{"id":96957,"date":"2024-01-09T11:10:22","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T16:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=96957"},"modified":"2024-01-12T06:55:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T11:55:03","slug":"mayflower-descendants-whos-who-part-35-part-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/mayflower-descendants-whos-who-part-35-part-9.html","title":{"rendered":"Mayflower Descendants: Who\u2019s Who, Part 35 (part 9)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction:<\/em><\/strong> In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry gives the 9th part in her series on Mayflower descendants that focuses on Katie Crocker and her family line, featuring an account book of the Crocker family which covers the years between 1790 and 1843. 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 Mayflower<\/em> lines of the Crocker family who resided in Barnstable, Massachusetts. My research started months ago when Katie Crocker<\/a> of Barnstable asked me to assist her with the family tree. Katie descends from several Mayflower<\/em> passengers \u2013 John Howland, Henry Samson, and Stephen Hopkins are among them.<\/p>\n

Recently I discovered an account book of the Crocker family which covers the years between 1790 and 1843. The names listed in the account book are residents, some of whom married into the Mashpee Wampanoags.<\/p>\n

I contacted the Cahoon Museum<\/a> in Cotuit, Massachusetts, where the account book is housed. With permission I have published a PDF of all the pages on Americana-Archives.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is a page from the account book, settling the estate of Katie\u2019s 5th<\/sup> great grandfather Zenas Crocker, who died in 1807.<\/p>\n

\"Photos:<\/a>
Photos: cover and a page from the Crocker Account Book. Courtesy of the Cahoon Museum.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Some Background<\/strong><\/p>\n

Zenas was the son of Ebenezer Crocker Jr. and Zerviah Winslow. He married Hannah Bourne, daughter of Melatiah Bourne and Mary Howes.<\/p>\n

The Crocker, Bourne, and allied families were noted friends and supporters of the local Indians. Some married into the lines.<\/p>\n

Here is a photo of the Mashpee Wampanoag Museum, located at the Bourne-Avant House situated on Snake Pond Road, aka Main Street\/Route 130, Mashpee, Barnstable County, Massachusetts. The home was originally built in 1793 by Rev. Sherjashub Bourne, great grandson of Richard Bourne.<\/p>\n

\"Photo:<\/a>
Photo: Mashpee Wampanoag Museum. Credit: Mashpee Wampanoag Museum.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Zenas\u2019s wife Hannah Bourne descended from Richard Bourne, aka \u201cthe White Sachem,\u201d or \u201cLittle Father,\u201d a missionary that the town of Bourne is named for. Bourne helped secure the Mashpee reservation land and a meeting house for the Indians. He mastered their language and taught them to read and write in both their native tongue as well as English.<\/p>\n

\"Photo:<\/a>
Photo: the Old Indian Meeting House of the Wampanoag Tribe located at 410 Meetinghouse Road, Mashpee, Massachusetts. Credit: Mashpee Wampanoag Museum.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here is a photo of the Burying Hill Historical Marker in Bournedale, a village in the town of Bourne in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, commemorating that first Indian meeting house. This marker is on Herring Pond Road, south of Bournedale Road (U.S. Route 6).<\/p>\n

\"Photo:<\/a>
Photo: Burying Hill Historical Marker in Bournedale, Massachusetts. Credit: Historical Marker Database; Ralph Cahoon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This marker reads:<\/p>\n

Burying Hill, site of the first meeting house for Indians in Plymouth Colony, established by Richard Bourne and Thomas Tupper soon after their settlement in Sandwich, 1637. By their influence, peace was preserved throughout the Cape during the perilous times of Indian warfare.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bourne\u2019s descendants followed suit. Here is an early newspaper clip on his great grandson Joseph Bourne, son of Judge Ezra Bourne and Martha Prince, who married Hannah Fuller. Joseph was ordained as pastor of the church in Mashpee, an Indian town on Cape Cod. Note that Joseph preached in the Indian language, like his great grandfather.<\/p>\n

\"An<\/a>
New England Weekly Journal (Boston, Massachusetts), 15 December 1729, page 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This article reported:<\/p>\n

Mashpe[e] (an Indian Society in the County of Barnstable), Nov. 26, 1729.<\/p>\n

This day was ordained Mr. Joseph Bourne, pastor of the Church here; the Elders convened and concerned on this occasion were the Rev. Mr. [Joseph] Lord<\/a> of Chatham [son of Thomas Lord and Ann Rand, married Abigail Hinckley, daughter of Gov. Thomas Hinckley<\/a>] and two Indian pastors from Martha\u2019s Vineyard. The solemnity was opened with prayer by one of the Indian ministers. Then Mr. Bourne preached in the Indian language from 1 Tim 4:16: \u201cTake heed unto thy self and into thy Doctrine, &c.\u201d Then Mr. Lord preached in English from John 1:7: \u201cThe same came for a witness to hear witness of the Light, that all men thro\u2019 him might believe\u201d; who proceeded also to give the Charge. Then the other Indian pastor gave the Right Hand of Fellowship, and prayed; and the solemnity was concluded with singing, and the usual Benediction, both in Indian, the psalm appointed and the blessing pronounced by Mr. Bourne.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here is a photo of the Gideon Hawley house, 4766 Falmouth Road, Barnstable, Massachusetts, built in c. 1758 by Rev. Gideon Hawley. He lived there until his death in 1807.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Gideon Hawley house. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 1758 Rev. Gideon Hawley<\/a> was chosen for the same position as Joseph Bourne: pastor of the church in Mashpee. Gideon married Lucy Fessenden, and their daughter Rebecca Hawley married Crocker Sampson. Their daughter Rebecca Holly Sampson married Zenas Crocker<\/a>, son of Zenas and Hannah (Bourne) Crocker.<\/p>\n

Here is a newsclip announcing Rev. Hawley\u2019s post as pastor.<\/p>\n

\"An<\/a>
Boston News-Letter (Boston, Massachusetts), 27 April 1758, page 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This article reported:<\/p>\n

We hear from Mashpee, a noted Indian town on the south of Sandwich, east of Barnstable, and north of Falmouth, on Cape Cod, that on Monday April 10th was installed a pastor of the Indian church there, the Rev. Mr. Gideon Hawley, a gentleman of liberal education, formerly ordain\u2019d a minister among the Mohawks; with whom he preach\u2019d and liv\u2019d to great acceptance, till the French and Frenchified Indians in the present war render\u2019d it too dangerous to stay there any longer than the year before last. Upon which the commissioners at Boston for propagating the Christian religion among the Indians sent him to Mashpee; where the Indians unanimously chose him their minster. The Rev. Mr. Hawley preach\u2019d the sermon; the Rev. Mr. [Jonathan] Russell<\/a> of Barnstable gave the Charge; the Rev. Mr. [Joseph] Green of Barnstable the Right Hand of Fellowship. The church was first gather\u2019d there by the famous Mr. [John] Eliot<\/a> and others, about 1670; and Mr. Richard Bourne of Sandwich, great-grandfather of the present Hon. Col. Sylvanus Bourne<\/a> was then ordain\u2019d their first pastor. It is suppos\u2019d to be the largest town of Indians now in the Massachusetts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To be continued\u2026<\/p>\n

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Note on the header image:<\/em><\/strong> the Old Indian Meeting House of the Wampanoag Tribe located at 410 Meetinghouse Road, Mashpee, Massachusetts. Credit: Mashpee Wampanoag Museum.<\/p>\n

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