Thomas Croasdale

Thomas Croasdale was associated with New Hay, Yorkshire, England, where he was described as a yeoman in a land record of 1682. Another cited reference calls him Thomas Crosdall of New Key, County of York. He married Agnes Hawthornwaite in England.

According to Blanche Haines's 1937 account, Thomas Croasdale was among the earliest settlers at Neshaminy in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Haines states that Thomas, Agnes, and their six children came on the ship Welcome, which arrived on 27 August 1682. He brought a certificate dated 7 April 1682 from Settle Monthly Meeting in Yorkshire.

A deed dated 21 and 22 April 1682 conveyed 1,000 acres to Thomas Crossdale of New Hay in Yorkshire, yeoman; 500 acres of that land lay in Bucks County. The cited abstracts of the estates of Thomas and Agnes Croasdale indicate that they held 500 acres in Bucks County.

The supplied life dates give Thomas's death as 2 November 1682. However, the cited 1937 account says that he died in 1684 and records Agnes Croasdale and John Croasdale as administrators on 10 January 1684. This conflict has not been resolved from the supplied material. Haines states that Agnes died in 1685; administration of her estate was recorded in 1686.

Thomas and Agnes were identified in the cited account as the parents of six children: John, William, Mary, Alice, Bridget, and Morrah Croasdale. Their son William was of Bristol and died in 1715. The same account states that Mary, born in 1672 and died in 1716, married William Smith on 20 September 1690. Alice married David Potts; the account further claims that they were ancestors of President Theodore Roosevelt and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Bridget married a man named Cowgill, and Morrah married a man named Wildman.