Clarissa Danforth CRAPO

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• Census: 1850, Living with parents and husband in New Bedford, Bristol Co., Massachusetts
• Census: 1860, Living with husband in Draper, Salt Lake Co., Utah
• Census: 1880, Living with husband in Paradise, Cache Co., Utah
• Census: 1900, Living with husband in Edmund, Fremont Co., Idaho; Lists having 10 children with 7 living
• Census: 1910, Living with son, Warren, in Troutdale, Multnomah Co., Oregon

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The following death notices were added by request of Jeffrey Bryant.

The Hood River Glacier, Hood River, OR., August 13, 1903, page 5
The 55th wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. Davenport, the parents of Frank Davenport, was celebrated last Sunday, August 9, 1903, at the Barrett ranch, by a surprise party given by Grandma Davenport's children, Frank, Will Mark, Warren and one daughter, Mrs. Eudora Short. Mrs. Davenport's sons presented her with a gold watch and chain, and her daughter gave a beautiful gold ring. There were 40 grand and great-grandchildren present. She has 50 grandchildren living, and 10 great-grandchildren. It was also Mrs. Davenport's 75th birthday, and she seemed as bright and full of life as a girl of 14. Mrs. Davenport crossed the planes to Utah in 1851.
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Hood River Glacier
Aged Lady Dies
The remains of Mrs. Clarissa Davenport were brought from Portland, where she had died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Udora Short, and laid to rest here last Saturday. At the time of her death Mrs. Davenport had entered her eighty second year. She was born in Freetown, Mass., August 10, 1828. On August 10, 1848, she was married to Edward Davenport. In 1852 they crossed the plains and came to Utah where they resided till nine years ago, when they came to Oregon. Mr. Davenport died June 27, 1904.
Mrs. Davenport leaves surviving her forty-seven great grandchildren, fifty-seven grandchildren and seven children. Five of the surviving children are residents of Oregon. F. Davenport, Jr., one of the surviving grandchildren, is a resident of Hood River.
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The Hood River News, January 18, 1911
DIED
Mrs. Clarissa Davenport
Mrs. Clarissa Davenport, mother of Frank Davenport, Sr., died in Portland, Wednesday, January 11. The body of Mrs. Davenport, accompanied by her son and family was brought home Saturday and buried in Idlewilde Cemetery.
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Clarissa Danforth Crapo was born August 10, 1928 at Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts to Joseph George Crapo and Mary Hicks Collins. She married on August 10, 1848 at New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts to Edward Wilcox Davenport.
Clarissa died January 11, 1911 at Portland, Multnomah Co., Oregon and is buried at Idelwilde Cemetery; Hood River, Oregon.
Edward and Clarissa were the parents of Joseph Smith Crapo; Jeremiah Franklin; John Edward; James Albert; William Edwin; Mary Alice; Marcus Morton; Agnes Eudora; Charles; and Warren Ellis Davenport.

