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The Roots of Daniel Crumb of Westerly, Rhode Island by Bill J. Smith

January 23, 2023

Daniel Crumb (Crumbe) was first documented in Rhode Island in 1668, i when he was a young adult. It has long been assumed that Crumb was of English or Scottish origin. This piece is an attempt to examine a different version of the roots of Daniel Crumb, as a result of the digitalization of 17th-century baptism archival records in the Netherlands and what they can tell us. At the end of this topic, Y-DNA results for a straight-line DNA project for Crumb-surnamed men with the common ancestor William Crumb Sr., son of Daniel Crumb of Westerly, are discussed. To properly explain this, I must include details of my father's Walloon, Huguenot, and Dutch ancestry in America, because it is intrinsic to understanding how I arrived at certain conclusions, regarding Daniel Crumb's highly probable family background. Please click on the endnote numbers, to see relevant information. Nancy Crum b ii (1783-1886) iii was born in Westerly, R.I., wher...