Hannah (Hale) Crooker (1769 - 1856)

Born 18 Apr 1769 in Bradford, Essex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of Jonathan Jewett — married 17 Nov 1791 (to Nov 1807) in Bradford, Essex, Massachusetts, United States of America

Wife of William Swanton Crooker — married 5 Sep 1821 (to 9 May 1856) in Pittston, Kennebec, Maine, United States

Descendants

Died 9 May 1856 at age 87 in Bath, Sagadahoc, Maine, United States of America

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Biography

Birth and Parents

Hannah (Hale) Crooker was born in Massachusetts.

Hannah, the daughter of Eliphalet Hale and Rachel Johnson was born on 18 April 1769 at Bradford, Massachusetts Bay Colony.^[1]

First Marriage

Hannah married 1) Jonathan Jewett (b. 1761, Rockingham, NH; d. Nov 1807). He was the seventh son and tenth child of Moses and Martha Hale, daughter of Samuel and Martha (Palmer) Hale. Hanna and Jonathan married on 17 November 1791 at Bradford, Essex, Massachusetts.^[2]They settled in Londonderry, New Hampshire, and say 1798 removed to a farm on Beech Hill, Pittston, Maine. They had five children:

1. Moses Jewett (b. 1793; d. 1865), m. 21 Dec 1837 at Pittston, ME, Mary Ann Colburn
2. Hannah Jewett (b. 1795; d. 1871), m. 1 May 1825 at Pittston, ME, Henry Dow
3. Samuel Jewett (b. 1797; d. 1871), m. 24 Feb 1831 at Whitefield, ME, Mary Pottle
4. Capt. George Jewett (b. 1801; d. 1873), m. 31 Dec 1836, Sarah Hale
5. Elizabeth Jewett (b. 1803; d. 1891), m. William Jenks Crawford

Second Marriage

Hannah married 2) William Swanton Crooker, the son of Isaiah and Hannah (Harding) Crooker on 5 September 1821 at Pittston, Kennebec, Maine.^[3]It is not known if there were children from this union.

Death and Burial

Hannah (Hale) Jewett-Crooker died on 9 May 1856 in her 87th year and is buried in the Maple Grove Cemetery at Bath, Sagadahoc, Maine.^[4]

Research Note

Hannah (Hale) Jewett-Crooker's second husband, William Swanton Crooker and his elderly mother, Hannah (Harding) Crooker were residing with her daughter from her first marriage, Elizabeth (Jewett) Crawford and her family according to the 1850 census at Bath, Lincoln, Maine.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Hale, Robert Safford, Genealogy of Descendants of Thomas Hale of Walton, England, and of Newbury, Mass, 1889. Page 227, 361.
2. ↑ Title: History and genealogy of the Jewetts of America; a record of Edward Jewett, of Bradford, West Riding. Pages 80-81. Source Information: Ancestry.com. North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016.
3. ↑ "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2HJT-83L : 2 March 2021), William S Crooker and Widow Hannah Jewett, 05 Sep 1821; citing Pittston, Kennebec, Maine, United States, multiple sources, Maine; FHL microfilm.
4. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (www.findagrave.com/memorial/116398270/hannah-h-crooker : accessed 17 July 2021), memorial page for Hannah H Hale Crooker (18 Apr 1769–9 May 1856), Find a Grave Memorial ID 116398270, citing Maple Grove Cemetery, Bath, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA ; Maintained by Sally - Mid-coast Maine (contributor 48138595)[1]
5. ↑ Year: 1850; Census Place: Bath, Lincoln, Maine; Roll: 261; Page: 201a. Source Information: Ancestry.com. 1850 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: Seventh Census of the United States, 1850. https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/8054/images/4198851_00191?treeid=103106391&personid=410023475399&usePUB=true&usePUBJs=true&pId=9548950

• Jewett, Frederic Clarke, History and Genealogy of the Jewetts of America, Volume I, The Grafton Press, New York, 1908. Pgs. 152-3.

Acknowledgements

• Biography written, inline sourced and photo added by Carol Baldwin on 17 July 2021.