Emma (Cross) Rich (1741 - 1803)

Born 18 Sep 1741 in Marblehead, Essex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of John Rich — married about 17 Aug 1762 in Hampton, NH [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 17 Sep 1803 at age 61 in Bass Harbor, Tremont, Hancock, District of Maine, Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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Biography

Anna Cross_buried at Old Point, [West] Bass Harbor,Maine (Mount Desert Island_Maine) notes of Mrs. Mary S. Hamm from The Marblehead Historical Collection

Ama Cross was among the several women, who left their large homes in Marblehead, MA., going with their husband and several children to the Eastern frontier. In Cranberry Islands, Maine, a settlers cabin was constructed for each family, where they raised their families. A description of such a cabin is below. [Also see Outline Map of the Cranberry Islands]

" The log houses were small, generally twenty-two feet square ;the lower part was all in one room called the "kitchen". This was used as a cook-room, dining-room, sitting-room, store-room and general workshop. It was the family" home ", and very often here large families were reared. ... In the kitchen was a broad fireplace wherein swung a large crane. Upon the crane were pendant hooks of various lengths, upon which the pots and kettles were hung. There was a wide, neatly-swept hearth, upon which, before a roaring fire, the bright tin baker was placed to bake the bread or roast the lamb. When a bannock was to be baked, the dough of corn-meal and water was spread about an inch thick upon a piece of sheet iron about eight by eighteen inches^ and placed upon the hearth edge and a flatiron at its back to keep it up. When its face side was cooked which, with a winter fire, required only a few minutes, it was removed from the iron, turned inside out and again presented to the fire for a few minutes. That gave it a hard, brittle crust on both sides. These bannocks of corn or barley were the only bread used. Wheat flour was very expensive, and could be used only by the more wealthy. At the side of the fireplace, and quite near thereto, was a cavernous oven which each Saturday was heated very hot, where the Sunday's beans and brown bread and pumpkin pies, or a quarter of lamb were baked. Under the oven was the stock-hole, with a capacity of several barrels, into which the ashes from the hearth were shoveled. " [History of Swans Island_Maine pages 25 & 26]

Died at Old Point, Bass Harbor, Maine

Emma was born in 1741. Emma Cross ... She passed away in 1803. ^[1]

Research Notes

Named in Aunt's 1745 Will  : Elizabeth Cross, wife of Joseph Cross of Salem

Sister: Ezebel Upton - her son: Enos Upton

Sister: Amme Cross - her children: Amme Cross, Peter Cross & Michal Cross

Son: Joseph Cross (not yet of age) gets her whole estate but if he dies it goes to Elizabeth's sisters

Will written: 9 February 1745

Will proven: May 12, 1746

Essex, Massachusetts Probate Records

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Sources

• Anna Cross_received January 1998 The Marblehead Historical Collection "... from the Cross genealogical file but no date was attached to the original [See attached Image Notes of Mary S Hamm]

1. ↑ The Marblehead Historical Collection

• A history of Swan's Island,Maine by Small, H. W. (Herman Wesley), 1865-1937 Publication date 1898 https://archive.org/details/historyofswansis00smal/page/25

• reference for Mary S Hamm Marriage of Frank P Hamm and Mary S Dorr "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:9398-4694-JR?cc=1803978&wc=71R8-F95%3A1029440301%2C1029463701 : 20 May 2014), Vital records 1892-1907 > Hamm-Harding, 1899 > image 51 of 4053; Division of Vital Statistics. State Board of Health, Augusta.

Acknowledgments

• Thank you to Adrian Stanley for creating Cross-2299 on 29 Nov 2013.