Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 213
Davis, daughter of her sister Hannah Lothrop ; to Deborah,
daughter of her brother Joseph ; to John, son of her
nephew Moses ; to Elizabeth, daughter of her brother John ;
to Joseph Lothrop, son of her nephew Joseph, deceased ; to
the poor of the church of which she was a member ; to the
church in West Barnstable ; and to John, son of the Rev.
Jonathan Russell. To her brother John's son John, (called
Blue John Crocker) she bequeathed the lower great room
in her house, the" bed room and the garret, and materials to
put the house in good repair. The remainder of the house
she bequeathed to her neice Hannah Lothrop, a single
woman, then fifty years of age. All the rest of her estate
she gave to her sister Mary Bursley, Experience Lothrop,
Hannah Lothrop, Abigail Lothrop, and Prudence Gorham,
wife of John Gorham, Esq., and daughter of Joseph
Crocker.
Miss Experience had scjme
Vicar of Wakefield's wife.
of the good qualities of the
He said all his wife's cousins
even to the fortieth remove, never forget their relationship,
and never passed his door without calling, and his table was
always well filled with a happy company.
17. IX. Jabez, died in 1700, without issue, and his estate was
divided among his brothers
and mother, then surviving.
and sisters, by the same father
18. X. Mary, married Feb, 11, 1702, John Bursley, Jr.
19. XI. Abigail. Her birth is not recorded on the town
records. She died young, leaving no issue.
20. XII. Bathshua, also died young, leaving no issue.
Of the children of John Crocker, his son Joseph is the last
whose birth is recorded on the town records. The names of the
others are arranged in the order found on the Probate records.
4. Samuel Crocker, son of Dea. William Crocker, born in
Barnstable July 3, 1642, died Dec. 1681, aged 39. It does not
appear that he married. If he had left issue, his children would
probably have been named in their grandfather's will. The cause
of his death is stated in the following extract from the Plymouth
Colony Records, Vol. 6, page 82.
An Inditement.
"Indian James, thou art here indited by the name of James,
for that thou, haveing not the fear of God before thyne eyes, on
the one and twentyeth day of November 1681, in the town of
Barnstable, didst felloniously, willfully, and of mallice forethought,
with intent to murder, kick Samuel Crocker, son of
William Crooker, of Barnstable, on the bottom of his belley,
whereof the said Samuel Crocker three weeks after died ; which
thou hast don contrary to the law of God, of England, and this
collonie, and contrary to the peace of our sou.'r Lord the Kinge,