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* In 1650-1, a solemn agreement was entered into with Governor Stuyvesant, with great pro- fession of amity and good feeling for the English, by the Dutch, which induced the English settlers of New Haven and Branford, to settle their lands at the Delaware which they had pre-
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Yet he remained in Branford, until 1667, as he signed there the contract as to church order according to the platform of discipline, agreed upon by the synod, about 1648, drawn from the word of God for those who remained in Branford, dated, Jan. 20, 1667. He was a surveyor and trader and with " Mr. Myles," laid out much of the town plot at New Haven, and located grants, settled division lines
viously purchased. Therefore, fifty men from these two towns, hired a vessel to transport them to their lands, to settle at Delaware. They took with them a commission from Governor Eaton, of New Haven, and a kind letter to Governor Stuyvesant, informing him of the design, notifying him of the previous agreement at Hartford, assuring him they would settle on their own lands and not disturb their Dutch neighbors. The Governor of Massachusetts, also wrote to Governor Stuyvesant, making like assurances. The vessel sailed to New York, delivered the letters to the Dutch Governor ; instead of regarding the agreement made the previous year at Hartford, he arrested the bearers of the letters and imprisoned them, and sent for the Captain of the vessel to come on shore, that he wished to speak to him ; no sooner was he on shore than lie arrested and committed him to prison, and all others of the crew who came on shore, were also impris- oned. Governor Stuyvesant, asked to see their commission, for the purpose of copying it and engaged to return it when copied, and when delivered refused to return it. He kept them im- prisoned until they each signed a writing not to proceed to Delaware, but to immediately return to New Haven, and told them if he found them at Delaware, he would seize their goods and send them prisoners to Holland. At the meeting of the Commissioners of the United Colonies at New Haven, in 1651, Jasper Crane, William Tuttle, and others, of New Haven and Branford, peti- tioned the commissioners, stating the conduct of the Dutch Governor, toward the Delaware settlers, that they were damnified over £300, over and above the insult to the Colonies. That the Dutch had seized their lands and were about fortifying, &c. (See Trumbull, 194-5, &c .- Record of Commissioners of United Colonies, and Colony Record.) Jasper Crane, from the active part taken by him in this petition, was probably one of the company who purchased the lands of the original proprietors at Delaware, and one ofthe company so harshly treated by Governor Stuyvesant, at " Manhaders." Yet the list of the 51 settlers is not now found.
Crane, Mr. [Jasper,] at the October General Court, 1664, Mr. Sherman and the Secretary, [Mr. John Allyn, ] were appointed to go to New Haven, and by order of said Court in his Magis- ty's name, require all the inhabitants of New Haven, Milford, Branford, Guilford, and Stam- ford, to submit to the government established by his Magisties Gracious Grant, to the Colony of Conn., and receive their answer. Also to declare all the (then) freemen of the towns above, who were qualified by law, to become freemen of the Colony of Conn., so many as should accept and to take the freeman's oath, &c. Also to declare that the Court doth invest Wm. Leete, Esq., Mr. Jones, Esq., Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Fenn, Mr. Crane, Mr. Treat and Mr. Lawes, with the power of Magistrates, to assist in the Government of the above plantations and according to the laws of the Conn. Corporation, or their own laws not contradictory to the Charter, until the next May. And if any of them refused to govern the people as aforesaid, then Mr. Sherman and Secretary Allyn, were authorized to appoint others in their places, and administer the oath for a faithful execution of the trust. Also to declare that all other civil and military officers, were established in their places, until the next May. (Col. Rec. Hin., p. 437.)
There has been a uniform mistake with all the Huntington family of Norwich, as to one of the three sons of Margaret Iluntington, the mother of the first Huntington, at Saybrook, in Conn. She had no son by the name of Samuel. His name was Thomas; he so signed his name at Branford, with the other emigrants fromn Branford, to Newark.
