Bridget

• Preferred Name: Bridget ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]}
  
• Alternate Name: Bridget Crisp
  
• Gender: F
  
• Death: ABT 1676 in of Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America at LATI: N2.6116 LONG: E71.5746 with note: Exact date unknown. Only known that she died "about the time of King Philip's War." Groton had been badly damaged during King Philip's War. In March 1676, Nipmucs had burned the meetinghouse and 40 homes to the ground; many residents fled to Concord.
  
• Birth: BEF 1617 in England with note: Estimate based on being age 19 or older at time of marriage.
  
• Residence: Removed from Watertown1666 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America at LATI: N2.6116 LONG: E71.5746
  
• FSID: LCT3-WRK
  
• Exact+date+of+death+unknown.++Only+known+that+she+died+"about+the+time+of+King+Philip's+War.": with note: Description: Groton was badly damaged during King Philip's War. In March 1676, Nipmucs burned the meetinghouse and 40 homes to the ground; many residents fled to Concord.
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III (Online database: NewEnglandAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002), pp. 493-95, by Robert Charles Anderson, 1995. Note that the entry was later edited and republished in 2014 by the same author; see "The Winthrop Fleet; Massachusetts Bay Company Immigrants to New England 1629-1630" (NEHGS; Boston, 2014). The version below is the most current version:
  "BENJAMIN CRISP
  ORIGIN: Unknown
  MIGRATION: 1630 (based on appearance at court on 22 March 1630/1 [MBCR 1:85]).
  FIRST RESIDENCE: Charlestown
  REMOVES: Watertown by about 1633, Groton 1666, Watertown by 1681.
  OCCUPATION: Mason [MLR 3:173].
  CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Watertown church prior to 6 May 1646 implied by freemanship.
  FREEMAN: 6 May 1646 [MBCR 2:294].
  EDUCATION: Signed deed of 25 September 1666.
  OFFICES: On 13 April 1681 Watertown selectmen ordered that "Benjamin Crispe" have "the charge of the meeting house committed to him to sweep and ring the bell and what else is needful to be done to fasten the doors and windows when the exercise is done" [WaTR 2:7, 8].
  ESTATE: On 25 July 1636, "Benjamin Crispe" was granted a Great Dividend of twenty acres in Watertown [WaBOP 4]. On 28 February 1636/7, "Benjamin Creispe" was granted three acres in Beaverbrook Plowlands [WaBOP 6]. On 26 June 1637, "Benjamin Crispe" was granted three acres in Remote Meadows [WaBOP 9]. On 10 May 1642, "Beniamen Crispe" was granted a sixty-four acre farm [WaBOP 12].
  In the Watertown Inventory of Grants, "Benjamin Crispe" held six parcels of land: "an homestall of seven acres"; "twenty acres of upland ... being a Great Dividend in the 3 division & the 8 lot"; "nine acres of upland beyond the Further Plain & ... beyoung the Further Plain & the sixty-four lot"; "one acre of meadow ... at Beaverbrook Meadow"; "four [sic] acres of Remote Meadow; and three acres of plowland ... in the Hither Plain [WaBOP 88].
  In the Watertown Composite Inventory, "Benjamin Crispe" held four parcels of land: "an homestall of seven acres"; "twenty acres of upland being a Great Dividend in the 3 division & the 8 lot"; "nine acres of upland beyond the Further Plain & the 64 lot"; and "a Farm of sixty-four acres upland" [WaBOP 31].
