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3. Ruth, bap. May 12, 1751, m. David Perry, Nov. 3, 1789.
4. Samuel, Jr., bap. March 3, 1754.
5. Elizabeth, bap. June 29, 1756, m. Robert Jackson, March 23, 1775.
6. Sarah, bap. Nov. 30, 175S.
7. Stephen Peet, m. Hester Cochran, 1760.
Jean Cochran m. Benajah Strong, Feb. 3, 1761. The two last above, were probably dau'rs of Samuel, and the blood of this Coch- rane family, yet circulates in Ancient Woodbury, in the veins of the Bronsons, Perrys, Jacksons, Peets and Strongs, by marriage. Cochi- ran, Cochrane, Cochrain, Cothrin, Cothren, and perhaps Cockran, were probably all originated from the old aristocratic Scotch name of Cochrane, a name which has been worn by Earls, Lords, Barons and Honorables, in early days, for centuries past. The coats of arms, and a much more full list of the family will be found in Coth- ren's History of Woodbury, from which most of these facts have been extracted. The two Miss Cocrans of Northampton, Mass., perhaps are descendants of this original stock.
COCHRAN, BENJAMIN F., graduated at Harvard College, 1846 ; Joseph G., at Amherst, 1842; 2 at Brown University, in 1799 and 1809; Robert at Yale College, in 1846 ; three at Dart- mouth, viz., Peter, 1798 ; Sylvester, 1835; Thomas H., 1840.
COTTER, WILLIAM, of New Haven, m. Elna, who had been a servant girl to Mr. Winthrop, 3d, 12 mos., 1652. He had a six acre lot in New London, in 1661. His wife was Elenor Cotter, has 2 coats of arms.
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COTTON, SAMUEL, of Middletown, was the only son of John Cotton, of Concord, Mass. (deeds.) He m. Mercy, daughter of John Stow, (who, with his father, Thomas, and uncle Samuel Stow, were from Concord.) Nathaniel Stow, son of John, and brother of John Cotton's wife, Mary, (Stow,) not having children, they took young Samuel Cotton to live with them (at Wethersfield.) John Cotton, his father had d. about that time, and his mother had married John Spaulding, of Concord. Nathaniel Stow d. 1705, and having no issue, gave his property to his sister, Mary Cotton, (Spaulding,) and Thankful Hill, of Guilford. Mr. and Mrs. Spaulding gave their share to her son Samuel Cotton, 1705, and her daughter Thankful (Cotton) Hill, of Guilford. Farmer says, there was a John Cotton living in Concord, 1667 and 1679.
Samuel Cotton was a housewright by trade as well as a farmer. June 24, 1703, he purchased a house-lot of 6 acres, in Newfield street, of Isaac Lane, (now the Tuttle place,) for £6, and built a house ; afterward purchased quite. a quantity of land, and with what his uncle Nathaniel Stow gave his mother, made him a large landholder at Middletown. He m. Lydia, and had children.
1. Mary, b. Nov. 23, 1697.
2. Lydia, b. Nov. 25, 1699.
3. Elizabeth, b. March 25, 1701.
4. Hannah, b. Feb. 10, 1703, d. July 13, 1703.
5. Samuel, Jr., b. May 26, 1704.
6. Prudence, b. July 18, 1707.
7. Ebenezer, b. April 9, 1713.
8. John, b. Jan. 7, 1719.
His wife, Lydia, d. Sept. 6, 1713, and Samuel Cotton m. for 2d. wife, Experience Hall, Feb. 28, 1717. Samuel, senior, d. 1738 ; will made, Nov. 18, 1737. His brother-in-law, Samuel Hall, ad- ministrator. Samuel, in his will, gave Experience, his wife, the property she brought with her, and a cow, &c., and gave his son Samuel one-third part of his estate and " a large Sermon Book, which his father, John Cotton, called Gospel Conversations." To Ebenezer, one-third part; John and Wm., the homestead, house and buildings ; to Mary and Elizabeth, the daughters " of my daughter Prudence," 20l. each ; and his daughter Lydia, 107. Few of the name are now found in Middletown.
Samuel Cotton had issue by his 2d marriage, viz. :
9. William, b. Sept. 18, 1720.
10 Danicl, b. Nov. 17, 1722, d. Nov. S, 1731.
11 Phebe, b. Nov. 1, 1724, d. 1725.
Experience, his second wife, d. April 22, 1762, aged 78.
