Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Joseph BANCROFT
JOSEPH BANCROFT, second son of John and Elizabeth (WOOD) BANCROFT, b. in the city of Manchester, England, 7th April, 1803; was reared in the faith of the Society of Friends, of which his ancestors, both paternal and maternal, had long been members. Before he arrived at the age of fourteen years, Joseph BANCROFT attended Ackworth School, an institution under the care of Friends, and at that age he was apprenticed to his maternal uncle, Jacob BRIGHT, and served an apprenticeship of seven years, terminating in 1824. In the meantime his parents had emigrated to America, and his father had engaged in the manufacture of flannels at Wilmington, where Joseph joined them in the year 1824. For one or two years Joseph BANCROFT assisted his father and brother in their Wilmington factory, [p.38] and in 1826 took charge of the cotton mills operated by William YOUNG, at Rockland, Delaware. He purchased in 1831 the property at Rockford, Delaware, and began the business in a small way. He carried the business successfully through several industrial and financial depressions, that seriously affected manufacturing enterprises of that kind, without break or stop. In 1865 he took his sons, William Poole BANCROFT and Samuel BANCROFT, Jr., into partnership with him, under the firm name of Joseph BANCROFT and Sons, and that firm continued to conduct a successful business until 1889, when it was incorporated under the name of Joseph BANCROFT and Sons Company. Joseph BANCROFT m. 25th June, 1829, Sarah POOLE, dau. of William POOLE by his wife Sarah SHARPLESS, b. 28th January, 1804; d. 3d April, 1896. He died 8th December, 1874.
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