{"id":94023,"date":"2023-08-24T09:15:29","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T13:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=94023"},"modified":"2023-09-12T09:09:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T13:09:47","slug":"mayflower-descendants-whos-who-part-35-part-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/mayflower-descendants-whos-who-part-35-part-5.html","title":{"rendered":"Mayflower Descendants: Who\u2019s Who, Part 35 (part 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction:<\/em><\/strong> In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry gives the fifth part in her series on Mayflower descendants that focuses on Katie Crocker and her family line. Melissa is a genealogist who has a blog, AnceStory Archives<\/a>, and a Facebook group, New England Family Genealogy and History<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Today I continue with my series \u201cMayflower Descendants: Who\u2019s Who,\u201d focusing on the lineage of the Crocker family who married into several Mayflower<\/em> lines.<\/p>\n

To recap: I am working with a client, Katie Crocker, daughter of James and Debra Sue (Pemberton) Crocker of Barnstable, Massachusetts, on her family tree. My last story<\/a> covered Katie\u2019s 10th<\/sup> great grandparents John Gorham and Desire Howland, daughter of Mayflower<\/em> passengers John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley.<\/p>\n

As noted in the previous story, Gorham was a joiner and two rare cradles that still survive, almost identical in structure, are believed to have been made by him.<\/p>\n

The first is the Thatcher cradle located at the Crocker-Winslow home and featured in my previous story; the second is one originally owned by the Hinckley family, who intermarried into many old families including Thatcher. It is safe to say that both these cradles rocked many babes who grew up and became notable citizens.<\/p>\n

\"Photo:<\/a>
Photo: the Hinckley family cradle, taken by historian Gustavus Adolphus Hinckley at his family home in Barnstable, Massachusetts. Courtesy of Sturgis Library.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The archival collections at the Sturgis Library<\/a> in Barnstable, Massachusetts, hold some photographs of the cradle (such as the one above), as well as pictures of members of the Hinckley family, in a pamphlet entitled \u201cSouvenirs of the Last Governor of Plymouth County.\u201d Here is a portrait of Mercy Hinckley from that pamphlet.<\/p>\n

\"Illustration:<\/a>
Illustration: portrait of Mercy Hinckley. From \u201cSouvenirs of the Last Governor of Plymouth County\u201d pamphlet. Courtesy of Sturgis Library.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here is the page in the pamphlet accompanying the above portrait:<\/p>\n

\"Photo:<\/a>
Photo: page from \u201cSouvenirs of the Last Governor of Plymouth County\u201d pamphlet. Courtesy of Sturgis Library.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It reads:<\/p>\n

Mercy Hinckley. Daughter of Thomas and Mary [Smith] Glover Hinckley [widow of Nathaniel Glover], his second wife, born in Barnstable July 31, 1662, married Samuel Prince<\/a> of Sandwich 1686, his second wife. Her marriage does not appear of neither church nor town records of Barnstable.<\/p>\n

This photograph is from the original portrait in possession of a descendant family [Charles H. Fiske] of Boston; and the original of the photograph of the cradle in which her infancy was rocked is still in possession of a family in a direct line of descent residing in Barnstable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Note: A portrait of Mercy\u2019s husband Samuel Prince can be found in Noyes-Gilman Ancestry<\/a> on page 309.<\/p>\n

Katie\u2019s 8th<\/sup> great grandmother was Melatiah Hinckley Crocker, sister to Mercy.<\/p>\n

Here is another photograph of the Hinckley family cradle taken by historian Gustavus Adolphus Hinckley<\/a> (1822-1905) at his family home in Barnstable, Massachusetts. Gustavus was the son of Josiah Hinckley and Mercy Crocker Estabrook and a direct descendant of John Gorham and Desire Howland. His lineage includes Mayflower<\/em> passengers William Brewster, John Howland, and Elizabeth Tilley.<\/p>\n

