Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester county, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity, Vol. I, Part 117

Author: Crane, Ellery Bicknell, 1836-1925, ed
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 824


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I200. The titles held in Scotland by this family were: The Viscountcy of Mount Crawford and Garnock. The Earldom of Crawford belonged to the Lindsey family. A number of Crawfords were amoung the Scotch given grants of land in the prov- ince of Ulster, Ireland, in 1610, and later by King James I. The first settler in Tyrone, whence came the American immigrant of the branch of the fam- ily under consideration. was George Crawford. Nicholas Pynnar, who made a survey of the Scotch Irish settlements in 1619, reported that in the pre- cinct of Mountjoy, county Tyrone, George Crawford had transferred his thousand acre grant to Alex- ander Sanderson. The name is common in the Prot- estant districts of Antrim, Down, Londonderry and Tyrone at the present time.


(1) Aaron Crawford, the pioneer ancestor in America of William H. Crawford, of Worcester. was born in county Tyrone in 1677. If George Crawford were his ancestor, the family had been there some sixty years when he was born and George would have been his grandfather or great-grand- father. He came to New England with his family in1 1713, some five years before the first extensive emigration of the Scotch-Irish began. He arrived in Boston in the spring or summer of 1713 and lived there probably until he settled in Rutland, Massa- chusetts, soon afterward. The grant of what is now Rutland was confirmed to the children of Major Simon Willard, of Lancaster, and others by order of the general court, February 23, 1713. It is said that the first clearing was made in 1716 and that the settlers began moving there in September. 1719. The town was incorporated May 13. 1722, and the first meeting of the settlers under the act of incor- poration was held on the last Monday of July, 1722. As one of the Crawford family was elected to a town office at the first meeting, it is believed that Aaron Crawford was one of the earliest settlers.


Aaron Crawford married Agnes Wilson, in the parish of Capy, county Tyrone, Ireland. She was born in 1678. Three sons, Samuel, John and Alex- ander, born in Ireland, in this parish of Capy. were brought over by the parents, also Martha. Alex- ander was less than a year old when the family arrived in Boston. Aaron and his wife both died at Rutland and are buried in the graveyard in the centre of the town. He died August 6, 1754; she died December 10: 1760. Their children: Samuel, born 1705 in Ireland, died October 17, 1760: mar- ried Margaret Montgomery and had no children. Martha, born 1706. died September 20, 1795. in Rutland; married, May 24, 1733, James Bell, of Ire-


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land, who died March 25, 1793; they . had Molly, William, Martha, James, John, Aaron, Abraham, Agnes, Samuel, Simson and Sarah Bell. John, born in Ireland, settled in Palmer, Massachusetts; died there unmarried. Alexander, born 1713 in Ireland, see forward. Isabella, died young. Mary, born in Rutland, April 15, 1721, married, April 15, 1745, William McCobb and they had Elizabeth, Isabella, Aaron, Margaret, Nancy, Fanny, John, Molly, Martha, and Samuel McCobb. Moses, died un- married in Rutland, where he settled.


(Il) Alexander Crawford, son of Aaron Craw- ford (1), was born in the county of Tyrone, Ireland, in 1713, probably early in the year. He was an in- fant less than a year old when the family came to America in 1713. He went to Rutland with the fam- ily in 1719 and helped his father clear the farm during his youth. He settled in Rutland and fol- lowed the life of a pioneer farmer until 1750, when he removed to Rutland West Wing. now Oakham, where he died October II, 1793, in his eightieth year.


He married Elizabeth Crawford, probably a dis- tant relative, February 5, 1735-36. She died April 27, 1774, aged sixty-two years, doubtless also born in Ireland, in Londonderry county, emigrating with several brothers and sisters from Magherafelt, of that county, and settling in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and' Virginia. Their children: William, died in infancy. John, born January 7, 1739, was captain in the revolution; married. February 9, 1759, Rachel Henderson and had: Elizabeth, born March 14, 1760, married Robert Wilson; John, born May 2, 1762, drowned, unmarried, aged thirty-five, a school teacher ; Alexander, born February 12, 1765, married Bethia Willis and had eight children; Samuel, born July 16, 1767; Samuel, born August 9, . 1769, mar- ried Huldah Burden and had ten children; Calvin, born October 18, 1770, married Catherine Bence and had several children, removed to New York state; Rachel, born April 2, 1773, married - Stimpson, of Vermont; Josiah, born April 25, 1776; Patty (twin), born December 11, 1778; Polly (twin), born December II, 1778. Infant, died young. Aaron, married, January 31, 1768, Gilles Gill and had six sons and three daughters, removed to Canada. William, born October 23, 1745, see forward.