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COTTON, JOHN, m. Hannah -, of Wethersfield, Nov. 7, 1660, (Rec.) April, 1660, the General Court of Conn. appointed William Wadsworth, and John Deming, senior, to assist Mr. John Cotton in the administration in the estate and as overseers of the last will of Thomas Welles, Esq. Jolin Cotton was made free in Conn., March 14, 1660, with James Rogers, &c.
COTTON, PRUDENCE, daughter of Samuel, sen'r, had two children, and no husband found, viz., Bathsheba, b. Jan. 13, 1726-7; Lucia Cotton, b. Sept. 11, 1732.
COTTON, EBENEZER, son of Samuel Cotton, sen'r, m. Han- nah Cornwell, Nov., 1737 ; issue, Hannah, b. Dec. 24, 1739 ; his wife, Hannah, d. Dec. 31, 1739; Ebenezer m. 2d. Huldah Aspen- wall, of Kensington, Oct. 9, 1740, and had issue, Oliver, b. July 26, 1741, d. Dec. 2, 1741; Ebenezer, Jr., b. Dec. 17, 1742, d. 1765 ; Huldah, b. Nov. 8, 1744, d. 1761; 2d Oliver, b. Jan. 27, 1746-7; Rachel, b. Aug. 26, 1749; Lucia, b. Jan. 29, 1751-2; Mary, b. Ang. 24, 1754; Sarah, b. 1757; Elizabeth, b. April, 2, 1760 ; David, b. Aug. 8, 1763; 11 children. Huldah, wife of Ebenezer, d. May 9, 1789.
COTTON, JOHN, son of Samuel, sen'r, m. Bathsheba Sage, of Middletown, June 30, 1752; issue, Elisha, b. Sept. 1, 1753; Mil- lerent, b. Oct. 15, 1755 ; Elizabeth, b. 1757, d. 1758; William, b. Oct. 22, 1758 ; Samuel, b. March 9, 1760 ; Timothy, b. April. 9, 1762, d. April 26, 1762 ; Bathsheba, b. March 4, 1764.
COTTON, WILLIAM, son of Samuel, sen'r, by 2d wife, m. Rebecka Ware, Sept. 23, 1742 ; issue. Rebecka, b. Sept. 20, 1743, d. 1754; Lucy, b. 1747; William, Jr., b. March 6, 1750; Lu- cretia, b. 1753; James, b. Nov. 27, 1755 ; Michael, b. March 15, 1758 ; a son b. and d., 1760 ; Thomas, b. May 26, 1764. ( Weth- ersfield and Middletown Rec. and Stearns.)
COTTON, MR. SEABORN, married Mrs. Dorothy Bradstreet, (by Mr. Bradstreet, ) at Andover, Mass., June 14, 1651, had a dau'r Dorothy, b. at Windsor, Conn., Nov. 11, 1656, (perhaps Cuffur.)
COTTON, REV. JOHIN, b. at Boston, March 13, 1640, gradu- ated at Harvard, 1657, was at Wethersfield, Conn., as early as 1660, and Nov. 7, 1660, he m. Hannah Rossiter, dau'r of Dr. Brian Rossiter, of Guilford, Conn. He preached at Wethersfield as late as 1663. June 12, 1663, it was voted at Wethersfield to hire Mr. Cotton for another year. He had children b. in Wethers- field, viz., John, b. 1661, and Elizabeth, b. 1663 ; (the last m. Rev. James Alling, of Salisbury, Mass. ; Rev. James, deceased, and his
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widow, Elizabeth, m. Rev. Caleb Cushing, the successor of her first husband, and became the mother of a noble family, viz., Rev. James, of Plaistow, N. H., graduated at Harvard, 1725; Rev. John Cushing, graduated at Harvard, 1729, minister at Boxford ; Rev. Rowland, b. 1666, graduated at Harvard, 1696, minister at Sandwich ; also Sarah, b. 1665, d. 1669; 2d Sarah, b. 1670, m. Wymand Bradberry ; Theophelus, b. 1682, graduated at Harvard, 1701, and settled at Hampton Falls, N. H., and d. 1726, aged 45 ; and others, who died young, being 10 in all.) Rev. John Cotton ap- pears to have left Wethersfield in 1663, not heeding the vote of the town to employ him longer. He afterward preached at Martha's Vineyard, where he obtained his knowledge of the Indian language. He left Martha's Vineyard, and was settled at Plymouth, in June, 1669, where he continued until his dismission, in 1697, and was then settled at Charleston, South Carolina, in 1698, and d. Sept. 18, 1699, aged 59 years. His wife, Hannah, d. Nov. 12, 1702, aged 60. (See Wethersfield Rec., Dr. Chapin's Glas., Allen, Mass. Hist. Col.)
