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From: wbauer <>
Subject: [CROCKER-L] Machias Crockers
Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 14:51:23 -0300


To those looking for Machias Crockers: I have been trying to connect my
Prospect Maine John Crocker to the Machias John Crocker so I have
accumulated some information on the Machias Crockers. The Searsport
Library collection of Priscilla Jones' genealogy tables has the lineage
of Deacon William Crocker up to Leonard Crocker, born Oct. 3, 1763, the
son of Rev. Josiah Crocker born Oct. 30, 1719 and died Aug. 28, 1774 and
Josiah's second wife, Hannah Cobb. They were married Nov. 5, 1761.
Hannah was born Nov. 5, 1761, daughter of Col. Thomas Cobb of
Attleborough. She died at Machias in Sept. 1817. Her children were
Leonard born Oct. 3, 1762 and Hannah, born Oct. 8, 1765. Was John
Crocker of Machias a relative? John is listed in the book,
Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War (1898) page
122 as having participated in many naval skirmishes in Machias. A John
Crocker is listed in the 1790 census at Machias and at Orphan's Island.
Are they the same John Crocker? In the 1800 census only one John Crocker
is listed, in Prospect.
My John Crocker was born in 1754 and died in Prospect Maine July
28, 1836.
Grace Limeburner, in The Folks of Orphan's Island-Now Verona,
writes, "It has been said that John and Marian Crocker were the children
of Rev. Joseph Crocker of Eastman, Mass. I have no proof of this. It
would seem to me that they were more likely to have been his
grandchildren."
I have two clippings about a pirate Crocker (no first name) of
Newport RI who made a deathbed confession in 1832 and required testimony
from Prospect Maine. Does anyone have a Rhode Island pirate in their
line?
From the beginning of an Indian legend, "Long before the Crockers or
any of the English folks lived here [Cape Cod], a giant trout came into
the South Sea."
Regards, Nancy Bauer

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