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Descendants of Thomas Cross, Jr.
4.CAPT. ROBERT4 CROSS (ROBERT3, THOMAS2, THOMAS1) was born Bet. 1641 - 1642 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, and died October 29, 1710 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts.He married MARTHA TREADWELL February 19, 1664/65 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, daughter of THOMAS TREADWELL and SARAH TITCOMB.She was born March 12, 1642/43 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, and died March 3, 1737/38 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts.
Notes for CAPT. ROBERT CROSS:
Son of Robert Cross of England, Ipswich, Essex Co., Mass.
THE ANCESTRY OF PHOEBE TILTON, pg.132 (Cross, of Ipswich)
2. ROBERT2 CROSS (Robert1) was born, presumably in Ipswich, about 1642, that year being determined by his estimated age in many court depositions.He married Martha Treadwell on February 19, 1664/5. He died in 1713 and his widow died March 3, 1738/9, at the age of ninety-five.
In 1667, after a day spent in military training, Robert Cross, his cousin John Andrews, jr., and a few other young men, probably under the influence of too much "sack," or aqua-vitae, committed what the court with some justice termed a "barbarous and inhuman act."They opened the grave of the Indian Sagamore of Agawam, who had been a constant friend of the first settlers of Ipswich, scattered his bones and carried his skull on a pole.Cross was apparently the ring-leader, and he was sentenced to jail until the next lecture day when he was to sit in the stocks for an hour after meeting, then to be taken back to prison to remain until he had paid a fine of L6: 13:4.After his release he was bound to good behavior and obliged to bury the sagamore's bones and erect a cover of stones two feet high on the grave.The case naturally caused a great sensation, the mildest comment being that the fines and imprisonment punished the culprits' parents, who had to find the money and replace their labor, more than it did them.*(Records and Files, III:400).Drink was Robert Cross's curse.He owned that he drank excessively in 1670, he was "much in drink" in Gloucester in September, 1671, again in Salem in 1673, and was fined for breach of the peace in 1677.
Cross seems to have been in the coasting trade, dealing in lumber.In 1673 he had sold 2000 feet of sawed boards to Ezekiel Needham of Lynn and sued for payment of L3 in goods and a pair of shoes, winning the case.His brother Stephen Cross, who testified against him, had guaranteed Needham against loss and damage and acknowledged a judgment which Needham obtained in 1676. (Records and Files, V:185).Robert won another case against Hugh March in 1677, receiving payment of 16,000 feet of merchantable pine boards which he had twice gone to Exeter to fetch. (Records and Files, VI:285).John Lee sued him in 1680 for not delivering 3,160 feet of pine boards which he was to obtain at Lamperill river and deliver in Boston. (Records and Files; VIII:11).
In 1680 Cross leased land on "the little neck" and engaged in a continuous feud with the fishermen who were accustomed to use the beach there.There also, in 1686, he broke open the hut of an old shepherd, Capt. John Ayres, who kept the flock on the neck, and brutally assaulted him.
On August 29, 1694, he released to his brother Stephen all of his interest in the paternal farm at Chebacco, Stephen promising to acquit him of all obligations toward their father. (Essex Deeds, 10:49)
On June 3, 1707, Robert Cross deeded his son Ralph Cross all his housing on "the little neck," on the south side of Jeffrey's neck where the grantor was then living, Ralph to enjoy two-thirds and to pay the grantor's son Nathaniel Cross one-third. (Essex Deeds, 19:172
Administration on the estate of Robert Cross of Ipswich was granted to Martha Cross, his widow, and Nathaniel Cross, his only son, Abraham Foster and James Foster being their sureties, on June 27, 1713.The small property was valued at L79 by Simon Wood and Thomas Hodgkins on July 3, 1713. (Essex Probate, No.6644.
More About CAPT. ROBERT CROSS:
Burial: November 1, 1710, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts
Notes for MARTHA TREADWELL:
Information from:
1.Biographical Sketches of New Hampshire Families
2.1639 Robert granted land for reward of services in Pequot War
3.Robert, a commoner in 1641 and 1664 owned property and was a voter.
4.Treadwell Descendants
More About MARTHA TREADWELL:
Burial: March 5, 1737/38, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts
Children of CAPT. CROSS and MARTHA TREADWELL are:
5.CAPT. STEVEN4 CROSS (ROBERT3, THOMAS2, THOMAS1) was born Bet. 1646 - 1648 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, and died 1704 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts.He married ELIZABETH CHENEY 1665.She was born January 12, 1646/47 in Newbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts.
