1 John CROWE b: Abt. 1610 in Norfolk,
England d: January 14, 1671/72 in Yarmouth, Barnstable Co.,
MA
.. +Elishua b: Abt. 1612 m: Bef. 1633 in
Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., MA d: 1688
..... 2 Elizabeth CROWE b: in Yarmouth, Barnstable
Co., MA
......... +Samuel MATTHEWS
..... 2 Elishua CROWE
..... 2 Moses CROWE b: 1637 in Yarmouth,
Barnstable Co., MA d: July 31, 1688 in Woodbridge, MA
..... 2 John
CROWE Jr. b: 1639 in Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., MA d: January
28, 1688/89 in Barnstable, Barnstable Co., MA
......... +Mehitabel MILLER
b: July 12, 1638 m: Abt. 1661 d: February 23, 1714/15
............ 3 John CROWE b: 1662
................ +Bethia SEARS b: Abt. 1664
m: May 27, 1684 in Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., MA
............ 3 Lydia CROWE b: Abt. 1664
................ +Ebenezer GOODSPEED b: Abt. 1660
m: February 15, 1679/80
............ 3 Samuel CROWE b: Abt. 1665
............ 3 Mehitabel CROWE b: Abt. 1667
............ 3 Jeremiah CROWE b: 1670
................ +Hannah RIDER b: Abt. 1680
m: 1705
............ 3 Elizabeth CROWE b: Abt. 1672
............ 3 Susannah CROWE b: Abt. 1675
............ 3 Hannah
CROWE b: April 01, 1677 in Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., MA
d: January 30, 1722/23 in Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., MA
................ +Joseph
STUDLEY b: Abt. 1685 m: April 12, 1706 in Yarmouth, Barnstable
Co., MA d: December 16, 1756 in Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., MA
................... 4 Joseph STUDLEY II b:
1707 in Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., MA d: January 03, 1763 in
Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., MA
....................... +Experience PAINE b: May
27, 1713 in Harwich, MA m: March 09, 1733/34 in Yarmouth, Barnstable
Co., MA d: October 24, 1736 in Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., MA
................... *2nd Wife of Joseph STUDLEY
II:
....................... +Mary MERCHANT b: Abt.
1710 in Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., MA m: January 31, 1737/38 in Yarmouth,
Barnstable Co., MA d: March 19, 1770 in Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., MA
..... 2 Thomas CROWE b: 1645 in Yarmouth,
Barnstable Co., MA d: in Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., MA
THE PIONEERS OF MASSACHUSETTS
by Charles Henry Pope, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.
"Crow, Crowe, Croe, Crowell,
Mr. John,
Charlestown, 1635. His wife had come the year before and bought a
house of Mr. Wm. Jennings on her arrival. [Char. Rec.] Copy of list
of his possessions in Char. (4) 1638, in Mdx. Files, 11. Town officer.
He rem. To Yarmouth; took oath of allegiance to Plym. Col. Rec. Dec. 18,
1638; frm. and magistrate 2 June, 1640. Sold a farm in Dorchester
to Thomas Makepeace before 1641. [L..] Wife Elishua adm. Chh.
Char. 4 (11) 1634-35; ch. Moyses (Moses,) bapt. 24 (4) 1637. [John,
propr. At Billerica, 1654, and Yelverton or Elverton, propr. At Yarmouth,
have been conjectured to be sons.]"
THE TOWN OF YARMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS: A HISTORY, 1639-1989 by Marion Vuilleumier, The Historical Society of Old Yarmouth 1989
p. 5. "The plan for allocation of lands was an early example of basic town planning. A committee was appointed by the court to make an equal division of the planting lands. The committee consisted of Thacher, Crowe, Howes, Simpkins, Palmer, Tabor, and Barnes."… "A tiny settlement began near the South Sea (Nantucket Sound) in 1643 when Yelverton Crowe built a home in the South Sea Avenue area."
p.208 "When the town of Yarmouth was founded in 1639 a series of small settlements developed on an old Indian path in the general vicinity of today’s Route 6A from Cummaquid (now in Barnstable) in the west through the present-day Dennis (a part of Yarmouth until 1793) in the east. Almost all the inhabitants, about twenty-five families, lived along this well-trodden path, which was the easiest place to settle. The main exception was Yelverton Crow (or Crowell) who settled at the South Sea (present West Yarmouth) four years later in 1643."
p. 221. "The beginnings of West
Yarmouth date to 1643, when Yelverton Crowe (Crowell) built a home near
the South Sea (Nantucket Sound) on what is today South Sea Avenue.