(I11) William Crawford, son of Alexander Crawford (2), was born in Rutland, Massachusetts, October 23. 1745. He removed to Oakham with his parents when five years of age and was brought up on the farm, getting a meagre education in the common schools. He learned the trade of clock- making and became one of the most skilful and famous mechanics in his line. His home was in the eastern part of the town. He was a soldier in the revolution and sergeant in Captain John Craw- ford's company, Colonel James Converse's regiment, enlisting July 22, 1777, and was discharged July 26, 1777, serving in the Rhode Island campaign. He was under the same officers on the Bennington Alarm, from August 20, 1777, to August 23, 1777. He was short of stature and somewhat lame in con- sequence of a fever sore. He became captain of his company in the militia and was afterward al- ways called Captain Crawford.


He married Mary Henderson, who was born July 30, 1748, died November 26, 1838, of old age. She was the daughter of James and Sarah Hender- son, of Rutland. Their children: Elizabeth, born February 10. 1774, died February 3, 1838; married, September, 1815. Jonathan King, who died April I, 1827. James. born August II, 1775, see forward. Lucy, born February 7, 1778. William, born Feb- ruary 25, 1780, died March 30, 1781. Sarah, born


January 30, 1782, died February I, 1798. William, born January 30, 1782, died February 1, 1798. Will- iam, born October 5, 1780, was representative to the general court 1813-23-35-41-46, to the state senate 1825 and 1826, and was county commissioner from 1836 to 1850 inclusive; graduate of Dartmouth and prominent school teacher; a giant mentally as well as physically; general in the state militia. Rufus, born November 13, 1785, married, January 16, 1820, (intentions dated) Clarissa Cunningham, of Spencer, and had: Laura del Rosetta, born March 5, 1826, married, May 10, 1846, Edwin Fuller and had one child Edward L. Fuller ; Amanda Mal- vina, born November 30, 1834. Molly, born Octo- ber 6, 1787, married, June 27, 1812. Samuel Tenney and had: Paul, born October 12, 1822; Lucy Maria, born May 3, 1814; Martha Rice, born November 30, 1816; Mary Chandler, born July 5, ISI9; Rufus Oswell, born May 7, 1821; Laura Hazen, born November 30, 1822; Ellen Elizabeth, born July 27, 1825: Isabella, born February 24, 1796, died Novem- ber 16, 1845. Alexander, born April 16, 1792, inar- ried, September 6, 1813, Mary Henderson and had : Emeline Mariah, born September 30, 1814; Anson Alexander, born January 17, 1817; William Amory, born October 7, 1820. Harriet, born March 10, 1795, died March 19. 1795.


(IV) James Crawford, son of William Craw- ford (3), was born at Oakham, Massachusetts, August II, 1775. He received his education in the public schools of his native town and helped his father on the farm. In early manhood he learned the trade of gunsmith, following it through life. He died at Albany, New York, February 5. 1814. He had been employed in the government arsenal there. He was an active and robust man, fully six feet in height.


He married, March, 1800, Molly Butler, born at Oakham, Massachusetts, October 17, 1780, died Jan- mary 31, 1825, daughter of John and Grace Butler, of Oakham. Their children: Laureston Faulkner, born October 8, 1801, married October 8, 1829, Caroline R. Cummings, of Hardwick, born 1809, died August 29, 1838, leaving son Joseph, born IS30, daughter Mary Reed, born June 4, 1832, and daughter Emily Augusta, born January 29, 1834. Algernon Sidney, born April 27, 1805, died July 1846, at Puebla, Mexico, of yellow fever during the Mexican war; married (first) Eliza Gay and had son James; (second) Lucy Stone, of Rutland, and had daughters Jane and Anın. William Theron, born April 2, 1807, see forward.