Clarissa married Edward Wilcox Hathaway DAVENPORT on 10 Aug 1848 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah. Edward was born on 20 Sep 1822 in New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts; died on 27 Jun 1904 in Hood River, Hood River Co., Oregon; was buried on 29 Jun 1904 in Idlewile Cemetery, Hood River, Oregon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Joseph Smith Crapo DAVENPORT was born on 05 Aug 1849 in New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts; died on 03 Jan 1894 in Dillon, Beaverhead, Montana; was buried in Parker Memorial Park, Parker, Fremont Co., Idaho.
2. Jeremiah Franklin DAVENPORT was born on 17 Jun 1853 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah; died on 26 Dec 1931 in Milton-Freewater, Oregon.
3. John Edward DAVENPORT was born on 13 Oct 1855 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah; died on 16 Sep 1936 in Nampa, Canyon County, Idaho; was buried on 18 Sep 1936 in Kohler Lawn Cemetery, Nampa, Idaho.
4. James Albert DAVENPORT was born on 01 Jun 1857 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah; died in 1859.
5. William Edwin DAVENPORT was born on 04 Mar 1859 in Salt Lake City, Utah; died on 19 Apr 1927 in Egin, Fremont Co., Idaho.
6. Mary Alice DAVENPORT was born on 04 Apr 1861 in Draper, Salt Lake Co., Utah; died on 13 Nov 1937 in Cache County, Utah.
7. Marcus Morton DAVENPORT was born on 24 Oct 1863 in Paradise, Cache County, Utah; died on 20 Nov 1937 in Melba, Canyon Co., Idaho; was buried in Kohlerlawn Cemetery, Nampa, Canyon Co., Idaho.
8. Agnes Eudora DAVENPORT was born on 09 Apr 1866 in Paradise, Cache County, Utah; died on 16 Mar 1951 in St. George, Washington County, Utah; was buried on 19 Mar 1951 in St. George, Washington County, Utah.
9. Charles DAVENPORT was born on 09 Apr 1868 in Paradise, Cache County, Utah; died in 1870.
10. Warren Ellis DAVENPORT was born on 19 May 1871 in Paradise, Cache County, Utah; died on 09 Mar 1944 in Prairie City, Grant County, Oregon; was buried in Mt. Vernon, Grant County, Oregon.

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• Birth: 03 Nov 1808, Freetown, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA
• Census: 1850, Living in New Bedford, Bristol Co., Massachusetts
• Census: 1851, Living in Pottawattamie, Iowa
• Census: 1870, Living in Paradise, Cache County, Utah
• Occupation: 1870; Farmer

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Joseph George Crapo was born 7 November 1806 in the fishing town of New Bedford, Bristol Co, Massachusetts. Joseph was lost at sea when his boat capsized while he was working his oyster beds. he was picked up by a passing ship, bound for France, but his family believed him to have drowned. It took him over a year to earn his passage back to the United States, where he was reunited with his family. Converts to the Morman faith in Massachusetts, Joseph George Crapo and his wife Mary Hicks Collins Crapo, of Fall River, Bristol, Massachusetts, immigrated to Utah in 1853 with the Miller and Cooley Company. He and Mary were in the first group of settlers at Avon, Utah in 1860. Joseph George died just two months shy of 82 in Paradise, Cache, Utah.

Joseph married Mary Hicks COLLINS on 20 May 1826 in Fall River, Bristol County, Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of Silas COLLINS and Hannah WINSLOW) was born on 15 Oct 1809 in Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts; died on 24 May 1888 in Paradise, Cache County, Utah; was buried in Paradise Cemetery, Paradise, Cache Co., Utah. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of Silas Collins and Hannah Winslow
• Census: 1850, Living with husband in New Bedford, Bristol Co., Massachusetts
• Census: 1851, Living with husband in Pottawattamie, Iowa
• Census: 1870, Living with husband in Paradise, Cache Co., Utah

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• Birth: Abt 1776
• Census: 1810, Freetown, Bristol Co., Mass.
• Census: 1820, Freetown, Bristol Co., Mass.

Charles married Sarah LUCAS on 26 Jun 1802 in Freetown, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA. Sarah was born on 06 Oct 1782 in Carver, Massachusetts; died on 20 Aug 1878 in New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Also Known As: Sally Lucas

Silas married Hannah WINSLOW on 01 Aug 1801 in Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts. Hannah (daughter of Abner WINSLOW and Rebecca HATHAWAY) was born on 19 Oct 1781 in Freetown, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1790, Freetown, Bristol Co., Mass.
• Census: 1800, Dartsmouth, Bristol Co., Massachusetts
• Census: 1820, Dartsmouth, Bristol Co., Massachusetts
• Death: 10 Mar 1822, Freetown, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA

