Sally’s 9-great Grandparents:
Charles Barcroft 1609 – 1661
& 1632/3 1st Dorothy Crosbie ca 1615 – ca 1633
& 2nd ca 1635 Elizabeth
& 3rd ca 1640 Magdalen
of Old Ford, Middlesex, England & Virginia
Charles Barcroft married 1st Dorothy Crosbie on 20 Feb 1632/33 at St. Olave’s of Southwark in London.
She was the daughter of John Crosbie of St. Albans in Hertfordshire.
She apparently died a short time after the birth of her daughter Elizabeth.
history of Southwark
Charles Barcroft married second ca 1634-36 Elizabeth.
In Calendar of State Papers: Colonial America and the West Indies 1675-6, Addenda 1574-1674 p. 83, #189 an entry for 8 March 1639 about “Elizabeth, wife of Charles Barcroft of Old Ford, Middlesex” to the effect that in August 1636 her husband abandoned his trade in London and went to Virginia “where he yet lives.”
The entry goes on to note that “his brother John Barcroft was there deceased” and that Charles Barcroft “merchant” was sending her yearly expenses.
On his departure for Virginia, she had gone to live with her father and mother at Whitechapel where she stayed about a year. The entry concluded that “she denies any unlawful familiarity with John Barcroft, Thomas Bulkeley, or any other lewd person.”
Charles Barcroft married a third wife named Magdalen ca 1640.
10 Feb 1637 – Charles Barcroft granted 300 acres in Isle of Wight Co VA.
on Pagen Shore. [was an early shipping point. Barcroft’s patent was undoubtedly related to his activities as a factor of the Vintner Company. Tending to confirm his status as a Vintner is a deposition of 24 Feb 1655 on behalf of Ascanius Hickes, Vintner of London, concerning the debts of Charles Barcroft, “late of London but now living in Virginia” – Coldham.]
17 June 1647 – Elizabeth Barcroft granted 1200 acres IoW Co
this was his daughter
Mr Barcroft claims land for importing Charles Barcroft for the 4th time.
12 March 1654 – Charles Barcroft makes his will and leaves his property to his son William and wife Magdalen. Chapman 1 3
23 Sept 1661 – administration on Charles Barcroft’s estate granted to his son-in-law George Moore.
[George Moore had married Jame daughter of Charles Barcroft.]
Information based on research of Dr B C Holtzclaw
and further analysis by Dr. Barry Hayes
Child of Charles Barcroft and Dorothy Crosbie:
1. Elizabeth Barcroft ca 1633- bef 1689
married James Sampson ca 1625-1689
Children of Charles Barcroft and wife Magdalen:
1. William Barcroft
2. Jane Barcroft ca1641 –
married ca 1656 George Moore 1632 – 1714
Grandchildren of Charles Barcroft & Dorothy Crosbie:
Children of Elizabeth Barcroft & James Sampson:
1. Elizabeth Sampson ca 1648
married 1st ca 1665 Edward Browne II ca 1640-bef 1675
a. John Browne
married 2nd Thomas Clarke II ca 1650-1700
a. Thomas Clarke
b. Sampson Clarke
2. Margaret Sampson ca 1650-1698
married Nicholas Wilson died 1696
3. Sarah Sampson ca 1654-1735 Isle of Wight
married by 1670 Richard Braswell ca 1648-1725
4. James Sampson ca 1657-1728 Isle of Wight
married Mary Maddera
Grandchildren of Charles Barcroft & Magdalen:
Children of Jane Barcroft & George Moore:
1. Ann Barcroft Moore ca 1660/70-1742
married Thomas White
had Jane, John, Moore Thomas, William and Henry White
2. Magdalen Moore ca 1656/57-aft 1737
married Thomas Carter
had George and Thomas Carter
3. Elinor [Eleanor] Moore ca 1656/60-
married Richard Piland d 1695 5 children
4. Mary Moore ca 1670-
married William Williams ca 1665-1712
had sons Samuel and John Williams
Sally’s 10-great Grandparents:
John Barcroft 15?? – 1617
merchant tailor
of London, England
John Barcroft made his will 17 Nov 1616 – probate 25 Nov 1617
Children of John Barcroft:
1. Robert Barcroft ? – 1625
married Margaret ?
