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Crowell Jonathan [Male] b. 26 OCT 1686 Yarmouth, Barnstable County, Massachusetts - d. 1704 Yarmouth, Barnstable County, Massachusetts
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Ref: The Great Migration:
YELVERTON, b. say 1615 (possessed one cow common at Charlestown in 1637 [ChTR 33]); m. by about 1642 Elizabeth _____ (estimated birth of eldest known child [NEHGR 125:236]).
MARRIAGE:
1. Clarence Torrey, "New England Marriages Prior to 1700", NEHGS CD, 2001:
CROW, Yelverton (-1683/4) & Elizabeth _____ (-1703); by 1642; Charlestown/Yarmouth {Cape Cod Lib. 71:1; MD 16:122; Martha's Vineyard 3:122; Crowell 5; Hamlin 79; Rich 20; Sv. 1:480; Charlestown 252}
Stephen W. Gifford, Jr; "Yelverton Crowell of Yarmouth, Mass., A Hypothesis Concerning His Parents And Children, " NEHG Register , Vol. 125, Oct 1971; p. 231/236:
The wife of John Gifford (William) of Sandwich, Mass., was Elishua Crowell. To date, genealogists of both the Gifford and the Crow or Crowell families have attributed Elishua to John Crow and his wife Elishua, who were in Charlestown, Mass., by 1634. ( "Crowe" seems to have been the conventional English spelling of this surname in the 16th and l7th centuries. It most often appeared as "Crow" in Plymouth and Boston records, and became Crowell during the second generation in New England. ). It was there that Mr. John Crow sold dwelling house and land the 16th of fourth month 1638 to bh 1638-1802, 1883, 3:91-2) and subsequently relocated in Yarmouth, Mass.
At South Sea in West Yarmouth in 1640 was Yelverton Crow, alias Crowell, who like John Crow had formerly resided in Charlestown. Yelverton seems to have remained on his farm in Yarmouth for the balance of his lifetime, there raising his family. He was designated "Mr." Yelverton Crowe several times in Yarmouth records, indicating the respect borne him by his peers. In addition, his service as "celectman" and on "the grand enquest" are measures of his repute. He died "suddenly" 24 Oct. 1683, according to family genealogists, although the original record is not known to this writer. His will is among Old Colony records at Plymouth (Vol. 4, Part 2, page 60):
To all people to whome these presente shall come I Elverton Crowell alias Crow of Yarmouthe in ye Collony of Plymouth in New England ... this twenty-third Day of December 1681 ... I doe constitute, ordaine & appoint my youngest son living sole executor to this my last will & testament and I ye sd Ylverton Crowell doe give to him my sd son Thomas Crowell alias Crow all my lands houses meadows marshes cattle horses mares swine & household stuffs with whatever estate belongs or anyways appertaines to me the said Yelverton Crowell in Yarmouth or elsewhere to him & said Thomas Crowell his heirs and assignes for ever, my will is also that my sd son Thomas Crowell shall discharge ye rights of my burial and pay all my full debts & maintain my loving wife his mother so long as she livst both in healthe & sickness finding and allowing her what ever is or may be needful for comfortable subsistance according to his ability and also my will is that my said son Thomas Crowell doe pay to my three sons, John Edward and Samuel five shillings a year in silver money and to my grandchild Elizabeth Gifford two cowes, two swine of about halfe a year old & one feather bed & bolster further my will is that in case Thomas my said executor should by providence of god dye before my wife his mother & leave no will, then my will is that my estate be improved for her maintence so long as she livst, otherwise I leave my loving wife to the maintenance of my said son Thomas as above said ..
(signed) Yelverton Crowell alias Crow
John Thatcher whoe made oathe here unto at
Court House of Plymouth the 8th of March 1683:84
Rebeckah Thatcher on ye oath of Mr. John Thatcher
Of particular note is mention in the will of "my grand child Elizabeth Gifford." This introduces the question of Elizabeth Gifford's parentage, which is not apparent from the will. Found at Sandwich, Mass., about ten miles west of Yarmouth on Cape Cod, by 1647 was William Gifford, tailor (The Mayflower Descendant, 7:208; Plymouth Deeds, 5:354), who became a member of the Society of Friends. By two wives (or possibly three) he had seven sons and one or two daughters (Gifford Genealogy 1626-1896, 1896, -pp. 1-3; Little Compton Families, Benjamin F. Wilbour, 1967, p. 276). The children of the five younger sons are known and include no Elizabeth. The second son, Hannaniah, removed from Sandwich as early as 1670 (Monmouth County, N.J., Deeds, C:18). In 1679, Hannaniah and wife Elizabeth were among witnesses of the marriage of Restore Lippincott to Hannah Shattuck in Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, N.J. (Shrewsbury marriage records, p. 1, at 15 Rutherford Place, New York City). Little more is known about Hannaniah, but it is highly unlikely that livestock in Massachusetts would be willed to a granddaughter living in New Jersey; thus, it appears reasonable to rule out Hannaniah Gifford as being the father of Yelverton Crowell's granddaughter.
