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Eleazer Crocker

Male 1693 - Aft 1776  (> 83 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Eleazer Crocker was born on 3 Aug 1693 in Barstable, Massachusetts (son of Eleazer Crocker and Ruth Chipman); died after 20 Aug 1776 in Willington, Connecticut.

    Eleazer married Judith Judah, Sanders on 7 Apr 720 in Essex County, Massachusetts. Judith was born on 17 Jun 1696 in Haverhill, Massachusetts; died on 26 Aug 1776 in Willington, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Eleazer Crocker was born on 21 Jul 1650 in Barstable, Massachusetts (son of Deacon William Crocker and Alice); died before 17 Sep 1723.

    Eleazer married Ruth Chipman on 7 Apr 1682 in Barstable, Massachusetts. Ruth (daughter of John Chipman and Hope Howland) was born on 31 Dec 1663 in Barstable, Massachusetts; died on 8 Apr 1698 in Barstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Ruth Chipman was born on 31 Dec 1663 in Barstable, Massachusetts (daughter of John Chipman and Hope Howland); died on 8 Apr 1698 in Barstable, Massachusetts.

    Other Events:

    • Name: Ruth Crocker

    Children:
    1. Benoli Crocker was born on 13 May 1682 in Barstable, Massachusetts; died on 2 Feb 1701.
    2. Bethiah Crocker was born on 23 Sep 1683 in Barstable, Massachusetts; died after 23 May 1766.
    3. Nathan Crocker was born on 27 Apr 1685 in Barstable, Massachusetts; died in 1750 in Barstable, Massachusetts.
    4. Daniel Crocker was born on 23 Mar 1686/87 in Barstable, Massachusetts; died about 23 May 1723.
    5. Sarah Crocker was born on 23 Mar 1689 in Barstable, Massachusetts; died on 3 Oct 1743 in Barstable, Massachusetts.
    6. Theophilos Crocker was born on 11 Mar 1691 in Barstable, Massachusetts; died before 5 Sep 1737 in Middleboro, Massachusetts.
    7. 1. Eleazer Crocker was born on 3 Aug 1693 in Barstable, Massachusetts; died after 20 Aug 1776 in Willington, Connecticut.
    8. Ruth Crocker was born on 3 Aug 1693 in Barstable, Massachusetts; died after 2 Oct 1724.
    9. Abel Crocker was born on 15 Jun 1695 in Barstable, Massachusetts; died on 17 Jul 1781 in Carver, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.
    10. Rebecca Crocker was born on 10 Dec 1697 in Barstable, Massachusetts; died before 2 Apr 1744.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Deacon William Crocker

    William married Alice. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Alice

    Other Events:

    • Name: Alice Crocker

    Children:
    1. 2. Eleazer Crocker was born on 21 Jul 1650 in Barstable, Massachusetts; died before 17 Sep 1723.

  3. 6.  John Chipman was born in 1620 in Brinspittle, Dorsetshire, England (son of Thomas Chipman); died on 7 Apr 1708 in Sandwich, Massachusetts; was buried in Sandwich, Massachusetts.

    Notes:

    Buried:
    John was buried in the Bourne family plot.

    John married Hope Howland about 1646 in Rocky Nook, now Kingston, Massachusetts. Hope (daughter of John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley) was born on 30 Aug 1629 in Plymouth, Massachusetts; died on 9 Jan 1683 in Barstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 7.  Hope Howland was born on 30 Aug 1629 in Plymouth, Massachusetts (daughter of John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley); died on 9 Jan 1683 in Barstable, Massachusetts.

