Genealogical and family history of the state of Connecticut, a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation, Volume IV, Part 36

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Clement, E. H. (Edward Henry), 1843- joint ed. cn; Hart, Samuel, 1845-1917, joint ed; Talcott, Mary Kingsbury, 1847-1917, joint ed; Bostwick, Frederick, 1852- , joint ed; Stearns, Ezra Scollay, 1838-1915, joint ed
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 1178

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On February 11, 1885, Mr. Buikeley mar- ried Fannie Briggs, daughter of James and Caroline A. Houghton, of San Francisco. Cal- ifornia. The children born of this marriage are: Morgan Gardner Ir .. born December 25. 1885: Elinor Houghton, April 7, 1893: Houghton, August 9, 1896.

CRANDALL Rev. John Crandall, immi- grant ancestor, was of Providence, Rhode Island, as early as 1637. He was early associated with the Baptists. and being persecuted for his religious opinions, fled from Massachu- setts to the above-mentioned place. How long he remained at Providence is unknown, but he was a resident of Newport in 1651. and was there a prominent member of the Baptist church, and subsequently became the first eller of that denomination at We-teriv. Rhode Island. July 21. 1651. he with John Clarke and Obadiah Holmes, being the rep- resentatives of that church, journeyed to Lyon, for the purpose of holding services there, and were arrested and sent to pri-on in Boston. July 31, he was sentenced to pay a

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fine of five pounds, or be publicly whipped. On his promise to appear at the next court. however, he was released. In 1055 he was freeman. He was commissioner in 1058-59- 62-03. With eight others, he signed a let- ter to the court of commissioners of Rhode Island. August 27, 1661, in relation to a tract of land at Westerly, where they and others desired to settle. He was deputy in 1667, and in the fall of that same year was at Westerly. His name was on the list of inhabitants of that town. May 14, 1660. Ile and Joseph Torrey were appointed commissioners to treat with Connecticut, relative to jurisdiction of lands, May 14. 1660, and he was supplied with thirty-five shillings by the colony of Rhode Island to pay his way to Connecticut. He received a letter from the governor and assistants of Connecticut, November 18, 1669. in which the latter persons complained that he and others had appropriated a large parcel of Stonington township, and sought satisfac- tion. He and Tobias Saunders answered on behalf of Westerly, and denied any guilt in the matter complained of. He was conserva- tor of the peace at Westerly, in 1670. and deputy from that town, 1670-71. He was ap- prehended and held by the colony of Con- necticut. May 2. 1671. and desired the advice of the governor of Rhode Island. whether to give bond, or abide imprisonment. The assembly advised him to give no bond and promised to bear his charges and en- deavor to justify his acts. His first wife, name unknown, died August 1. 1670, and he married ( second ) Hannah, probably the daughter of William and Ann ( Porter ) Gaylord, of Windsor, Connecticut. She sur- vived him, and died in 1678. He died at Newport, where he had removed on account of the Indian war. in 1676. Children: John. married, June 18. 1672. Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Gorton : James, took the oath of allegiance. September 17, 1670; Jane, died 1715. married Job Babcock : Sarah, married Josiah Witter: Peter, married Mary -- , died 1734: Joseph, mentioned below : Samuel, born 1663: Jeremiah. died 1718; Eher, born 1676.

(II) Rev. Joseph Crandall. son of Rer. John Crandall, lived in Newport, Westerly. and Kingstown, Rhode Island. He married Deborah, daughter of Robert and Ruth ( Hubbard) Burdick. She was baptized April 11, 1685. He was chosen town councilman of Westerly. April 20, 1704. but declined to serve. In 1712 he removed to Kingstown. He deeded one hundred acres of land in Westerly to his son John. He was called to the pastorate of the Seventh Day Baptist

