1720 Thomas Craighead and Margaret Brown were married on May 10 in Freetown, Bristol County, Massachusetts. [1]
To the town clerk of freetown mr John Road these are to Informe you that on the tenth Day of May year seventeen hundred and twenty the bonds of marriage between Thomas Creaghed Jun. and Mergaret Brown both of this sd town of freetown were seleberated by me Thomas Creaghed
Receued of Mr Thomas Creadhed these Returnes of mariage aboue writen this 11th day of May 1721 and acordingly entered by me John Road town Clerk.
1721 "Robert Creaghead son to Thomas Creaghed junior in Freetown was borne on the Eleventh of June 1721 and baptised on 18th day of sd June." [2][3] [4]
1735 Thomas Craighead, aged 33, died and was buried in White Clay Creek graveyard. [5]
1756 Patrick Macky of Hackney in Middlesex, merchant, wrote his will on July 9. The will was proved on July 2, 1757, and states, in part, [6] "Item I give and bequeath to my three neices Margaret Craighead now living in Pensilvania and Jane Stewart now or lately living near Rothmelton in the County of Donogal and Mary Brown now or lately living near Strabane in the County of Tyrone in the Kingdom of Ireland Daughters of my Sister Margaret five hundred pounds Bank Annuitys Second Subscription each." The Margaret in Pennsylvania was the wife of the Reverend Thomas Craighead's son Thomas, as detailed in the Craighead genealogy. [7]
1765 Margaret (Brown) Craighead died on September 13 and "was buried, with her husband and her husband's mother in White Clay Creek graveyard. A large slab is over their graves, with this inscription," [8]
In memory of Margaret, the wife of the Rev. Thomas Craghead, who died in 1738, aged 74 years; and of Thomas, his son, deceased in 1735, age 33 years; and of Margaret, his wife, who died in 1765, aged 63. Descended from religious families, they were eminent for piety, much esteemed in life, and lamented in death.
[1] Freetown, Massachusetts, Town Records, vols. 1-2, 1686-1795, Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001, FHL film 904379, DGS 7009638, vol. 1, page 9, image 14, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord], [FHLCatalog].
[2] Freetown, Massachusetts, Town Records, vol. 1, 1686-1764,Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[3] Freetown, Massachusetts, Town Records, vols. 1-2, 1686-1795, Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001, FHL film 904379, DGS 7009638, vol. 1, page 163, image 94, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[4] "Freetown, Massachusetts, Births, Marriage Intentions, and Deaths, 1686-1793," FHL film 945020, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord], [FHLFilmCatalog], [FHLCatalog].
[5] James Geddes Craighead, The Craighead Family: A Genealogical Memoir of the Descendants of Rev. Thomas and Margaret Craighead (Philadelphia, 1876), 41, [InternetArchive], [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[6] Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858, PROB 11, Piece 831: Herring, Quire Numbers 188-234 (1757), [AncestryImage].
[7] James Geddes Craighead, The Craighead Family: A Genealogical Memoir of the Descendants of Rev. Thomas and Margaret Craighead (Philadelphia, 1876), 40, [InternetArchive], [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[8] James Geddes Craighead, The Craighead Family: A Genealogical Memoir of the Descendants of Rev. Thomas and Margaret Craighead (Philadelphia, 1876), 40-41, [InternetArchive], [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].