Isaiah Crooker

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 28 Jan 1729, Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Notes:

He was a blacksmith, and one of the first twelve landowners of Long Reach, the Maine community later known as Bath. His nineteenth-century Crooker descendants built a shipbuilding empire centered there.

He was allegedly a very large man, well over six feet tall and weighing upwards of 300 pounds.

Isaiah married Hannah Harding in 1760. Hannah (daughter of Jonathan Harding and Huldah Rich) was born on 1 May 1737 in Truro, Barnstable, Massachusetts; died on 13 Apr 1825 in Bath, Sagadahoc, Maine; was buried in First Parish Cemetery, West Bath, Sagadahoc, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Huldah Crooker was born on 8 May 1762 in Bath, Sagadahoc, Maine; died on 19 Feb 1812 in Bath, Sagadahoc, Maine.

Notes:

"The last record of Francis Crooker in Marshfield is a deed dated 23 May 1750 from Francis Crooker of Marshfield, yeoman, to Francis Crooker, Jr., of Marshfield, hatter, of the farm that he lived on in Marshfield. As some of his children appeared in Maine, it is possible that he removed with them." [W. A. Walter, citation details below]

Francis married Patience Childs on 11 Mar 1724 in Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Patience (daughter of Joseph Childs and Elizabeth Seabury) was born on 11 Apr 1696 in Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died after 20 Feb 1736. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 17 Feb 1745

Jonathan married Mary Burroughs before 1680. Mary (daughter of Jeremiah Burroughs and (Unknown) Hewes) was born on 2 Dec 1656 in Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died on 22 Nov 1728 in Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married Elizabeth Seabury before 1691 in Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of Samuel Seabury and Patience Kempe) was born on 16 Sep 1661; died after 1718. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was in Scituate in 1648, but soon left. We find no evidence that he was a son of a Hugh Crocker or Crooker.

Samuel Deane's 1835 History of Scituate quotes a Massachusetts Bay Colony record: "Upon petition of Francis Crooker, who desires in marriage Mary Gaunt, kinswoman to Mr Coggin of Barnstable-- the Court having heard both parties, and seriously weighed the circumstances, doth order that if the s^d Crooker bring in to the Governor a certificate under the hands of Mr Chauncy, and some other approved phisition, that that disease with which he is sometimes troubled, be not the falling sickness, that then he the s^d Crooker shall, in convenient time, have in marriage the s^d Mary Gaunt." It would seem that to marry Mary Gaunt, he was required to prove that he did not suffer from epilepsy.

Francis married Mary Gaunt after 2 Mar 1647. Mary was born in of Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts; died in Mar 1693 in Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Possibly a daughter of Peter Gaunt who is recorded in Sandwich in 1637 and 1643, but we find nothing to substantiate this. Peter Gaunt is sometimes asserted to have been married to a woman named Lydia, but it seems unlikely that the Lydia Gaunt who made her will in Sandwich 28 Dec 1691 (proved 21 Apr 1692) was the mother of this Mary Gaunt, as neither Mary nor her husband Francis Crooker are mentioned in Lydia Gaunt's will.

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Married in either Scituate or Marshfield.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 3 Dec 1660

Jeremiah married (Unknown) Hewes in May 1651 in Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sometimes said (including by Savage) to have been a Hewet, but W. A. Walter (citation details below) says that the original Marshfield VR says "[torn]miah Burrowes and [torn] Hewes, were married May 1651". If she was a Hewes, she may have been a daughter of John Hewes of Scituate, but even if so, there were two men of that name in Scituate who could have been her father.

Richard married Mary Truant on 24 Jan 1665 in Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of Morris Truant and Jane) was born about 1644. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Patience Kempe on 9 Nov 1660. Patience (daughter of William Kempe and Elizabeth Partridge) died on 29 Oct 1676 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Arrived in 1630, first at Massachusetts Bay, then Duxbury by 1636, Marshfield 1650.