In page 315, Col. Rec., of Conn., is found Christopher Huntington ; on page 297, is found Thomas, and on page 412, Simon made freemen. No Samuel, was made free ; Thomas is first found on the Branford record, in 1663. He probably m. Hannah Crane, a dau'r of that good old
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and disputed titles. Mr. Jasper Crayne, was a seleetman and one of the civil managers of the new settlement, 1639, (New Haven.) In March, 1641, he had a grant of 100 acres in the east meadow, selectman, &c. He was in the list of estates at New Haven, at £ 130, in 1643. In 1644, Mr. Jasper was freed from " watching and trayn- ing," because of his weakness ; made freeman in 1614. In 1644-5, had a second grant of 16 acres of upland in East Haven, where he built his house in East Haven, in which Jasper, Jr., was b. April 2, 1651; soon after this, not being satisfied with his location as a mer- chant, he sold his place in 1652, Sept. 7, and purchased in Branford, or Totoket, and removed with his family, and joined the settlers from Wethersfield, under the head of Mr. William Swain, Swayne, &c., of Wethersfield, with about 20 others from Southampton, Long Island, who emigrated to Totoket, with Rev. Ab'm Pierson. And " Jasper Crane, Esq.," and Mr. William Swayne, were the first deputies to the " General Court of Electors," from Branford, May, 1653, and four years after. In May, 1658, chosen magistrate of
saint Jasper Crane. who removed to Newark, as Crane in his will calls Thomas Huntington his son ; her age not known ; her brother Jasper, Jr., was b. in 1651. There are no facts to show at what date the IIuntington family arrived from Roxbury, Mass., at Saybrook, probably not before 1646. Jasper Crane, sen'r, was at New Haven, as early as 1639. Crane, d. an old man at Newark, about 1681, as his inventory was proved in Oct., 1681. Samuel Huntington's name does not appear on the Newark record, until after Thomas had a son Samuel born ; but Thomas is found from the early settlement of the town. In 1677, Thomas was appointed constable ; in 1684, Thomas lluntington, with Mr. Johnson, Mr. Ward, Mr, Kitchell, Mr. Curtiss, Deacon Law- rence, Ephi'm Burwell, and others, were appointed a comunittee " to treat with the Governor." No second-rate men at that time were put upon a committee to contend for the rights of the town Jan. 1, 1684-5, John Curtiss and Thomas Huntington, were appointed deputies from Newark, to the General Court of the Province of New Jersey. As his name disappears from the record soon after, he probably died. In 1694, proprietors of the lands (of which Thomas had been one) the office was granted to Samuel his son ; if Thomas had been living, the grant would probably have been to Thomas. In the office of the Secretary of State, at Trenton, he conveyed land to Jonathan Baldwin, and in Newark town records. in 1702. . Samuel Huntington, son and heir-in-law of Thomas Huntington, deceased," conveyed land to I. and D. Crane. Also in 1702, Samuel and Sarah Huntington conveys to Nathaniel Ward. In 1704, they sold also, and in 1721, Thomas and Simon Huntington, late of Newark, now of Whipanong, in the County of fluntordon, " being equally interested in certain lands of" our honored father, Samuel Huntington, late of Ne- wark, deceased, sold land to Nath'l Ward. Samuel's will, dated, Nov. 11, 1704, and proved, Nov. 19, 1712. Simon above d. in Morris County, New Jersey, aged 74 years, and left to his brother Samuel, "my sermon book the ten Virgins." Jolm Ward, of Branford, in 1654, had six children before he removed to Newark. Ward d. about 1694, (as his will is dated 1694 ;) his widow had been the widow of Thomas Huntington, (and her name Hannah.) She was probably younger than her first husband, and though considerably younger than John Ward, he probably thought her a suitable companion, as some widowers even in these days, prefer young ladies to old ones. Thomas, sen'r, had a dau'r Hannah, mentioned in the will of her grandfather Jasper Crane, as his granddaughter Hannah Huntington.
