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Family Group Sheet
| Husband: | Thomas Cross, Jr. | ||||||
| Father: | Thomas Cross, Sr. | ||||||
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| Wife: | Rachel Dising | ||||||
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| Prepared By: Prudy Gloye Weil 2312 Flintridge Dr., W Colorado Springs, CO80918-4428 Phone(s):(719) 264-0922 |
| Wife: | Rachel Dising | |||
| Address and Phone(s) | ||||
| Medical | ||||
| Notes | ||||
| Child: | Robert Cross | |||
| Born: | June 26, 1613 | |||
| in: | Charlinge, Somersetshire, England | |||
| Died: | February 8, 1691/92 | |||
| in: | Ipswich, Essex Co.,, Massachusetts | |||
| Relationship with Father: | Thomas Cross, Jr. - Natural | |||
| Relationship with Mother: | Rachel Dising - Natural | |||
| Burial: | February 9, 1691/92 | |||
| Ipswich, Essex Co., Massachusetts | ||||
| Immigration: | 1634 | |||
| Ship "John & Mary" | ||||
| Land Grant: | 1640 | |||
| Given Land Grant | ||||
| War: | ||||
| Was in Pequot War | ||||
| Address and Phone(s) | ||||
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| March 28, 2000 by Prudy Weil, e-mail address: [email protected] received from:MY CHILDREN'S ANCESTORS, by Roselle T. CrossDenham England Parish RegisterHammett, p. 66.New England Reg., Vol 60, p49Merrill MemorialWoodcock Genealogy, pg 1861, New England Family Gen. Memorial, 3 Series, Vol 14Max L. Draper Gen., Fam. TreeMaker Genealogical SiteRobert Cross, Sr., was a farmer at Ipswich, Mass.; and the first Cross to arrive on US soil.He sailed from Ipswich, England to Ipswich, Massachusetts on the "John & Mary" in 1634.His 12 children spread the Cross family all over the US.Most of them stayed in Ipswich, but John took the family to Methuen, Mass., where a large contingent of Crosses lived.Capt. Steven was a mariner, owned and lived on Cross Island (an island, just off the Massachusetts coast from Ipswich).Peter Cross, removed to Norwich, Windham, Windsor, Mansfield, Connecticut; thus taking that portion of the family to another area.He was first seen in the town of Norwich in 1683.CROSS LINEAGE FROM CHARLINGE, ENGLAND1. Sir Renulf Cotgreave, Lord of Hargrave Tarvin and Hattenhall in Country of Palatine and Chester, in reign of Henry IV and Henry V (1399-1422) m. Elinor, daughter of Francis Jamville de Mollington.2.Elinor Cotgreave, m Sir William Crosse de Charlinge, County of Somerset and Sutton, Cheshire.3.William Crosse, Esq. de Charlinge and Sutton; m. Isabelle, daughter of Robert de Holme.Lord de Franmure in County of Palatine and Chester.4.John Crosse, Esq. of Charlinge, and Sutton; m Constance, daughter of William Botelar or Butler, Esq. of Warrington in Country of Lancaster.5.John Crosse, Esq. de Charlinge and Sutton; m. Angard, daughter of Matthew-Ellis de Vrierleigh near Chester.He was the father of the famous warrior, Sir Robert Cross.From: My Children's Ancestors, by Roselle T. Cross; Appendix, pg. 189.THE CROSS FAMILYThe Crosses of Bristol trace their ancestry to Charlenge, now Charlinch, Somersetshire, England.The name appears in the Domesday Book of William the Conqueror, also in the wars of the Crusades.Sir Robert Cross, of Charlenge, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth, in 1602, or heroism, as admiral, against the Spanish Armada and at Cadiz.He died with issue.His coat of arms was brought to this country by Gen. Ralph Cross, of Revolutionary fame.From it, it may be seen that the family sprang from Norman stock and belonged to the landed gentry of England.Closely related to Sir Robert Were Robert and John who, in 1637 sailed from Ipswich, England, to Ipswich, Massachusetts.Robert settled in in Newburyport, Mass.John settled in Methuen, Mass., where eight generations have lived in a house still standing.The later brother became the founder of the line, as follows:1. John, of Methuen, b England, m. Dorothy, dau. of Robert Swan of Rowley......etc.From: History of Bristol, New Hampshire, pg 120.Found on-line at:http://www.familytreemaker.com/_glc_/1577/1577_120.htmlTHE CROSS & VINTON FAMILIES OF TOLLAND COUNTY, CT.Robert Cross (1), the immigrant ancestor of Dr. Louis Kent Cross, of Winchendon, Mass., was born in England.He may have been the nephew and it is very probable that he was a near relative of John Cross, of Ipswich, who was born in England about 1580 and came to New England with his wife Anne in the ship "Elizabeth" of Ipswich, sailing April 30, 1634; he left only one child, a daughter Hannah, wife of Thomas Hammond.Robert Cross came to Ipswich about the same time