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From: Crocker <>
Subject: [CROCKER-L] Vol 3 material?
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 18:28:10 -0800


Andrea (and possibly others),
I've been meaning to send this material to you for some time, in the hopes that it might add to what you've already published in your previous volumes. Do you have a picture file program. In other words, do you have software capability of receiving and reading scanned images? If you do, I could send you some of the wills (scanned) to you in this manner, so that I won't have to type them out myself, which I am also more than willing to do for you. Let me know.

1) I have a copy of Josiah Crocker's (of Taunton, MA) will (#1527, p.18 of your vol 1), which was recorded August 5, 1774. A note at the top says "Proved 1 Aug 1800). It names his 7 sons and 2 daughters, and even refers to those children who were born of his second wife, Hannah, and those (by default) born of his first wife.
2) I have a copy of Allen Crocker's (of Morton, MA) will. He was a son of the above Josiah, and, judging by his will, was a very wealthy man in his time, written 11 April 1818.
3) I have a copy of gravestone inscriptions of the graves of Zaccheus (#14522, vol 1) and Lucy Crocker, and their children. With these are included Beal and Editha Crocker and their children's gravestone inscriptions (I presume this to be another family....perhaps Beal was another son of Zaccheus (#1452) and Elizabeth (Beals) Crocker, or a son of Zaccheus (#14522). All of these stones (but not the bodies) were removed from the abandoned cemetery at the south west corner of Leverett by the descendants of Capt. Zacheus Crocker in August 1908, and placed in the Sunderland cemetery.
4) I have family bible record copies of the Foxcroft family, recording a marriage between Samuel (E. or L.) Crocker, of Portland and Hannah Foxcroft, 19 May 1829. Mr. Crocker was born in Conway N.H. March 9, 1802. There are other dates recorded for some Crockers, but I cannot make sense of their relationships. There is a brief but interesting lineage of the Foxcroft family, tracing its roots back to Rev. Thomas Foxcroft, minister of the first Church in Boston.
5) I have a copy of the Bible records of Elizabeth Crocker (born Aug 11, 1800, died October 22, 1854) and James Palmer (b. October 23, 1796), who were married June 30, 1835. I could not find mention of these two in your published volumes --- perhaps they are yet another unidentified branch. The bible records include the birth and marriage dates of Elizabeth's parents (John Crocker and Margaret Choate) and the birthdates of her sisters and brothers (9 total). It also includes records of James Palmer's parents and siblings (8 total). I do not know where this family lived.
6) Finally, I have a copy of family bible records of a Betsey Crocker (b. Jan. 19, 1797) and James Childs (b. Dec. 12 1797), married Sept. 21, 1820, their 7 children, and 7 grandchildren. I do not know where this couple lived.

All of this information was obtained at the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston. While I am not directly related to these families, I thought it might be helpful (to others) for you to include them in your book. Let me know if you'd like the rest of the info.
Regards, Ben.

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