COTTON, REV. JOHN, sen'r, b. at Derby, in England, Dec. 4, 1585, came to New England in 1633, and was settled the 2d min- ister of the Ist church in Boston, was the father of Rev. John and Seaborn, and perhaps others. He took his degree of Master of Arts, at Trinity College, in 1606, and became a leading divine in New England ; d. Dec. 23, 1652, aged 67. This has been a prominent name in Mass. 21 of the name had graduated at Harvard College before 1811, and 4 at Yale before 1849, and 1 at Brown Uni- versity. Mr. Seaborn Cotton took the oath of Allegiance at Hamp- , ton, 1648, aged 35 ; m. Prudence, widow of Dr. Anthony Colby ; William, aged 48, in 1661; William in 1653; William, (Cuther, ) in Boston, 1654 ; Ephraim, m. Mary Noble, 1697 ; Joanna, dau'r of Rev. Roland Cotton, and granddau'r of Rev. John, n. Rev. John Brown, of Haverhill. (Farmer, and Hist. Reg.)
Cotton has three coats of arms. Simeon Cotton and J. Randall, of Pomfret, Conn., members of the Convention in 1788, to ratify the Constitution of the United States, both voted in the negative.
Richard Cottan, passenger for Virginia, aged 21 in 1635; Row- land, aged 22, passenger in the America for Virginia, June 23, 1635 ; Rev. John, of Newton ; Rev. Nathaniel, of Bristol ; Roland, A. M. ; Rev. Ward, of Hampton ; were all subscribers for Prince's Chronology.
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COUCH, THOMAS, of Wethersfield, m. Rebeckah, Nov. 22, 1666, and had Susannah, b. Oct. 12, 1667 ; Simon, b. Dec. 11, 1669; Rebeckah, b. Feb. 16, 1672. His wife d. March 1, 1672, and he d. 1687. He also had children, Hannah, aged 13 ; Thomas, 12; Mary, 11; Sarah, 8 ; Abigail, 6; and Martha, 3. His reliet presented the inventory of his estate, Sept., 1687 ; his real estate was distributed, a double portion to his eldest son, and his other chil- dren, equal portions when of age.
COUCH THOMAS, JR., of Wethersfield, m. Sarah Hust, of Deerfield, Mass., Dec. 16, 1713, and had issue, Sarah, b. Nov. 7, 1714 ; Hannah, b. July 27, 1716 ; Elizabeth, b. Aug. 23, 1718 ; Thomas, b. May 9, 1721 ; Ebenezer, b. Sept. 28, 1723; Benoni, b. June 5, 1727. Thomas, the father, d. Dec. 1, 1751, and his wife d. Oct. 16, 1757. BENONI, son of Thomas, m. Phebe Miller, July 28, 1754, and had a son Samuel, b. at Wethersfield, June 18, 1755, and Thomas, b. April 26, 1757. Thomas Couch drew 57 acres in the land division in Wethersfield in 1670. Couch or Clough, Thomas, owned land in Wethersfield in 1665.
COUCH, SIMON, in 1722, was one to whom 6000 acres of land in Glastenbury was granted, 68 acres for £34, and under the grant at Glastenbury, 34 acres, 123 rods, in 1725.
COUCH, or COUCHE, has one coat of arms.
SAMUEL COUCH was of Milford, in 1689.
COUCH, SAMUEL, of Fairfield, in the year 1724, purchased of Chicken, an Indian saggamore, (who lived between Fairfield and Danbury,) Ridgefield and Newtown, at a place called Longtown, for the consideration of £12, 6s., all the lands situated between said towns, except such as had been patented by the Governor and Com- pany of Connecticut-(all unpatented land.) Chicken reserved in his deed, to himself and his heirs, the right to hunt, fish and fowl upon the land and in the waters ; also reserved to himself, his chil- dren and grand children and their posterity, the use of so much land by his wigwam as the General Assembly should by an indifferent committee deem necessary " for him, and his children's children's children and their posterity." Acknowledged before Joseph Platt, Justice, 1724. Some of his posterity yet reside in Fairfield county, at Greensfarms. (Record of Patents, p. 31.)