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New Haven Colony, which he held until 1663. On the union of the two Colonies, he was chosen an assistant (Senator) to the General Court at Hartford. Justice of County Court at New Haven, in 1664-5, one of the magistrates convened at Hartford, by the Gover- nor, in 1665, and one of the assistants and magistrates of Conn., in 1665-6, and in 1667, and magistrate in New Haven Colony, in 1658. In 1665-6, the Branford people became dissatisfied with the union of the two Colonies, of New Haven and Conn., particularly allow- ing the right of suffrage to such as were not members of the church, &c. In the spring of that year many of them determined upon removing, and agents had been sent to New Jersey, to examine the lands, which had been ceded to the Court by the " land proprietors." The flattering reports stimulated them for a removal, " beyond the marshes lying to the north of Elizabeth." In October, after adopt- ing a code of laws for the government of themselves, (and inter- lopers,) Mr. Abr'm Pierson, with a part of his congregation left Branford, to settle at ( Milford first called) Newark, but Mr. Jasper, appears not to have removed with the first company, though he was one of the 23 persons who signed the first contract in 1665, as he continued a leading man in Branford, with Mr. Mitchell, Taintor, &c., and directed the affairs of Branford, and an assistant, &c., in 1667-8, not only so. Jan. 20, 1667, a new church-covenant was formed for those left at Branford, and Mr. Crane headed the list of signers and church-members under the new organization, with others, who signed the agreement in 1665, and after disposing by deed of his property at Branford, in 1667-8, he joined his associates at Newark. John Crane, the son of Jasper, was born before his father came to New Haven, as John d. at Newark, in 1694, aged 59, and he probably had others born before he came there. His son Deliv- ered, (or Deliverance, ) was bap. at New Haven, 12th, 9 mo. 1642. Jasper, Jr., as stated before, b. April 2, 1651, and d. at Newark, March 16, 1712, aged 83. Azariah, another son of Jasper, sen'r, m. a dau'r of Governor Treat, and d. at Newark, Nov. 5, 1730, aged 83 years, (b. in New Haven, in 1647, but no record of it.) Hannah, dau'r of said Jasper, sen'r, m. Thomas Huntington, (son of Margaret,) who signed the article at Branford, with Mr. Jasper, sen'r, &c. Thomas Huntington, of Newark, son-in-law of Jasper, shared in Jasper's will, by his wife Hannah, and Mr. Jasper, calls said T. Huntington in his will his son ; he also had another dau'r Bell, of which I have no account, before named. Jasper, sen'r, d. at Newark, about 1681, in his old age. Mr. Crane, (Jasper,) Mr. Leete and
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Mr. Phen, (Fenn,) were appointed, or any one of them, to give the oath for assistants to Mr. Jones and the oath of commissioner to Mr. Gilbert ; Capt. Nash and Mr. (James) Bishop, July, 1665. Mr. Crane, Mr. Leete, Mr. Fenn, Mr. Treat, Mr. Briant and Capt. Nash, were appointed or any three of them, a committee to discover the approach of the enemy, when De Ruyter, the Dutch admiral, was expected on the coast, from Guilford to Stratford, July, 1665. Jas- per, sen'r, and Robert Treat, were the first magistrates in Newark. in 1668-9; they represented Newark, in the General Court same year, and again chosen deputies in 1669-70, and Mathew Campfield chosen magistrate ; Crane and Treat, were deputies and magistrates in 1671-2, and in June, John Brown, Jr., was chosen recorder for the town, which office Mr. Treat, had held at 40s. per year ; about this time Mr. Treat left Newark, and returned to Conn., where he was made Lieut. Governor, in 1676.
In 1675, Mr. Crane, was deputy and magistrate at Newark. He was one of the purchasers of the Kingsland farm, a large tract of land located northerly of Newark, (now Belville.) Mr. Crane, was ranked with the strong-minded men of Connecticut and New Jersey, and lived to an advanced age, and d. 1681, as the inventory of his estate was proved in 1681. His sons John and Deliverance had seats (says Conger) in the first meeting-house in Newark ; Jasper, at £570; John, £250, and Deliverance, at £250. Estate.
1. Crane, John, son of Jasper, b. 1635, d. 1694, aged 59 years.
2. Hannah, dau'r of Jasper, sen'r, b. about 1639, m. Thomas Huntington of Newark, and had a dau'r Hannah, named by Jasper, sen'r, as his grand- daughter, and perhaps others.
3. Deliverance, son of Jasper, sen'r, bap. July 12, 1642; and d. without children.
4. Azarialı, b. 1647, son of Jasper, sen'r, d. Nov. 5, 1730, aged $3 years. He m. Mary, dau'r of Robert Treat, (who was Lieutenant and Governor of Conn.,) when Mr. Treat left New Jersey, for Conn., he betrusted his property at New- ark, to his son, Deaeon Azariah Crane, who lived in the stone house at Newark, and was a man of integrity and standing; had issue, Nathaniel, Aza- rial, Jr., John, Robert, Mary Baldwin and Jane Bull. Robert Crane, had sons, Timothy, Isaac and Josiah.
5. Jasper, Jr., b. at East Haven, April 2, 1651, removed with his father to Newark, he purchased the estate of Robert Lyman, in Newark, in 1684, after Mr. Lyman returned to New England. Jasper, Jr., d. March 16, 1712, aged 61, at Newark.
