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Hello Ray: I have yet to find a farm owned by Crosbys in the nineteenth century, so I may not be of any help. I'd really like to know where YOUR Crosby farm is- maybe I can make a connection that way. Do you know when your family arrived in Vermont?
The Vermont Crosbys included old Yankee families (with names like Amos and Ebenezer) and Irish immigrants from the 1830s. The Irish moved onto Vermont farms at the same time that the Yankee farmers moved west to better soil in Iowa and other states. My family were Irish immigrants from the first third of the 19th century.
I have not been able to find definite relatives, but there are several indications that we have ties to a William H. Maloy in East Montpelier. His mother, Catherine, was a Crosby; he had a "son-in-law," George Crosby,(aged 11, so probably an adopted or foster son); we have photos of a man of the right age at the farm labeled "William;" his wife's name is Sarah and a woman in the photos with him looks like pictures of Sarah Crosby (my great-grand-aunt). However, I have not proven the connection to our Crosbys.
My great-great-grandfather, Michael Crosby came from Ireland to Gardiner Maine; in 1831 he married Bridget Conroy there, then moved to Roxbury/Cambridge MA in the mid-1840s. All my other Crosby relatives were in Massachusetts.
William Maloy's farm was very near the boundary with Middlesex. Sound familiar? Pat
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