  On 25 September 1666, "Benjamin Crispe of Watertown, mason," joined by "Bridget Crispe, his wife," sold to Thomas Boyden of Groton four parcels of land in Watertown: seven acres of upland and buildings; twenty acres of Great Dividend; twelve acres in Lieu of Township; and a fifty-three acre farm [MLR 3:173]. (Since the Lieu of Township land was the same as the upland beyond the Further Plain, and since the farms, as finally surveyed, were somewhat smaller than originally granted, these four parcels are the same as the holdings more than twenty years earlier in the Composite Inventory.)
  BIRTH: About 1610 (deposed aged forty-five in 1656, fifty-two in 1662 and seventy-seven in 1683 [Sarah Hildreth Anc 56, presumably from Middlesex Court Files]).
  DEATH: Watertown between 5 November 1683 and 21 December 1683 (Frederick C. Warner suggested this range of dates because on the latter date Crisp was replaced in his duties about the meetinghouse, but on the former date at a town meeting no mention was made of the need for such a replacement [WaTR 2:15]; certainly he is seen in no record after 31 October 1682 when he sold his son Jonathan's property [MLR 8:227]).
  MARRIAGE: (1) By 1636 Bridget _____; she d. Groton about the time of King Philip's War, and perhaps in consequence of the raid on Groton during that conflict.
  (2) After 29 November 1680 Joanna (Goffe?) Longley, widow of William Longley Sr. [TAG 62:26]. She died at Charlestown on 18 April 1698, aged 79 [ChVR 1:173; Wyman 248, citing gravestone]. She settled her estate on her Longley children [MPR 9:231; MLR 12:77].
  CHILDREN:
  With first wife
  * i ELIZABETH CRISP, b. Watertown 8 January 1636[/7?] [NEHGR 7:159; WaVR 1:4]; m. Watertown 29 September 1657 George Lawrence [WaVR 20].
  ii MARY CRISP, b. Watertown 20 May 1638 [NEHGR 7:160; WaVR 1:5]; m. by 1661 William Green (eldest child b. Cambridge 21 May 1661) [TAG 62:25, citing MLR 20:338, 25:555].
  iii JONATHAN CRISP, b. Watertown 29 January 1639/40 [NEHGR 7:161; WaVR 1:6]; served in King Philip's War [Bodge 122, 272, 359, 360], and d. before 25 October 1680, when his father administered his estate [MPR 5:109; see also MLR 8:227]; apparently unmarried.
  iv ELEAZER CRISP, b. Watertown 14 January 1641[/2?] [NEHGR 7:281; WaVR 1:9]; no further record (but see TAG 62:27).
  v ZACHARIAH CRISP, b. say 1644; served in King Philip's War (including duty at Groton garrison) [Bodge 71, 360]; did not marry, but had an illegitimate child with Mary Stanwood (see Sarah Hildreth Anc 58 for details on his "turbulent youth").
  vi MEHITABLE CRISP, b. Watertown 21 January 1645/6 [WaVR 1:12]; no further record.
  vii MERCY CRISP, b. say 1648; m. Chelmsford 11 April 1667 Robert Parish (or Parris).
  viii DELIVERANCE CRISP, b. about 1650 (deposed in 1670 aged twenty [TAG 62:27]); m. by 1674 William Longley Jr. of Groton (her stepbrother) [TAG 62:27, and sources cited there].
  BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: In 1958 Walter Goodwin Davis published an excellent account of Benjamin Crisp and his family [Sarah Hildreth Anc 55-58]. Frederick C. Warner, in an article published posthumously, improved upon the work of Davis with regard to the daughters, untangling a confusion between Mary and Mercy, and thus adding a daughter and son-in-law, and also elucidating the life of the youngest daughter, Deliverance [TAG 62:25-27]. (Warner had also treated the Crisp family earlier, in his typescript "The Ancestry of Samuel, Freda and John Warner," which was completed in 1949 and is available at the NEHGS library.)"
  
