Eliot (Winship) Craft (bef. 1745 - 1832)

Born before 3 Feb 1745 in Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of Edward Craft — married 16 Jun 1768 in Lexington, Mass

Descendants

Died 17 Dec 1832 after age 87 in Auburn, Geauga, Ohio

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Biography

Eliot Winship was baptized in Lexington, Massachusetts on Feb 3, 1745.^[1]

Eliot Winship and Edward Crafts were married on june 16, 1768 in Lexington, Massachusetts. ^[2] Marriage also registered in Boston, Massachusetts. ^[3]

An anecdote during the war-- "She had been busily engaged for three days and nights running bullets for the army. A British officer came in while she was at work, and asked, 'What are you doing?' She replied, 'I am running bullets to shoot your soldiers with, and were I a man, I would use them, too.' He replied, 'You are a brave woman,' and went out, but her prompt avowal of the purpose of the her work, accompanied with a dignity of manner, so impressed the officer in command, that he allowed the women their freedom, and spared the premises from destruction." After husband's death, lived with daughter Nancy Keyes at Palmyra, NY, then in Geauga Co. OH.^[4]

She died Dec 17, 1832 [Attested by Find A Grave] ^{[citation needed]} in Geauga County, Ohio and is buried at Shadyside Cemetery in Auburn Township, Geauga County, Ohio. ^[5][4]

Sources

1. ↑ [https://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Middlesex/Lexington/Images/Lexington_B090.shtml Lexington - Births - Massachusetts
2. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCSZ-ML7 : 10 November 2020), Elect Winship in entry for Edward Crafts, 16 Jun 1768; citing Marriage, Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004198966.
3. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHN2-YZ3 : 10 November 2020), Elect Winship in entry for Edward Crafts, 16 Jun 1768; citing Marriage, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004277139.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Crafts, James Monroe & William Francis, The Crafts Family, A Genealogical and Biographical History of the Descendants of Griffin and Alice Craft, of Roxbury, Mass., 1630-1890, Gazette Printing Company, Northampton, MA, 1893, DAR Library, DC.
5. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 30 January 2021), memorial page for Eliot Winship Crafts (28 Jan 1745–17 Dec 1832), Find A Grave: Memorial #60706873, citing Shadyside Cemetery, Auburn Township, Geauga County, Ohio, USA ; Maintained by Anita Smith (contributor 47141046) .