Francis Crooker

- Aft 1693

• Name	Francis Crooker
  Birth	of Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Aft Mar 1693  [2]
  Person ID	I36729	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TSW
  Last Modified	4 Nov 2021

  
  

  Family	Mary Gaunt,   b. of Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts d. Mar 1693, Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts
  Marriage	Aft 2 Mar 1647  [3, 4]
  Notes	Married in either Scituate or Marshfield.
  Children	+ 1. Jonathan Crooker,   b. Abt 1650   d. 11 Feb 1745 (Age ~ 95 years)
  Family ID	F21592	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Nov 2021

  
  

• 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 sd 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 sd Crooker shall, in convenient time, have in marriage the sd Mary Gaunt." It would seem that to marry Mary Gaunt, he was required to prove that he did not suffer from epilepsy.

  
  

• Sources

  [S6054] Marcia A. Thomas, "Crooker Family." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 12:68, Jan 1858. [S6048] M. A. Thomas, "Deaths and Burials from the Early Records of Marshfield, Ms." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 8:228, July 1854. [S2203] New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Clarence A. Torrey. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015., date of license. [S3238] History of Scituate, Massachusetts, from its First Settlement to 1831 by Samuel Deane. Boston: James Loring, 1831., year only.