    Other Events:

    • Name: Hope Chipman

    Children:
    1. Elizabeth Chipman was born on 24 Jun 1648 in Plymouth, Massachusetts; died after 24 Jan 1711/12.
    2. Hope Chipman was born on 31 Aug 1652 in Barstable, Massachusetts; died on 25 Jul 1728 in Middleboro, Massachusetts; was buried in Old Cemetery, Barstable, Massachusetts.
    3. Lydia Chipman was born on 25 Dec 1654 in Barstable, Massachusetts; died on 2 Mar 1730 in Malden, Massachusetts.
    4. John Chipman was born on 2 Mar 1656/57 in Barstable, Massachusetts; died on 29 May 1657.
    5. Hannah Chipman was born on 14 Jan 1658/59 in Barstable, Massachusetts; died on 4 Nov 1696 in Barstable, Massachusetts; was buried in Lanthrop's Hill Cemetery, Barstable, Massachusetts.
    6. Samuel Chipman was born on 15 Apr 1661 in Barstable, Massachusetts; died before 15 Jun 1723.
    7. 3. Ruth Chipman was born on 31 Dec 1663 in Barstable, Massachusetts; died on 8 Apr 1698 in Barstable, Massachusetts.
    8. Chipman was born in in Barnstable, Massachusetts; died on 9 Sep 1650.
    9. Bethiah Chipman was born on 1 Jul 1665 in Barstable, Massachusetts; died before 12 Nov 1702.
    10. Mercy Chipman was born in Feb 1668 in Barstable, Massachusetts; died in Jun 1724 in Chilmark, Massachusetts.
    11. John Chipman was born on 3 Mar 1669/70 in Barstable, Massachusetts; died in Jan 1756; was buried on 4 Jan 1756 in Common Burial Ground, Newport, Rhode Island.
    12. Desire Chipman was born on 26 Feb 1673/74 in Barstable, Massachusetts; died on 28 Mar 1705 in Sandwich, Massachusetts.


Generation: 4

  1. 12.  Thomas Chipman
    Children:
    1. 6. John Chipman was born in 1620 in Brinspittle, Dorsetshire, England; died on 7 Apr 1708 in Sandwich, Massachusetts; was buried in Sandwich, Massachusetts.

  2. 14.  John Howland was born about 1591 in Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire, England (son of Henry Howland and Margaret); died on 23 Feb 1672/73 in Rocky Nook, now Kingston, Massachusetts; was buried in Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts.

    Other Events:

    • Will: 29 May 1672, Plymouth, Massachusetts

    Notes:

