Josiah Crocker1

#24025, (circa 1770 - )
Father*Capt. Thomas Crocker2 (1735 - 1796)
Mother*Mercy Hamblen2 (1737 - )

Family

Hannah Crosby b. c 1775
Children 1.Seth Crocker+1 (1796 - 1826)
 2.Thomas1 Crocker5 (1797 - 1797)
 3.Betsey Crosby Crocker5 (1798 - 1798)
 4.Josiah Crocker Jr.5 (1799 - )
 5.Betsey Crocker5 (1801 - )
 6.Zerviah Crocker5 (1803 - )
 7.Theresa Crocker5 (1804 - )
 8.Thomas Crocker5 (1805 - )
 9.Joseph Crocker6 (s 1808 - )
 10.John Crocker6 (s 1810 - )
 11.Stephen Nye Crocker6 (s 1812 - )
 12.Abner Crocker6 (s 1812 - )
Birth*circa 1770He was born circa 1770 at MassachusettsG.1 
circa 1781He removed with Capt. Thomas Crocker and Mercy Hamblen to Lee, Berkshire Co., MassachusettsG, circa 1781.3 
Marriage*15 January 1795He married Hannah Crosby on 15 January 1795 at Lee, Massachusetts.4 
1805He and Hannah Crosby removed from Berkshire Co., MassachusettsG, in 1805.1 
before 1820He settled at Turkey Hill (near Belleville), St. Clair Co., IllinoisG, before 1820.1 

Citations

  1. [S2100] Biographies of Bradley Twp. Citizens, compiled by Carol Dean and Susan Cook,online www.iltrails.org/jackson/brad1.htm. "The Crocker Family," prepared by Robert Downen.
  2. [S2101] John R Totten, Thacher–Thatcher Genealogy (New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1910), pp. 292-296.
  3. [S2102] Amos Otis, Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families, revised by C F Swift (Barnstable, Mass.: F. B. & F. P. Goss, 1888), pp. 242–243.
  4. [S1456] New England Historic Genealogical Society, compiler, Vital Records of Lee Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston: Stanhope Press, 1903), p. 126. Hannah Crosby and Josiah Crocker, marr. 15 Jan 1795.
  5. [S1456] New England Historic Genealogical Society, Vital Records of Lee, p. 34.
  6. [S2100] Biographies of Bradley Twp. Citizens, online www.iltrails.org/jackson/brad1.htm, "The Crocker Family," prepared by Robert Downen. "The last four children (Joseph, John, Stephen Nye, and Abner) were born after Josiah's family left Lee in 1805 in search of a new home."