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Only the first name, Alice, of the wife of Jasper Crane has come down to us. In his will he names his children, John, Azariah, Jas- per, and Hannah Huntington, and his grand- daughter, Hannah Huntington. Consequently it is highly probable that he survived her. A special legacy in the will provides that John is to have his "silver bole." The children of Jasper and Alice Crane were :
I. John, born about 1635, died in 1694; came to Newark from Branford with his father, and married twice, (first) Elizabeth, sister of Nathaniel Foote, of Wethersfield, who bore him four children: John, 1671, died February 22, 1739, married and had children ; Jasper, 3d, 1679, died 1749 or 1769, married Ann and had children; Daniel, 1684, died September 8, 1747, married Phebe, daugh- ter of Nathaniel, and granddaughter of Ser- geant John Ward; and Sarah. By his second wife, Hannah, John Crane may have had other children not of record.
2. Hannah, born about 1639 ; married (first) Thomas, son of Simon and Margaret Hunt- ington, who emigrated to Massachusetts Bay
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in 1633, Simon dying on the voyage over, and his widow afterwards marrying Thomas Stoughton, of Dorchester, and removing with him to Windsor, Connecticut. Thomas Hunt- ington died before 1678 and his widow, Han- nah (Crane) Huntington, married (second) as the second wife, Sergeant John Ward, of Newark.
3. Delivered or Deliverance, born July 12, 1642 ; settled at Newark, and on the map pub- lished in 1806 his house lot appears on High street near the northerly end. He left no chil- dren.
4. Mercy or Mary, baptized March 1, 1645, died October 26, 1671; married, August 22, 1662, Jonathan Bell, of Stamford, Connecticut, and had eleven children.
5. Micah, baptized November 3, 1647, prob- ably died in childhood.
6. Azariah, referred to below.
7. Jasper, Jr., born at East Haven, Connecti- cut, April 2, 1651, died in Newark, March 6, 1712, was buried in the Presbyterian churchyard on Broad street; lived in Cranetown ; married Joanna, daughter of Samuel and Joanna, and granddaughter of William Swaine. Joanna's sister, Elizabeth, as the fiance of Josiah, son of John Ward the turner, was given the privi- lege of being the first to step on shore from the ship which brought the settlers from Branford to Newark, while another sister, Christiana, married Nathaniel, son of Sergeant John Ward. The children of Jasper and Joanna (Swaine) Crane were: i. Joseph, born 1676, died 1726; married Abigail, daughter of Joseph Lyon, and had eight children. ii. Jonathan, 1678, died June 25, 1744; married Sarah, daughter of Major John, and granddaughter of Captain Robert Treat, and had seven chil- dren. iii. Sarah, 1683; married Joseph Wheeler. iv. Elihu, 1689, died April 27, 1732; married Mary Plum, who after his death be- came the wife of the Rev. Jonathan Dicken- son, the first president of the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University. She bore her first husband seven children. v. Hannah, 1690; married as the first wife of Robert, son of Jonathan and Rebecca (Wood) Ogden, and grandson of John and Jane (Bond) Ogden, the emigrants. vi. David, 1693, died May 16, 1750; by his wife Mary had eight children.
(II) Deacon Azariah, sixth child and third son of Jasper and Alice Crane, was born in 1649, in New Haven, died in Newark, No- vember 5, 1730. In the overturn of the gov- ernment by the Dutch in 1673, Deacon Azariah was entrusted with the concerns of his father- i-3
in-law, Captain Robert Treat, who was gov- ernor of the Connecticut colony during the Charter oak episode. He appears to have out- lived all the original settlers, and he left his silver bowl to be "used forever" in the First Presbyterian Church in Newark, where he was deacon from 1690 until his death. The church is still using the bowl to-day for bap- tisms. Although not yet twenty-one years old when he came to Newark, Azariah Crane took his place with the men and shouldered his burdens manfully from the very first. June 24, 1667, he subscribed his name to the funda- mental agreements and in the allotments to the young men May 26, 1673, he drew lot number 21. June 12, 1676, he began his career in public office by being chosen one of the town's men for the ensuing year, and to this position he was five times re-elected, namely, January I, 1677; January 1, 1673; January 1, 1684; January 1, 1685, and January 17, 1694. Janu- ary II, 1681, he started his preparation for his diaconal duties of later life by receiving an appointment to "look to the Young People, that they carry themselves civilly in the Meet- ing House in time of Divine Worship, for half this Year ensuing." In 1684-86-88 he was chosen one of the surveyors and layers out of highways. March 22, 1683, with Joseph Riggs, Edward Ball, and Samuel Harrison, Azariah Crane was chosen "to lay out the Bounds be- tween us and Hockquecanung, (i. e. Passaic), and to make no other agreement with them of any other Bounds than what was formerly." Besides these he was appointed to and held the offices of pounder and poundkeeper in 1678 and 1683; grand juryman in 1679; constable in 1682; overseer of the poor in 1692; and deputy to the provincial assembly in 1694-95.
