Biography of
Josiah Crocker of Pawlet, VT

 

Pawlet (VT) One Hundred Years
Hiel Hollister 
1867
J. Munsell, Albany

CROCKER, JOSIAH, from Falmouth, Mass., 1783; married a sister of Josiah Toby, and settled on the present homestead of David Farrar.  He raised a family of six sons and several daughters:  Benjamin, James, John, Thomas, Timothy and Ezra.  James was an attorney, and died recently at Buffalo.  John settled in Warsaw, N.Y.  Thomas m. ______ Hooker, and succeeded to the homestead, but removed to Poultney, where he recently died.  The other sons went west, but none of them are living.  Mr. Crocker took special pride in his family, and gave them unusual advantages for education.  He died in 1846, aged 86; his widow in 1847, aged 84.