as the older immigrant of this name.He was a Proprietor as early as 1635 and served in the Pequot War.He had a case in the Ipswich court which was referred to the general court.December 1, 1640.The date of his death is not known, and until recently his records and those of his sons have been almost hopelessly confused.His son, Stephen Cross, deposed in 1663 that he was sixteen and a half years old; his son Robert at the same time testified that he was aged about twenty-one years.He deeded land probably on his death bed, February 13, 1774-75, to his son Stephen and his wife Elizabeth to be given them at his death.The name of his wife is not known.His children were:Robert, Jr. born 1644, married, 1664, Martha Tredwell and had children: Robert born January 21,1665; Timothy, born November 29, 1667; Martha, born March 15, 1670; Abel, born April 5, 1676; Stephen, born April 27, 1678, John, mentioned in will, Stephen, born 1647-48, settled in Ipswich.A daughter, who married William Nelson.Martha married, 1664, William Dirkee.Peter, born 1653, died April 9, 1737, aged eighty-four years.Peter Cross, son of Robert Cross(e), was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, 1653.He was one of the pioneer settlers at Windham, Connecticut, and some of his children were born there.....etc.From: History of Toland County, CT; Cross & Vinton Families of Tolland County, CT.HISTORY OF IPSWICH, MASS.Robert Cross is listed among the names of such as are Commoners in Ipswich, viz: that have right to Commonage there: the last day of the last month 1641.Page 24.GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY of The First Settlers of New England showing Three Generations of those who came before May, 1699 of the Basis of Farmer's Register.by James Savage.Vol. 1, pg. 478.Robert, IPSWICH 1639, had serv. in the Pequot war; by w. wh. d 29 Oct. 1677, had sev. ch. but names of only Robert, perhaps eldest, Martha, who m. William Durgin or Durkee, Stephen and Ralph, b 15 Feb. 1639, prob. youngest, have reachrd me....Peter, Ipswich 1673.Peter, Norwich, had gr. of lot 1680.THE ANCESTRY OF PHOEBE TILTONCross of Ipswich, Mass., Page129-139.Robert Cross and Anna Jordan were married on August 20, 1635, presumably in Ipswich where the bride's family had settled a few months before.* (New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 68:202.)Anna Cross died in Ipswich on Oct. 29, 1677, and Robert married a second wife, Marry ____.If she was, as seems probable, the Mary Cross, aged about twenty-seven, who testified in Derby v. Dutch in 1680, she was young enough to be his daughter.Then were both living in 1694.Robert Cross was born about 1613, his age being estimated twice in 1668 as about fifty-five, and in 1675 as about sixty-three.Cross had a grant of six acres, adjoining the land of his father-in-law Stephen Jordan, in 1635 and by 1538 he had built a house on it.In the spring of 1637 he was one of the young men of Ipswich, seventeen in number, who saw service as soldiers in the Pequot war.The war lasted six months and the men were paid at the rate of 20s. a month.In 1639 the town granted them small lots of marsh-land as a bonus.One March 19, 1649/50, Robert Cross moved his family to a farm of forty acres, in the southern part of Ipswich called Chebacco, which he had bought from John Burnham.The date is fixed by the testimony of his sons Robert and Stephen in a suit for trespass which he brought against four neighbors in 1663. (Records and Files, III:96-8)Bounds were uncertain, particularly in the marshes, and Cross was involved in several boundary disputes.Cross was a commoner in 1641, subscribed to Major Denison's salary in 1648, was made freeman in 1658 and took the Oath of Allegiance in 1678.He and his family were constantly in legal difficulties, and he seems to have developed an idea that the magistrates, particularly Major Denison, were prejudiced against him.Cross was "admonished for words" and Joseph Fowler was in court for "wicked and sinful speeches" against him in 1649, among Cross's witnesses being the wife and daughter of John Cross which may hint of a relationship to one who was a solid citizen. (Records and Files; I:168-179)He was sued by John Fuller in 1642 and sued Cornelius Waldo in 1651, in the civil side.In 1664 Cross's daughter Martha, who was a servant of Thomas Bishop, got into trouble with one William Durkee."In sore distress of mind in the Consideration as she Conseved she had binn cast out of her fathers favor and familee,"she took refuge with her sister Elizabeth Nelson.Elizabeth consulted Goodman