Left to be accounted for is William Gifford's eldest son John, who lived on Spring Hill, Sandwich, on property willed to him by his father. In Sandwich Vital Records are recorded the births of eight children of John Gifford, the mother not being named. Significant among them are the first child, "Elezebeth gifart the daftar of John gifart was boarne: the 25. of. 12. 1665"; and the seventh child, "yellverton Gifford the Son of John Gifford was borne the 22 Aprill anod 1676" (The Mayflower Descendant, 14: 111-12).
The will of John Gifford of Sandwich, dated 9 April 1708, inventory taken 5 May 1708, and proved 17 May 1708, mentions wife Elishua, son Yelverton Gifford, and daughter Elizabeth Tupper, deceased, in addition to other children and grandchildren (Barnstable County Probate, 3:396). This is the only known record of the name of John Gifford's wife, and it is presumed that she is the mother of his children and the daughter of Yelverton Crowell.
Foremost among arguments for this presumption is the fact that among the children of John Gifford was a Yelverton. This surname probably would not have been used as a given name by John Gifford unless a close family relationship were intended to be honored. He did just this if his father-in-law were indeed Yelverton Crowell.
Further persuasive evidence supporting the identity of Elishua Gifford as a daughter of Yelverton Crowell of Yarmouth is found in the history and records of Windham, Conn. One Joshua Allen died at Windham 27 Dec. 1699 (Windham Vital Records). His widow was Mary, who subsequently married as his second wife on 17 July 1700, William More. She died 18 Sept. 1727, and More married third, Tamar Simons (The Granberry Family, comp. by Donald L. Jacobus, 1945, pp. 145-6). It is very likely that this Joshua Allen was the one of that name listed as a resident of Yarmouth in 1679 (The History of Cape Cod, Edward Freeman, 1869, 2:195). It was suggested by the late genealogist Bertha W. Clark in a paper first written in April of 1954 and revised in January of 1955, "A Sandwich-Dartmouth-North Kingston Allen Line," that Joshua Allen was one of the five "least" (unnamed) children of George Allen of Sandwich, who was buried 2 May 1648 (Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, 1857, 8:6) and whose will, dated 7 June 1643, is at the Plymouth County Registry of Deeds (1:84). Miss Clark found "very strong reasons for thinking the eleventh son may have been Joshua Allen, who was at Yarmouth on the Cape until 1693 when he bought a thousand acres of land at the Ponds in Windham." Her manuscript is at the New England Historic Genealogical Society Library in Boston (G- All-4630 and G-All-4630A).
The names of the children of Joshua and Mary Allen, according to William L. Weaver in his History of Ancient Windham (1864, pp. 30-31) were inscribed upon her gravestone in Windham Centre Cemetery: John (b. Yarmouth 20 Sept. 1682 and mar. in Windham 20 June 1700 Mary Fargo); Joshua (living in 1706); Gideon (living in Newport, R.I., 1707); Miriam (mar. at Windham 16 Dec. 1702 Jonathan Simons); Yelverton; Samuel (d. at Coventry, Conn., 14 Oct. 1718, and had wife Mary); George (b. ca. 1690 and d. at Coventry, Conn., 31 May 1756); Eleazer (of Windham, mar. 8 March 1717/18, Mercy Case); and Sarah (b. at Windham, 7 Nov. 1695, and mar. 23 Oct. 1717 Daniel Badcock).
The fact that the given name Yelverton was used by Joshua and Mary Allen and the probability that they both originated in Yarmouth indicate the likelihood of a connection with the Yelverton Crowell family of Yarmouth. Giving additional weight to this argument is this Windham County, Conn., land record:
To all persons to whom these presents shall come, Yelverton Gifford son of John Gifford, late of the town of Sandwich in the county of Barnstable, in ye province of the Massachusetts Bay ... now deceased ... to John Watson of Plymouth for #20 ... all my tract and parcel of land which I have, situate, lying and being on ye east side of Connecticut River ... and which was bequeathed to me by the said John Gifford, my father, in his last will and testament in writing dated the 9th day of April 1708, it being all the land which the said John Gifford, my father, did in his life-time purchase and obtain from my uncle William More of Windham, in the Colony of Connecticut aforesaid ..
(signed) Yelverton Gifford
Dated 20th March 1713-14 (E:354)
That Yelverton Gifford calls William More his uncle in this deed is significant. In 1713/14, when it was recorded, William More's wife was Mary Allen, the widow of Joshua Allen, originally of Yarmouth. If Mary (Allen) More were a daughter of Yelverton Crowell of Yarmouth and a sister of Elishua (Crowell) Gifford, then William More's being called uncle by Yelverton Gifford is explained.
Even the use of the given name Elizabeth by John and Elishua Gifford for their eldest child is noteworthy. Elizabeth was an extremely common name in the 17th century at Sandwich
Posted in Collaborations 22 March 2019 by by Jean Gore
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