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and great-grandfather of David Crocker, was
born March 1, 17:i5-2G. He was a property
owner in Barnstable, living in the western part
of the town, and occupied the house in which
Whalley, the regicide, took refuge. Daniel
Crocker died in November, 1788, in his sixtyfourth
year. He was married three times,
first May 19, 1748, to Elizabeth Childs, by
whom he had one child, Job, born May 6, 1749,
who removed to western New York and left
descendants. His second marriage, in 1755,
was to Phoebe Winslow, of Harwich, by whom
he had three children: Winslow, born Dec. 31,
1755, married Blush and had a family;
Elizabeth, bom March 14, 1760, married
(first) Heman Crocker and (second) Elisha
Euggles, of Rochester; Daniel, born March 8,
1762, married Sally Sturgis and had a family.
His third wife, Batlisheba (Jenkins), born
Oct. 22, 1741, died Nov. 22, 1803, at the age
of sixty-two. They had the following named
children: Mary, born July 11, 1767 (married
James Davis) ; Abigail, Nov. 6, 1769 (married
Ebenezer Bacon, Esq.) ; Joseph, Jan. 27, 1771
eight children, among them Bathsheba (born
Oct. 22, 1741).
(V) David Crocker, son of Daniel, was a
prominent man of Barnstable in his day. He
was iii business as a grocer and was quite
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prominent in local public affairs, serving as
selectman and sheriff. By good management
he became possessed of considerable means
and he gained a high standing in his community.
He was intelligent and progressive, and
made a trip to Amsterdam, Holland, and
through Europe, a journey of far more importance
in his day than at the present time.
He married Rachel Bacon, of Barnstable, born
Jan. 5, 1791, daughter of Ebenezer and Rebecca
(Jenkins) Bacon.
(VI) Henry H. Crocker, son of David, was
born in Barnstable. He early engaged in the
East India trade, owning vessels and becoming
a merchant of considerable prominence in that
line, though he began humbly, making his first
voyage as supercargo when quite a young man.
He established the firm of Crocker & Sturgis,
whose headquarters were at Boston, and they
continued in business until the panic of 1857,
when the firm failed. Going to New York
City, Mr. Crocker resumed business in much
the same line, being senior member of the firm
of Henry H. Crocker & Co., East India bro-
(married Joanna Tiacon) ; Prince, Sept. 61,
1772 (married Martha Nye and left descendants)
; Temperance, July 28, 1776 (married
Ezra Crocker); David, Feb. 21, 1779; and
Josiah, Aug. 24, 1781 (died in New Orleans
in July, 1807).
Bathsheba (Jenkins) Crocker descended
from John Howland, the "Mayflower" Pilgrim
•who came to this country in company with
John Carver (afterward governor) and others,
arriving in Cape Cod bay Nov. 11, 1620. He
was one of the signers of the compact made
aboard the "Mayflower." Soon afterward he
married Elizabeth, only daughter of John Tilley,
who died of the sickness which broke out
among the colonists not long afterward. John
and Elizabeth (Tilley) Howland had ten
children.
John Howland, Jr. (known as Lieut. John),
son of John and Elizabeth (Tilley), was born
in Plymouth Feb. 24, 1627, and married Mary,
daughter of Robert Lee, Oct. 26, 1651. They
had ten children.
Shubal Howland, son of Lieut. John, born
in Barnstable Sept. 30, 1662, married Mercy
Blossom Dec. 13, 1700. They had three children.
Mercy Howland, born May 21, 1710, kers, who had a long and successful career.
He remained in New York until his death,
which occurred there Dec. 6, 1893. His remains
were brought to Barnstable and interred
at the Unitarian Church.
Mr. Crocker married Sarah Mary Ann
Parker Elderedge, like himself a native of
Barnstable. Her father, Gideon Elderedge,
died when she was young, and she was reared
by
married
Joseph Jenkins July 15, 1736, and had
her uncle. Waterman Elderedge; her uncles
Waterman and Eben H. Elderedge conducted
the "Globe Hotel," now the "Barnstable
Inn," for many years. The latter was a
"forty-niner" and made his home in California.
To Mr. and Mrs. Crocker were born
children as follows: David; Mary K., wife of
Henry C. Mortimer, of New York, a prominent
broker and director of the New York Life
Insurance Company; Henry H., Jr., a merchant
on the New York Stock Exchange, who
retired some years before his death, at the age
of fifty-eight (he never married) ; Annie, widow
of Dr. F. G. Kelly, of Barnstable, Mass.,
and Pasadena, Cal., where Dr. Kelly died
(Mrs. Kelly lives in Barnstable the greater
part of the time) ; Prof. Francis Bacon Crocker,
professor of electricity at Columbia University
(unmarried) ; and a child that died in
infancy. David Crocker, of Barnstable, and
Professor Crocker, of New York, are the only
living sons of Henry H. Crocker, Sr.
(VII) David Crocker was born in Boston,
Mass., Feb. 15, 1846, and received his early
education partly in his native place and also