[1][3][4] With John Robinson as partner in the school, Crosby had a business selling instruments, globes and books.
[6] Crosby successfully advocated the divisive selection of John Gill as Stinton's successor, but then fell under a cloud with the church.
Expelled, he joined the Unicorn Yard congregation (the secession of those dissatisfied with Gill),[7] but was again pushed out.
[2] Crosby's History of the English Baptists, from the Reformation to the beginning of the reign of George I (1738–40, 4 vols.
He supplied Daniel Neal with information on Baptists for his History of the Puritans.