Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

GENEALOICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 241
married Martha Nye, and has descendants living. Joseph
and Prince owned and occupied the ancient Crocker house,
and both lived to extreme old age. 9, Temperance, born
July 28, 1776, married Ezra Crocker; 10, David, Feb. 21,
1779, married Rachell Bacon, and his sons Eben, Frederick
and Henry, and daughter Caroline, are now living; 11,
Josiah, Aug. 24, 1781, died unmarried at New Orleans.
103-. X. Timothy, Aug. 23, 1728.
104. XI. Jonathan, born Nov. 22, 1731, mawied May 2, 1754,
Sarah Childs. He died of the small pox Dec. 4, 1796, and
his wife Sarah of the same disease Dec. 16, 1796. He was
the iirst buried in the Crocker burying ground. He has
descendants living.
(30) David Crocker, Esq., youngest son of Dea. Job
Crocker, born 5th Nov. 1697, graduate of Harvard College 1716,
resided on the John Crocker farm at West Barnstable. He was
many years town Clerk, transcribed the ancient town records, now
lost. The records of the births of the Crockers he arranged
genealogically. He was many years one of the board of selectmen,
and in 1742 a justice of the Court of Common Pleas. He
died in 1764, aged 67 years. He married 12th Nov. 1724,
Abigail, daughter of Mr. David Loring, and Jan. 27, 1757, Mrs.
Mary Stuart. His children were :
105. I. A son, born Jan. 9, 1725, died Feb. 19, 1725.
106. n. David, April 14, 1726, died June 28, 1734.
107. III. Abigail, May 20, 1728, married Jan. 10, 1754, Seth
Blossom.
108. IV. William, Dec. 8, 1730 (called Jr.) He resided in the
house which was his father's. He belonged to the East
Parish, and was a member of the East Church. He married
twice, 1st in 1753 Lydia Knowles of Eastham. She died
April 16, 1764, and he married 2d, Sept. 30, 1764, Mary
Cobb, Jr. He died May 3, 1819, in his 89th year, and she
died May 20, 1817, aged 85; His children born in Barnstable
were: 1, Abigail, March 15,1754; 2, David, Aug.
23, 1755 ; 3, Temperance, Jan. 2, 1763 ; 4, Sarah, June 26,
1765; 5, Mary, Nov. 2, 1766; 6, William, Nov. 19, 1768:
7, Matthias, July 26, 1770 ; 8, Ebenezer, baptized July 26,
1772 ; 9, Loring, born March 18, 1774. Of this family,
William resided in his father's estate, and died June 24,
1844, and his brother, Dea. Ebenezer, a tanner, did also in
the first part of his life. He removed to the West, where
he died a few years since. Matthias was a hatter and
resided in Boston. Loring was largely engaged in the salt
manufacture at the common field, and died March 21, 1841.
His son Loring now owns his manufactories.
109. V. Alice, born April 18, 1757, baptized July 30th, 1758,