\"Photo:<\/a>
Photo: the Hinckley family cradle, taken by historian Gustavus Adolphus Hinckley at his family home in Barnstable, Massachusetts. Courtesy of Sturgis Library.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Presently the Hinckley family cradle has a place of prominence in a Massachusetts home. It appeared in the Summer 2013 issue of Antiques & Fine Art Magazine<\/em> in the article \u201cSpectacular Vernacular,\u201d authored by Peter Eaton, antique dealer specializing in seventeenth and eighteenth-century furniture and decorative arts.<\/p>\n

\"Photo:<\/a>
Photo: the Hinckley family cradle in a private collection. Courtesy of the Bennett family.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 1829 the Nantucket Inquirer<\/em> reported that a monument was made for the resting place of Thomas Hinckley (1620-1706), who was \u201ca character too respectable to be altogether forgotten\u201d and the \u201cPilgrim father, and benefactor of our early institutions.\u201d Hinckley left many descendants who married Mayflower<\/em> scions and can claim their membership into the Mayflower Society, including Katie Crocker.<\/p>\n

\"An<\/a>
Nantucket Inquirer (Nantucket, Massachusetts), 16 January 1830, page 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The slab cover on the Hinckley monument has an inscription that reads:<\/p>\n

Beneath this stone,
\nErected AD 1829,
\nAre deposited the mortal remains of
\nThomas Hinckley.
\nHe died AD 1706, aged 85 years.
\nHistory bears witness to his piety,
\nusefulness and agency
\nin the public transactions of his time.
\nThe important offices he was called to fill
\nevidence the esteem in which he was held
\nby the people.
\nHe was successively elected an assistant in
\nthe government of Plymouth Colony
\nfrom 1658 to 1681; and
\nGovernor
\nexcept during the interruption
\nby
\nSir Edmund Andross,
\nfrom 1681 to the
\njunction of Plymouth with Massachusetts
\nin 1692.<\/p>\n

\"Photos:<\/a>
Photos: 1829 Thomas Hinckley Monument (left) and close-up of the inscription (right). Courtesy of Cape Cod Gravestones.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Famous kin in the Hinckley family line: Col. Robert Gould Shaw, George Bush, Bette Davis, J. P. Morgan, and Endicott Peabody.<\/p>\n

I found another Mayflower<\/em> connection in Katie\u2019s tree! Her 12th<\/sup> great grandfather is Mayflower<\/em> passenger William Brewster, senior elder and the leader of Plymouth Colony. She is descended from his daughter Patience, who married Thomas Prence, a governor of Plymouth Colony.<\/p>\n

This line includes Nathaniel Mayo, Richard Knowles, Mary Hamilton, Hezekiah Doane, Lorenzo Cahoon, Oliver Arey, John French, and the Zaccheus Gould line going back to Topsfield. Much more on that in the next story.<\/p>\n

Plymouth has many historical markers to honor William Brewster. Among them is one above the cornerstone for the 1914 Post Office building.<\/p>\n

\"Photos:<\/a>
Photos: this historical marker (top) for William Brewster\u2019s house location is at this (bottom) postal address: 6 Main St. Ext, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Courtesy of Historic Marker Database (HMDB). Photo credit: Duane and Tracy Marsteller of Murfreesboro, Tennessee.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here is the skinny published in the Springfield Republican<\/em> in 1909.<\/p>\n

\"An<\/a>
Springfield Republican (Springfield, Massachusetts), 24 December 1909, page 12<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This article reported:<\/p>\n

A historic site has been chosen by the Treasury Department at Washington for the post-office building to be erected at Plymouth. It is the Baptist Church property at the corner of Leydon and Main Streets. These are said to be the oldest thoroughfares in the United States, having been laid out in 1620, and the lot selected for the site was originally assigned to William Brewster, the \u201cruling elder\u201d of the Pilgrim Church. On this spot Brewster lived and disseminated that religious liberty which distinguishes the United States among the nations of the world. Gov. [Wiliam] Bradford\u2019s house was on the opposite corner and at the head of the street in Town Square.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To conclude, here are two publications \u2013 authored by our subjects today \u2013 that represented Harvard at the St. Louis Fair in 1904:<\/p>\n