Yelverton

Descendants of Yelverton CROWE/CROWELL

1   Yelverton CROWE/CROWELL b: Abt. 1620 in Norfolk, England   d: October 24, 1683 in West Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., MA
.. +Elizabeth b: Abt. 1622 m: Abt. 1641 d: October 24, 1703
..... 2   Samuel CROWE
..... 2   Elizabeth CROWE
..... 2   Edward CROWE
..... 2   John CROWE b: 1639 in Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., MA   d: February 28, 1730/31
......... +Hannah // b: 1661 m: Abt. 1681 d: October 05, 1753
............ 3   Elizabeth CROWE b: August 03, 1682
............ 3   Jabez CROWE b: April 13, 1683
............ 3   Deliverance CROWE b: January 11, 1684/85
............ 3   Hannah CROWE b: December 01, 1687 in Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., MA
................ +Thomas BAXTER b: 1685 in Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., MA m: Abt. 1709 in Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., MA
................... 4   Thomas BAXTER b: December 19, 1710
................... 4   Cornelius BAXTER b: November 30, 1712 in Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., MA   d: 1796 in Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., MA
....................... +Joanna MERCHANT b: Abt. 1725 in Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., MA m: February 21, 1746/47 in Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., MA d: Aft. May 1772
.......................... 5   Martha BAXTER b: November 26, 1747
.......................... 5   Jerusha BAXTER b: December 15, 1749 in Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., MA   d: in Champion, Jefferson Co., NY
.............................. +Joseph STUDLEY III b: July 25, 1748 in Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., MA Baptism: November 27, 1763 West Yarmouth, Mass. m: February 15, 1770 in Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., MA d: August 1813 in Champion, Jefferson Co., NY
.......................... 5   Anna BAXTER b: October 25, 1752
.......................... 5   Moley BAXTER b: October 25, 1754
.......................... 5   Barnabas BAXTER b: January 13, 1758
.......................... 5   Cornelious BAXTER b: April 16, 1760
.......................... 5   Thankful BAXTER b: February 05, 1763
.......................... 5   Nathaniel BAXTER b: April 17, 1765
.......................... 5   David BAXTER b: April 15, 1767
.......................... 5   Marcy BAXTER b: December 22, 1772
................... 4   Leah BAXTER b: December 17, 1715
............ 3   John CROWE b: December 05, 1689
............ 3   Susannah CROWE b: November 11, 1691
............ 3   Experience CROWE b: January 29, 1693/94
............ 3   Joseph CROWE b: September 30, 1696
............ 3   Mary CROWE b: June 26, 1698
............ 3   Reliance CROWE b: January 02, 1698/99
............ 3   Mercy CROWE b: May 15, 1702
............ 3   Rachel CROWE b: January 30, 1702/03
............ 3   Ephraim CROWE b: November 14, 1706
..... 2   Thomas CROWE b: 1649

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

Passenger Lists:
Yelverton Crowe: Ship Caledonia 1634 with wife Elizabeth

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