John Crackstone (aft. 1602 - aft. 1627)

Born after 1602 in Essex, England [uncertain]

Died after 1627 at about age 25 in Plymouth Colony

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Biography

John Crakston, born say 1602,^[1] and his father John Crakston sailed on the Mayflower arriving in Plymouth in the fall of 1620.^[2] His mother may have been Catherine Bates, who was probably deceased.^[3]

The father, John, died in the first winter of 1620/21,^[2] and young John was taken in by one of the surviving families, probably the Isaac Allerton family.^[4]

John Crackston was granted land (probably one acre) in the 1623 land division and in the 1627 cattle division John Crakstone was the 13th member of the second lot of "Mr Isaac Allerton & his Companie" ^[5]

John died after the 1627 cattle division. Bradford's accounting of the passengers indicates that John died some five or six years after his father died. He lost himself in the woods, and "his feet became frozen, which put him into a fever of which he died."^[2]

Of Plimouth Plantation by William Bradford

Sources

1. ↑ Anderson, Robert Charles. The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Colony 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004) p. 157
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Bradford, William. History of Plymouth plantation. (Boston, Little, Brown and company, 1856) p. 448;p. 452 See also attached image.
3. ↑ Johnson, Caleb. "A Note on the English Origins of Mayflower Passengers John Crackstone and John Hook." The American Genealogist. 80 (2005):100
4. ↑ Johnson, Caleb H. The Mayflower and Her Passengers. Indiana: Xlibris Corp., 2006. pp. 130, 131.
5. ↑ Records of the colony of New Plymouth, in New England; printed by order of the legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Vol. 12 Deeds, &c. Vol. 1 1620-1651 & Book of Indian Records for their lands. By New Plymouth Colony, by Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff and David Pulsifer 1623 p. 4; 1627 p. 9

• Anderson, Robert Charles The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995). pp 488, 489. Link at AmericanAncestors ($)
• Wikipedia article John Crackston
• Caleb Johnson's Mayflower History
• Bradford, William. History of Plymouth Plantation (Massachusetts Historical Society, 1856) p. 448 "John Crakston, and his sone, John Crakston." p. 452 "John Crakston dyed in the first mortality; and about some 5, or 6. years after, his sone dyed; having lost him selſe in yº wodes, his feet became frosen, which put him into a feavor, of which he dyed."
• Bradford, William, 1590-1657. Of Plimoth Plantation: manuscript, 1630-1650. State Library of Massachusetts "List of Mayflower Passengers." In Bradford's Hand.
• Mayflower Society - Passengers Who Died With No Known Descent

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