| Rev. Thomas Crosby b. 1635 (in Spaulding Moor,Yorkshire,England) m. Sarah Fitch in 1662 in Mass. |
| 1. Thomas Crosby b: 7 APR 1663 in Eastham,Barnstable County, Massachusetts 2. Simon Crosby b: 5 JUL 1665 in Eastham,Barnstable County, Mass 3. Sarah Crosby b: 24 MAR 1667 in Eastham,Barnstable County, Mass 4. Joseph Crosby b: 4 DEC 1670 in Harwich,Barnstable County, Mass 5. John Crosby b: 4 DEC 1670 in Harwich,Barnstable County, Mass 6. William Crosby b: MAR 1672/1673 in Harwich,Barnstable County, Mass 7. Ebenezer Crosby b: 28 MAR 1675 in Harwich,Barnstable County, Mass 8. Mercy Crosby b: 14 APR 1678 in Harwich,Barnstable County, Mass 9. Anne Crosby b: 14 APR 1678 in Harwich,Barnstable County, Mass 10. Increase Crosby b: 14 APR 1678 in Harwich,Barnstable County, Mass 11. Eleazer Crosby b: 30 MAR 1680 in Harwich,Barnstable County, Mass 12. ?? |
| Thomas and Sarah (Fitch) Crosby had 12 children: (Researching these children) |
| He was one of the eight who organized the church here in 1700. He died in Boston, while on a business trip, June 13, 1702. His widow, Sarah, the mother of his 12 children, married April 28, 1703, John Miller, of Yarmouth. he died in 170? and has many descendants living in the vicinity of Cape Cod, Mass. He had a half-sister Anna, born in 1648. |
| After attending District School, with the assistance of Doctor Thompson, he entered Harvard College, graduating in 1653, and was ordained a clergyman. He was minister at Eastham, Mass. from 1655 to 1670. He seems to have been engaged as a religious teacher to carry on the Sabbath Service, at a salary of 50 pounds. |
| Rev. Thomas Crosby, of Eastham, Mass. was a graduate of Harvard College in 1653. Thomas was born in England, about eight months before his parents sailed for America, in May 1635, on the ship "Susan and Ellen". Only four years later his Father died, in Sept. 1639, at Cambridge, Mass. thus leaving a mother with three small children to provide for and in a new country. About seven years later when Thomas was eleven years of age and his brother Joseph was seven, they removed with their mother toBraintree, a village on the south side of Boston, Mass. (known asQuincy) after her (Simon's Widow, Anne) marriage to Rev. William Thompson. |
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