Church at Newport, May 8, 1715, and was a colleague there with William Gibson until the latter's death in 1717. He died Septem- ber 12, 1737. Children: 1. Joseph, married at Westerly, February 15, 1715-16. to Ann Longworthy and had eight children at Westerly (could not have had Colonel John who was born before 1705 and no John is recorded among the children). 2. Mary, married Nathaniel Wells. 3. Deborah, mar- ried, at Westerly. April 25. 1729, Joseph Clark. 4. Tacy or Lucy, married, March 3, 1717. John Lewis, son of James Lewis. 5. Jane, married, at Westerly, Janary 29. 1718- 19. Cyrus Richmond. 6. Eber ( see records of Westerly and mss. additions in R. I. Gen. Dict. New England Hist. Gen. Library. Bos- ton, and note to Crandall Genealogy ( 1888) in same library). (See Beers Rhode Island work p. 1812.) in which the list is the same except Lydia is given instead of Eber. 7. John, mentioned below.

(III) John (2), son of Rev. Joseph Cran- dall, was born about 1700. His brothers and sisters were married between 1715 and 1730. At Westerly there are records of marriage of John and Mary Crandall, November 19, 1730: John Crandall and Elizabeth Lewis, June 28, 1738: John Crandall and Esther Lewis. April 19, 1740. These may be three marriages of the same man. in spite of the fact that the town records give all the chil- dren under the names of John and Esther, because. if the date of marriage is given cor- rectly that record must be wrong. It should be noticed that the children's record was evi- dently made after 1742 for the youngest is entered first and the order of birth reversed. therefore the date of marriage is more likely correctly given. It sometimes happens in the records that births recorded in this way are given under the step-mother's name. The days of the month- are missing in the birth records and even the years of birth are open to suspicion as given from memory. Lewis, son of Colonel John, was named evidently for his mother. either Elizabeth or Esther Lewis, but the date of Elizabeth's marriage is but two years carlier. In the will of James Lewis. father of Flizabeth, dated May 6. 1740, he mentions Elizabeth Crandall. But at that time Esther was the wife of Cran- dall. if the date of marriage is correct. Then again, the marriage of John Crandall and Mary Crandall was after the date of birth of Hannab in June. 1730. There was at least one other John Crandall in Westerly at this time, for there is a record of birth of Mar- tha. December 18. 1735. at Hopkinton, on the Westerly books. Benajah Crandall. son of

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this John, "late of Hopkinton". married, March 18, 1754. at Westerly. Eber Cran- dall, son of John Crandall Jr .. married. at Westerly, February 22. 1753, Elizabeth Cran- dall, daughter of Eber. It should be stated that the name Tacy ( misread for Lucy ) be- longed in the Burdick family and came into Colonel John's family through his mother. Ruth Hubbard, wife of the pioneer, Robert Burdick, was a daughter of Samuel and Tacy (Cooper) Hubbard. Deborah Burdick had a sister Tacy and both Tacy and her brother Samuel had daughters named Tacy.

Robert Burdick made an agreement. March 8, 1692, with his son-in-law. Joseph Cran- dall, by which the latter was to take care of his father-in-law and find him with suitable meat, drink, washing, lodging. apparel. etc .. for life, in consideration of which Joseph Crandall was "to have the dwelling house and land adjoining, forever, and until Robert Bur- dick's death, to have also the use of oxen, cart. two cows, eight swine, and then to be re- turned to be di-posel of by will, except the cart and wheels." This deed explains why John and his brothers and sisters are found at Westerly. Burdick died soon after in the same year.

The most satisfactory supposition as to the solution of the difficulty caused by the obvious errors in the records either in the dates of marriage or births of children, is, assuming that the birth record is substantially correct anl that Esther was mother as stated, that the date of marriage should be before 1730 and the error due to misreading manuscript instead of in the record itself. Then Mary Crandall and Elizabeth Lewis would belong to some other Tohn Crandall, whose children are not recorded at . Westerly. Children. as recorded at Westerly as chil.Iren of "John and Esther": Hannah. June. 1730: John. January. 1732: Mercy. February, 1,34: Lew- is. August, 1738; Ann. August. 1,40: Esther, February. 1742.