According to Mrs. Simeon Baker, who gave a talk at a meeting of the Historical
Society of Old Yarmouth on March 24, 1954, Crowell acquired his land in
a curious way"
"The local Indian
sachem agreed to give him ‘as much land as he could walk over in an hour,
for the consideration of an ox-chain, a copper kettle, a pewter porringer,
and English coin and a few trinkets.’ While there was still a spoonful
of sand to run its course in the hour-glass they took along with them,
Yelverton grew tired of walking, or decided he had driven a sharp enough
bargain. At any rate he did not spend the whole hour, and finished
the business by cutting a bold C and a cross-bar (the family crest bears
a crowbar) in a great pine, thus marking the final boundary of his prize."
p. 225. "Yelverton’s original
home, probably made of logs, was built in the vicinity of South Sea Avenue
and Silver Leaf Lane, close to the home of descendant Joshua Freeman Crowell.
…
"In 1643 Crowe
was listed to bear arms. He was a grand jury man in 1656 and a deputy
in 1663, 1666, and 1667. He was also a selectman in 1667, according
to court records.
Daniel Wing,
a local historian writing in 1915, noted that Yelverton Crowe’s will, filed
in December 1681, proved his name change, for it is signed ‘Yelverton Crowe,
alias Crowell’"
GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF CAPE COD FAMILIES Compiled
by Lydia B. Brownson, Grace W. Held and Doris V. Norton, a microfilm project
by Scholarly Resources, Inc. Wilmington.
"Crowell"
John brother of Yelverton prob
from Norfolk
b ___ came to N.E.
1635 d. Jan 14, 1672
m Elishua d. 1688
Ch.
Moses 1637 d y
John 1639
Thomas 1645
Elizabeth
Elishua
Yelverton
b. ___ d. Oct 24, 1683 Will
Dec 23, 1681
m. Elizabeth d. Oct 24, 1703
Ch.
John 1642
Samuel
Thomas 1649
Elizabeth
Edward
John 2 (Yelverton 1)
b. 1642 d. Feb 28, 1731
m. Hannah b. 1661
d. 1753
Ch.
Elizabeth Aug 3, 1682
Jobey Apr 143, 1683
Deliverance Jan 11, 1685
Hannah Dec. 1, 1687
etc. 9 more
John 2 (John 1)
b. 1639 d. 1688
m. Mehitabel Miller (Rev John)
Ch.
John 1662
Samuel d. 1723
Mehitabel
Lydia
Jeremiah
Elizabeth
Susannah 1666
Hannah 1667 [sic]
Supposedly the reference is Cape Cod Library, which gives the date 1677.
Cape Cod Library of Local History and Genealogy;
Leonard H. Smith, JR CG; Volume 2
page 1601
Mr John Crowe (2) resided at Nobascusset
and was called after the death of his father, Senior to distinguish him
from John Crow, son of Yelverton Crowe. He married Mehitable Miller, born
at Roxbury, July 12, 1638 and daughter of Rev. John Miller. He died January
28, 1688-9 and his widow Mhitable Crowell [sic] February 23 1714-15. His
estate was settled at the Perogative Court held in Barnstable, March 6,
1688/9.
His children then living are named
in the settlement.
John, eldest son born 1662 married
Bethia Sears 1684.
Samuel
Mehitabel
Lydia married Ebenezer Goospeed
15 February 1679/80
Jeremiah born 1670 married Hannah
Rider 1705
Elizabeth
Susannah
Hannah born 1 April 1677 married
Joseph Studley April 1706
Passenger Lists:
John Crowe Ship Hopewell (Coldham, p. 144 Vol
1) Sailed from England May 8, 1635