April 5, 1686, "Azariah Crane, Joseph Wal- ters, Samuel Harrison and Edward Ball are chosen to go to each Person that is possessed of Land, and take an account of them how much each Man hath, and bring an Account to the Town the next Meeting." February 7, 1686, he was appointed one of the committee of thirteen who were to "take Notice of all Lands that Persons have appropriated to them- selves and regulate the same" and to "Order how a fourth Division of Land shall be laid out." April 30, 1688, his name appears as the fifth on a list of the committee "chosen to endeavour a legall Settlement with the Pro- prietors, offering to give a legall Acknowledg- ment for our Lands within our Town Bounds as exprest in our Bill of Sale, and Priviledges suitable for us- the said Committee in their
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Offer, not exceeding the advice of such of their Neighbours as are most capable to give Advice in that Matter." March 25, 1689, Azariah Crane was one of the six men chosen to form with the military authorities of the town a committee to "order all affairs in as prudent a way as they can for the Safety and Preservation of ourselves, Wives, Children and Estates, according to the Capacity we are in." February 5, 1691, with Samuel Harrison, William Camp and Edward Ball, he was chosen "to take care of the Poor and of Rich- ard Hore and to appoint what each Man shall pay for what is behind; and also to appoint what each one shall pay for a quarter-they are also to see to remove him to Samuel Rose, or to some other Place, and agree as reason- ably as they can." August 23, 1692, he was one of the committee chosen to treat with the Rev. John Prudden with regard to his succeed- ing the Rev. Abraham Pierson as the minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Newark ; and later on in the same year he was one of the committee "to treat with the Governor and Proprietors about our Settlements." April 19, 1698, "it is voted that Thomas Hayse, Joseph Harrison, Jasper Crane, and Matthew Can- field, shall view whether Azariah Crane may have Land for a Tan Yard, at the Front of John Plum's home Lott, out of the Common ; and in case the Men above mentioned agree that Azariah Crane shall have the Land, he the said Azariah Crane shall enjoy it, so long as he doth follow the Trade of tanning." Octo- ber I, 1705, the town decided to ask the Rev. Samuel Sherman "to preach the Word amongst for Probation ;" and the following February 19, Deacon Azariah Crane was one of the committee appointed to bear to the worthy dominie the unwelcome news that he would not suit. From this time until 1709, when Mr. Nathaniel Bowers took charge, there was a succession of unsuccessful candidates for the post of minister, but after a year's trial of Mr. Bowers, a committee, one of whom was Deacon Azariah, was appointed to take meas- ures for the ordination of the candidate and a permanent call was given to him, and he served the town until his death in 1716, when Deacon Azariah was appointed on another committee "to se out some Way to procure a Minister for the Town, to supply the Place of Mr Na- thaniel Bowers, dec'd." As stated above in 1683, when he was thirty-four years old, Dea- con Azariah Crane was one of the committee settling the line between the town of Newark
and Passaic, and so very fittingly he closed his long career of public civil usefulness at the advanced age of seventy years by being the first and chief witness present at the formal renewal of the line, April 6, 1719, exactly thirty-six years and fifteen days from the time he was appointed to make the first survey, he being the only one of the original surveyors of the line not gone to his reward.
As early as 1715 Deacon Azariah Crane was living on his home place at the Mountain, and it is almost certain that he located there many years prior to that date, since by warrant, April 24, 1694, there was laid out by John Gardner "a tract at the foot of the mountain, having Azariah Crane on the northeast and Jasper Crane on the southwest. August 26, 1675, the day after he had received the patent for it, Jasper Crane, Sr., and his "wife Alice," deeded to their sons Azariah and Jasper all the lands described in the previous sketch. About seven years later, Azariah, June II, and Sep- tember 15, 1682, deeds to his "brother Jasper," a good part of his share, the second of them including the "lower part of their father's, Jasper Crane's, homestead, orchard, and other small parcels." While about a month later, October 3, 1682, "Robert Treat senior of Mill- foord, Connt," deeds to his "son-in-law Aza- riah Crane and daughter Mary Crane, of New- ark" his home lot of eight acres in that place. And finally January 27, 1695, there is patented to Azariah Crane, of Newark, the following tracts, namely, "I, a lot at the mountain, south- . west John Gardner, northwest the mountain, northeast Edward Baall and a road, southeast unsurveyed ; 2. a lot called the Burnt Swamp ; 3. a piece of meadow, east the Bay, south John Gardner, west Samuel Waard, north Jasper Craine; in all one hundred acres." June 9, 1679, there was issued to him also one hun- dred and thirty-six acres in nine parcels, the sixth of which was "fifty acres on branches of the Elizabeth River." While as we have seen, in 1698 the town voted him a site for a tannery in the town of Newark itself.
