Sarah (Crosby) Towner
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Sarah (Crosby) Towner (abt. 1747 - 1825)

Sarah Towner formerly Crosby
Born about in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Baymap
Ancestors ancestors
Daughter of and
Sister of , , , , , and
Wife of — married 1765 in Putnam, New Yorkmap
Descendants descendants
Mother of , and
Died at about age 77 in St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canadamap
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Biography

Sarah Crosby was born on 9 May 1747.[1]

"David Crosbies Sarah baptized on May 17, 1747." [at Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts]. [2] She was the daughter of David Crosby and his wife Reliance Hopkins, a descendant of Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. In his Will, David mentioned his daughter Sarah "Towner and it is clearly legible, This disputes the cited Silver Book which calls her Sarah Towns.."[3]

Sarah married Ithiel Towner in about 1765 at Paterson, (now Putnam County), New York.[1] Ithiel and Sarah had the following children:[1]

  • Deborah, b. Dec. 20, 1765, at Crown Point, N. Y.; d. Dec. 7, 1848.
  • Ebenezer, b. Dec. 19, 1767; d. in infancy.
  • Ithiel Crosby, b. June 11, 1769 ; d. St. Johns, March 12, 1812.
  • William, b. Jan. 10, 1772 ; d. July 29, 1811, at St. Johns.
  • Sarah, b. Dec. 30, 1773; d. St. Johns, Nov. 30, 1848.
  • Abner, b. May 25, 1776 ; d. in 1778.

Ithiel lived in New York and fought in the "French War." During the American Revolution, he sided with the British. His property was confiscated and he was taken prisoner. He escaped from Fort Ticonderoga and fled with his family to St. Johns, (now called Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu), Quebec, Canada. There Ithiel engaged in farming and butchering. He died at St. johns on 26 July 1810. Sarah died on 16 April 1825.[1]

The records of St. Jean, Church of England Church, St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec, contain the following entry:[4]

"On this Eighteenth Day of April Eighteen Hundred and Twenty Five the Body of Sarah Towner of this parish who died on the Sixteenth Day of the same Month was interred in Presence of the subscribing
Witnesses by me
W. D. Baldwyn
Jane Baldwyn
Eliza Jevumans(sp)"

Sources

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Towner, James W. A genealogy of the Towner family : the descendants of Richard Towner, who came from Sussex County, Eng., to Guilford, Conn., before 1685 Los Angeles, Cal. : Times-Mirror Printing and Binding House, [1910?], Pages 37-38. Accessed on 22 May 2018 at HathiTrust.org. Page 37
  2. ↑ "Records of the First Parish in Brewster, Formerly the First Parish in Harwich, Mass." Mayflower Descendant: A Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy and History. Boston, MA: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1899- . (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010) MD 8:121 Subscription
  3. ↑ "'Mayflower Families Fifth Generation Descendants, 1700-1880." (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2017). From Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620. Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1975-<2015>. Stephen Hopkins, Vol. 6, Page 350ff. Subscription
  4. ↑ Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968 [Ancestry.com. database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2008. Original data: Gabriel Drouin, comp. Drouin Collection. Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Institut Généalogique Drouin. St-Jean England Church, St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec. Page 19. Image 11

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David Crosby (Sr.) Will – 29 August 1782
David Crosby (Sr.) Will – 29 August 1782


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Tompkins-1834 Robin Tompkins
Hello Vic,

I'll have to pull out the McKenzie family genealogy book and obtain the references there. Robert McKenzie worked on it for decades, and when we worked on it together it was basically the physical footwork of the graves, census and town records and the official records at the Forts in Crown Point, NY. We did get copies from the Fort (St. Frederic), towns, and photos of the marked graves. I even have a photo of Maria (my grandfather's grandmother) daughter of William Groff and Emiline McKenzie. Emeline was the daughter of Louise Towner and William McKenzie. Louise is where the Towner family ties in. There are also notations printed in a few Historical books of the Town of Moriah and the County of Essex. I'll get those out as well.

posted by Robin Tompkins
X-4925 Anne X
Ithiel Towner Mentions daughters "Deborah McKinzey Living High Crown point and Saley Woods Living at St. John’s " in his will 1809. Deborah Towner was the wife of William McKenzie. She married William McKenzie on March 31, 1782, in St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, Canada. They had six children in 17 years. (They brought their oldest daughter Ann to a wilderness. ). Deborah died on December 7, 1848, in Port Henry, New York,age 82 years. Port Henry was for awhile in Charlotte County, ny which Included all of Vermont West of the green mountains and 3+ other counties of New York. There are quite a few Towner records in the Drouin Collection.
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X-4925 Anne X
Hi Robin,

6 June 1849 • Princeton, Bureau, IL Marriage performed June 6th by William Kolb, Minister"

John M. McKenzie and Emeline Dow [1830-1880]

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Watt-266 Vic Watt
Robin,

You say you are ready to accept a merge, if your facts are used. The data on the profiles is similar, but neither has any sources. Do you have sources for the information you have included? Thanks, Vic

posted by Vic Watt
Tompkins-1834 Robin Tompkins
Thank you for offering merge, Vic Watt. I will appreciate the merge if only the facts I have are incorporated. Mind you, in 1747, it was not yet the United States. I eliminate USA until after 1776. Please keep biography, birth, and other information intact. It took a decade of footwork back in 1998 to get this together with assistance of an elderly relative. Deborah Towner is buried with her husband in my hometown. She named two of her children Crosby to keep the namesake. I want no changes, please. Thank you! ;)
posted by Robin Tompkins
Watt-266 Vic Watt
Crosby-2403 and Crosby-3348 appear to represent the same person because: Same places, same death, same husband. Please merge. Thanks.
posted by Vic Watt

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