A Bancroft Connection To Lapeer Co., MI

Benjamin F. & Mary (Buckley) Bancroft sold at least pieces of property in Lapeer County, Michigan. Benjamin was a banker in Salem, Washington Co., New York, when the 1860 census was taken. Was he a land speculator?

Lapeer Co., MI, Deeds
Liber "R", Page 403
10 April 1861
Benjamin F. Bancroft & Mary, wife, of Salem, Washington Co., NY
Quit Claim Deed To
Linus Forbes of Lapeer

Lapeer Co., MI, Deeds
Liber "R", Page 657
24 June 1862
Benjamin F. & Mary Bancroft of Salem, Washington Co., NY
QC To
Frederick Smith of Lapeer Co., Michigan

The Benjamin Bancrofts in the 1860 census:
1860 NY Washington Co., Salem
Bancroft, Benj. F., 42, Banker, b. Mass
", Mary J., 39, b. NY
Warren, Mary, 30, domestic, b. Ireland

Benjamin F. Bancroft was the son of Jonathan Barber Bancroft & Betsey Clark. Jonathan was the son of Samuel Bancroft, Jr., & Elizabeth Spelman who was the son of Samuel Bancroft, Sr. & Sarah White. The first American Bancroft ancestors of Benjamin F. Bancroft can be found here. An ancestor of Sarah (White) Bancroft can be found here.

Benjamin F. Bancroft died 23 Nov 1886 as written in here in the Proceedings from the Convention of the American Banker's Association. [Note: An interesting source for a date of death]. The Bancrofts had no children.