Lucinda Bancroft

Brief Life History of Lucinda

When Lucinda Bancroft was born on 6 March 1785, in Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Caleb Bancroft, was 31 and her mother, Susansa Tay, was 30. She married Philip Sargent on 27 February 1802. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 3 daughters. She died in 1846, at the age of 61.

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Family Time Line

Philip Sargent
1776–1858
Lucinda Bancroft
1785–1846
Marriage: 27 February 1802
Dr. Seneca Sargent
1803–1873
Clarissa Sargent
1821–
Philip Sargent
1805–1876
David Flint Sargent
1808–1886
Abel Sargent
1811–1884
William Sargent
1813–1894
Lucinda Sargent
1815–
Lewis Sargent
1818–1894
Betsey Sargent
1819–1900
Moses Sargent
1826–1914
Elbridge Gerry Sargent
1829–1908

Sources (7)

  • Lucinda Bancroft, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
  • Lucinda Bancroff, "New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947"
  • Nancy, "Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1925"

World Events (8)

1786 · Shays' Rebellion

Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.

1787 · The Making of the U.S. Constitution.

The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.

1803

France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from any of various minor places called Bancroft, from Old English bēan ‘beans’ (a collective singular) + croft ‘paddock, smallholding’.

History: John Bancroft came to MA on board the ‘James’ in 1632.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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