    Biography:
    From Wikipedia:
    John Howland (c. 1591 – February 23, 1672/3) was a passenger on the Mayflower. He was an indentured servant and in later years, the executive assistant and personal secretary to Governor John Carver and accompanied the Separatists and other passengers when they left England to settle in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
    He signed the Mayflower Compact and helped found Plymouth Colony. He signed the Mayflower Compact which is considered the first written constitution for a representative government 'of the people, by the people, for the people'. After the passengers came ashore John Howland became assistant to the governor over the new independent state created under the compact. The act of Governor Carver in making a treaty with the great Indian Sachem Massosoit was an exercise of sovereign power and John Howland was the assistant."
    John Carver, the first governor of the Plymouth Colony, died in April 1621. In 1626, Howland was a freeman and one of eight settlers who agreed to assume the colony's debt to its investors in England in exchange for a monopoly of the fur trade. He was elected deputy to the General Court in consecutive years from 1641–1655 and again in 1658.
    English Origins
    John Howland was born in Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire, England 1602. He was the son of Margaret and Henry Howland, and the brother of Henry and Arthur Howland, who emigrated later from England to Marshfield, Massachusetts. Although Henry and Arthur Howland were Quakers, John himself held to the original faith of the Puritans.
    Speedwell and Mayflower
    William Bradford, who was the governor of Plymouth Colony for many years, wrote in Of Plymouth Plantation, that Howland was a man-servant of John Carver. Carver was the deacon of the Separatists church while the group resided in Leiden, Netherlands. At the time the Leiden congregation left the Netherlands, on the Speedwell, Carver was in England securing investments, gathering other potential passengers, and chartering the Mayflower for the journey to North America. John Howland may have accompanied Carver's household from Leiden when the Speedwell left Delfshaven for Southampton, England, July, 1620. Ansel Ames in Mayflower and Her Log, said that Howland was probably kin of Carver's and that he was more likely a steward or a secretary than a servant.
    The Separatists planned to travel to the New World, on the Speedwell and the Mayflower. The Speedwell proved to be unseaworthy and thus most of the passengers crowded onto the Mayflower.
    In order to finance the voyage to the New World, the Separatists had investors in England. They also had accepted non-separatists to join them on the journey. These passengers, whom the Separatists referred to as "strangers", made up half of those on the Mayflower.[citation needed]
    The Voyage
    The Mayflower departed Plymouth, England on September 6/16, 1620. The small, 100-foot ship had 102 passengers and a crew of about 30-40 in extremely cramped conditions. By the second month out, the ship was being buffeted by strong westerly gales, causing the ship's timbers to be badly shaken with caulking failing to keep out sea water, and with passengers, even in their berths, lying wet and ill. This, combined with a lack of proper rations and unsanitary conditions for several months, attributed to what would be fatal for many, especially the majority of women and children. On the way there were two deaths, a crew member and a passenger, but the worst was yet to come after arriving at their destination when, in the space of several months, almost half the passengers perished in cold, harsh, unfamiliar New England winter. During the voyage there was a turbulent storm during which John Howland fell overboard. He managed to grab a topsail halyard that was trailing in the water and was hauled back aboard safely. There is a painting depicting this called "Howland Overboard" by maritime artist Mike Hayward.
    On November 9/19, 1620, after about three months at sea, including a month of delays in England, they spotted land, which was the Cape Cod Hook, now called Provincetown Harbor. And after several days of trying to get south to their planned destination of the Colony of Virginia, strong winter seas forced them to return to the harbor at Cape Cod hook, where they anchored on November 11/21. On November 11, 1620, the Mayflower Compact was signed. John Howland was the thirteenth of the 41 "principal" men to sign.
    In Plymouth Colony
    The first winter in North America proved deadly for the Pilgrims as half their number perished. The Carver family with whom John lived, survived the winter of 1620-21. However, the following spring, on an unusually hot day in April, Governor Carver, according to William Bradford, came out of his cornfield feeling ill. He passed into a coma and "never spake more". His wife, Kathrine, died soon after her husband. The Carvers' only children died while they lived in Leiden and it is possible that Howland inherited their estate. In 1621, after Carver's death, Howland became a freeman. In 1624 he was considered the head of what was once the Carver household when he was granted an acre for each member of the household including himself, Elizabeth Tilley, Desire Minter, and a boy named William Latham.
    In the several years after becoming a freeman, he served at various times as selectman, assistant and deputy governor, surveyor of highways, and as member of the fur committee. In 1626, he was asked to participate in assuming the colony's debt to its investors to enable the colony to pursue its own goals without the pressure to remit profits back to England. The "undertakers" paid the investors £1,800 to relinquish their claims on the land, and £2,400 for other debt. In return the group acquired a monopoly on the colony's fur trade for six years.
    Howland accompanied Edward Winslow in the exploration of Kennebec River (in current day Maine), looking for possible fur trading sites and natural resources that the colony could exploit. He also led a team of men that built and operated a fur trading post there. While Howland was in charge of the colony's northerly trading post, an incident occurred there that Bradford described as "one of the saddest things that befell them." A group of traders from Piscataqua (present day Portsmouth, New Hampshire) led by a man named John Hocking, encroached on the trading ground granted to Plymouth by a patent, by sailing their bark up the river beyond their post. Howland warned Hocking to depart, but Hocking, brandishing a pistol and using foul language, refused. Howland ordered his men to approach the bark in a canoe and cut its cables setting it adrift. The Plymouth men managed to cut one cable when Hocking put his pistol to the head of Moses Talbot, one of Howland's men, and shot and killed him. Another of the Howland group shot Hocking to death in response.
    In Plymouth the Howlands lived on the north side of Leyden Street. They lived for a short time in Duxbury and then moved to Kingston where they had a farm on a piece of land referred to as Rocky Nook. The farm burned down in 1675 during King Philip's War. By that time, John had died and Elizabeth moved in with her son, Jabez.
    Before moving to Rhode Island, Jabez Howland owned a home in Plymouth at 33 Sandwich Street. The house was built by Jacob Mitchell about 1667 and was sold to Jabez Howland. John and Elizabeth had wintered in the house, and Elizabeth lived there from 1675, when the Rocky Nook farm was burned down, until Jabez sold it in 1680. It is the only house standing in Plymouth in which Mayflower passengers lived.
    John Howland died February 23, 1672/3 at the age of 80, having outlived all other male Mayflower passengers except John Cooke, son of Mayflower passenger Francis Cooke (John Cooke died in 1695). He is presumed to be buried on Burial Hill in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

