Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

qenkaLogioal notes oe SarnsTable families. 245
8, Mehitable, June 8, 1768 ; 9, David, March 15th, 1761.
128. IV. Isaac, born 6th May, 1719, married, Mafch 22d,
1738-9, Elizabeth Fuller, and had 1, Ansel, Aug. 27th,-
1739 ; 2, Rebecca, March 24th, 1740 ; 3, Thomas, Sept. 19th,
1743; 4, Josiah, Oct. 14th, 1762 ; 5, Ansel, Jan. 22d,
1767. The names of the two last are added by a late town
clerk.
129. V. John, 11th Jan. 1721-2. His father, in a deed to him,
dated Oct. 12th, 1744, calls him 3d. He was in the ex"
pedition to Cape Breton, and to distinguish him from the
others of the same name, was called Cape Breton John.
130. VI. Temperance, born Oct. 3d, 1724, married Joseph
Annable, Dec. 31st, 1744.
(52) William Crocker, son of Joseph, born 25th Aug.
1679, married, by Justice Skiff of Sandwich, Nov. 1705, his
cousin, Mary Crocker, daughter of Josiah. He died in 1741,
in the 62d year of his age, his mother. Temperance, a daughter of
the first John Bursley, was then living. In his will dated Feb.
10th, 1740-1, proved July 8th, 1741, names his wife Mary his sons
William and Joseph, to whom he gives his West Barnstable estate
; and Benjamin, to whom he devises his lands in Sandwich,
and meadows at Scorton. He also named his daughters, Mercy
Blush and Mary Beals, and his "Hon'd mother Temperance
Crocker," who then retained the improvement of his estate. He
had children born in Barnstable, namely :
131. I. Mercy, 22d Sept. 1706, married Joseph Blush Oct.
28th, 1730.
132. II. A son, born 20th June, 1708, died July 4, 1708.
133. III. A daughter, still born, Aug. 3, 1709.
134. IV. William, born 9th Sept. 1710. He resided at West
Barnstable, and married, in 1743, Hannah Baker, and had
twelve children. He is called Mr. in the town records, then
a token of respect, and his wife Mrs. Only four are named
on the town records ; but the names of all are on the church
records. 1, Marj' (called Mercy on the church records)
born March 25, 1745 ; 2, William, Feb. 6, 1744, died young ;
3, Martha, Nov. 28, 1748; 4, Temperance, Jan. 22, 1749;
5, Hannah, baptized April 22, 1751 ; 6, Josiah, July 5,
1752; 7, William again, Oct. 1753; 8, Alice, July 27,
1755; 9, Mercy, Jan. 1, 1758; 10, Josiah, June 8, 1760;
11, Ephraim, July, 26, 1761 ; 12, Calvin, May 1764. The
latter was the late Capt. Calvin Crocker, who has descendants
in Barnstable.
135. V. Alice, born Sept. 1712, married Stephen Beals of
Hingham, Sept. 16, 1736. (In the abstract of his father's
will I have the name Mary, probably an error, should be
Alice.)