Robert wrote his will 5 April 1625 which was proved 12 April 1625
He left property to his wife and sisters: Rachel and Elizabth Barcroft – apparently no issue
2. John Barcroft ? –
Hotten notes p 150 that they were passengers to New England but given a permit to leave 12 April 1632. Settled in what became IoW VA Arthur Smith listed his headright in list 10 Sept 1637.
married Jane ?
3. Ann Barcroft unmarried in 1616 nfi
4. Rachel Barcroft
named in wills of her father and of her brother Robert nfi
5. Elizabeth Barcroft
named in wills of her father and of her brother Robert nfi
6. Jame Barcroft unmarried in 1616 nfi
7. Edward [or Edmund] Barcroft 1609 –
twin of Charles. Apprenticed 1 March 1625/26 to an Allan Cotton.
[Cicely Cotton was listed with John Barcroft on Arthur Smith’s patent in 1637.
8. Charles Barcroft 1609 -1661
patented 350 acres IoW 10 Feb 1637 on Pagen Shore adj. Christopher Reynolds and Arthur Smith
Ref: B. C. Holtzclaw, “Clark of Surry and Isle of Wight Counties,” Southern Genealogies #1, Historical Southern Families, Vol. I
Coldham, The Complete Book of Immigrants, Vol I page 285.
I’ve been trying to track down more info re: the Jane and John BarCroft that Arthur Smith brought over in 1637. I suspect (especially based on your mention of their taking ship to New England) that this is the same couple associated with “the notorious” Captain John Stone who was kicked out of MA in 1634 because he was caught “in bed with Jane Barcroft”. Evidently that wasn’t enough excitement for him as he took a bit of a side trip on the CT river on his way back home to VA (best I can tell he lived somewhere on the Eastern Shore, possibly Accomac), attempted to kidnap a couple of Indians and was killed by a bunch of Pequots that were passing by and saw what happened. ….. or something else happened – there are a few different versions of exactly what it was about him that made the Indians target him for an attack – you’ll see at least 3 of them below.
Anyway, a couple of years later, the Puritans in the area used his death along with a couple of other things as an excuse to just about wipe out the Pequots in the Pequot War in CT – 1636-1637. It’s a tantalizingly juicy story, and it seems to me that there must be a back story. I’m wondering if John Stone & Jane Barcroft had some kind of a past history. I got the impression that he hadn’t been in town all that long, and I can’t see a “hook up” developing that quickly between two strangers in a town where everybody watched everyone else to make sure they were being sufficiently Godly and snitched on you in a heartbeat if you weren’t. And MA Bay Colony could be pretty brutal about punishing adultery. They didn’t usually kill people for it (although the law said they could) but they’d strip you down and whip you in public – and the woman was usually punished worse than the man… Any way, this little episode is referenced in the following places:
From Winthrop’s Journal (pg 62)
3 September 1633: “Mr. John Barcrofte doeth acknowledge to owe unto our Sovereign, the King, the sum of £xl (60 pounds), & Mr. Samuel Maverick the sum of £xx (20 pounds), &c. The condition of this recognizance is, that Jane Barcrofte, wife of the said John, shall be of good behavior towards all persons” [MBCR 1:108]. (Jane’s offense was to be “found upon the bed in the night” with Capt. JOHN STONE [WJ 1:132].)
“January 21,1634: “ News came from Plymouth that Captain Stone, who this last summer went out of the Bay, putting in at the mouth of Connecticut on his return to Virginia, where the Pequins inhabitate, was there cut off by them with all his company, being (10 or 12).
“The manner was thus: 3 of his men being gone ashore to kill fowle, were cut off. Then the satchem with some of his men, coming aboard, and stayed with Captain Stone in his cabin (being alone with him) fell on sleep. Then he knocked him on the head, and the the rest of the English being in the cook room, the indians took such pieces as they found there ready charge, and bent them at the English. Whereupon one took a firestick __piece and a __by accident_gave fire to the powder, which blew up the deck. But most of the Indian’s perceiving what they went about, shifted overboard, and after they returned, and killed such as remained and burned the pinnacle.