  It doesn't appear that any of Bridget's sons were able to have a family. One of her sons had an illegitimate daughter, it appears, but Benjamin and Bridget do not appear to have any sons who passed on the "Crisp" name. Bridget's son Zachariah appears to have been in trouble a few times; in addition to the illegitimate daughter he was indicted in 1675 for murder, but later found not guilty. It is this lack of male heirs which I believe has led to a relatively few published items about this family. Robert Charles Anderson in The Great Migration mentioned the book, The ancestry of Sarah Hildreth, 1773-1857 : wife of Annis Spear of Litchfield, Maine by Davis, Walter Goodwin, 1885-1966 as one of the few books mentioning the Crisp family. This source also, unfortunately, has several large mistakes, including the number of children Elizabeth had, and who Elizabeth's sister Mary married. For a little bit better reference, see the article in The American Genealogist 1987 (attached under Sources).
  
  Bridget's daughter Deliverance was killed in another Indian attack on Groton in 1694. Sadly, almost all of Deiverance's family including her husband and almost all of her children were killed in this attack. It looks like two of Deliverance's children and one step-daughter were taken captive; one of the children died very soon after, two were carried off. One daughter entered a Canadian convent and never returned, and a son was ransomed some time later.
  
  === !SPOUSE: CHILDREN: Genealogies of the Ea ===
  !SPOUSE: CHILDREN: Genealogies of the Early Settlers of Watertown,Mass. ;Henry Bond: 1855. Pg 188/9. ! SPOUSE: MARRIAGE: CHILDREN: DEATH: Genealogy- The Great Migration Begins: Robert Charles Anderson: 1995: Vol 1, Pg 494/5.
  
  === !SOURCE: NEHGR Vol. 46, p. 149 Savage p ===
  !SOURCE: NEHGR Vol. 46, p. 149 Savage p. 473
  
  === SOURCE: Ancestors of Charles Harry Bevan ===
  SOURCE: Ancestors of Charles Harry Bevan Received from Jan Bevan Brown 5 Shady Lane Danville, IL 61832 2001

• m. ABT 1636 in of Watertown, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America

1. Elizabeth Crisp, b. 8 JAN 1636/37 in Watertown, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America     d. 28 MAY 1691 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America
2. Deliverance Crisp, b. ABT 1650 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America     d. 27 JUL 1694 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America

1. Title: Bridgett in entry for Mehettebel Crisp, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
   Author: "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F465-YLF : 20 May 2022), Bridgett in entry for Mehettebel Crisp, 21 Nov 1645; citing Birth, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009514.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F465-YLF;
   
2. Title: Bridgett in entry for Mary Crispe, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
   Author: "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F465-YSF : 20 May 2022), Bridgett in entry for Mary Crispe, 20 Mar 1638; citing Birth, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009514.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F465-YSF;
   
3. Title: Greenquist, Eric A. 2020. The Ancestry of Stearns Hay Whitney. Title no. 4234652, FamilySearch International. vii, 441 pp. Available from https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/
   
4. Title: Bridgett in entry for Elizabeth Crispe, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
   Author: "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F465-TVJ : 20 May 2022), Bridgett in entry for Elizabeth Crispe, 8 Nov 1636; citing Birth, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009514.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F465-TVJ;
   
5. Title: Bridgett in entry for Jonathan Crispe, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
   Author: "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F465-Y7N : 20 May 2022), Bridgett in entry for Jonathan Crispe, 29 Nov 1639; citing Birth, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009514.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F465-Y7N;
   
6. Title: Bridgett in entry for Elizabeth Crispe, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
   Author: "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F465-TVJ : 13 July 2016), Bridgett in entry for Elizabeth Crispe, 08 Nov 1636; citing Birth, Watertown, Middlesex, Mas
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F465-TVJ;
   
7. Title: Bridget Crisp, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVK9-KDG8 : 24 May 2022), Bridget Crisp, ; Burial, , ; citing record ID 35966166, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVK9-KDG8;
   
8. Title: Bridgett in entry for Mehettebel Crisp, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
   Author: "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F465-YLF : 13 July 2016), Bridgett in entry for Mehettebel Crisp, 21 Nov 1645; citing Birth, Watertown, Middlesex, Mas
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F465-YLF;
   
9. Title: New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635 Great Migration Begins, Vol 1, A-F
   Author: see page 494
   Publication: Name: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2496/images/42521_b158318-00568?treeid=&personid=&hintid=&queryId=a268c5c7f7becab1fde5922caacd8f24&usePUB=true&usePUBJs=true&pId=46082;
   
10. Title: Bridgett in entry for Mary Crispe, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
    Author: "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F465-YSF : 13 July 2016), Bridgett in entry for Mary Crispe, 20 Mar 1638; citing Birth, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachu
    Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F465-YSF;
    
11. Title: Bridgett in entry for Jonathan Crispe, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
    Author: "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F465-Y7N : 13 July 2016), Bridgett in entry for Jonathan Crispe, 29 Nov 1639; citing Birth, Watertown, Middlesex, Mass
    Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F465-Y7N;