Born in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Ancestors 
Daughter of Thomas Crosby
and Sarah (Unknown) Miller
Sister of
Thomas Crosby, Simon Crosby, Sarah (Crosby) Sears, Joseph (Crosby) Crosbe, John Crosby, John Crosby, William Crosby, Ebenezer Crosby, Increase Crosby, Mercy Crosby and Eleazer Crosby
Wife of
William Luce
— married
5 Jul 1704 in Yarmouth, Barnstable County, Province of Massachusetts Bay
Descendants 
Died about
at about age 55
in Tisbury, Dukes, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Profile last modified
| Created 26 Oct 2010
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Biography
Ann Crosby was the second baby in a set of triplets (Ann, Mercy and Increase) born to Thomas Crosby and Sarah Unknown on April 14 and 15, 1678.
Ann not only survived but married and had children of her own, as did her sister Mercy. Miraculously, their mother Sarah also survived and was healthy enough to have her last child two years later.
On July 5, 1704, Ann married William Luce of Martha's Vineyard, per the handwritten contemporary records of Harwich on Cape Cod: |"William Luce of Tisbury upon marthas vinyard and Ann Crosby of Harwich were joyned in marriage the :5: of July :1704: [illeg] John Thatcher J : p" [1]
There were at least six children born to this marriage between 1711 and 1722, all born in Tisbury on Martha's Vinyard. Five of them are named in William Luce's will of December 6, 1733 (all but his youngest daughter Ann).
Ann Crosby Luce died in 1734 and is likely buried in a local graveyard near her husband, with no surviving gravemarker.
For further research: Document husband William Luce (1681- before Dec 26 1633), son of Henry Luce (1640 Gloucester, England to 1687, Tisbury, Martha's Vinyard) and Remember Litchfield (1644 Scituate - 1708 Tisbury)
Sources
- ↑ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook).
- The Litchfield Family in America, 1630-1900, Wilford J Litchfield
- Massachusetts birth index
- Massachusetts marriage index
- American Descendants of Henry Luce of Martha's Vineyard
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Ann by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. Mitochondrial DNA test-takers in the direct maternal line:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Ann by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. Mitochondrial DNA test-takers in the direct maternal line:
- Kathy (Foote) Durham
:
Family Tree DNA mtDNA Test HVR1 and HVR2, haplogroup T2a1b1a, FTDNA kit #850348
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~0.39%
Lou Nickerson :
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~0.39%
Sue Sheldon :
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