There seems, however, to have been some hitch in the arrangements for this tannery which would have been situated at what is now the juncture of Market street and Spring- field avenue, in front of where the present court house now stands, and it is somewhat curious that the low grounds on the east, through which Market street is laid became and are now to some extent the centre of Newark's leather manufactures. Consequently
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although not permanently identified with the industry Deacon Azariah has the honor of being the first in the field.
Shortly after his unsuccessful tannery ven- ture, Azariah Crane moved to his place on the mountain, and formed the settlement long known as Cranetown and now as Montclair. The four years succeeding the death of the Rev. Nathaniel Bowers were distinguished by differences of opinion on church order. The people of Newark were substantially a unit in favor of Presbytery, while the dwellers on the mountain were equally united in favor of the old Congregational basis. During the last months of 1716 and the early months of 1717 the Rev. Jedediah Buckingham had served both communities, having as his suc- cessor in Newark says, "zealous friends and more zealous opponents," among the foremost of the latter being Deacon Azariah. Conse- quently Mr. Buckingham withdrew and the people on the mountain formed a new society and took organic form in 1718. January 13, 1719, the society, henceforth known to history as the Mountain Society, purchased from Thomas Gardner twenty acres of land for a glebe; and according to tradition, in the same year another plot of ground was given to it for a burial place. In the next year, 1720, a lot for a meeting house was selected and the building erected, and by the close of the year the first pastor had been installed. In all this Azariah Crane had taken a prominent part, and four ten years was himself a deacon of the society, while his sons, and grandsons, Na- thaniel and Azariah, and Noah and William, also in their turn taking leading positions in the church and aiding materially with funds in the building of the church and parsonage edifices.
Deacon Azariah Crane married Mary, daughter of Captain Robert Treat, the Mil- ford-Branford settler of Newark, and after- wards the governor of Connecticut. She was born in 1649, died November 12, 1704. Their children were: I. Hannah, married John Plum, of Milford, Connecticut. 2. Nathaniel, referred to below. 3. Azariah, born 1682; set- tled at West Bloomfield, near his brother Na- thaniel, was a subscriber to the fund for erect- ing the parsonage and meeting house at Mont- clair, was chosen one of the pounders, Novem- ber 2, 1703, and by his wife Rebecca had eight children. 4. Robert, born 1684, died July 14, 1755 ; he is said to have lived in a stone house in Newark. In 1718 he was pounder, in 1736-37 surveyor of highways,
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and in 1740 one of the fence viewers. By his wife Phebe he had seven children. 5. Jane, born 1686, died September 12, 1755; became the first wife of John Richards, of Newark, to whom she bore three children. 6. Mary, born 1693; married a Baldwin. 7. John, born 1695, died September 5, 1776; lived on the east side of Broad street, Newark, on a part of the home lot inherited by his mother from her father, Robert Treat, was a very active and influential man in the town; by his first wife, Abigail, had eight children, and by his second, Rebecca, two more. 8. and 9. Kichard and Jasper, died in infancy.
(III) Major Nathaniel, second child and eldest son of Deacon Azariah and Mary (Treat) Crane, was born about 1680, probably in Newark, and died in 1760, leaving a will in which he names his children. He settled near a spring at West Bloomfield, now Montclair, on the place which as late as 1851 was occu- pied by Cyrus Pierson, the spring itself being located near the railroad depot in Montclair. Both he and his brother Azariah were large land owners ; their lands being bounded on the south by the Swinefield road, on the east by the Cranetown road, now Park street, on the west by Wigwam brook, which was the divi- sion line between the Crane lands and those of the Harrisons and Williams, and on the north by Antony's brook at Montclair, which is the northern tributary of the Second river. They also held land on the south side of the North- field road to the summit of the mountain. This last afterwards came into the possession of Simeon Harrison, being conveyed to him by the executors of Caleb, son of Noah and grandson of Major Nathaniel Crane. There is a tradition that when the lords proprietors claimed the payments of the quitrents for the lands taken by Azariah and Nathaniel Crane these brothers brought in a bill of equal amount for their services as surveyors in the employ of the proprietors as an offset. The bill, how- ever. was not accepted, and the controversy was finally settled by the supreme court in the favor of the surveyors. It is also a matter of record that Nathaniel Crane paid Samuel Har- rison for his services in defending his right to the lands on which he had settled against the claims of the proprietors the sum of one pound ten shillings. This entry which is taken from an old account book of Mr. Harrison was made in 1744. Nathaniel Crane was also a strong supporter of the Mountain Society which after- wards became the "Second Church of New- ark," and is now known as the "First Presby-
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terian Church of Orange." In 1749 he was one of the subscribers to the fund for the building of the parsonage for the minister, giving four- teen shillings; and in 1753 he gave an addi- tional subscription of eleven pounds towards the building fund of the second meeting house, three of his sons also subscribing, Nathaniel Jr. three shillings six pence, William eleven pounds, and Noah eight pounds. Other sub- scribing Cranes were Caleb, Job, Gamaliel, Stephen, Jedediah, Lewis, Elihu and Ezekiel, and the sum total of their subscriptions amounted to fifty-six pounds, sixteen shillings, six pence. In 1744 Major Nathaniel Crane was chosen recorder of strays.