Two of this name graduated at Yale College before 1805. Paul, at Dartmouth College, in 1823.
COULSON, JOHN, and ANN BENNIT, were fined £10 each, at Hartford, May, 1664, for their misdemeanor, to be paid by Dec. 63
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1, or be severely whipped, and give a bond of £20 for good behav- ior, till Quarter Court in Dec. ; also enjoined marriage. . Mr. Rich- ards, John Coulson, and Bennit, left to the Court what Coulson and Bennit should pay Richards for the time and trouble of his family. The Court ordered Coulson to pay his master £20 down, and £15 by the 1st of March, 1666.
COULTMAN, JOHN, of Wethersfield, m. Mary, Sept. 21, 1667, and had Mary, b. Nov. 29, 1672 ; Elizabeth, b. Jan. 14, 1677; Anna, b. March 11, 1681. ( Wethersfield Record.) See Coltman.
COVEE, BENJAMIN, and ABIGAIL, his wife, had a dau'r Mary, bap. at Hampton, Conn., Aug. 12, 1744 ; perhaps others. Covee has two coats of arms.
COVELL, JOHN, Peter Perrit, Levi Mallet, Jr., and Major Edward Allen, in 1768, had liberty of the town of Milford to plant oysters in Indian River, for three years. Covell has 4 coats of arms, and Covill has 2.
COVELL, CEGONA, aged 15, embarked in the Abigail, Hack- well, Master, for New England, June 17, 1635.
COVERLEE, PHILLIP, of Colchester, m. Hannah Addams, Dec. 20. 1713, and had John, b. Nov. 24, 1731, and had other children. His wife d. June 19, 1739. He had a negro servant, Jethro, bap. May 10, 1747 ; and a negro girl, Dinah, bap. June 30, 1751; dau'r Hannah, bap. Aug. 11, 1754 ; dau'r Mary, bap. July 18, 1756 ; his servant, Japhet, bap. Sept. 25, 1757 ; and John.
COWDALL, JOHN, a trader at New London, failed in 1659, and left the place.
COY, SAMUEL, was a first settler at Stafford, Conn.
RICHARD COYE came to this country with Mathew Coye, his brother, in 1638; Richard, aged 13 and Mathew 15. Their sister Mary m. John Lake, of Boston. (His. Rec.)
COY, G., was permitted by the Council at Hartford, April 8, 1676, to transport the corn he brought from Springfield.
COY, STEPHEN, of Windham, m. Anna Bissell, Nov. 11, 1762.
COY, JOSEPH, of Windham, m. Jerusha Sawyer, Dec. 31, 1767. Issue, Elizabeth, Joseph, Jerusha, Lewis, Sarah, John, and Susannah. Coy has 1 coat of arms.
COY, SAMUEL, m. Sarah Hall, and had a dau'r Sarah, b. in Suffield, Jan. 23, 1755. A late name in Suffield.
COY, MATHEW, was at Norwich at an early period of the settlement of the town.
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COY, JOHN, was killed by Indians at Brookfield, Mass., Aug. 20, 1675. Richard of Brookfield, 1673. (Far.) This name is now found in Hartford.
COZENS, COUSINS, COOZENS, RICHARD, was admitted at Saybrook, about 1634-5. He m. Mary Chalker, of Saybrook, March 7, 1677-8, and had issue, Hannah, b. March 17, 1778-9; Sarah, b. at Block Island, May, 10, 1683 ; Bethiah, b. at Saybrook, Nov. 4, 1685.
ISAAC COUSINS, of Boston, and Ann, his wife, 1653 ; Cosens,
NOTE .- 1 insert this notice of the Caldwells, once of Hartford, at the suggestion of a descend- ant, anxious to preserve to posterity the respectable standing of his ancestors. John Caldwell, a Scotch gentleman, was from the county of Ayer, of an ancient and highly respectable family now represented in Ireland by the " Barronet's Caldwell " of "Caldwell Castle," and in Eng- land by the "Stamford Caldwells of Linlaywood," Staffordshire. John Caldwell was born in Scotland in 1688, came to this country and settled in Hartford, Conn. He wi. Hannah, dau'r of George Stillman, of Wethersfield and Hadley, who was member of the General Court of Mass.