(IV) Lewis, son of Colonel John (2) Cran- dall, was born in Westerly, Rhode Island. August. 1,38, died in the same place. He married Bethia Main, of Stonington. Con- neeticut. Children: Lewis, born October 24. 1769: Rhoda. September 1. 1771 : John Brad- ley, January 23. 1773: Russell Smith. Feb- ruaty 15, 1775: Dudley. April 11. 1776: Charlotte, March 19, 1773; Joshua. August 8. 1781.

(V) Lewis (2), son of Lewis (I) Cran- dall, was born in Westerly. Rhode Island. October 24. 1769. died in New London. He was a carpenter by trade, well-known and highly-respected as a citizen. We married.

February 20, 1805. Bathsheba, daughter of Enoch and Mercy ( Pendleton ) Crandall, and granddaughter of James and Damarius ( Ken- yon ) Crandall. Children of Lewis and Bath- sheba Crandall: 1. Lorenzo, born November 2, 1805, married Emily Stebbins. 2. Joshua, January 14, 1807, married Emily Tinker. 3. Lewis, see forward. 4. Fanny, December 18, 1810, died in 1881, unmarried. 5. Mercy, June 1. 1813, married Jedediah Baker. 6. Washington, October 24, 1815, married (first) Jane Blake, (second ) Eliza, sister of Jane, and daughters of Elder Blake, for many years a famous Methodist minister in New London ; ( third ) Elizabeth Clark; (fourth ) Mary Benjamin. 7. Enoch. 8. Mary Ann, May 23. 1821, in New London, married Captain Samuel Greene, of New London.

(VI) Lewis (3). son of Lewis (2) Cran- dall. was born in New London, January 12, 1800, died in the same city. January 26, 1896. His father was a carpenter, in which occu- pation young Lewis took great delight and interest, and mastered it in every detail when a mere lad. At that time there were only three boss carpenters in town, and Crandalls were easily the chief. Their lumber yard was the source of supply to all in the business save those on a larger scale, and Lewis Cran- dall sent for all that was used in his own work and for retail. He entered with a great amount of energy into the work on his own account at twenty-five years of age. andl put considerable skill and taste into everything that he did. and possessed the rare faculty of having all his business relations character- ized with such pleasant feelings on both sides that his customers invariably became his friends. It would be difficult to enumerate all the work of importance that he did, and tell the vast, for those days, contracts that he un- dertook and carried through. sometimes with loss to himself. The period of the growth of New London between 1850 and 188o was that of his largest undertakings. He built Lawrence Ilall, the City Hall, residence of J. N. Harris, residence of Adam Prentis, and many of the other large houses of the town, besides hundreds of houses for men of mod- erate means. He employed a force of forty men in those days. He was also the actual builder of the Pequot Colony. putting the large addition to the Pequot House. building the Hall. Learned, Appleton, and dozens of other cottages, in fact all those surrounding the hotel. He served in the common coun- cil during the mayorship of J. N. Harris, was on the committee for the Hill street school in 1858, and was instrumental in bringing New- ton Fuller to New London. Ile was a sin-

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cere, unassuming Christian, attending the sec- ond Congregational Church, and his creed was very simple-Do right-and he lived up to it. He married, September 30. 1835. Charlotte Crandall, who was noted for wonderful beau- ty, and who bore him eight children: Jennie E., widow of William Bush: Mary, died young ; James Madison, died young; James Greene, died young : Herbert Lewis, see for- ward; Noves Billings: Annie, wife of E. D. Barker ; Fitch D.

