Penelabe (White) Crapo (1687 - bef. 1738)

Born 12 Mar 1687 in Rochester, Barnstable, Plymouth Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Peter (Crapeau) Crapo — married 31 May 1704 in Rochester, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died before 23 Nov 1738 before age 51 in Rochester, Plymouth, Massachusetts [uncertain]

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Biography

Penelope White's great-grandfather, William White, was the 11th signer of the Mayflower Compact. Penelope's grandfather, Resolved White, was a child passenger of the Mayflower in 1620.

"Penelabe Whit" was born 12 Mar 1687 to Samuel Whit [sic] Sr. and wife, Rebecca, in Rochester, Plymouth Colony.^[1][2]

"Pennelabe" White married in Rochester, 31 May 1704, "Peroo Crapoo"^[3] [Peter Crapo] He may have been born in Bordeaux, France, and he died in Rochester between 20 Feb and 1 May 1756. Peter Crapo married (2) Ann Luce 23 Nov 1738 in Rochester.^[3] Tradition says that as a child Peter was shipwrecked on the coast of Cape Cod and given the name Pierre Crapeau. He lived with Francis Coombs in Middleboro.^[1]

Peter's will dated 20 Feb 1756 and proved 3 May 1756 names his wife Ann; sons Frances [sic], Peter, John and Hezekiah. They are to provide for their mother-in-law [step-mother]; sons Nicholas and Seth; daughters Susanna Demeranville, Mary Spooner, Elizabeth Luke [sic] and Rebecca Matthews. Receipts from the heirs name the daughter's husbands: James Lake, Louis Demaranville, Jonatha Spooner and John Matthews.^[1]

Penelope died before the second marriage of her husband, Peter, on 23 Nov 1738.^[1][3]

Children of "Peroo and Penelabe Crapoo" born in Rochester.

1. Francis Crapoo, born 14 Oct 1705.^[2]
2. Susanna Crapoo, born 5 Nov 1707^[2]
3. Peter Crapoo, born 20 Nov 1709^[2]
4. John Crapoo, born 22 Feb 1711/2^[2]
5. Mary Crapoo, born 27 Sept 1713^[2]
6. Elizabeth Crapo (named in will)
7. Rebecca Crapo, born 12 22 March 1717/8^[2]
8. Hezekiah Crapo, born 12 March 1719/20^[2]
9. Nicholas Crapo, born 5 Dec 1721 [sic]^[4]
10. Seth Crapo was born 19 May 1722. [sic]^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Wakefield, Robert S. (editor). Sherman, Ruth Wilder and Sherman, Robert Moody (original compilers). Mayflower Families Through Five Generations. Volume Thirteen Family of William White. Third Edition. (Plymouth, Mass.: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2006) pp 11, 25, 26
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7} Vital records of Rochester, Massachusetts, to the year 1850. (Boston, Mass,: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 1914) p. 304 children p. 96
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Vital records of Rochester, Massachusetts, to the year 1850. Marriages and Deaths (Boston, Mass, Pub. by the New England historic, 1914) [https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofro02roch/page/94 p. (1) 95; (2) p. 94
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Mayflower Families cites the Aspinwall Papers

• Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 30 July 2021), memorial page for Mrs Penelope White Crapo (12 Mar 1687–Nov 1738), Find A Grave: Memorial #7948191, citing Center Cemetery, Rochester, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by v brown (contributor 46586128). (No gravestone, no source info.)