John and Hannah bad children, viz., James, William, John, Mary, George, and Charles; Charles, b. 1732, m. Mary, dau'r of the 3d Richard Lord, and great granddau'r of the 1st Richard, the 1st Cap- tain of the first Company of Cavalry in Conn., and one to whom the old charter of Corn. was granted. She was also great granddau'r of Gov. Wyllys, and of Gov. Haynes. Charles was a gentleman of large estate in Hartford, and great worth. During the Revolution, at the evac- uation of Boston by the British, he was present, and knew many of the trying scenes of that war, and was a paymaster and commissary with the rank of Major. The mansion-liouse, where he and the family once resided, was nearly opposite the present State Ilouse. Ile left one son, llenry, and several daughters.
Henry, son of Charles, b. 1765, graduated at Yale College, 1784, and immediately after left for England, to secure property which belonged to the family, and remained there twelve years, where he m. Harriet Bromedge, dau'r of Captain John Bromedge, of the Royal Navy, and granddau'r of Admiral Hugh Bromedge, of the same service. llenry left issue, Charles Henry, and George Lord ; the last, with his mother, were buried in England. Henry returned to this country with his son Charles Henry, and entered the United States Navy, when organ- ized in 1798, as a Lieutenant of Marines. He served in the war with Tripoli, and in one action in the war of 1812. He d. a Captain in 1812.
Charles H, Caldwell, b. 1793, entered the navy as Midshipman in 1811, and served on the Lakes in the war of 1812. He m. Susan, and 2d Elizabeth, dau'rs of Samuel Blagge, Esq., of Boston, Consul for his Majesty the King of Sweden, and granddau'rs of Benjamm Blagg, Esq , of New York. He had issue by Susan, his first wife, Susan, and Charles Henry Bromedge ; and by Elizabeth, his 2d wife, Samuel Blagg. Charles Il. was relieved from the command of the Dolphin, in the Pacific, and sent home for the recovery of his health, but he died on his return passage in 1831.
Charles Henry Bromedge Caldwell, b. 1823, entered the Navy as Midshipman in 1838. He m. Judith Emeline, dau'r of Richard G. Packer, Esq., of Boston, and granddau'r of Rev. Samuel Packer, Bishop of Mass. lle is now a Lieutenant in the Navy. As it has ever been among the best names of Conn., the State watches the bravery of her sons, even in foreign seas, and are proud of their noble deeds. (See Caldwell, page 469 of this work.)
Three of this name graduated at Yale College, in 1757 and in 1784; two at Dartmouth College, in 1814 and 1817 ; one at Amherst College in 1837; and eight at Harvard College before 1839.
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Isaac, of Haverhill, and Elizabeth, his wife, 1653; Isaac Cousins, Locksmith, and wife, Elizabeth, of Boston, 1656.
GEORGE COUSSENS, of Marlborough, England, shipped at Hampton, in the James of London, William Cooper, master, for New England, April, 1635.
Cosen, has 3 coats of arms; Cosens, 1; Cosins, 1; Cossen, 2; Cosyn, 8; Cosyns or Cosins, 1; Cozens, 1.
COZZENS, BENJAMIN, graduated at Brown University, Rhode Island, 1811.
COSIN, FRANCIS, member of Ar. Co., 1640; Isaac Cosin, or Cosins, of Rowley, about 1650; Mathew, of Boston, 1656.
