Notes from William A. Crowell's book "The Roar of the Sea" referring to his grandfather, John Crowell. "I stillremember his old chair in the kitchen, the old Waterloo stove, the stories he used to tell, and the the songs he used to sing. How I learned to love that grand old man of teh sea, and as I grew up between the years from five to welve, how he would stroll with me across the fields or by the lake shroe, or perhaps out in the boat with a fishing line. "

According to above source, John died when William (Bill) was in his fourteenth year (1892). Consequently, this John cannot be John, son of Ebenezer.