(V) William Theron Crawford, son of James Crawford (4), was born at Oakham, Massachu- setts, April 8, 1807. He received his education in the common schools of that town. He became a wheelwright by trade and while a young man and unmarried worked at Rochester, New York. He married Almira Clark. at Barre, Massachusetts, and lived for a year or more in Rutland, Massachusetts, but settled shortly in Barre, where he bought the farm where his wife's ancestors for several genera- tions had lived. He lived there until his death, January 8, 1858. He attended the Congregational church regularly all his life, but was never a mem- ber. In politics he was a Whig until the organiza- tion of the Republican party, with which he affiliated in his last years. He was selectman in Barre in 1815.


He married according to the family records, November 6. 1831, Almira Clark, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Demond) Clark, descendant of one of the oldest families of Massachusetts, her immi- grant ancestor being one of the first settlers. Their children : I. Charles, born May II, 1833, married


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Louise Blakeman, at Minneapolis, Minnesota, No- vember 2, 1866; died at Chicago, Illinois, May 31, 1905; was paymaster of the United States Volun- teers from 1861 to 1865; stationed at Fort Leaven- worth, Kansas, and Denver, Colorado; made brevet lieutenant colonel at close of the war; his children were-Charles, Jr. and Marion. 2. William, born January 3, 1835, at Barre, married Judith Perkins Cochran, daughter of Rev. Joseph Gallup and De- borah Plumb Cochran, missionaries at Mount Seir, Persia, at Buffalo, New York, May 31, 1880; edu- cated in Barre schools. Leicester Academy, Am- herst College and Andover Theological Seminary ; he had pastorates at Central City, Colorado; Green Bay, Sparta, and Mazomanie, Wisconsin; received degree of Doctor of Divinity from Amherst College in 1893; his children-William Wilberforce, born at Washington, Connecticut, June 30, 1882, educated at Beloit College, Wisconsin, and Oberlin College, Ohio: married at South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Sep- temper 5. 1905; journalist in Chicago, Illinois ; Arthur Whipple, born at Sparta, March 5. 1885, graduated at Beloit College, Wisconsin, 1906; Dora Judith, born at Sparta, April 24. 1888. 3. Henry, born March 5, 1839, died February 17, 1843. 4. Sid- ney, see forward. 5. Sarah Clark, born in Barre, May 22, 1843, died there December 26, 1861. 6. Ellen Almira, born in Barre, April 4, 1846, died in Barre, April 27, 1873. 7. Joseph Bowman, born in Barre, February 11, 1848, died in Barre, December 20, 1851. 8. Frederick Bowman, born in Barre, Sep- tember 12, 1854, was educated at Sheffield Scientific School in Yale University, was in business at Balti- more and Philadelphia until his death, October 7, 1894. He married Janie Campbell, October 14, 1880, children-Bessie, Frederick Campbell and Mary Helmsworth.


(VI) Sidney Crawford, son of William Theron Crawford (5), was born in Barre, Massachusetts, January 31, 1841. He received his early educa- tion in the public schools of Barre, fitting for col- lege in the high school of that town and at Monson Academy. He entered Amherst College in 1857 and graduated in 1861. From 1861 to 1864 he was principal of Walton Academy, Delaware county, New York. He was for one year assistant pay- master in the United States Volunteers at Leaven- worth, Kansas, and Denver, Colorado. Then he studied theology at Andover Seminary, graduating in the class of 1870. He has had pastorates in Fair- haven, Vermont ; Lyons, Iowa; Tampa, Florida; Rutland, Massachusetts ; and Provincetown, Massa- chusetts. During his residence in Florida he was a member of the board of trustees of Rollins College at Winter Park. He is author of "Historic Sketch of First Congregational Church, Lyons, Iowa" and of "Rufus Putnam, and his Pioneer Life in the Northwest," printed in the proceedings of the Amer- ican Antiquarian Society, 1899. He united first with the Congregational church in Andover Semin- ary and since then has kept his connection with the church of which he was pastor. In politics he has always been a Republican. He belongs to two col- lege fraternities, the Alpha Delta Phi and the Phi Beta Kappa.


