Constance (Brigham) Crosby (abt. 1602 - bef. 1684)

Born about 1602 in Holme-on-Spaldng-Moor, Yorkshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of Robert Crosby — married 22 Jul 1622 in Holme-on Spalding-Moor, Yorkshire, England

Descendants

Died before 25 Jan 1684 before about age 82 in Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

Constance Brigham was born about 1602 probably at Holme-On-Spalding-Moor, Yorkshire, England, where her parents Thomas Brigham and Isabel (Watson) were married in 1601 and where they both died. On 19 March 1633 "'Constance Brigham alias Crosby' [was] named as an administratrix of the estate of her father" and "Constance Crosby my daughter" was given 5s by her mother, Isabel Brigham, in her will of 8 June 1634.^[1]

It is presumed that she arrived in New England in December 1638 aboard the ship John of London with a group led by Ezekiel Rogers.^[2]

Constance and Robert Crosby were married about 1622,^[3] most likely in Holme-on-Spalding-Moor as that is where they were from and that is where their children were baptized:^[4]

1. John bp 25 January 1623/4
2. Jane bp 22 April 1627
3. Mary bp 4 December 1629
4. Robert bp 22 July 1632
5. Hannah bp 31 October 1634

Death and Burial

Constance died in 1683 and was buried 25 January 1683 in Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts.^[5][6]

Sources

1. ↑ Eleanor Davis Crosby, Simon Crosby The Emigrant: His English Ancestry and Some of His American Descendants, (Boston: Geo. H. Ellis Co., 1914) 62-63, digital images, HathiTrust.
2. ↑ John of London, Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild, vol. 4.
3. ↑ Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004), digital images by subscription at Ancestry.org.
4. ↑ Eleanor Davis Crosby, Simon Crosby The Emigrant: His English Ancestry and Some of His American Descendants, (Boston: Geo. H. Ellis Co., 1914) 63, digital images, HathiTrust.
5. ↑ Vital Records of Rowley, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 [Vol 1 P. 457]
6. ↑ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, n.d., digital image available by subscription at Ancestry.org..

See Also:

• Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume II, C-F (2001), 235 ("Associations" under entry for Simon Crosby); digital images by subscription, Ancestry.com or AmericanAncestors.org.