Mary Crosby

Our ancestor Mary Crosby spent her earliest years in Holme upon Spaulding Moor, Yorkshire, England, situated about 10 miles from the River Homden and 25 miles from the North Sea, about halfway between York and Kingston upon Hull. After her fifth year but before she was 12, Mary journeyed with her parents and her sisters Jane and Hannah to a new life in the New World. Probably this journey took place before Mary was 8, in 1637, since the government severely restricted emigration in that year.

Mary and her siblings were part of the reactive, nomadic Cavalier Generation. Her parents and her husband were part of the idealistic, puritanical Righteous Generation. Her children were part of the heroic, civic-minded Glorious Generation.

Year by year in the life of Mary Crosby
The early life of Mary Crosby in its historical context
The later life of Mary Crosby in its historical context

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*Birth of Mary Crosby*
Baptized:	4 December 1629
Birthplace:	Holme upon Spaulding Moor, Yorkshire, England,
*Parents*
Father:	Robert Crosby, 1596-1642 (our ancestor)
Mother:	Constance Brigham, 1602-1682 (our ancestor)
*Siblings*
Brother:	John Crosby bapt. 25 January 1623/24, Holme-upon-Spaulding Moor, Yorkshire, England probably died young
Sister:	Jane Crosby bapt. 22 April 1627, Holme-upon-Spaulding Moor, Yorkshire, England m. 29 October 1644 in Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts to John Pickard (Rowley selectman 1676, freeholder list 1677)
Brother:	Robert Crosby bapt. 22 July 1632, Holme-upon-Spaulding Moor, Yorkshire, England probably died young
Sister:	Hannah Crosby bapt. 31 October 1634, Holme-upon-Spaulding Moor, Yorkshire, England m. 6 December 1655 in Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts to Captain John Johnson (Rowley freeholder list 1677)
*Spouse and children*
Husband:	Richard Longhorne, 1617-1668 (our ancestor) (son of John Longhorne and Jane Clemett Longhorne, our ancestors) Married 16 January (or 16 November?) 1648 (or perhaps 1647) Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts
Son:	Thomas Longhorne born October 1648, Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts died (buried) 8 December 1653, Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts
Daughter:	Elizabeth Longhorne, 1649-1704 (our ancestor)
Daughter:	Constance Longhorne born September 1652, Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts m. 10 May 1680 in Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts to Jonathan Mooers of Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts died 1714 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts
Son:	Samuel Longhorne born 1654, Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts died (buried) 6 July 1660, Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts
Son:	Thomas Longhorne born 1657, Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts died (buried) 26 August 1660, Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts
Daughter:	Sarah Longhorne(1) According to William C. Lander: "After the death of her parents Sarah made several appearances in the court records of Essex Co. On '5 May 1674; Sarah Longhorne chose Daniel Wicom as her Guardian.' On another occasion, Sarah Longhorne, 'who was left young and of tender agge,' having been under the charge of an executor, petitioned the court for a guardian. Petition to the court, dated Ipswich, 4:3:1674: 'Constance Crosbie Grandmother to this orphan Sarah Longhorne understanding that Daniel Wickham is like to be perswaded to accept of Guardianship for her: I thinking that she had need of one that hath more experience to oversee her and for other reasons I am very unwilling & doe desire that such a thing may not be proceeded in or granted till Thomas Longhorne of Cambridge, her uncle, knowes and gives his consent for he takes more care of the children than I expected he would have done; not more at present, your poor & humble servant & handmaide.'" To close this footnote, click the number again or click (Close) born 6 December 1660, Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts
Daughter:	Bethiah Longhorne(2) Ibid.: "On '26 Sep.1679, Bethiah Longhorne chose her uncle Thomas Longhorne as her guardian,' from Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 5, p. 282, and The Probate Records of Essex County, Mass, vol. 3, p. 83." To close this footnote, click the number again or click (Close) born 9 April 1662, Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts married Amos Marrett on 2 November 1681
Son:	Richard Longhorne born 20 May 1665, Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts died (buried) 2 June 1668, Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts
Son:	Thomas Longhorne born 1667, Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts died (buried) 11 June 1668, Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts
*Other information*
Occupation:	No firm information available: Possibly manufacture of coarse linen and hemp textiles(3). According to Fischer, David Hackett, Albion's Seed (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), pp. 151-152, quoting John Winthrop's journal (in Winthrop's Journal, ed. James K. Hosmer [2 vols. New York, 1908], II, 122 [1643]), Edward Johnson, Johnson's Wonder-working Providence, 1628-1651, ed. J. F. Jameson (New York, 1910), 58-61, Samuel Maverick, "A Brief Description of New England and Severall Townes Therein, Together with the Present Government Thereof," MAHSP, 2d series, I (1884-85), 235, and David Grayson Allen, In English Ways (Chapel Hill, NC, 1981): "[t]he town of Rowley in Massachusetts was founded by an untypical group of English Puritans who came from the East Riding of Yorkshire, and had been drawn into the great migration by the charisma of their East Anglian minister [presumably Rev. Thomas Shepherd]. Their home in the north of England had been the center for the manufacture of coarse linen and hemp textiles by a work force that consisted largely of children. The new settlement of Rowley, Massachusetts, rapidly developed the same sort of industry that had existed in Rowley, Yorkshire [about 8 miles southeast of Holme upon Spaulding Moor]. John Winthrop noted in 1643 that the American community's production of hemp and flax 'exceeded all other towns' in New England [where farming predominated]. Edward Johnson wrote of the Rowley colonists that they 'were the first people that set upon the making of cloth in this western world, for which end they built a fulling mill, and caused their little-ones to be very diligent in spinning cotton wool, many of them having been clothiers in England.' About the year 1660 Samuel Maverick described the inhabitants of Rowley as a 'very laborious people... making cloth and rugs of cotton wool and also sheep's wool.'" To close this footnote, click the number again or click (Close)
Religion:	Puritan
*Death of Mary Crosby Longhorne*
Died:	29 November (or 29 December?) 1667 (age not quite 38)
Deathplace:	Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts
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Sources on Mary Crosby Longhorne:

