Ancestry of
Esther Crosby

(1786–1831)

Abner Crosby

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• • Grandfather of Esther Crosby — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 4 
  • Father:
  • David Crosby 
  • Mother:
  • Reliance Hopkins   
  • Birth Date:
  • 25 Dec 1744 
  • Birth Location:
  • Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 5 May 1813 
  • Death Location:
  • Dutchess County, New York 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Old Southeast Church Cemetery, Putnam County, New York 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Ruth Foster
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  • Child:

  Thomas Crosby (Ahnentafel No:2 )

  • Notes: 

  • Revolutionary War veteran

• Sources for Abner Crosby

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A041766 and A028061.
  • ² General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, General No. 50, Membership application for Janet Waring.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 10/20/2014).
  • ⁴ New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1902, Vol. 33, p. 138, Cemetery record for Abner Crosby.
  • ⁵ New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1901, Vol. 31, pp. 113-114.
  • ⁶ Austin, John D., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 6, 3rd ed., Stephen Hopkins, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), 350.
  • ⁷ Pierce, Frederick Clifton, Foster Genealogy: Being the Record of the Posterity of Reginald Foster, An Early Inhabitant of Ipswich, in New England..., Chicago: W. B. Conkey Company (1899), 536-537.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 28.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 251.