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Excerpt from "Certain Comeoverers": Peter Crapo, the second of the name, the son of John, the son of Peter, was born in 1743. He seems to have been a stirring sort of man of strong character, great energy and considerable achievement. There are many stories of his forceful methods and abounding vitality. When fifteen years of age it would appear that he volunteered from Rochester in the French and Indian War. At all events there was a Peter Crapo who was one of the company that met at Elijah Clapp's in Middleboro on the morning of May 29, 1758, and at a little afer sunrise commenced its march to and participated in the bloody and disastrous battle of Ticonderoga in which their General, Lord Howe, was slain. It certainly seems more probable that the Pter Crapo who wewnt on this expendition was this Peter, the son of John, born in 1743, rather than his uncle, the only other Peter then existant, who was born in 1709 and would consequently have been almost fifty years of age.
With such an experience in his boyhood it is not surprising that in the alarm of the nineteenth of April, 1775 (the battle of Lexington of which Paul Revere gave warning on the evening of the eighteenth), Peter Crapo as a private, and his brother Consider as Sergeant, marched under Captain Levi Rounseville from Freetown to the camp at Cambridge, as is set forth in the muster rolls at the State House in Boston. How long he served at this time I know not. It is possible, although not likely pehaps, that with Benedict Arnold he again traversed the road to Ticonderoga, leaving Cambridge May 3, and, joining Ethan Allen, assisted in the capture of the fortress on May 10. It is somewhat interesting that in response to this same alarm of April 19, 1775, men contains these two names in sequence, "William Crapo, corporal, Caleb Coombs, private." In the records of Rochester's quotas throughout the war the name of Crapo appears many times.
Peter again appears on the muster rolls as a private, his brother Consider as a sergeant, and his brother Joshua as a corporal, in Lieutenant Nathaniel Morton's company of militia from Freetown belonging to the regiment commanded by Edeard Pope, Esquire, which marched out on the alarm of December 8, 1776, "agreeable to the orders of the Honorable Council thereon." On this occasion Peter was given twenty days' pay, to wit: L2. 10s. 8d.
It was, however, as an active man of business that he has left his footsteps on the sands of time. You will remember that the first Peter was something of a lumberman, since he bound himself to deliver those "one thousand good merchantable rails at Acutshnet landing," and his grandson Peter's greatest effort in life was as a lumberman, logging the cedar and pine trees of Dartmouth and Freetown and sawing them at his mill at Babbitt's Forge at the head of the Quampanoag River. Afterwards his grandson, Henry H. Crapo, by a somewhat curious turn of fortune, became a lumberman and logged the pine forests of Michigan, sawing the lumber at Flint.
At what date Peter, the second, moved from Rochester to Freetown is not certain. I find a deed of land in Freetown from Bigford Spooner in 1770 to Peter's brother Joshua. This land was in the vicinity of the land which Peter later occupied. Joshua did not remain in Freetown. He is said to have imigrated to Maine. Peter and his brother Consider were settled in Freetown in 1773. They were engaged in the lumber business. In 1774 and for nearly twenty years thereafter Peter and Consider Crapo were actively engaged in logging and sawing as appears by the numerous recorded deeds to them. Their sawmill was "partly in Freetown and partly in Dartmouth" at the place called "Quampog where a forge formerly stood called Babbitt's Forge." At one time an Abraham Ashley and a Mereba Hathaway, a widow, were partners in their business. John Crapo, their father, conveyed several tracts of land to them and seems to have been interest with them in their business and may have lived with them for a time. He is always described, however, as "of Rochester." Some after 1790 Consider withdrew from the business and moved to Savoy, Massachusetts. The deeds of partition between the brothers are dated in 1797. Both brothers were owners of considerable tracts in Dartmouth, owning salt meadows on Sconticut in Troy, now Fall River. In 1793 Consider sold his homestead farm to Thomas Cottle of Tisbury, Dukes County, who removed thither. This was in the immediate vicinity of the sawmill since he reserved to his brother Peter a right of flowage appears to have taken in Richard Collins as a partner in the business. In 1793 the sawmill burned down but it apears to have been rebuilt. Down to the time of his death in 1822, Peter Crapo, as abundantly appears by the land and court records, was actively engaged in business.