Descendants of Richard Longhorne of Rowley, MA, which was constructed by William Lander, 176 Gieger Rd., Cleveland, TN. 37312 (E-mail: WLander@aol.com), © 1998 by William C. Lander. Mr. Lander provided these sources:

NEHGR, v. 119, p. 248 [bapt. of Mary Crosby & her m. to Richard].
Pope, Charles H., The Pioneers of Massachusetts. Under the entry for Constance Crosby, Pope erroneously gives Mary Crosby's husband as Nicholas Longhorne.
Gage, Thomas. History of Rowley, Mass. "In 1667 Richard Langhorne received by division part of the Hog Island Marshes."; "1666-7 To Richard Longhorne - 100 acres. It lyeth on the Highway that goeth from Ipswich to Andover."
Farmer, John. Register of the First Settlers of New England, p. 173.
Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 5, p. 282.
The Probate Records of Essex Co., Mass., vol. 2, 1665-1674, pp. 147-151. [This entry taken from the Ipswich Q.Ct. Recs (vol. 5, p. 282), shown above.
Savage, James, A Genealogical Dictionary of New England, p. 231.
Paige, Lucius R., A History of Cambridge, Mass., pp. 599-600.
Cole, A., and Whitman, C. F., A History of Cambridge, Mass.
Baldwin, Thomas W., Cambridge Vital Records, for Cambridge, Mass. Boston, 1914.
Vital Records of Essex Co., MA., "Rowley", pp. 130-131, 342, 490.
Quimby, Henry Cole, New England Family History, vol. 1, p. 103.
Prindle, Paul W., NEHGR, vol. 119, p. 248, Oct. 1965.
Holman, Mary Lovering, Ancestry of Charles Pillsbury and John Pillsbury, 2 vols. [Concord, NH: The Rumford Press, 1938].
Farmer, John, Register of The First Settlers of New England,, p. 173. Brief mention of Richard: From the CD of Essex Co. V.R.; Richard Longhorne married Mary Crosby 16:11m:1647, Rowley VR 1:342; Beththiah (Longhorn), d/of Richard, born 9:4m:1662 Rowley VR 1:130; Constance Longhorne, d/of Richard and Mary, born [1652], Rowley VR 1:130; [Elizabeth Longhorne, d/of Richard and Mary, born Sept -- [1649] different ink] Rowley VR 1:130; Richard (Longhorn), s/of Richard and Mary, born 20 May 1665, Rowley VR 1:130; Samuell Longhorne, s/of Richard and Mary, born 4:12m:1654, Rowley VR 1:130; Sarah Longhorne, d/of Richard and Mary, born 16:2m:1660, Rowley VR 1:130; Thomas Longhorne, s/of Richard and Mary, born "last of" 4m:1657 [30 June] Rowley VR 1:130; Thomas Longhorn, s/of Richard and Mary, born 27 Nov 1667, Rowley VR 1:131; Mary Longhorn buried 29 Nov 1667, Rowley VR 1:490; Richard Longhorne buried 13 Feb 1668, Rwoley VR 1:490; Richard Longhorne, s/of Richard and Mary, buried 2 June 1668, Rowley VR 1:490; Samuel Longhorne, s/of Richard and Mary, buried 6 July 1660, Rowley VR 1:490; Thomas Longhorne, s/of Richard and Mary, buried 8:12m:1653, Rowley VR 1:490; Thomas Longhorne, s/of Richard and Mary, buried 26 Aug 1660, Rowley VR 1:490; Thomas Longhorne, s/of Richard and Mary, buried 11 July 1668, Rowley VR 1:490; Elizabeth Longhorne married Abraham Hezeltine 7 Oct 1669, Rowley VR 1:342.

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