(VHI) Herbert Lewis, son of Lewis (3) Crandall, was born in New London, January 3, 1844. He was educated in the common schools of his native town and attended same until he was sixteen years of age. when he entered the counting room of Williams & Ha- ven, then a famous whaling house of New London. From 1861 to 1895 he was connect- ed with that house. through the various changes in the firm from the original name to Williams, Haven & Company : Haven, Wil- liams & Company, and C. A. Williams & Company. Mr. Crandall's long service with this well-known concern is the best evidence of his trustworthiness and close application to duty. When the firm dissolved in 1895, he remained until the very last vessel was sold. the schooner "Era", one of the many which the company fitted out for long whaling and sealing voyages to all parts of the globe. After severing his connections with C. A. Williams & Company, Mr. Crandall was elect- ed vice-president of the New London City National Bank, a position he has since held, while from IS;5 he was a director in the in- stitution. He was one of the incorporators of the Fisher's Island Brick Company. was made a director of it, and was elected secre- tary, an office which he still fills. Ile is also secretary and treasurer of the New London Cemetery Association, successor of the late Richard H. Chapell. In his political affiliations a Republican, Mr. Crandall's activity in mu- nicipal affairs has always been entirely disin- terested. as he has sought no official position, and has served only on the board of educa- tion, where his work during the six years from 1881 to 1800 was most valuable. MIr. Crandall is a member of the Thames Club of New London, while in virtue of his descent from John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley, he holds membership in the Mayflower Society. of Connecticut. He is a member of the Sec- ond Congregational Church, of which he has been trustee for a number of years, besides serving on the society's committee.

Mr. Crandall married. October 23. 1870. Alice, daughter of the late Captain Samuel Greene, one of the best-known whaling cap-

tains of New London, and his wife, Mary Ann (Crandall) Greene, and a descendant of Governor William Bradford, of Massa- chusetts. One child, Herbert Lewis Ir., born July 2, 1885, in New London, died three days later. Mrs. Crandall is a member of Lucretia Shaw Chapter, No. 94. Daughters of the American Revolution, of New London, in which she has twice held the office of vice- regent, is also a member of the Mayflower So- ciety, the Founders and Patriots Society, of Connecticut, the Colonial Governors and the Mary Washington Monument Association. Her interest in philanthropic endeavors is indicated by her connection with the Ladies Scamen's Friends Society, of New London, of which she is treasurer, and is also presi- dent of the Society of the United Workers. Mr. and Mrs. Crandall have traveled exten- sively both in Europe and their own country.

FONES Hon. Civilian Fones, of the city of Bridgeport, i- a descendant of two French Huguenot families. His paternal great-grandfather was an exile to England during the reign of Louis XIV, and afterward became an officer in the Eng- lish navy. and when retired was given a tract of land embracing 1.500 acres in the state of Rhode Island, where the town of Wickford now stands, and on which he located. His son Daniel, the grandfather, and Christopher (the father of Civilian). were born on the ancestral acres, and the latter married Sarah A. Marigold. of South Carolinian lineage. also a descendant of French Huguenots. The son, Civilian, came to Bridgeport from New York City in 1858, where he has since re- sided. He is a graduate of the Baltimore College of Dental Surgeons, and has been en- gaged in the practice of his profession, on the corner of Main and Bank streets. for about thirty-three years, and the appreciation of his professional brethren has heen ex- pressed by electing him president of the Con- necticut Valley Dental Association, also pre-i- dent of the Connecticut State Dental Society. and in 1893 he was appointed by Gov. Mor- ris one of the five State Dental Commission- ers, and upon the organization of the com- mission was elected president. which office he still holds. Governor Coffin also re-appoint- ed him in 1805.