Notes for CAPT. STEVEN CROSS:
March 30, 2000 notes:
(Capt. Stephen Cross is son of Robert Cross, of England, and Ipswich, Essex County, Mass.)
Re: Stephen.On Sept. 8, 1706, Stephen Cross of Ipswich, mariner, for L65 paid by Benjamin Dutch, sadler, released all claims to the house Dutch dwelt in, by virtue of a deed of gift from his father Stephen Cross, last of Ipswich, bearing date of May 13, 1691. (from: Essex Deeds, 21:62).
No other record of this Stephen Cross is found in Essex County.In Boston, however, on June 22, 1708, a Stephen Cross married Sarah Jackson, and on Feb. 12, 1713, Sarah Cross, widow, was appointed administrator of the estate of her husband Stephen Cross, late of Boston, mariner, Joseph Jackson, cooper, and Elizabeth Jackson, spinster, being her sureties.This may well have been the Ipswich man. (from: Suffolk Probate, No. 3548.)
THE ANCESTRY OF PHOEBE TILTON, Cross of Ipswich, pg. 136
STEPHEN CROSS (son of Robert, Sr.) was born in Ipswich about 1647.He is first seen as a boy of thirteen riding home from evening service on a Sunday in May 1650 (from Records & Files, II:201), but this is far from indicative of his career.His second appearance is when he was seventeen, testifying for his father who was being sued by Gov. Bradstreet for the loss of some sheep which had been entrusted to him.Stephen and his elder brother Robert suggested that the sheep might have been killed by an enormous bear--"wee did Cill the bayer: which for bignes was the biggest that ever was seen by aney of the."(from:Records and Files, III:396.)The evening of "training day" was often a riotous one for young colonials, and in 1667, when he was twenty, Stephen Cross and his friends got themselves into serious trouble by wrecking the town's bridges near the wind-mill.They were jailed, sentenced to sit in the stocks, pay L3 each in fines and be bound to good behavior. (from: Records and Files, III:399).
A year later Stephen was characterized as "a turbulent fellow but (one who) never spoke ill of authority," the former being obvious and the latter dubious as on this occasion he had been charged with "reproachful speeches against the worshipful magistrates," saying that they sat at dinner drinking burnt sack and when they came into court they looked red as though they were flustered and acted as though they were "fodeeled."Again he was bound to good behavior. (from:Records and Files, IV:78-82).In 1670 he and Thomas Deblanchet got into a fist fight in the meeting-house at sermon time, and, being summoned to court and not appearing, he was fined for contempt. (from: Records and Files, IV:235.)
Notes for ELIZABETH CHENEY:
Note: by Prudy Weil, March 30, 2000
E-mail: p.weil@worldnet.att.net
1.ELIZABETH,2 b. in Newbury January 12, 1647; m. Stephen Cross, of Ipswich.After this marriage questions arose respecting property, and John Perkins gave testimony (in 1672) that he was present when the "widow Cheney" and Robert Cross, senior, made a "treaty, when Robert's son Steven was a suitor to Elizabeth, daughter of the widow."Stephen Cross died and his son John, "a minor seventeen years of age," had guardian appointed Jan. 22, 1704-5.
From:The Cheney Genealogy, pg. 209.
http://www.familytreemaker.com/_glc_/1629/1629_209.html
Children of CAPT. CROSS and ELIZABETH CHENEY are:
| i. | SARAH5 CROSS, b. Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts; m. BENJAMIN DUTCH, January 7, 1701/02, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts. | ||
| 8. | ii. | ROBERT CROSS, b. Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts. | |
| iii. | STEPHEN CROSS. | ||
| iv. | NATHANIEL CROSS, b. April 2, 1686, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts; d. April 25, 1686, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts. | ||
| v. | JOHN CROSS, b. 1687, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts. |
| 9. | vi. | ANNA CROSS. |
6.JOHN4 CROSS (ROBERT3, THOMAS2, THOMAS1) was born Bet. 1644 - 1645 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, and died in Methuen, Essex, Massachusetts.He married RUTH SWAN.She died December 12, 1690.
More About JOHN CROSS:
Burial: Methuen, Essex, Massachusetts
Children of JOHN CROSS and RUTH SWAN are:
| i. | WILLIAM5 CROSS. | ||
| 10. | ii. | JOHN CROSS, d. Haverhill, Massachusetts. |
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