Rash's Surname Index

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Notes for Richard CROSBY

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Richard Crosby, the maternal ancestor of Eleanor Crosby (Martin) Bonsall, with Eleanor his wife, came from Cheshire, England, in 1682, is said to have been a passenger on the "Welcome" with William Penn. He settled in Middletown township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, where three hundred and eighty acres of his purchase of one thousand acres of land of William Penn, was laid out to him in 1683, extending from Ridley creek to Crum creek. In 1684 he removed to what was known for a century as the "Crosby Place" near Chester, erecting a mill on Ridley creek, long known as "Crosby's Mill". He was appointed collector of the assessment levied for erection of the first Court House and Prison for Chester county in 1684. He died intestate and letters of administration were granted on his estate to his eldest son John, May 2, 1718. The name of Richard Crosby appears on a list of the persons said to have been passengers on the "Welcome" with William Penn, in 1682, as do those of the Widow Fearne and her children, but there being no authentic list of passengers in existence, it is largely a matter of conjecture and corroborating circumstances as to who came on this vessel. Richard and Eleanor Crosby had several children. Their eldest daughter, Catharine, became the wife of Nicholas Fairlamb, in 1703, to whom they conveyed part of the Middletown plantation.

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