He married, at Green Bay, Wisconsin, 1875. Har- riet Phinney Peak, daughter of Dr. James Madison and Celestia Benjamin Peak, of Cooperstown, New York. Mrs. Crawford died in Tampa, Florida, 1888. He married (second), 1901, in Provincetown, Massa- chusetts, Edith Small, daughter of Josiah F. and Adelaide L. Small. The children of Rev. Sidney and Harriet Phinney (Peak) Crawford were. I. Frederick Stuart, born in 1876 at Lyons, Iowa, grad- uated at Amherst College 1897; since then he has


been on the staff of the New York Tribune, New York city; married, 1902, Mabel Rosemond Mc- Lean, of Elmira, New York; their two children are: Frederic Stuart Crawford, Jr., born 1903; Sidney Peak, born 1905. 2. Paul Peak, born 1879, died young. 3. Marjorie Peak, born 1881, died young.


(V) Elias Butler Crawford, son of James Craw- ford (4), was born in Oakham, Massachusetts, No- vember 19, 1810, and was educated there in the com- mon schools. When he was about twenty-one he left home and went to New England, village of Grafton, Massachusetts, and was engaged in the thread business, he remained there until 1835, when lie removed to Oxford, Massachusetts, and for a time manufactured spools. Later he manufactured thread, and this business was continued under the firm name of DeWitt, Campbell & Company; Alex- ander DeWitt being agent until after May, 1836, when he was succeeded by Benjamin F. Campbell, who continued until May 25, 1842, when the mill was burned and the business discontinued. On Sep- tember 20, 1842, Stearns DeWitt conveyed to Elias B. Crawford three-fourths of the estate of Buffum- ville, including lands called Pierpont together with the remnant of the plant of the old thread company not destroyed, .and Mr. Crawford continued the manufacture of thread in a shop near the site of the mill and had his home on this property. Mr. Crawford acquired the other quarter interest in the property April 24, 1845, from the Samuel Dowse estate, and he began the building of the present mill of brick and had it nearly completed, when he sold it to Charles L. Harding, who fitted it up for making broadcloths and doeskins. In 1854 Mr. Crawford occupied the basement of the Sigourney mill in the manufacture of twine. Elias B. Crawford bought of H. G. Otis and Asa B. Taft, April 16, 1853, the old Jacob Marble place on Rocky Hill, and the Crawfords lived there until April, 1860, when they sold to Francis Coughlin, of Rhode Island. Mr. Crawford removed to Putnam, Connecticut, and for a time manufactured cotton goods. Later he manu- factured woolen goods at Stafford, Connecticut, fin- ally coming to Wilkinsonville, Massachusetts, where he owned a mill and manufactured woolen goods at what was known as Woodbury Village. His mar- ket was mostly in New York city. He sold out finally to Moses Taft, of Uxbridge, in 1888, and retired from active business, making his home in Worces- ter with his daughter, Mrs. Caleb Colvin. He died there January 29, 1890. In politics he was a Repub- lican and in 1855 held the office of assessor in the town of Oxford, and at one time highway com- missioner.


He married, at Grafton (intention dated) March 8, 1834, Jane Thankful Taft, who died January 10, 1876, daughter of Otis, granddaughter of Silas, de- scendant of Robert Taft, the immigrant, through his son Robert. (See sketch of Taft families). Their children: 1, Eliza Jane, born January 18, 1836, married. June 26, 1860, Albert H. Appleby, of Ox- ford. Massachusetts, and had Elmira Harris, born September 8, 1861 ; Marian, born February 17, 1864, married David Glass of Oxford; Nettie Louise, born October 5. 1867; Addie Eliza, born October 9, 1869; Elias Butler, born August 23, 1875. 2. Ellen Minerva, born November 11, 1837, died February 25, 1901 ; married, October 8, 1877, Caleb Colvin, a prominent Worcester manufacturer. 3. William Henry, see forward. 4. Annette, born September 21, 1850, died January 22, 1905; married Albert Harry Stone, of Worcester, and they had-Nellie Crawford Stone, born August 24, 1880; Arthur Stone, born July II, 1888.