Story, saying " I dayer not goe to speack a word in her behalfe",and Story, literally a good man, offered to go with her to see her parents."We found them," said Story, "in a sad and sorrowful condition, very much harried in spirit, not knowing which way to turn or what to say."Goodman Story advised marriage, and "that was the way then that we thought to be the best."Cross, however, could not let the situation end with this simple solution and sued Durkee for abusing his daughter.Durkee replied by suing Cross for withdrawing his consent to the marriage after giving it.Soon afterward, however, William and Martha were duly married. (Records and Files, III:189-190)Cross had two servants, Nicholar Vauden and Lawrence Clinton.Vauden ran away in 1666, 1668 and 1670, when he added to his offense by stealing L7 belonging to his master.Each time he was pursued with hue and cry, captured and brought back, and in 1670 the miserable fellow was fined L40, which presumably could only be paid by work, branded with an "R" on the forehead and forced to wear an iron collar.Lawrence Clinton was a gay young blade who claimed to have rich and prominent connections in England.He courted Rachel Halfield, an aging Ipswich spinster, who bought him off his time (three and a half years) from Cross for L21 and married him.Rachel's family sued Cross, accusing him of conniving with Clinton to secure the Halfield money, and won the case, which Cross appealed to the Court of Assistants.Cross won when the case was reviewed.Clinton soon deserted Rachel and departed for fresh pastures in Rhode Island and Connecticut.Rachel divorced him and ended her days as a poor old woman in a hut on an Ipswich island. (Records and Files, III:371,457)By 1663 Robert Cross was saying that he could get no justice while the major (Denison) was on the bench, and, after his sons Robert and Stephen were in jail and in the stocks for their training-day misbehavior, he was more embittered.In 1668 he tried to convince Thomas Wells that the magistrates personally kept the court fines, and Wells testified that Cross said that Major Denison was not respected in the court at Boston, that there were more appeals from Ipswich court than from any court in the country and that "his sons were set in stocks and punished for nothing".Cross came back by quoting Wells as saying that the Ipswich court was all one with the Inquisition in Spain and that "old Bradstreet was a worse usurer than Godfrey."Everybody was fined and bound to good behavior.Cross gained one point when he sued Wells for slander for saying that Cross was a "cheating knave," the court forcing Wells to make a public acknowledgment to clear Cross's good name. (Records and Files, IV:50,66,78-82)On March 17, 1685/6, Robert Cross conveyed the Chebacco farm to his sons Robert and Stephen, who were to pay his debts and funeral expenses.Apparently he was to continue to live on the farm for the rest of his life.(Essex Deeds, 10:49)Capt. Stephen Cross, using his father as nominal plaintiff, sued John Burnham, jr., their Chebacco neighbor, in 1693 to recover a lot of marsh, the title to which was in dispute.Cross won a verdict but Burnham appealed the case successfully.There are forty-one papers on file in this appeal, some of the evidence going back to 1663. In one paper Robert Cross entered the date of his marriage and birthdays of his daughters Elizabeth Nelson, Mary Herrick and Martha Dirkye, all of whom testified.The appeal was heard May 21, 1695. (Supreme Judicial Court, No.3138)Robert and Mary Cross were both living in 1694 when they consented to a sale by Stephen Cross of one-half of the marsh called "Daffeedowndille" on the Chebacco river to Thomas Choate for L40. (Essex Deeds, 11:184)Both of them were presumably dead by December 4, 1710, when Stephen Herrick of Beverly, attorney for Mary Herrick of Preston and Ephraim Fellows and Anna, his wife, of Plainfield, both places in New London county, Connecticut, and both women daughters of Robert Cross, late of Ipswich, conveyed all their interest in his estate to William Butler of Ipswich. (Essex Deeds; 8:98)"In 1672 Robert Cross, sr., his son Stephen, widow Cheney of Newbury and her daughter Elizabeth met at the house of Quartermaster John Perkins in Ipswich.Robert Cross desired the widow to give her daughter Elizabeth to his son Stephen in marriage, but the widow would not consent unless Stephen was given some land to settle on by his father.Cross told the widow that he had an island in Chebacco river which he did intend for Stephen and that he valued it at about