] (p. 192).[9].
His sons assisted their father on the farm, and at seventeen were able to do the work of a man. The girls were also brought up to more than earn their own living and assisted their mother spinning and weaving the flax and wool, and making their own and their brother's garments; and in hay time and at harvest, assisted their brothers (p. 208). [7]
Deacon William died in September, 1692, aged about eighty (p. 414). [4] (p. 876)[6]
Last Will & Testament
Deacon William Crocker was born in England about 1612. He emigrated as a young man from Devonshire to Massachusetts, settling in Scituate, Norfolk County. In 1636 he married his first wife Alice Hoyt or Foster. He lived in the Cape Cod area all of his life and died in Barnstable in September of 1692 at about 80 years of age.
- [These are notes on the early settling of Barnstable County, Massachusetts, concerning Henry Rowley, Samuel Fuller and others, from Simeon L. Deyo's "History of Barnstable County, Massachusetts: 1620-1890" See source information at end.]
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Sources - [S989] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index(R), citing microfilm 184643, reference number 2172, downloaded 20 Jan 2010 (Reliability: 3).
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- [S989] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index(R), citing microfilm 184643, reference number 2172, downloaded 20 Jan 2010 (Reliability: 3).
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