Sarah Crosby

1667 - 1706  (38 years)

• Name	Sarah Crosby  [1]
  Birth	24 Mar 1666/67	Eastham, New Plymouth Colony   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	20 Mar 1705/06	Probably Yarmouth, Barnstable Co, Massachusetts   [1]
  Person ID	I481	Cooley Miller Sears Barnhouse
  Last Modified	5 May 2020

  
  

  Father	Thomas Crosby,   b. Abt 1633-1634, England d. 13 Jun 1702, Boston, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts (Age ~ 68 years)
  Mother	Sarah (wife of Thomas Crosby) [?]   d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	Bef 1663	Eastham, Barnstable Co, Massachusetts   [2]
  Family ID	F412	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Silas Sears,   b. Abt 1661, Yarmouth, New Plymouth Colony d. Abt 1732, Probably Yarmouth, Barnstable Co, Massachusetts (Age ~ 71 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1692	Yarmouth, Barnstable Co, Massachusetts   [1, 2, 3]
  	On 02 Jun 1685 Barnstable County was created as one of three original counties in New Plymouth Colony (also Bristol and Plymouth).
  Children	1. James Sears,   b. 30 Mar 1704, Yarmouth, Barnstable Co, Massachusetts d. 17 Mar 1791, Ridgefield, Fairfield Co, Connecticut (Age 86 years)
  Family ID	F174	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Apr 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Eastham In November of 1620 a hunting expedition from the Mayflower landed in the area on Cape Cod that became known as Eastham. This led to the "First Encounter": the Pilgrims and the local Nauset Native American tribe. However, the area, then known as Nauset, would not be settled by Europeans until 1644. By that time the settlers had become disenchanted with Plymouth with William Bradford writing of "the straightness and barrenness of the land" and commenting on the desire of many colonists to find a better location. A committee of seven freemen, led by Thomas Prence, was sent to evaluate Nauset and it was determined it was too small and remote to accommodate the entire population of Plymouth. Nonetheless, those seven men and their families, 49 hardy souls in all, remained and formed the new settlement with a strip by the harbor at the east side reserved for the Nausets to grow corn. Nauset continued as a settlement until 1646, when the General Court of Plymouth incorporated it as a town. The name of the town was changed to Eastham in 1661. [4]

  
  

• Sources

  [S320] Samuel P. May, Sares main, (Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers, Albany NY, 1890), p64-65 (Reliability: 3). [S387] NYGBR, v LXXI, pp232-235 (Reliability: 3). [S475] Godfrey Memorial Library, AGBI. [S534] Website, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Prence and https://eastham.wickedlocal.com (Reliability: 3).