He has been identified with the Republican party since its organization, but never held political office until the year 1881. when he was elected to represent his ward as council- man. The following year he was elected al- derman, and at the April election in 1886. was elected mayor of the city, overcoming an op-

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position party majority by about 1,000, and was re-elected in the spring of 1887 by an in- creased majority, receiving an unusual politi- cal support from both parties. During both terms of his office every effort was made for the improvement of the city. In his message of 1886 he made mention of the necessity of taking urgent means to procure a new post office building, and the council passed a reso- lution for him to take such steps as were nec- essary to have a bill passed granting the erec- tion of said building. Whereupon he, in com- pany with several prominent citizens, visited Washington, and while there a bill passed the house appropriating the money to the city of Bridgeport for the new government building which now stands at the corner of Broad and Cannon streets, the site of the old St. John's Church. There were improvements made, such as the removal of railroad tracks from Water street. the removal of the old Miller building, and erection of the lower bridge, also locating and plaeing of numerous gates and crossings. One of the marked benefits was the improvement of the streets and roads about the city. The Park Cottage was also built during his last term of office, and many other improvements made of minor impor- tance. Both ternis were most harmonious in every respect, as there was not a hitch in either party during his administration.

A singular coincidence is the fact that he was born in the same year that the city, of which he was twice elected mavor, was incor- porated. He is a member of several clubs in the city and state, and was president of the Seaside Club in 1892. He has taken several degrees in Odd Fellowship and is a thirty- second degree Scottish Rite Mason.

The surname Fones or Fownes belongs to an old English family, the lineage of which is given below.

(I) William Tones lived at Saxbie, Devon- shire, England, in the early part of the fif- teenth century, and married a daughter of Sir Robert Hyelston. (II) George Fones. Esq., son of William Fones, also of Saxbie. married a daughter of Malbranch, of Malpas. ( III) William, son of George Fones, was of Saxbie : married Telham, of Telham. (IV) Jolin, son of William Fones, was of Saxbie : married Bradley, of Bedham. (V) John, son of John Fones, was of Sax- bie : married Lawell. of Lawell. (VI) John, son of Jolin Fones, lived at Dedford. in Bransgrove, Wighorn. (VII) Thomas, sec- ond son of John Fones, lived at Dedford, Worcestershire.

(VIII) Thomas Fones, son of Thomas Fones, was an apothecary at the Sign of the

Three Fawns, Old Bayley, London. He died April 15, 1629; his will was dated April 14, 1629. and proved April 29, 1629. ("Waters' Gleanings," p. 1184; Glenn's "Colonial Fami- lies," p. 116). He committed the tuition of son Samuel during minority to his uncle John Winthrop, of Groton, county Suffolk, and two others ; also his daughters Elizabeth and Mar- tha "uinto my said loving brother John Wyn- thropp until they shall be married or attain their full age of one and twenty years." The tuition of the youngest daughter Mary was committed to her mother, Priscilla. (Gover- nor) John Winthrop and the widow were executors. He married ( first ) February 25, 1604. Anne Winthrop, born January 16, 1585; (second ) Priscilla, widow of Bezaleel Sher- man, daughter of John Burgess. His widow married Rev. Henry Painter. Elizabeth Fones, daughter of Thomas, married Robert Feake. of Watertown, Massachusetts.

John Fones or Foynes, of this family, a merchant at Bristol. by will March 28, 1609, proved October 23. 1009, gave to his wife Anne lands in county Monmouth, called Mon- joy, house at Newport, etc., all to go to his son John after her death: son John, then a minor, Mary Hester and Sarah Fones were the legatees ; also brothers Thomas and James and other kinsmen and friends. Ilis widow Anne, of Bristol, in will of February 11, 1929, proved November 10, 1630, mentions son- in-law William Claxton, grandchildren Abei and Mathew Rogers. Andrew and Sarah bar- ker, Anne and William Fownes, and grand- son John Fownes; also her kinsman, Mr. Roger Williams, of Newport, and three daughters: also William Evans, William Jones, Catherine Watkins, Elizabeth Stee- vens. Mary Louge. John Tomlinson and Rich- ard Long, all relatives.

