Sampson Crocker (1742 - aft. 1788)

Born 6 Oct 1742 in Gloucester, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Husband of Millie (Abrams) Crocker — married 1765 in Nova Scotia

Husband of Mary Crocker — married 2 Jan 1770 in Kingskerswell, Devon, England

Descendants

Died after 1788 after age 45 in Kingskerswell, Devon, England

Problems/Questions Profile manager: Chet Ogan [send private message]

Biography

Like his father he became a lieutenant in the British Army and fought at the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775. He apparently remained loyal to England during the war. Following the Revolutionary War he returned to settle on the family farmlands in Kings Kerswell, Devonshire, England. He also inherited some lands in Nova Scotia. Sampson Crocker married Millie Abrams, his sister-in-law, sister to John Abrams, in 1765. Millie apparently did not survive more than 5 years after her marriage, for, on 2 January 1770, Sampson Crocker married in Kings Kerswell, Devonshire, Mary Crocker, his cousin.

Sources

• Pioneer Families of California and the Far West and their early forebears: Abrams, Crocker, Marchant, Phelps, and McFarland families. By William Crocker Barry. Glendale, California. 1941. Indexed by Chet Ogan.