(VI) William Henry Crawford, son of Elias B.


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Crawford (5). was born at Oxford, Massachusetts, May 7, 1840. He received his early education in the public schools. At the age of eighteen years he went to Schrawlenburg, New Jersey, where he taught school for two years. In 1860 lie went to Worcester and entered the employ of Sumner Pratt, a prominent dealer in mill supplies, and spent his first year in the business with which he has been connected all of the time since. After his first year he took a course at Wesleyan Academy at Wilbraham, Massachusetts, and then returned to the employ of Mr. Pratt. He was a clerk in the concern until 1870, when he was admitted a partner by Mr. Pratt under the firm name of Sumner Pratt & Company. The store was at 22 Front street and the stock consisted of manufac- turers' supplies for the cotton and woolen industries. The firm continued until December 1, 1896, when Mr. Crawford became the senior partner and John T. Brierly was admitted to the firm. The present name of Crawford & Company was then assumed. The business was moved to 15 and 17 Mechanic street. April 1, 1900, where it remained until burned out March 17, 1905. Since then the firm has occupied handsome and spacious quarters at 663 and 665 Main street, in the Bellinar block, scarcely a month elapsing from the time of the fire until the firm was able to supply its trade from the new store. The firm does a prosperous business with mills in all parts of New England, New York, New Jersey, Canada and other sections.


Mr. Crawford is an attendant of the Plymouth Congregational Church, and has been on the board of assessors of the parish three years. In politics he is a Republican and had frequently taken part in county, councillor, senatorial and congressional con- ventions of his party as delegate. He was a mem- ber of the Worcester common council in 1884 and 1885, and of the school board three years. He has been a member of Montacute Lodge of Free Masons since October 14, 1872. He was a director of the Citizens' National Bank for several years. Mr. Craw- ford has an elegant residence at II Massachusetts avenue.


He married, June 8, 1865, at Palmer, Massachti- setts, Mary Ann Moore, daughter of Henry A. and Elmira (Ruggles) Moore, of Palmer. Her father was a scythe maker. Their children: I. Lillian Moore, born May 4, 1868, teacher in the Classical high school, Worcester. 2. Mabel Jane, born Octo- ber 17, 1870, married Dr. Frank H. Howland, of Worcester, one of the leading dentists of the city, and they have Mabel Gladys Howland, born . March 4. 1904. 3. Anna Cutler, born June 3, 1873, resides at home with parents. 4. Harry Colvin, born Sep- tember 23, 1883, graduate of Amherst, 1906, and is with the firm of Crawford & Company.


FROST FAMILY. Elder Edmund Frost (1), the immigrant ancestor of Frederick E. Frost, of Worcester, Massachusetts, was born in England about 1610. He settled in Cambridge, Massach11- setts, where he was during his life ruling elder of the Cambridge church. He was admitted a freeman March 3, 1635-36, and was a proprietor of the town as early as 1636. He bought land of Thomas Blodgett in 1639 on the west side of Dunster street, between Harvard square and Mt. Auburn street. He sold this place to Catherine Haddon and bought a house on the west side of Garden street, near Mason street. He sold land to Richard Eccles in 1646. He seems to have owned the land on the west side of Kirkland street from Divinity Hall avenue to Francis avenue. His descendants owned it until recently. He married (first) in England Thomasin (Tamasin) -, and (second) Reana Daniels,


who was the widow successively of James, William Andrew and Robert Daniel. He died July 12, 1672. His will was dated April 16, and proved October 1, 1671. He bequeathed to wife Reana; to sons Ephraim, Thomas, John and Joseph; to his two daughters, Sarah and Mary; to Jacob French and his wife and the children of Golden More; to Harvard College and to Mr. Alcock's son there. The inventory of the estate of the widow was dated January 3, 1675-76. The children : John, born and baptized in England; Thomas, born April, 1637, dicd young ; Samuel, born February, 1638; Joseplı, born January 13, 1639; James, born April 9, 1640; Mary, born July 24, 1645; Ephraim, see forward; Thomas; Sarah, born 1053.