CRAB, RICHARD, was an early settler at Wethersfield, and a man of high reputation which he sustained while he remained at Wethersfield. He represented the town of Wethersfield, at the Gen- eral Court in Connecticut, from Wethersfield, April 11, 1639; Jan., 1639, two sessions in 1640, and in April, 1641, before he removed. In 1641, he with Richard Law, Robert Bates, and others, joined the settlers in the settlement of Rippowams, (Stamford,) and went with the first settlers. (Robert Bates, while at Wethersfield, is recorded a land- holder there, by the name of Robert But, Bate, &c., and has yet descendants at Branford, and other towns in Conn.) Mr. Crabb, had 7 tracts of land in Wethersfield, in 1640. He was one of the 30 persons who had land alotted to them at Stamford, in Nov., 1641, in all 276 acres, probably their building lots. He attended the first town-meeting in 1641, when 7 of their principal settlers were appointed to order the town affairs, viz., Mathew Mitchell, Thurston Rayner, Andrew Ward, Jo. Whitmore, Richard Law, and Richard Crabb. After his residence some time at Rippowams, he removed to Greenwich, and in 1655, complaints were made to the General Court at New Haven, of the conduct of the people of Greenwich ; that they permitted drunkenness, harbored runaway servants, and joined persons in marriage without lawful authority. Greenwich, denied the jurisdiction of New Haven over them, and refused obe- dience to their orders. The General Court therefore, ordered, that unless they appeared before the Court, and submitted by the 25th day of June then next, viz., Richard Crabb and others, who had been the most stubborn, they should be arrested and punished. They complied. This name yet continues in Connecticut. Crab, has 2 coats of arms, and Crabb, has 2.
CRADDOCK, MATHEW, in 1636-7, was indebted to the estate
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of John Oldham, as settled in Conn., where Mr. Oldham was mur- dered by Indians, in 1636, £229.
CRADDOCK, NATHANIEL, 1639. Cradock, has 12 coats of arms and Craddock, has one.
CRAFT, CRAFTS, CROFT, MOSES, of Branford, Conn., after- ward of Wethersfield, sold 19 acres of land at Pine Brook, in Bran- ford, to Jonathan Frisbee, Oct. 26, 1683.
CRAFT, CAPT. SAMUEL, of Roxbury, Mass., took the 27th home lot of 20 acres, for his son Samuel, eastward of Plain Hill, in Woodstock, in the first division of home lots, No. 28, at New Rox- bury, with 20 acre rights. In the division of good meadow, in 1690, Samuel drew No. 11, and No. 30 in the division of the bad meadow, in New Roxbury ; Samuel, of Roxbury, was one of the 39 persons who were signers to settle at New Roxbury, (Woodstock. ) John Crafts, m. Martha Graves, of Hatfield, Mass., in 1716; Allis Craft, m. Robert Loverain, in Roxbury, Mass., Jan. 3, 1704-5; William Crafts, 1667; Ephraim, 1667; William, 1671; Alice Craft, b. 1678, d. in Holliston, in the 105th year of her age, and in her fifth widowhood ; Ann Crofts, aged 14, was passenger in the Safety, for Virginia, Aug., 1635 ; and John Crofts, aged 20, was passenger in the America, for Virginia, June 23, 1635. His name appears to have been first in Conn., at Branford, and then at Wethersfield, and in 1686, Samuel, of Roxbury, Mass., is at Woodstock. It is proba- ble the Samuel Crafts, named by Cothren, in his His. of Woodbury, p. 526, as settled at Pomfret, in 1686, was the same Samuel, who settled at Woodstock, 1686, named above from Roxbury, Mass., for this line, (see Cothren's Ancient Woodbury.) 8 of the name had graduated at Harvard College, in 1840, and 2 spelled Craft, in 1784. One Craft, at Yale College, in 1759, and one Crafts in 1808, at Yale College ; 3 had graduated at Brown University, Rhode Island, in 1821. It is probable that Moses Craft, who deeded land in Branford, in 1683, had previously lived at Branford, and was the first of the name in Conn.
MOSES CRAFTS, in his deed of the 19 acres above, he sold to Jonathan Frisbee, in Branford, dated Oct. 26, 1683, describes his own residence, viz., " sometimes of Branford, now of Wethersfield." CROFTS, has 17 coats of arms ; CROFT, has 7.
CROFT, THOMAS, of Hadley, Mass., m. Abigail Dickinson, Dec. 6, 1683, and had John, b. Nov. 8, 1684; Mary, b. Feb. 2, 1685, at Hadley.
CRAGHEAD, REV. THOMAS, an Irish gentleman, was em-
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ployed to preach six months at North Stonington, Sept. 4, 1722. In Oct. after, they gave him a call to settle as their pastor, which he accepted,-but was never settled there. The society was incorpo- rated in May, 1720, and the bounds between the societies established in May, 1721, and was named North Stonington, in 1724. Rev. William Worthington, was the first minister, where he preached about one year and a half, but he refused to settle as their pastor in 1722; and in 1726, they gave Mr. Worthington a second call to settle, which he also refused. Mr. Craghead had been a minister in Ireland, and had preached at Freetown, Mass.
