Descendants of William Cromartie and Ruhamah Doane

<p>This ambitious work chronicles 250 years of the Cromartie family genealogical history. Included in the index of nearly fifty thousand names are the current generations and all of those preceding which trace ancestry to our family patriarch William Cromartie who was born in 1731 in Orkney Scotland and his second wife Ruhamah Doane who was born in 1745.<p> <p>Arriving in America in 1758 William Cromartie settled and developed a plantation on South River a tributary of the Cape Fear near Wilmington North Carolina. On April 2 1766 William married Ruhamah Doane a fifth-generation descendant of a Mayflower passenger to Plymouth Stephen Hopkins. If Cromartie is your last name or that of one of your blood relatives it is almost certain that you can trace your ancestry to one of the thirteen children of William Cromartie his first wife and Ruhamah Doane who became the founding ancestors of our Cromartie family in America: William Jr. James Thankful Elizabeth Hannah Ruhamah Alexander John Margaret Nancy Mary Catherine Jean Peter Patrick and Ann E. Cromartie.<p> <p>These four volumes hold an account of the descent of each of these first-generation Cromarties in America including personal anecdotes photographs copies of family bibles wills and other historical documents. Their pages hold a personal record of our ancestors and where you belong in the Cromartie family tree.<p>