The Cressy Family

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Henry Sewall⁵ Cressey (Francis⁴, Samuel³, William², Mighill¹) was born in Newburyport, Mass., December 8, 1769, married October 4, 1795, Elizabeth Gardiner, born in 1773. He died December 8, 1799, at 30. After his death she married in 1804 Enoch Somerby.

Children born Newburyport:

Michael⁶, born August 6, 1796, married January 17, 1820, Phebe Ann Pike, born 1798. He was a sailor and died at sea in 1848 at 52. She died in 1880 in 82^nd year.

Children:
    527    (1)    Hannah Currier Cressey Anderson, 
                  born October 19, 1822, married about 1842 Thomas 
                  Ridgway Anderson. She died November 22, 1863, at 
                  41, buried at Newburyport. 

                  Children:
                  (1)    Elizabeth, married sea captain, Joseph J. 
                         Taylor. He died 1899. She died 1907.
                  (2)    Louise G., married J. Dudley Evans. She 
                         died 1909. He died 1928.
                  (3)    Annie, married Daniel Brown, veteran Civil 
                         War, died 1891.
                  (4)    Adelaide Anderson, born May 15, 1847, 
                         married April 26, 1874, John Torrey, born 
                         April 5. 1854, in Newburyport, stage driver, 
                         storekeeper. He died September 18, 1918. 
                         She died January 24, 1934. 
                         Children: 
                         Harry K. Torrey, born August 16, 1880, in 
                         Newburyport, unmarried. Graduate of Phillips 
                         Exeter Academy, 1899; at Harvard one year; 
                         admitted to bar, and practiced law from 1907 
                         until the World War, 1917.  He attended 
                         Plattsburg Military Training Camp, but was 
                         not accepted for the army.  He entered the 
                         service of the U.S. Internal Revenue Bureau 
                         in various sections of the country, as 
                         auditor, to the present time.  Served in 
                         New Hampshire Legislature, 1909-10; 
                         private secretary to Governor Bass, 1911-12, 
                         and Justice of the Portsmouth Police Court, 
                         1913-15. His headquarters are at 
                         Congress Square Hotel, Portland, Maine.

    528    (2)    Michael Cressey,
                  born 1824. He was killed in San Francisco acting as a 
                  member of the Vigilance Committee July 4, 1855, at 31.
    529    (3)    Enoch P. Cressey,
                  born February 16, 1826, died January 31, 1874, at 48.
    530    (4)    Phebe Ann Cressey Pettingill,
                  pilot. She died in 1896 at 68.
    531    (5)    Charles Henry Cressey,
                  born January 29, 1830, unmarried
    532    (6)    Elizabeth P. Cressey,
                  born March 9, 1832, died in 1840.
	    

Henry⁶, born April 13, 1798, died in August 1831, at 33.