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died young

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died young

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or 5 Dec 1739 ?

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died at Bangor, Penobscot, Me. Mar.7,1796 a. 70. See Bangor Historical Magazine Vol.2.

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His cousin Simon3 (Simon2-1) Crosby of Billerica had a son born 1689, same year as the Braintree man, who married - , He was not the one who married Rachel Kettell in spite of the record being kept in Billerica records and given as such in the History of Billerica.

Simon Crosby of Braintree had a wife Rachel as shown by many deeds and his will. He apparently did not settle in Braintree before 1726 and where his earlier children were born is not found. He was elected fenceviewer 1733, 1737, surveyor of highways 1739, tithingman 1741, surveyor again in 1744

S.P.50-332: Will of Simon Crosby of Braintree, yeoman, May 18,1755 - Jun.27,1755:
To wife Rachel all household goods etc. and improvement of 1/3 the real estate. To each of sons Joseph, Thomas, Simon, Timothy, & Richard 5 shillings. To daughters Elizabeth, Sarah, Mathew (sic) in record), Mary & Anna 5 shillings each. To son Samuel all real estate in Braintree and salt meadow now in partnership with my brethren Joseph & Thomas Crosby. To son Samuel that part of my brother Ebenezer's estate that was set off to his widow as thirds. To daughter Rachel £6. Son Samuel executor.
Witnesses: William Adams, Benjamin Fessenden, Jonathan Fessenden.

50-498, Inventory, Aug.30,1755, taken by Moses Belcher, David Bass, Samuel Bass.
4 1/2a. arable lands, 1a. salt meadow, 1/3 part the right that was Eleanor Penniman's, 1/3 part the right that was Stephen Pain's.

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Simon1 Crosby, the earliest member of the family to come from England was a passenger with his wife and child in the "Susan & Ellen" from London April 18,1635 and is listed as Symon Crosby, husbandman aged 26, Ann Crosby, his wife, aged 25, Thomas Crosby aged 8 weeks, child. Simon Crosby came from Holme -on - Spaulding - Moor, Yorkshire, England where he was born about 1608, son of Thomas & Jane (Sotheron) Crosby who also came over to New England in 1639 remaining at Cambridge for some years but finally settling in Rowley where they died. (For further details of English ancestry see "Simon Crosby the Emigrant, his English Ancestry and some of his American Descendants", by Eleanor Davis Crosby, 1914).

Simon Crosby was mentioned in the will of his grandfather William Sotheron dated Dec.2,1616, and his children Thomas, Simon and Joseph "sons of my brother Symon deceased" are mentioned in the will of his brother Thomas Crosby of Holme on Spaulding-Moor, dated Nov.25,1658. Thomas Crosby, father of Simon the earliest emigrant came over before 1640 but the exact date is unknown and may be about 1638 when Rev. Ezekiel Rogers came over, and settled in Rowley.

Simon1Crosby married April 21,1634 at Holme - on - Spaulding Moor, Yorkshire, Anne Brigham, born about 1606 or 7, daughter of Thomas & Isabel (Watson)(Ellithorpe) Brigham. Simon Crosby died at Cambridge, Mass. where they settled in Sep.1639 and she was made administrator of his estate about the time she married as second wife in 1645, Rev. William Tompson of Braintree by whom she had one child.

The widow Anne (Brigham)(Crosby) Tompson died Oct.8,1675 aged 69 years, says her gravestone in Hancock Cemetery, Quincy, by that of her second husband.

Simon1Crosby was made freeman Mar.3,1635/6 at Cambridge.

For some account of this family see also New York Gen. Bio. Record Vols. 29-30. Acknowledgement for help on this family is made to Mr. Arthur Hodgman Of Lowell, Middlesex, Mass., a descendant.

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He of Braintree & She of Boston (& Charlestown?).

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16 children, 4 sets of twins