Josiah Crane, of Newark, resided between Newark village and Conn. Farms, in New Jersey ; in his will dated Nov. 2, 1785, proved 1786 ; he names " Phebe," his wife and sons Obadiah, Josiah and Elias, deceased. (Elias Crane's children left, were Mary and Phebe.)
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He also mentions his daughter Lois Hinman, (wife of Samuel Hinman, of Newark, and son of Jonas Hinman and Elizabeth, his wife, of Newark,) also Betsey Pool, Mary Harrison, Johannah Heard and Jerusha Brown, as his children. Josiah was interred at Conn. Farms, six miles from Newark. His gravestone says, " Capt. Josiah Crane, d. Dec. 15, 1785, aged 67 years." He was a son of Joseph Crane, and brother of Joanna Crane ; the grandmother of the antiqua- rian, Samuel H. Conger, Esq., the present Librarian of the Historical Society, of New Jersey. Joseph Crane, was son of Jasper Crane, Jr., who was the son of Hon. Jasper Crane, sen'r, of N. H., Branford and Newark, an associate of Pierson, Brown, Treat, Harrison, Kitchell, &c., of Newark, in 1668. Joseph Crane, the grandfather of Lois Hinman, d. Aug 4, 1726, aged 50, and his children were, Benjamin, Ezekiel, Isaac, Israel, Josiah, Joseph, Abigail and Joanna, and his wife was Abigail Lyon. (See Hinman.) Rev. John R. Crane, D. D., of Middletown, Conn., a descendant of Jasper, Jr., and Jasper, sen'r, who was the progenitor of most if not all of the Cranes, of New Jersey, an able and respectable family, &c .; Crane, D. D., educated at Nassau, 1805 ; settled at Middletown, Upper Houses, Ct., 1818.
CRANE, BENJAMIN, sen'r, was a proprietor at Wethersfield, Ct., in 1658; juror, 1664; d. 1693 ; m. Mary, April 23, 1655; issue :
1. Benjamin, b. March 1, 1655-6.
2. John, b. April, 1663, d. 1694.
3. Jonathan, b. Dee. 1, 1658 ; removed to Windham, and d. 1697; Jose, b. April 1, 1661 ; Israel, b. - Nov. 1, 1671.
Mrs. Mary Crane, wife of Benjamin, d. July 8, 1717; Benjamin, drew 76 acres in the land division in Wethersfield, in 1670.
Benjamin Crane, on the 15th of May, 1653, testified at Flushing, that he lived some times at Dedham, with Mr. Joseph Clark, (nine years,) and with Mr. Howard, of Dorchester, one year, then aged 24 years. He testified he lived up Hudson River about 10 miles, with one Mrs. Mary Vandunkes, dau'r of Mr. Daughty ; that his Mrs. would speak very good Indian, and that she told him that three Sagamores, that lived up the country, said that the Dutch Governor, and ye ffiscall, had hired them to cut off ye English, and kill all they could, for which they were to give them a ship load of powder and kettles and have their trade, &c., &c. ( Who was this Benjamin Crane ?)
CRANE, JOSEPH, son of Benjamin and Mary, of Wethersfield, m. Sarah, dau'r of John Kilborne, Dec. 10, 1684; issue,
1. Sarah, b. Dec. 10, 1685; d. an infant.
2. Sarah, b. March 15, 1687.
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3. IJannah, b. Aug. 1, 1659.
4. Mary, b. Ang. 31, 1692 ; d. 1701.
5. Benjamin, b. May 21, 1691.
6. Joseph, b. Nov. 25, 1696; d. 1727, or 1712.
7. Hester, b. Sept. 7, 1695 ; d. 1701.
s. David, b. April 27, 1701 ; d. in infancy.
9. Easter, b. Aug. 25, 1702.
10. Isaac, b. Oct. 20, 1707.
Mr. Joseph Crane, d. Nov. 28, 1707 ; distribution 1717 ; aged 46. Ile left his wife and children, Benjamin, Isaac, Susan Pool, Han- nah Purple, and Esther Cranc.
CRANE, JOHN, son of Benjamin and Mary, m. Abigail, dau'r of Nathaniel Butler, Oct. 27, 1692; issue, Josiah, b. March 22, 1694. Mr. John Crane, d. Oct. 23, 1691, aged 30 years.
CRANE, BENJAMIN, Jr., son of Benjamin and Mary, m. Mary Chapman, May 12, 1686 ; she d. April 5, 1687, aged 21. Ile, for second wife, m. Martha, and had issue, Benjamin, b. Nov. 7, 1690, and d. 1693 ; Isaac, b. Aug. 19, 1692, d. 1712; and Mr. Crane, d. June 20, 1693.