Peter had a large family of children, fourteen in all, and it would seem that his manner of caring for them was distinctly patriarchal. As each child came of age and was about to be married, he summoned all the other children, the married and the unmarried, to undertake some special work whose profit might be devoted to settling the child to be married. In the case of a daughter with a dowry, in the case of a son with a homestead farm. It was in this way that by the united efforts of the whole family your great great grandfather Jesse was given his home and farm on the Rockadunda Road near the home of his wife's father, Henry Howland.
Peter kept the title of the various farms acquired for his sons in his own name, and when he died left them severally by his will, dated February 20, 1822, to their occupants, devising his own homestead fram, which, as appears by the inventory of his estate, was much the most valuable, to his youngest son Abiel, the baby of the family, on whom he placed the duty of caring for his widow. To his widow he also gave fifty dollars, one cow, and "the use and improvement of the south front room in my dwelling house with a privilege to pass and repass through the kitchen and porch and to the well to draw water, as well as a privilege in the cellar and the use and improvement of all the household furniture during her life." Considering her somewhat limited domain all the furniture may have been too liberal, but it is to be hoped that Abiel really did do his duty and made his mother comfortable. He gives to his "seven daughters" three hundred and fifty dollars each, and all of his household furniture after his widow's death. His estate was inventoried at something over $10,000, which was in those days a considerable estate.
Peter Crapo married Sarah West. The "intention of Marriage" is recorded in the Rochester town records, whereby it appears that Peter Crapo of Rochester and Sarah West of Dartmouth were "published" May ye 18th, 1766. They were married by Doctor Samuel West on NOvember 13, 1766, as appears by Doctor West's notes, which were found by the Rev. William J. Potter in an old attic in a house in Tiverton belonging to one of the famous old gentleman's descendants. It is not probable that Sarah West was related to Doctor West. She may have been an unrecorded daugher of one Charles West, originally of Middleboro, who doubtless descended from the Duxbury Wests. He lived in Bristol County at one time, and he was to some extent connected in business relations with the Crapos. Or, she may have belonged to one of the numberous Dartmouth Families of West, who were for the most part descended from Matthew West, who was in Lynn in 1636 and was subsequently of Portsmouth.. the fact that she was married by Doctor West leads me to suspect that she lived in that part of Dartmouth, now Acushnet, near the Rochester line. If so, she may have been a descentant of Stephen West who married one of John Cooke's daughters. When Sarah died, Peter married Content Hathaway of Dartmouth, and again the marriage ceremony was performed by Doctor West on October 13, 1789. At that time Peter was in Freetown and it may be that he chose for his second helpmeet a relative or friend of the the first. Many of the descendants of Stephen West and Arthur Hawthaway, both sons in law of John Cooke, lived in the northeasterly part of the town of Dartmouth not far from Rochester bounds. Sarah died May 6, 1789, in the forty-second year of her age. Her gravestone of grey slate with carved cherubims and a scriptural verse stands on the right side of Peter's stone. He died March 3, 1822, aged seventy-nine years. On his left is the stone of Content Hathaway, who died October 27, 1826, in the sixty-eighth year of her age. All three stones are well preserved and are placed in an old private burial ground, where many of Peter's descendants lie buried, in North Dartmouth, not far from Braley's Station, and near the dwelling house formerly of Malachi White.

Peter married Sarah WASTE on 13 Nov 1766 in Rochester, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. Sarah (daughter of Charles N. WASTE and Deborah WILLIAMSON) was born on 04 Sep 1748 in Freetown, Bristol Co., Massachusetts; died on 16 May 1789 in Freetown, Bristol Co., Massachusetts; was buried in Crapo Cemetery, Freetown, Bristol Co., Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Abner married Rebecca HATHAWAY on 16 Aug 1759 in Freetown, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA. Rebecca (daughter of Philip HATHAWAY and Martha SIMMONS) was born on 31 Mar 1738. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of Philip Hathaway and Martha Simmons West