Crag, John, John Cragan, James and Niel Camel, came to Boston, in the John and Sarah, of London, bound for New England, in 1651, Scotch prisoners or servants. One by the name of Craighead gradu- ated at Harvard College, in 1847.
CRAIS, JOHN, from Killingworth, removed about 1695, and set- tled in Andover or Coventry.
Jesse Crais, of Colchester, had a son John bap. Jan. 29, 1774.
CRAMER, ADAM, and Moll his wife, lived near Good Hill, in Woodbury, Conn., about 1750; he was by trade a blacksmith, and his wife Moll, a witch, which fact the people in that vicinity verily believed, and her husband knew she was a witch, as he had con- stant and afflicting evidence of it from day to day, and to save his own reputation, he put off' Moll, that he should not be charged of having familiarity with the Devil. She had a son Adam, who had a daughter Moll Cramer, within the last 60 years. The wonderful deeds of Moll, the witch of Woodbury, are well remembered by the aged and by tradition. See the history of her wonderful deeds in Cothren's Woodbury, p. 160-1, &c. CRAMER, has one coat of arms ; Cranmer, has 2; Cranmore, 1.
CRANDALL, is first found in Stonington Conn .; Isaac, of Ston- ington, a brother of Hosea Crandall, removed from Stonington, and settled at Goshen, in Litchfield Co., where he m. Charlotte, dau'r of Thomas Griswold. His brother Hosea, b. at Stonington, Dec. 7, 1799, m. Harriet Griswold, sister of his brother Isaac's wife. Hosea, had two sons and five daughters. They were probably descendants of George Crandall, of New London, who in 1671, was suspected of opposing the government of the Colony. Reuben Crandall gradua- ted at Yale College, 1828.
CRANE, CRAIN, CRAYNE, MR. JASPER, was one of the first and important settlers of the New Haven Colony, and signed the first and " fundamental " agreement June 4, 1639, (see note, p. 77,)
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at a general meeting of all the free planters, at New Haven, " at the barn of Mr. Newman." Tradition says, he had the steward- ship and oversight of the property of the Rev. John Davenport, during the time Mr. Crane remained at New Haven ; his children b. in New Haven, were Deliverance, Jan. 12, 1642 ; Mercy, March 1, no year ; Micah, Nov. 3, 1647. Ilis son Jasper, Jr., was b. at New Haven, April 2, 1651. He is noticed at New Haven, by Lamb't in 1643, with a family of three persons, and an estate of £480. He was one of those at New Haven, who attempted the set- tlement of lands on the Delaware, and was repulsed by the Dutch, Natives, Swedes and Fins. On April 20, 1665, (after the union of the Colonies,) he was ordered by the General Court to be read at the election " for nomination for an assistant." He had four sons. John the eldest, d. in 1694, aged 59; Deliverance, was bap. at New Haven, 12th 4th mo. 1642; Jasper, Jr., b. April 2, 1651, and d. in Newark, New Jersey, Nov. 5, 1730, aged 83, m. a dau'r of Gover- nor Treat. Hon. Jasper, sen'r, with his sons John, Deliverance and Azariah, all signed the agreement at Branford, for the settlement of Newark, New Jersey. He also had a dan'r Hannah, who married Thomas Huntington, who also signed said agreement. He had a dau'r " Belle," of whom nothing further is found. After some year's residence in New Haven, he became interested in that well known, bog-ore furnace of early days, of which Richard Post, was founder in East Haven, to which he removed with his family,-says Dod, after he removed to East Haven, where he traded and lived before he removed to Branford, that he had his house-lot on the east side of the green, (in East Haven.) That he sold his lot of 16 acres to Moulthrop, Sept. 7, 1652, and soon after removed his family to Branford. His lands in the first division of lands in East Haven with 3 polls amounted to £480. He remained in Branford a few years, when a project was started by old Jasper Crane and others, to make a new settlement in New Jersey, and in 1665, he with his sons John, Deliverance and Azariah, and many others, from Bran- ford, New London, Milford, New Haven, &c., subscribed an instru- ment, embracing rules for governing their town upon Passaic River, in the Province of New Jersey, particularly the essential qualfica- tions for freemen, magistrates, deputies, assistants, chief military officers, &c., (to settle Newark.)*
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