CRANE, ISRAEL, son of Benjamin, sen'r, and Mary, m. Lidia, Sept. 13, 1695, and had issue, Lidia, b. Aug. 4, 1701 ; Hannalı, b. Nov. 24, 1702; Elizabeth, b. Sept. 23, 1704; Martha, b. March 19, 1706; Mr. Crane d. April 23, 1707, aged 35. These are a part of the Cranes, of Wethersfield, the descendants of Benjamin and Mary Crane, his wife. Benjamin Crane, sen'r, was from Massa- chusetts, to Wethersfield. A Jonathan Crane, went from Wethers- field to Windham.
CHRISTIAN CRANE, of Cambridge, Mass., 1647; John, of Braintree, Mass., 1686, m. a dau'r of James Leonard. "The name of Crane often appears among the records of meetings held in England, before 1630, as one of the governors and company of the New England Colony, to be planted in Mass. Bay."
Sir Robert Crane, of Coxhall, Essex County, England, m. Mary, dau'r of Samuel Sparhawk, of Dedham, Essex, before 1630, and had issue :
1. Samuel.
2. Thomas.
3. Mary.
.1. Margaret.
2. Thomas, m. Elizabeth Marpaut, and lived in Kilverton, Essex County, England, and had Thomas and John.
3. Mary, m. Henry Whiting, Portman, at Ipswich, England.
4. Margaret, m. Rev. Nathaniel Rogers, of Ipswich, England,
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Rector of Assington, afterward emigrated to New England, and set- tled at Ipswich, Mass., and had children, viz. :
1. John, b. in England, June 11, 1630 ; and became a noted minister and the 5th President of Harvard College.
2. Nathaniel.
3. Samuel.
4. Timothy.
5. Mary.
Ralph Crane was with Sir Francis Drake, 1577, when he visited North America.
Robert Crane, one of the original Massachusett's Company. Dan- iel Crane taken prisoner in the expedition against Quebec, and enlisted in the king's service. (His. Rec.)
Jonathan, of Windham, deeded land to his son Isaac Crane, of Windham, 1721 ; the above Jonathan, m. Mary Hibard, July 31, 1705 ; and had issue, Sarah, b. 1707; Mary, b. 1709 ; Anna, b. 1711; Zebulon, b. 1713; Jonathan, Jr., b. July 6, 1715. He also had Ist Hannah, b. 1692, 2d Isaac, b. 1694; Joseph, b. 1696 ; Elizabeth and Deborah, b. 1698, both d. 1698; Abigail, b. 1700 ; these were by his first wife Deborah, who d. about 1704.
JOHN CRANE, of Windham, m. Sarah Spencer, Sept. 16, 1708, and had issuc, John, b. 1709; Abia, 1710; Eunice, 1712; Sarah, wife of John, d. Sept. 15, 1715.
HUMPHREY CRANE, of Hampton, Conn., admitted to the church there, April 17, 1728, and Hulday, admitted 1739. Hum- phrey, Jr., son of Humphrey and Hannah, bap. March 23, 1735 ; Hannah, bap. 1733 ; Dinah, his dau'r, bap. 1738, and dau'r Sarah, April, 1740, at Hampton.
CRANE, ISAAC, son of Jonathan, of Windham, m. Ruth Waldo, July 12, 1716, and had issue, Ruth, b. 1718; Aorce, b. 1720; Anna, b. 1724; Isaac, b. 1726 ; Deborah, b. 1729. This name is spelled on the Windham record, Crane and Crain.
CRANE, ABIA, of Tolland, m. Mary Fyler, 1741-2, and had issue, Joshua, Isaac, Mary, Abia, Eleazer, Joseph, Eunice and John b. 1766.
