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Frances Jane " Fanny " Crosby was born on March 24, 1820, in the village of Brewster, about north of New York City.

She was the only child of John Crosby, a widower who had a daughter from his first marriage, and his second wife, Mercy Crosby, both of whom were relatives of Revolutionary War spy Enoch Crosby.

According to C. Bernard Ruffin, John and Mercy were possibly first cousins, however " by the time Fanny Crosby came to write her memoirs 1906, the fact that her mother and father were related ... had become a source of embarrassment, and she maintained that she did not know anything about his lineage ".