(11) Ephraim Frost, son of Edmund Frost (1), was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1646, died there January 2, 1717-18. He settled in Cambridge, and married llepsibath Their children : Edmund, born March 14, 1679-80; Ephraim, born September 23, 1682; Thomas, born 1688; Ebenezer, born in Cambridge, baptized January 17, 1696-97, sce forward; Sarah, married, May 17, 1720, Nathaniel Patten.


(III) Ebenezer Frost, son of Ephraim Frost (2), was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and bap- tized there January 17, 1696-97. He married, July 2, 1723, Deborah Martin. In 1730 he bought a lot on the east side of North (now Massachusetts) ave- nue, Cambridge. He seems to have lived in Charles- town also and his children may have been born tliere, or some of them. He was taxed there in 1741, 1745 to 1766. He sold Gideon Frost four acres, late of John Cooper. Frost was a currier by trade. He died in 1768. His will was dated April 16, 1768, and proved June 28, 1768. The children : Abraham, born March 7, 1723-24, married, June 8, 1747, Mary Oliver ; Ebenezer, baptized August 22, 1725, see for- ward; James, born March 2, 1731-32, married Eliza- beth Roby, daughter of Dr. Ebenezer Roby.


(IV) Ebenezer Frost, son of Ebenezer Frost (3), was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and baptized there August 22, 1725. He removed to Rutland, Massachusttts, after his second marriage in 1761. He bought a farm of one hundred and four acres including house and barn at Rutland of Joseph Bartlett, of that town. The land was bounded by land of William Allen, Captain Samuel Brown, Samuel Mansland and Israel How. The deed is dated December 19, 1760.


He married Naomi Dana, daughter of Thomas Dana, April 21, 1748. He married (second) Ruth Wright, of Woburn (published February 24, 1761). He was appointed guardian of his four children of his first wife July 13, 1761. His wife Ruth died at Rutland, July 20, 1789, aged eighty-nine years ac- cording to the inscription on her gravestone. He was a soldier in the revolution. a private in Captain David Bent's company, Colonel Nathan Sparhawk's regiment, and marched at the Bennington alarm. The children of Ebenezer and Naomi Frost: Eben- ezer, born in Cambridge or Charlestown, baptized February 19, 1748-49, see forward; Mary, baptized February 24, 1750-51; David, baptized June 9, 1754; Deborah, baptized February 12, 1758. Children of Ebenezer and Ruth Frost: Ruth, born August 4, 1762; Joseph, baptized December 29, 1765; married, November 20, 1784, Adonijah Bartlett ; Jonathan, baptized December 13, 1767; Dana, born 1769. died May 28, 1843; Stephen, baptized April 8, 1770, mar- ried Polly Kendall, August 5, 1790.


Ebenezer Frost, son of Ebenezer Frost (4), was born in Cambridge or Charlestown, Massachusetts, and baptized in Cambridge, February 19, 1748-49. He settled for a short time in Southborough, but


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sold his land there September 5, 1771, to his father, Ebenezer Frost, of Rutland, and went to Norwich, New London county, Connecticut. He kept a tavern there with good success. He also followed his trade of stone mason until incapacitated by an accident while laying a stone wall. He was an extensive dealer in horses, many of which he sold in Cuba. There is a deed in the Worcester registry in which Ebenezer Frost, of Norwich, county of New Lon- don, conveys to Thomas Read, of Parkstown, Massa- chitsetts, for twenty pounds all his right to the real estate of his father, Ebenezer Frost, late of Rut- land, Massachusetts, as set off to "my mother, Mrs. Ruth Frost, as her dower." The deed is dated May 17, 1799, ten years after the death of the Widow Frost. Ebenezer Frost married Luthena Cady, a native of France. Their children : Eben- Ezer, Henry, Joseph, born 1792, see forward; Polly Luthena, married Peckham, and lived at Hartford, Connecticut.




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