Week # 9 - John Crowe II (<1639 - 28 Jan 1689)
An ancestor a week for 52 Weeks! #52ancestors
Lots of discussion on the spelling of this family name. It seems it was once Crowe but then when the II was added for John Crowe 2d, the spelling changed to Crowell.
John Crowe II, our 7th great-grandfather, son of John and Elishua, was born before 1639,[1] and married Mehetable Miller by 1662.[2] She was born at Roxbury, July 12, 1638, the daughter of the Rev. John Miller.[3] They resided at "Nobscussett [now called Dennis]." John was called, after the death of his father [in 1673], "Senior", to distinguish him from John Crow, son of Yelverton Crowe.[3] He died 28 Jan 1688-9. Mehitable died 23 Feb 1714-15, age 76.[4] Although the record of their children's births is lost, John's estate was settled at the Prerogative Court [an ecclesiastical court exercising probate jurisdiction] held in Barnstable, and his children then living were named in the settlement. You can see below that we are descended from two of John Sr's children.
In keeping with the theme of writing about children of our ancestors who were part of the Puritan Great Migration (1620-1640) we see that John 2d's father, John Sr., mother and two oler siblings embarked 8 May 1635 on the "Hopewell" under Master John Driver from Weymouth, Norfolk, England. "Family" most likely included Elizabeth and Yelverton, and perhaps Nasare.[6]. They migrated to Charlestown, Massachusetts, and then moved to Yarmouth in Plymouth Colony.[4] There are extensive sources on this family which can be found at Wikitree[5].
Probate once again provides great insight. 6 March 1688/9 "John Crow the Eldest Son ... to have and Injoy the house and all the Lands...after the death of his mother mehittable Crow and the sd mehitable Crow to have and Injoy the third part there of during her natural Life. ...mehittable Crow and Lidya Crow the Daughters of sd deceased having had alredy considerable of theirs the other two thirds of his personal estat to be equally devided between his Children Samuel Crow Jeremiah Crow Elizabeth Crow Susanna Crow and Hannah Crow.
It sounds like daughters Mehitable and Lydia had already received a "dowery" since they were married before John's death. Without the will we would have difficulty proving who the children were.
Children order uncertain:
1-John, [our 6th great-grandfather] eldest son, born 1662, married Bethia Sears, 1684
2-Samuel
3-Mehitable, mar. Thomas Tobey Jr. about 1675
4-Lydia, married Ebenezer Goodspeed, Feb. 15, 1677-8.
5-Elizabeth, [our 6th great-grandmother] poss. married Thomas Clark 1689
6-Jeremiah, born 1670, married Hannah Rider 1705
7-Susannah
8-Hannah, born April 1, 1677, married Joseph Studley April, 1706.
One of my favorite places on Cape Cod is Crowe's Pasture on Quivet Neck in East Dennis. It is bounded by Cape Cod Bay on the north and Quivet Creek on the south. It has now become a conservation area, part of the Dennis Conservation Land Trust. I haven't found a detailed description of the source of the name for this parcel but I sure think it is tied somehow to the Crowell family. It was a favorite place for us to park and walk out to the salt flats at low tide to dig sea clams. You can be sure our ancestors knew all about harvesting the various kinds of clams in this area: sea, razor, quahog, little neck, steamer, etc. Our great grandfather would go down to Quivet Creek of an evening to dig steamers and bring them back fresh for dinner. Our most recent direct "Crowell" ancestor is Hannah Crowell, (1725-1802), fourth great-grandmother. The prevalence of this name in Cape Cod lore and marriages between Sears and Crowell families shows that we can find a cousin connection with just about anyone in the Crowell family. It's often referred to as pedigree collapse or consanguinity. You can read more here where you can see 300 people named Crowell living in Dennis in 1880.[7]
[1] C.W. Swift, "The Crowell Family of Yarmouth, Descendants of John," Cape Cod Library of Local History and Genealogy, Pamphlet #72, (Yarmouthport, Mass: Register Press, 1913) https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/191896/
[2] Clarence A. Torrey, compiler, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (CD version) (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 2001), p. 401, citing MD 2:208, 270, 10:189; Barnstable Co. Prob. 1:53; Cape Cod Lib. 72:1, 103:5; Crowell 21; Foster Anc. 123; Hodges 13; Goodspeed 104; Fallass 153; Harris (,12) 13; Goodhue Anc. 157; Sv. 1:479; Bassett-Preston 73, 74, 189
[3]Amos Otis, "The Crowell Families of Yarmouth," Library of Cape Cod History and Genealogy, Pamphlet #103, (Yarmouthport, Mass: C.W. Swift, 1910) https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/177739-redirection
[4]Anderson, Robert Charles, Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, 7 vols., (Boston; NEHGS, 2001), 2:245-8 https://www.americanancestors.org/DB115/i/0/245/0
[5]John Crowe Sr wikitree profile https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Crowell-164
[6]Peter Wilson Coldham's "The Complete Book of Emigrants; 1607 - 1660", Vol 1, pg 144.
[7] The Cousin Factor - https://searsr.com/1880Dennis/index.html
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