    Will:
    The Last Will and Testament of mr John howland of Plymouth late Deceased, exhibited to the Court held att Plymouth the fift Day of March Anno Dom 1672 on the oathes of mr Samuell ffuller and mr William Crow as followeth

    Know all men to whom these prsents shall Come That I John howland senir of the Towne of New Plymouth in the Collonie of New Plymouth in New England in America, this twenty ninth Day of May one thousand six hundred seaventy and two being of whole mind, and in Good and prfect memory and Remembrance praised be God; being now Grown aged; haveing many Infeirmities of body upon mee; and not Knowing how soon God will call mee out of this world, Doe make and ordaine these prsents to be my Testament Containing herein my last Will in manor and forme following;

    Imp I Will and bequeath my body to the Dust and my soule to God that Gave it in hopes of a Joyfull Resurrection unto Glory; and as Concerning my temporall estate, I Dispose thereof as followeth;

    Item I Doe give and bequeath unto John howland my eldest sonne besides what lands I have alreddy given him, all my Right and Interest To that one hundred acres of land graunted mee by the Court lying on the eastern side of Tauton River; between Teticutt and Taunton bounds and all the appurtenances and privilidges Therunto belonging, T belonge to him and his heirs and assignes for ever; and if that Tract should faile, then to have all my Right title and Interest by and in that Last Court graunt to mee in any other place, To belonge to him his heires and assignes for ever;

    Item I give and bequeath unto my son Jabez howland all those my upland and Meadow That I now posesse at Satuckett and Pamet, and places adjacent, with all the appurtenances and privilidges, belonging therunto, and all my right title and Interest therin, To belonge to him his heires and assignes for ever,

    Item I Give and bequeath unto my son Jabez howland all that my one peece of land that I have lying on the southsyde of the Mill brooke, in the Towne of Plymouth aforsaid; be it more or lesse; and is on the Northsyde of a feild that is now Gyles Rickards senir To belonge to the said Jabez his heirs and assignes for ever;

    Item I give and bequeath unto Isacke howland my youngest sonne all those my uplands and meddows Devided and undivided with all the appurtenances and priviliges unto them belonging, lying and being in the Towne of Middlebery, and in a tract of Land Called the Majors Purchase near Namassakett Ponds; which I have bought and purchased of William White of Marshfeild in the Collonie of New Plymouth; which may or shall appeer by any Deed or writinges Together with the aformentioned prticulares To belonge to the said Isacke his heirs and assignes for ever;

    Item I give and bequeath unto my said son Isacke howland the one halfe of my twelve acree lott of Meddow That I now have att Winnatucsett River within the Towne of Plymouth aforsaid To belonge to him and said Isacke howland his heires and assignes for ever;

    Item I Will and bequeath unto my Deare and loveing wife Elizabeth howland the use and benifitt of my now Dwelling house in Rockey nooke in the Township of Plymouth aforsaid, with the outhousing lands, That is uplands uplands [sic] and meddow lands and all appurtenances and privilidges therunto belonging in the Towne of Plymouth and all other Lands housing and meddowes that I have in the said Towne of Plymouth excepting what meddow and upland I have before given To my sonnes Jabez and Isacke howland During her naturall life to Injoy make use of and Improve for her benifitt and Comfort;

    Item I give and bequeath unto my son Joseph howland after the Decease of my loveing wife Elizabeth howland my aforsaid Dwelling house att Rockey nooke together with all the outhousing uplands and Medowes appurtenances and privilidges belonging therunto; and all other housing uplands and meddowes appurtenances and privilidges That I have within the aforsaid Towne of New Plymouth excepting what lands and meadowes I have before Given To my two sonnes Jabez and Isacke; To belong to him the said Joseph howland To him and his heires and assignes for ever;

    Item I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Desire Gorum twenty shillings

    Item I give and bequeath To my Daughter hope Chipman twenty shillings

    Item I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Elizabeth Dickenson twenty shillings