(I) Captain John Fones, the American im- migrant, is believed to be son of Jolm and Anne Fones, mentioned above, grandson of Anne Fones, mentioned in her will in 1620. There can be no doubt that he was of the family mentioned above. From him is de- seended all the families of this name of any considerable residence in this country. 1le settled in Newport, Rhode Island. before 1650. and afterwards lived at Jamestown and Kingstown. Rhode Island. He died Decem- ber 20. 1,03. Ilis wife Margaret died in 1700. Ile sold 3-909til, of Conanicut Island, June 10. 1650, to Richard Tew, for a good ewe and six ewe lambs or a mare colt. He was called servant of William Coddington. Ile and five others bought of Awashuwett, chici sachem of Orohesett, in Narragansett, a tract of land deeded January 1, 16;2. Captain

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Fones was a member of a court-martial at Newport for trial of Indians charged with being engaged in King Philip's designs Au- gust 24, 1676. It was voted that certain ones were gulity and they were sentenced to be shot. He was deputy to the general assem- bly 1679-80-81 ; conservator of the peace at Kingstown, 1682-83. The Rhode Island as- sembly met at his house August 22, 1683. and there received a reply to a letter sent by them to Governor Cranfield. of New Hampshire, who with others sat at Richard Smith's house at Narragansett. The assembly prohibited Cranfield and his associates from holding court in this jurisdiction. He was appointed by the president and council of New Eng- land, justice of the peace, May 28. 1686, and in the same year was clerk of the court of commissioners, in following year was one of the justices of the inferior court of common pleas. He was one of three to contract for the building of court houses at Newport and Kingstown. He was both deputy and as- sistant in 1698: It appears that his wife was a Quaker, for she gave twelve shillings to- wards building the Quaker meeting house at Mashapang. His will proved in 1703 desired his body to be buried where his two deceased sons were laid : bequeathed to wife, sons folin, Jeremiah. Samuel : grandson Fones Greene. Shortly after his death. his sons John, Jere- miah and Samuel. ratified land to sister Greene of Warwick and other provisions of the will. Children: John, born September. 1663, died February 17, 1738, married Lydia Smith : Jeremiah, mentioned below : Samuel. born 1666. lived at North Kingston, married Anne Tobbetts : Mary, married, January 20, 1689. James Greene : James, died young : Dan- iel, died young.

(II) Jeremiah, son of Captain.Jolin Fones. was born in 1665. and died in 1747. He lived at Kingstown, Jamestown anl North Kings- town, Rhode Island. He married (first) Elizabeth May 30. 1694. She died March 2, 1709, and he married ( second) No- vember 9, 1710. Martha Chard. who died in 1747. He was a freeman of Jamestown in 1703, constable in 1705. His will, dated De- cember 2. 1727. proved July 13. 1747. his wid- ow Alarthia executrix, begeathing to son Jo- seph the homestead, to son John five pounds, grandson John Davis some silverware, to son Daniel certain lands, and to two other sons, Samuel and Thomas, certain other lands. An- other son and a granddaughter are legatees, but the names are destroyed in the will. As none of his brothers leit male issue. all the Fones descendants are through Jeremiah. Children : James, born June. 1695 : Jeremiah,

August, 1697; Joseph, May 11, 1699: daugh- ter, May 22, 1701 ; Margaret, March 9. 1703; John. Children of second wife: Mary, Sep- tember 20, 1711; Daniel, mentioned below ; Samuel, March 10, 1715; daughter, Febru- ary 23. 1719; Thomas.

(III) Captain Daniel Fones, son of Jere- miah Fones, was born at Jamestown. or North Kingstown, March 9, 1713. He lived at North Kingstown. He was a prominent sea captain and naval officer. The Rhode Island records show that he commanded the colonial sloop "Tartar" as early as February 17. 1746 (Civil and Military Lists. Rhode Island. p. 100). The sloop mounted fourteen guns and twelve swivels, and had a crew of ninety men. in 1744, under Captain Fones. He took part with his vessel in the expedition to Canada, sailing from Kingstown in May. 1747 ( Civil and Military Lists, Rhode Island. D. 122). The record book containing the dates of birth of his children is mutilated and the years. are missing. Children, born at North Kingston: Mary ;

Martha, January II. : Elizabeth. Oc-

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