Ancestry of
Bill Weld

68th Governor of Massachusetts

Josiah Crocker

View famous kin of Josiah Crocker

• • 5th Great-grandfather of Bill Weld — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 182 
  • Father:
  • Josiah Crocker 
  • Mother:
  • Desire Thacher   
  • Birth Date:
  • 30 Oct 1719 
  • Birth Location:
  • Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts  
  • Christening Date:
  •  
  • Christening Location:
  •  
  • Death Date:
  • 28 Aug 1774 
  • Death Location:
  • Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts  
  • Burial Date:
  •  
  • Burial Location:
  •  
  • Spouse Name:
  • Rebecca Allen
  • Marriage Date:
  • 27 Jul 1742 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Barnstable, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Josiah Crocker

  Benjamin Crocker

  Allyn Crocker

  William Crocker

  Joseph Crocker

  Rebecca Crocker (Ahnentafel No:91 )

  Ebenezer Crocker

• Additional marriages for Josiah Crocker

  ---

  • Spouse:
  • Hannah Cobb
  • Marriage Date:
  • 5 Nov 1761
  • Marriage Location:
  • Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts

• Sources for Josiah Crocker

  • ¹ Goodwin, Nathaniel, The Foote Family: or the Descendants of Nathaniel Foote, One of the First Settlers of Wethersfield, Conn., with . . ., Hartford: Press of Case, Tiffany and Company (1849), 288.
  • ² Hill, Peter B., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 11, Part 1, 2nd edition, Edward Doty, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2009), 113.
  • ³ Porter, Joseph W., ed., The Bangor Historical Magazine, Bangor, Maine: Benjamin A. Burr, Printer, Vol. 5, JUL 1889 to JUN 1890, pp. 27-28.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 142, 519, 551.
  • ⁵ Stiles, Henry R., Families of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut, Baltimore, Maryland: Reprinted for Clearfield Company, Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1999, original 1904), 674.
  • ⁶ White, Elizabeth Pearson, John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 1, Camden, Maine: Picton Press (1990, 7th printing 2014), 129, 510-511.

Bill Weld photo by Marc Nozell (CC BY-SA 2.0)