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Dear Anna Cole: I am no expert, but I have the notes presented below in my file about Elishua Miller. Other people have identified John's wife as Elishua Yelverton. Do you have any information on the Yelvertons in England? ralphboswell@hotmail.com
Page 252 of the book, The Genealogies And Estates Of Charlestown, by Thomas Bellows Wyman, says that John Crowe was an "inhabitant of Charlestown in 1635; married Elishua ________, who came to town 1634, and was admitted to the Church, 4 (11) 1634/5. Issue: Moyses, Baptized 24 (4) 1637. Others at Yarmouth. Estate: Had grants not in list of possessions, 1638. Had 10 acres at Mystic site, sold W. Palmer. Sold Matthew Averie, his house and lots, 1638."
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"The name Crowell was originally written, Crowe. The surname of Samuel, who died in Boston in 1646, is written on the Suffolk Records, Crowes. In 1669, in a grant of a house lot to Samuel of Yarmouth, his and Yelverton's surname is written, Croell. It is an ancient name in Great Britain. In the Rolls preserved in the Tower of London, of the year 1254, Gilbert Crowe, of Berkshire, is named.
"The names of the English ancestors of John and Yelverton Crowe, of Yarmouth, we have not ascertained. They probably belonged to the branch of the family that removed from the County of Kent to Wales. If any one has preserved the ancient coat of arms of his family, he will be able to ascertain satisfactorily his England ancestry. We are indebted to a friend for the following extracts from British books:2
"[Note: 2 In emblazoning shields of arms, metals, colors, and furs are used to depict the device, the technical terms of which are these--of metals, gold, called, er; and Silver, argent, only are employed; of colors, red, called gules; blue, azure; black, sable; green, vert; and purple, purpure; and of furs, principally the skin of the little animal called ermine, and a combination of gray and white squirrel skins called, vair.
"Crowe, of Llanherne, created 8 July 1627--Extinct Lineage. I. Sir Sackville Crowe, of Llanherne, in the county of Caermarthen, son of William Crowe, Esquire, of Socketts, in Kent, by Anne, his wife, daughter and co-heir of John Sackville, Esquire, of Sussex, was created a Baronet in 1627. He married Mary, sister of John, eighth Earl of Rutland, daughter of Sir George Manners, of Haddon, by Grace, his wife, daughter of Sir Henry Pierrepont, Knight, and dying in the Fleet Prison, London, in 1683, was succeeded by his son.
"II. Sir Sackville Crowe, of Llanherne, who married first, Anne, daughter of Sir William Rouse, Baronet; and secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of William Herbert, Esquire, of Llangattock, in Monmouthshire, and relict [wife] of Sir Henry Vaughn, of Derwhittenn, Caermarthenshire, but dying since [probably without issue] the Baronetcy became extinct. Arms, Gules, a chevron argent, between three cocks argent.' Extract from Burkes, 'Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies,' London, 1841.
"Peacham, an Englishman, in his Practice of Heraldry, tells us that the ancient family of the name of Crow in Suffolk carried for Arms, Gules, a Chevron between three cocks crowing, argent, as equivocally relative by their crowing, to the name of Crow.' See Nisbet's Heraldry, Edinburgh, Volume I, 1722. [Peacham's 'Minerva Britannia' was published 1612. His 'Compleat Gentleman,' 1622.]
"Crow, of Crowe [Brasted, Co. Kent], Gules, a Chevron, or, between three dunghill cocks argent, armed of the second, crest, a camel's head argent, vulned in the neck gules.
"Crowe [Llanherne, Co., Caermarthen, as borne by Sir Sackville Crowe, of that place, created a Baronet in 1627, and allowed to Gyles Crow, of Brasted, Co. Kent, in 1589], Gules a chevron, argent, between three cocks argent, crest--a cock argent, combed, wattled, and membered argent.' Burke's 'Armory,' London, 1844.
"Speaking of Anglo-Saxon names, Lower says, 'Mr. Kemble mentions two ladies of those times who bore the appellations of Crow and Duck [Craw and Enede].' Lower's 'English Surnames,' London, 1849.
"A pedigree of the Crow family of Brasted, County of Kent, is in the Harlean manuscripts, 1548, folio 185, b. Peacham, who wrote early in the seventeenth century, speaks of the ancient family of Crowe in Suffolk, and Gyles Crowe was of Kent in 1586. The baronetcy in Wales also came from Kent, and the name is now common in England.
"The Yelvertons were a family of great antiquity in the county of Norfolk. They were Earls of Sussex, Viscounts Longueville, and Baronets. The present Viscount Avonmore is a Yelverton. It is probable that a member of the family of Crowe married a Yelverton, and this is the origin of the name in Yarmouth."
Source: Pages 10 and 11, John Crowe and His Descendants, by Levi Crowell, New York, Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1903.
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