Susanna CRAPO

1793 - 1887  (93 years)

• Name	Susanna CRAPO  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Birth	23 Jul 1793  [3]
  Gender	Female
  Death	11 Feb 1887  [3]
  Notes	Excerpt from "Certain Comeoverers": In 1886 an enterprising reporter of the Boston Globe found an interesting subject for a character sketch which I happened to glance at. Near Jucketram Furnace in East Freetown, on the shore of Long Pond, he found an old lady ninety-four years old on the twenty-fifth of September, 1886, named Susanna Howland. According to the reporter she was a most remarkable old lady, being a tireless worker at all manner of farm labor in the fields and woods, and in the farm kitchen, hoeing, digging, chopping, berrying in the swamp, planting the garden and harvesting. In her later years she had, as a pastime, woven three thousand yards of homespun cloth. The neighbors told queer stories about finding this ninety-four year old woman in the woods chopping wood with an axe, clad in men's attire, trousers, vest and blouse, with stout top boots, working away for dear life with all the grit and abandon of a backwoodsman. Just why I persisted in reading this long tale of vigorous old age I know not, but as I read, I gradually came to the realization that this remarkable old woman was your great great grandfather Jesse Crapo's sister. Alive in 1886, just think of it! And she bore the name of her great great great great grandmother Susanna White who came over in the Mayflower. The reporter describes her as saying: "My father's name was Peter Crapo. He owned a great deal of property. The Indians used to say 'Old Peter Crapo's jacket hung in the woods was worth more than all the eel-spearing in Long Pond at sunrise.' When I was a girl on my father's farm I remember how he would go out with the neighbors and search in the old fields for the corn the Indians were always stealing from the settlers. The Red Skins would plant it just below the surface of the ground in big pits that would hold bushels and bushels and then they would turn the ground up all around so that no one could tell where the pits were. The white men would go out with their horses and ploughs and plough these fields until the corn pits were found, and sometimes the Indians would be prowling round in the woods and when they say the corn was found, sometimes there would be a skirmish and somebody killed." Susanna Howland seems to have been the daughter of her father. She may have inherited all the energy and grit which should have been the share of her brother Jesse.
  Person ID	I14250	Main Tree
  Last Modified	30 Apr 2021

  
  

  Father	Peter CRAPO,   b. 04 Dec 1743, Rochester, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts d. 03 Mar 1822, Freetown, Bristol Co., Massachusetts (Age 78 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Content PECKHAM,   b. 1754, Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts d. 27 Oct 1826 (Age 72 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Marriage Banns	07 Sep 1789	Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts   [5]
  Marriage	13 Oct 1789	Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts   [5, 6]
  Family ID	F04991	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jedediah HOWLAND,   b. Abt 1788, Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA d. 28 May 1847, Freetown, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA (Age 59 years)
  Marriage	04 Jun 1815	Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts   [2, 3, 5]
  Children	1. John HOWLAND,   b. Abt 1820  [Birth]   2. James HOWLAND,   b. Abt 1822  [Birth]   3. Irene HOWLAND,   b. 17 Nov 1829   d. 19 Sep 1850 (Age 20 years)  [Natural]   4. Shubael HOWLAND,   b. 07 Jun 1818   d. 24 Mar 1867 (Age 48 years)  [Natural]   5. Benjamin F. HOWLAND,   b. 18 Oct 1833   d. 27 Dec 1850 (Age 17 years)  [Birth]
  Family ID	F05980	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Marriage - 04 Jun 1815 - Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S03460] The Kirbys of New England by Melatiah Everett Dwight. [S03531] Vital Records of Dartmouth, Massachusetts to the year 1850 Vol II-Marriages. [S00091] "The Peter Crapo Clan" by Richley H. Crapo, (Name: Name: Updated 7 Dec 2005;;). [S5459] Franklyn Howland, "A Brief Genealogical and Biographical History of Arthur, Henry, and John Howland, and their Descendants, of the United States and Canada", (Franklyn Howard - New Bedford, Mass, - 1885). [S02709] New England Ancestors: Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850. [S01952] Certain Comeoverers by Henry Howland Crapo.