L200.This was satisfactory to goodwife Cheney and she consented to the match.Immediately thereupon Robert Cross drew a deed of gift to his son Stephen of the said island and subscribed to it, Perkins and John Kendrick acting as witnesses, and the young people "in some convenient time after were joined together in matrimony."John Kendrick swore to these facts on March 31, 1685.Possibly Cross' marriage to Elizabeth Cheney of Newbury at an unknown date was a restraining influence, for his court appearances for violent acts ceased for a time, at least.He bought half an acre of land on Water street in Ipswich from John Kendrick and build a house.Thomas Dennis, the talented Ipswich furniture maker, made him a table and chair in 1675.His business as the captain of a coasting vessel, the sloop Adventure of twenty tons, took him as far afield as Wethersfield in Connecticut and the towns on the Exeter and Piscataqua rivers, the voyages frequently resulting in lawsuits for payment of freight which Cross usually won.The Adventure was apparently bought by Cross in 1672, Samuel Cogswell of Ipswich owning a share, and was supposedly made fit to go to sea by Moses Chadwell of Lynn, who did a slow and poor job and lost in the resulting suit in 1676. (from: Records and Files, V:197)Later John Lee owned a share in the sloop.The business was apparently prosperous and Capt. Cross became a personage entitled to the title "Mr." in the records.In 1682 he had a Negro slave in his crew who was "very well known a wicked person."The last heard of the Adventure is in the summer of 1689 when Capt. Cross's sloop, laden with a cargo of deal boards, was off Cape Cod and was captured by the pirate Thomas Pound, who kept the sloop and put her crew into the ketch from which he was operating at the moment and "sent them away"--mind treatment from a pirate. (from: New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 45:216)In 1684 Capt. Cross sold his Water street house to Job Bishop and bought the Richard Saltonstall place from Bishop, the property consisting of fourteen acres of land on both sides of Saltonstall brook, an orchard and the house. (from: Ipswich Deeds, 5:200,51Here he opened an inn and began again to be summoned to court, for illegal sales of spirits and for impairing the morals of Ipswich youth, including his future son-in-law, Benjamin Dutch, by providing a "shovel board."Capt. Stephen Cross was a commander of the ketch Lark in the expedition against Canada in 1690.The Lark was a Salem vessel and Cross brought her back to her home port on March 18, 1690/91, and the arms on board were placed in Mr. Derby's warehouse.(Essex Quarterly Court Files, vol. 50, leaf 26.)Cross was in financial difficulties in 1691.John Harris, the marshal, and his deputy, Thomas Low, came to serve an attachment on his property and later described his reception: "Capt. Cross tooke his nacked sword and he ran to ye said Low who was to assist me and told him he would run him through."Having ejected Low, the captain clapped the point of his rapier to the marshal's breast and bid him get out of the house.He saved his house and land by deeding them to his two minor sons, Stephen and John, who were to take possession when the reached their majorities and divide the property evenly, on May 9, 1691.(from: Essex Deeds, 9:15.)In 1694 Cross began disposing of parts of the paternal farm at Chebacco, although his father was still living on it, selling one-half of "Daffeedowndille" marsh to Thomas Choate for L40 on July 24, and fourteen acres of marsh to John Appleton, jr., on August 10. (from: Essex Deeds, 11:184; 1:19).His brother-in-law, the steady Lieut. William Butler, bought for L100 all of Stephen's right, title and interest in the estate of Robert Cross, sr., as he disposed of it by deed or gift to his sons Robert Cross, jr., and Stephen Cross, on June 3, 1695.If the old man was still alive, he was safe in Butler's hands.(from: Essex Deeds, 10:163).There are no probate records for Stephen Cross.His wife Elizabeth was living in 1694 as she released her dower in the Appleton deed.Cross was certainly dead in 1704/5 when his son John named Benjamin Dutch his guardian.(Note: A Stephen Cross, unplaced, was married to Mary Lawrence in Boston January 3, 1692/3, by Rev. Cotton Mather.) | ||||
| Marriage Information | ||||
| Wife: | Hannah Jordan | |||
| Married: | August 20, 1635 | |||
| Beginning status: | Married | |||
| in: | Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts | |||
| Marriage Notes | ||||
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