Mary Crosby

Mary married John Blanchard on 07 Aug 1701 in Billerica,,MA. John (son of Samuel Blanchard and Hannah Daggett) was born on 03 Jul 1677 in Charleston,,MA(not recorded Charles.); died on 10 Apr 1750 in Billerica,,MA. [Group Sheet]

1. Samuel Blanchard was born on 17 Aug 1717 in Billerica,,MA; died on 26 Mar 1807 in Billerica,,MA, aged 90; was buried in Old South Cem,Billrica.

Simon married Rachel Bracket on 15 Jul 1659 in Braintree,,MA. Rachel (daughter of Richard Bracket and Alice Blower) was born on 03 Nov 1639 in (bp) Boston,,MA; died on 07 May 1748 in Cambridge,,MA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Source: Passengers to America, A Consolidation of Ship Passenger Lists from The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, edited by Michael Tepper, pub. 1988, pages 23-24:

Aprillis 1635,,, these underwritten names are to be transported to New England imbarqued in the Suzan and Ellin (Susan & Ellen) Edward Payne Mr. The p'ties have brought Certificates from ye Ministers and Justices of the peace of they are no Subsedy men : and are conformable to ye orders and discipline of the Church of England.
Symon Crosby Husbandm: 26
Ann Crosby vxor (wife) 25
Tho: Crosby child 8 weeks

Symon Crosby is also listed in "Savage's Genealogical Dictionary.", vol. 4, p. 289; and in "Pope's Pioneers of Massachusetts", p. 457.

Source: NEHGS Vol. 87, October 1933, page 360:
The Susan and Ellen sailed from London for New England soon after the middle of May 1635, and crossed the Atlantic in six of eight weeks. She had been one of the great fleet which left England in October, ten years earlier, to intercept the Spanish treasure ships off the Bay of Cadiz. Her captain at that time, Christopher Levett, had a poor opinion of her, but now in 1635 she carried 96 passengers and was commanded by Edward Payne. Many of those on board, including ...Simon Crosby... had come from Yorkshire.

Source: NEHGS Great Migration Study Project, Fall 2001:
Simon Crosby arrived in New England in 1635, settled at Cambridge and died there in 1639. In these brief four years we have evidence of both civil and military service. He was twice a selectman, and his inventory listed "one great fowling piece & a musket, ... one carbine with furniture...(and) one pistol."

Simon married Ann Brigham on 21 Apr 1634 in Holme-on-Spaulding-Moor,Yorkshire,Eng. Ann was born about 1610 in Holme-on-Spalding-Moor,Yorkshire,Eng; died on 11 Oct 1675 in Braintree,,MA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Source: The Great Migration Begins 1620-1633, Vol. I, NEHGS, pub. 1995, pages 203-206.

Origin: Sudbury, Suffolk, England Migration: 1632 First Residence: Boston Removes: Braintree 1641
Return Trips: Travelled to England in 1633 for his marriage, and then returned to New England in 1634.
Occupation: Husbandman. Boston jailkeeper (1637-1640).
Church Membership: Admitted to Boston church as member #144 which would be shortly before 11 November 1632. Richard and Alice were dismissed from the Boston church to the Braintree church on 8 May 1642.
Freeman: 25 May 1636
Education: Sufficient to be Braintree clerk of writs. Signed will with shaky hand.
Offices: Deputy for Braintree to General Court (as "Capt. Richard Brackett"), May of 1655, 1665, 1667, 1671, 1672, 1674 (and October 1674), 1680 and January 1680/1. Commisioner to meet with men of Plymouth "to lay out that marsh lying at Connahassett", 29 May 1655. Commissioner to lay out land, December 1683. Appointed by General Court "to join persons in marriage in the town of Braintry...also to administer oaths in civil cased," October 1679. Braintree selectman in 1652, 1653, 1670, 1672, 1683. Braintree clerk of writs, 1646 to 1654. Admitted to Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in 1639 and was granted his request to lay down his arms as chief military commander in Braintry on October 15 1684...due to infirmaties of age being above 73 years of age.

Estate: named the following- wife, Alice Brackett of Braintree; to the children of son John "by his wife Hannah Brackett", to son Peter Brackett, son-in-law Simon Crosbey and son-in-law Joseph Thompson; to "the two daughters of my son Josiah deceased Elizabeth and Sarah; to my son James Brackett; to my son-in-law Joseph Crosby; to "my daughter Hannah Blancher", to "my daughter Rachell Crosby; "to my grandchild Abigall Tompson"; to Hannah Brackett the daughter of my son John; "to Anna Crosby daughter of my son Joseph Crosby."

Associations: Through his mother and his wife Richard Brackett became a member of, and the first immigrant from, the largest kinship network as yet uncovered among the participants in the Great Migration, a network worked out mostly by Mary Lovering Holman, John Brooks Trelfall and Douglas Richardson. (See John Brooks Trelfall, Fifty Great Migration Colonists to New England & Their Origins (Madison, Wisconsin, 1990).

Richard Brackett was son of Peter Brackett and his wife Rachell; another son of this couple was Peter Brackett who came to Braintree about 1636 (TAG 52:65-75m 92). About 1618 Rachel, the mother of the two Brackett immigrants, married secondly Martin Sanders, and in 1635 Sanders, his wife, and their Sander children, along with Rachel (Brackett) Newcomb (sister of Richard and Peter Brackett), her husband, Francis Newcomb, and their children sailed for New England on the "Planter" (Hotten 48-49, TAG 55:215-217).

Alice Blower was daughter of Thomas and Alice (Frost) Blower; she may have had two brothers who came to New England, and her father certainly came to New England in 1635, but apparently died soon (TAG 52:73-75; see also NEHGR 139:148-49), Her mother, Alice Frost, was sister of Thomasine Frost, who married Edmund Rice, imigrant to Sudbury, and also of Elizabeth Frost, who married first Henry Rice and then Philemon Whale, the latter also an immigrant to Sudbury (TAG 15:227,26:10-11; TG 6:131-41; Stevens-Miller Anc 143-44).

Taking into accounts all these persons and their children, then, there were more than forty future immigrants to New England who were related to Richard Brackett by blood or marriage before their departure from England."

Richard married Alice Blower on 06 Jan 1634 in St Katherine by the Tower,London,Eng. Alice (daughter of Thomas Blower and Alice Frost) was born on 30 Jun 1615 in (bp)St.Gregory,Sudbury,Suffolk,Eng; died on 03 Nov 1690 in Braintree,,MA aged 76. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Thomas and Jane (Sotheron) Crosby, parents of Simon Crosby, came to New England about 1638 and settled initially in Cambridge (Crosby Gen 20-29). Anthony Crosby. (See TGM Begins - Simon Crosby, Vol. I, page 235.)

Thomas married Jane Sotheron in Holme-on-Spaulding-Moor,Yorkshire,Eng. Jane was born in in of Holme-on-Spaulding-Moor,Yorkshire,Eng; died in in Cambridge,,MA. [Group Sheet]

Living married Living. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Source: TGM, Vol. 1, A-B, pages 338-340
Origin: Sudbury, Suffolk
Migration: 1635 on the Truelove
First Residence: Boston

Thomas married Alice Frost on 19 Nov 1612 in Stanstead, Suffolk, England. Alice (daughter of Living and Living) was born on 01 Dec 1594 in Stanstead, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet]