The Cressy Family

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Samuel⁵ Cressey (William⁴, Samuel³, William², Mighill¹) was born in Newbury, Mass., June 6, 1786, married (1) in 1807 Catherine, daughter of Samuel Goddard of Roxbury, born 1780, died 1852 at 72. He married (2) Caroline _____. He died in 1859 at 73.

Samuel Goddard⁶, born January 15, 1813, married in 1834 Lodena Copp of Lowell, born 1811, died 1889 at 78. He was one of the first to change the spelling of the name Creasey. He died June 5, 1886, at 73.

4 Ch.: Franklin⁷ F., born August 4, 1836, married Kezia Decker. Ch.: (William, Ralph), Henry, born 1837.

3 Darwin⁷, born 1838, married Abbie Richards, Adelaide⁷, born 1844, Mary⁷ C., born 1849, married Diogenes E. Trask.

Joseph W., born October 31, 1815, farmer and shoemaker, Topsfield.

Ebenezer, born June 13, 1817, married Mary Burnham, shoemaker; enlisted Civil War in 1861 in Company A, 17th Mass. Infantry, died November 30, 1862 in Newburn, North Carolina.

3 Ch.: Eben⁷, Charles, Albert E., born February 19, 1842, clerk, unmarried, enlisted Civil War in 1861 in Company B, 40th New York (Mozart) Infantry, for 3 years; in siege of Yorktown, battle of Williamsburg, May 5, Fair Oaks, May 31, and June 1, 1862, killed and buried on the battlefield.
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Nathan Follansbee, born September 16, 1816, married _____.

2 Ch.: Elizabeth⁷, Hazen Follansbee, ins., lived in Gloucester, Mass.

Rufus F., born December 16, 1820, died in 1840.

Simon S., born November 14, 1822, died in 1842.