Morris married Jane on 16 Oct 1639 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Jane died after 31 Dec 1678. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"SEABURY John, planter, and seaman, is called of Boston, bought house 25 Nov. 1639 and was admitted inhabitant. His wife Grace was admitted to the church 15 May 1642. He moved to Barbados and his wife went to her husband there and after his death, but before Feb. 1650, married Anthonie Lane. She approved 14 Oct. 1651 of the sale of a house of her former husband by John Milam." [The Ancestry and Allied Families of Nathan Blake 3rd and Susan (Torrey) Blake, citation details below]

"John Seabury bought, in 1639, with leave of the town, Walter Merry's house, and half an acre under it, in the Mill Field, and so was allowed an inhabitant." [Note-book Kept by Thomas Lechford, Esq., citation details below]

John married Grace. Grace died after 14 Oct 1651. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was long said, including by Savage and Pope, to have been the William Kemp who appeared on the 1635 passenger list of the James, but Robert Charles Wilson points out that the William Kemp of the passenger list was called a servant, whereas the William Kemp of Duxbury was addressed with the title of "Mr.", indicating a much higher social standing. Anderson acknowledges that in certain cases a man entitled to be called "Mr." might be a servant to someone of even higher rank, but the William Kemp of the James appears on the passenger list immediately following Anthony Emery and John Emery, carpenters from Romsey, Hampshire, who settled in Newbury and were not distinguished as "Mr." From this Anderson concludes that the William Kemp of the James and the William Kemp who first appears in Duxbury in 1639 were probably two different men.

William married Elizabeth Partridge about 1638. Elizabeth (daughter of Rev. Ralph Partridge and Patience Bathurst) was born before 9 May 1619; was christened on 9 May 1619 in Sutton-by-Dover, Kent, England; died on 2 Jun 1664 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She is described by Cotton Mather in Magnalia Christi Americana (citation details below) as "a person of a most amiable temper; one pious, and prudent and every way worthy of the man [Thomas Thacher] to whom she became a glory. By her he received three sons and one daughter; and when she had continued three sevens of years with him. she went after a very triumphant manner to be for ever with the Lord, June 2, 1664, uttering those for her dying words, 'Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly: why are thy chariot-wheels so long a coming?'"

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The date of his baptism is recorded in many sources as 12 April 1579 at St. Mary the Virgin, Sutton Valence, Kent, son of Thomas Partridge. That he was a son of Thomas Partridge is established by the wills of two of his brothers. Gervase Partridge's will, dated 11 Jun 1647, names his brother Ralph and Ralph's two daughters, Mary wife of John Marshall and Elizabeth wife of Thomas Thacher. And "Randolph Partrich of the Towne and Port of Dover in the Countye of Kent Apothecarye" left a will dated 20 Jun 1653, proved in London 26 Nov 1655, naming many of the same people mentioned in Gervase's will and giving "unto my deare brother Ralphe Partriche nowe in Newe England my best stuffe gowne and my seale ringe." But as pointed out by the author of his page at WikiTree, the actual original parish record of the 12 April 1579 baptism refers to a Rodolphus or Redolphus Partridge, who seems much more likely to be his abovementioned brother Randolph Partridge. 16th-century Latinizations of proper names were far from rigorously systematic. If Ralph Partridge had no brother named Randolph, we would have no problem accepting the 12 April 1579 record as referring to Ralph. But since he did, the identification seems at the very least questionable.

"He matriculated sizar from Trinity College, Cambridge, ca. 1595, B.A. 1599-1600, M.A. 1603, and was curate at Sutton-by-Dover from 1604 to 1634. His first wife, Priscilla -----, was buried at Sutton-by-Dover on 1 April 1608. Ralph and Patience Partridge arrived in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1636, and settled at Duxbury, where Ralph was pastor from 1638 until his death, which occurred before 25 April 1658, when his estate inventory was dated." [Leslie Mahler, citation details below]

Ralph married Patience Bathurst on 14 Jan 1609 in Chillenden, Kent, England. Patience (daughter of Edward Bathurst and Elizabeth Besbeech) was born before 10 Nov 1583; was christened on 10 Nov 1583 in Horsmonden, Kent, England; died before 29 Dec 1655 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]