    Item I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Lydia Browne twenty shillings

    Item I give & bequeath to my Daughter hannah Bosworth twenty shillings

    Item I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Ruth Cushman twenty shillings

    Item I give to my Grandchild Elizabeth howland The Daughter of my son John howland twenty shillings

    Item my will is That these legacyes Given to my Daughters, be payed by my exequitrix in such species as shee thinketh meet;

    Item I will and bequeath unto my loveing wife Elizabeth howland, my Debts and legacyes being first payed my whole estate: vis: lands houses goods Chattles; or any thing else that belongeth or appertaineth unto mee, undisposed of be it either in Plymouth Duxburrow or Middlbery or any other place whatsoever; I Doe freely and absolutly give and bequeath it all to my Deare and loveing wife Elizabeth howland whom I Doe by these prsents, make ordaine and Constitute to be the sole exequitrix of this my Last will and Testament to see the same truely and faithfully prformed according to the tenour therof; In witness whereof I the said John howland senir have heerunto sett my hand and seale the aforsaid twenty ninth Day of May, one thousand six hundred seaventy and two 1672

    Signed and sealed in the
    prsence of Samuel ffuller John Howland
    William Crow And a seale

    John married Elizabeth Tilley about 1623. Elizabeth (daughter of John Tilley and Joan Hurst) was born about 1607 in Henlow, Bradfordshire, England; died in Dec 1687 in Swansea, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  3. 15.  Elizabeth Tilley was born about 1607 in Henlow, Bradfordshire, England (daughter of John Tilley and Joan Hurst); died in Dec 1687 in Swansea, Massachusetts.

    Other Events:

    • Name: Elizabeth Howland

    Notes:

    Biography:
    From the Wikipedia entry for her husband:
    Until Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation was discovered in 1856, it was presumed that John Howland's wife, formerly Elizabeth Tilley, was the adopted daughter of the Carvers. (Her parents, uncle and aunt who came to the New World died of sickness during the first winter.) This mistake was even recorded on a gravestone that was erected for Howland on Burial Hill, in 1836. However, the Bradford journal revealed that she was, in fact, the daughter of John Tilley and his wife, Joan (Hurst). Elizabeth Tilley Howland was born in Henlow, Bedfordshire, England where she was baptized in August, 1607. She and her parents were passengers on the Mayflower. John Tilley and his wife Joan both died the first winter as did his brother Edward Tilley and wife Ann. This left Elizabeth an orphan and so she was taken in by the Carver family. The Carvers died about a year later, and part of their estate was inherited by their servant, John Howland, and Elizabeth became his ward. In 1623/24, she married John Howland.
    Elizabeth Tilley outlived her husband by 15 years. She died December 21 or 22, 1687, in the home of her daughter, Lydia Brown, in Swansea, Massachusetts, and is buried in a section of that town which is now in East Providence, Rhode Island.

    Children:
    1. Desire Howland was born about 1625 in Plymouth, Massachusetts; died on 16 Oct 1683 in Barnstable, Massachusetts.
    2. John Howland was born on 24 Feb 1626/27 in Plymouth, Massachusetts; died after 18 Jun 1699 in Barnstable, Massachusetts.
    3. 7. Hope Howland was born on 30 Aug 1629 in Plymouth, Massachusetts; died on 9 Jan 1683 in Barstable, Massachusetts.
    4. Elizabeth Howland was born about 1631 in Maine?; died in 1691.
    5. Lydia Howland was born about 1633 in Maine?; died in Jan 1710/11 in Swansea, Massachusetts.
    6. Hannah Howland was born about 1637 in Plymouth, Massachusetts; died in 1708.
    7. Joseph Howland was born about 1640 in Plymouth, Massachusetts; died in Jan 1703/04 in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
    8. Jabez Howland was born about 1644 in Plymouth, Massachusetts; died before 21 Feb 1711/12.
    9. Ruth Howland was born about 1646 in Plymouth, Massachusetts; died before Oct 1679.
    10. Isaac Howland was born on 15 Nov 1649 in Plymouth, Massachusetts; died on 9 Mar 1723/24 in Middleboro, Massachusetts.