CRANE, HENRY, assessed at Guilford, in 1642, or 50, at £30, was early at Wethersfield, and held land there. In Aug. 17, 1658, he signed a petition with Benjamin Crane, of Wethersfield, the same year, for the dismission of Rev. Mr. Russell ; he probably soon after left Wethersfield, for we find Henry Crane, at Guilford, in 1642, or 50, where he was in the list of freemen in 1669, a representative to the General Court, from Kennelworth, in May, 1675. Henry
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Crane is next chosen Lieutenant of Killingworth train-band, in 1676 ; the time he went to Killingworth, is uncertain as we find the name at Killingworth in the first land division, (Henry Cranne, No. 21,) which from the dates appears as early as 1663-4, entered as one of the planters of Kenilworth. (See note, p. 550.) Ile was a Justice of Peace at Killingworth, and deacon at Durham. His children born or recorded at Killingworth, were Mary, b. Aug. 23, 1670; Phebe, b. 1672; Theophilus, b. Jan. 5, 1671; Abigail, b. 1676 ; Henry, b. Oct. 25, 1677; Mercy, b. 1680, and Nathaniel, b. Aug. 7, 1682. Henry Crane, of Killingworth, purchased all the land of Mathew Bellamy, then late deceased, of Killingworth, of his son Mathew Bellamy, of Wallingford, Feb. 25, 1698-9. He represented the town at the General Court, in 1675-6-7. The plantation of Cawginchaug, or Durham, settled in 1698-9, and was incorporated in 1708: at this time, Henry Crane, of Killingworth, had removed to Durham, (or his son Henry,) where he was a justice, or commis. sioner and deacon of the church and d. (Dr. Field says) April 11, 1741, aged 64 years. This deacon Henry, was probably the son of Henry, of Killingworth, who was b. Oct. 25, 1677, at Killingworth. The name is yet found at the last named place. Mr. Henry Crane was one of the assistants in the upper house of the General Court, Oct. 12, 1665 and in May 1666. Henry Crane, deputy to General Court, May, 1675. Lieut. Henry Crane, deputy of Kenilworth, May 11, 1676. Lieut. Henry Crane, deputy for Kenilworth, with Mr. Edward Griswold, May 10, 1677, &c. There was a Henry Crane, of Dorchester, Mass., in 1658, perhaps the same who was at Wethersfield, Guilford and Killingworth.
CRANE, has 7 coats of arms. There was a Crane family at Mansfield early.
Benjamin Crane drew 76 aeres in a land division at Wethersfield, in 1670. Benjamin Crane owned land at Wethersfield, in 1659; freeman, May 20, 1658. Crane, Elijah, of Fairfield village, had a decd of 18 acres of land at " Toylsome," in Stratford, of Samuel Sherman, of Fairfield village, dated June 1, 1699. This has been a highly respectable name in New Jersey, since the days of Hon. Jasper Crane. Four of this name graduated at Brown University, before 1829 ; 8 at Amherst College, before 1855; 2 at Williams College, before 1835; 8 at Yale College, before 1851 ; 5 at Har- vard, before 1848, and 4 at Dartmouth, before 1850.
CRANNY, THOMAS, and his wife Abigail, were members of the
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first church at Unity, 1730, (North Stratford.) Perhaps Crany, spelled Cranny on the record.
CRAMPTON, JOHN, was an early settler at Norwalk, the ex- act time not known, or where he was from to Norwalk. He is found in Hall's table of those who had home lots there, " because he was a souldier in the late Indian war," in 1679, 3 acres. At a later period was granted him by Norwalk, two roods of land more or less ; also granted by the town for his service as a soldier "in the late Indian warr," 8 acres, 4 roods of land, near Webb's meadow in Norwalk. His estate of commonage of Norwalk which was ac- cepted by the town, Jan. 3, 1687, was £53, 6s., Sd. He was voted by the town of Norwalk £2, 10s. for the year ensuing, to beat the drum on all public occasions, and sweeping the meeting-house, and to keep it neat and clean. The townsmen to furnish so much flax for cords for the town's drum as should be needed, at the expense of the town, 1697. This was before a bell was procured to call the people to church, town-meeting, &c., at Norwalk. He was at Norwalk between 1650-60. He married Sarah Rockwell, of Stam- ford, dau'r of John, Oct. 8, 1676 ; children,
1. Sarah, b. Sept. 10, 1679.
2. Abigail, b. Ang. 9, 1681.
3. John, b. Jan. 7, 1682-3; perhaps others. (See Hall's Norwalk, pages 1S, 26, 61, 65, 83, and Town Reeord.) He drew No. 14 in the division of land " over Norwalk River."
CRAMPTON, MILES, d. at Farmington, 1831, aged 85. He had children, Adna, b. Jan. 27, 1774 ; Stephen, b. May 14, 1776, &c.
CROMPTON, or CRAMPTON, HENERIE, took the oath of fidelity, with Richard Hubbard, Nathaniel Whitfield, William How- ard, and others, at Guilford. Crampton has two coats of arms. (Ireland.)
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