“We agreed to write to the governor of Virginia (because Stone was of that colony) to move him to revenge it, and upon his answer to take further counsel.”
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Mentioned by Roger Clapp:
There was also one Capt. (John) Stone, about the year 1633 or 1634, who carried himself very proudly and spoke contemptuously of our magistrates, and carried it lewdly in his conversation. For his misdemeanor, his ship was stayed, but he fled and would not obey authority.
And there came warrants to Dorchester to take him dead or alive. So all our soldiers were in arms, and sentinels were set in divers places, and at length he was found in a great cornfield where we took him and carried him to Boston. But for want of one witness when he came to his trial, he escaped with his life. He was said to be a man of great relation, and had great favor in England, and he gave out threatening speeches.
Though he escaped with his life, not being hanged for adultery, there being but one witness, yet for other crimes he was fined, and paid it. And being dismissed, he went toward Virginia. But by the way putting into the Pequot country to trade with them, the Pequots cut off both him and his men, took his goods, and burnt his ship. Some of the Indians reported that they roasted him alive.
Thus did God destroy him that so proudly threatened to ruin us by complaining against us when he came to England.
Thus God destroyed him, and delivered us at that time also.” (Roger Clapp; The Memoir of Capt. Roger Clapp of Dorchester 1630-1680)
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In the Maryland archives a letter to Gov. (then Capt) William Stone dated Maryland 3rd Jan. 1644, signed by Thomas Weston and written to William Stone, Weston mentions a parcel of tobacco “which your brother Mr. John Stone had of me many past”.
(Archives of MD, Vol. 4, pp. 375-378)
John Stones death has been discussed in many publications. Often times it is theorized to be one of the incidents that instigated the Pequot War.
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From Plymouh Plantation : Living Breathing History:
(http://www.plimoth.org/learn/education/teachers/timeline.asp)
Spring 1634
Captain John Stone, West Indian trader and pirate, is killed in retaliation for the death of Tatobem. The Pequots are blamed although West Niantics were involved. The English consider this act the beginning of the war.
October and November 1634
The Pequots negotiate for peace with Massachusetts Bay. They sign a treaty agreeing to hand over Stone’s killers and “yield up Connecticut,” but it is never ratified by Pequot leaders.
To date, research has not turned up a wife or children for John Stone.
From Melissa Thompson Alexander’s page on Captain John Stone:
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=madagtenet&id=I42798
•ID: I42798
•Name: John * STONE
•Sex: M
•Title: Capt
•Birth: BET 1572 AND 1578 in Croston, Lancashire, England
•Death: 8 AUG 1606 in CT
•Religion: Puritan
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BIOGRAPHY OF JOHN & JOAN STONE
Ben’s notes on the death of Captain John Stone:
August 18 (August 8 Julian Calendar, Friday), 1634, at the mouth of the Connecticut River (near present New London), West Niantic warriors capture English Captain John Stone, a West Indies trader, slaver, and pirate, who had been raiding the tribe’s women and children to sell as slaves in Virginia Colony. His body and those of seven of his men are delivered to the Dutch dead. When the English find out about the murder, they regard it as an act of war (even though Captain Stone had been banished from Boston on charges of malfeasance).
November 1634, in the Connecticut River valley, men of Dorchester in the Massachusetts Bay Colony who have joined with the new Plymouth Colony trading post at Matianuck (present Windsor, set up by William Holmes) hold talks with the Pequot to express the anger of the English over the slaying of their trader Captain John Stone. Representatives of Sachem Sassacus of the Pequot agree to a settlement with the English to hand over Captain Stone’s killers, pay a large indemnity (400 fathoms of wampum, 40 beaver skins, and 30 otter skins), and “yield up the Connecticut River” to English traders, but the tribal chiefs under Sassacus never ratify the agreement (the actual text of the treaty is later lost).
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The Notorious Captain John Stone’s Timeline
1580 1580 Birth of The Notorious Captain John Stone
Bretherton, Leyland, Lancashire, England
1634 August 8, 1634
Age 54 Death of The Notorious Captain John Stone
(Near present New London), (Present Connecticut), (Present USA)
???? Burial of The Notorious Captain John Stone
Accomack, Virginia, United State