The name of Major Nathaniel Crane's wife is unknown, but by her he had six children: I. William ; see sketch elsewhere. 2. Noah, re- ferred to below. 3. Nathaniel, died unmarried. 4. Elizabeth, married a Young. 5. Jane, mar- ried a Smith. 6. Mehitable, married Thomas Richards, who died leaving a will dated 1758, and three children, one of whom, Nathaniel, was a loyalist during the revolution and his estate, valued at four hundred and eighty-two pounds two shillings, was confiscated.
(IV) Noah, second child and son of Major Nathaniel Crane, was born in 1719 at West Bloomfield, died at Cranetown, where he spent his life, June 8, 1800. At the town meeting of Newark, March 12, 1754, he was chosen one of the overseers of the highways, and again re-appointed to the same position by the town meeting March 12, 1765. In 1776 he was one of the officers of the church at Bloomfield. He subscribed ten pounds six shillings for the par- sonage, and eight pounds for the second meet- ing house.
Noah Crane married Mary, youngest daugh- ter of Samuel Baldwin, granddaughter of John Baldwin Sr. and Hannah, daughter of Obadiah Bruen, his first wife, and great-granddaughter of John Baldwin, of Milford. Children: I. Samuel, born October 29, 1747, died February 28, 1811; was a farmer; born in Cranetown and lived in Caldwell, where he died. Decem- ber 3, 1784, his name is on the first list of com- municants of the church organized that year in Caldwell and the same year also he was chosen one of the deacons. He married Mary, daughter of John and Elizabeth Baldwin, and had eight children : Caleb, Zenas, Cyrus, Dor- cas, Cyrus, Elizabeth, Mary and Nathaniel. 2. Esther, married Joseph Baldwin. 3. Joseph, referred to below. 4. Elizabeth, born April II, 1753, died in 1831 ; married John R., son of Ezekiel and Elizabeth (Halloway) Crane,
granddaughter of Azariah and Rebecca Crane, great-granddaughter of Deacon Azariah and Mary (Treat) Crane. They had six children : Mary, Nehemiah, Henry, Sarah, Hetty and Nathaniel. 5. Caleb, died unmarried. 6. Na- thaniel, born in 1758, died in 1833; married Hannah, daughter of William and grand- daughter of Major Nathaniel Crane. They had no children. Nathaniel served in the war of 1812, gave the bulk of his property for the support of the Presbyterian ministry, was in the battle of Long Island, September 15, 1776, was overseer of highways in 1795-96, and on the town committee in 1799 and 1800. 7. Nehemiah, died in infancy. 8. Mehitabel, born 1764, died December 4, 1843 ; married General William Gould, and had eleven children : Mary, Johnson N., Phebe, Betsy, Stephen, Emily, Charlotte, Nathaniel, Harriet, Willia and Stephen. 9. Mary. 10. Nehemiah. II. Stephen, of whom nothing more is known.
(V) Deacon Joseph, third child and second son of Noah and Mary ( Baldwin) Crane, was born in Cranetown, 1751, died in West Bloom- field, where he resided, October II, 1832. He held office in the church from 1794 to 1798, and subscribed sixty pounds in the first men- tioned year towards the building of the meet- ing house. He also served as overseer of the highways in 1806 and in the war of 1812.
Deacon Joseph Crane married, February 15, 1774, Hannah Lampson, a descendant of Eleazer Lampson, who married Abgail, daugh- ter of Lieutenant Samuel Swaine, of Newark, Eleazer being the son of John Lampson, of New Haven, who came to Newark with his mother, Elizabeth Morris, and Abigail Swaine, being the sister of the Joanna Swaine who married Jasper Crane Jr. Children : I. Eleazer, born August 20, 1775, baptized December 21, 1783; died at Montclair, May 23, 1865; un- married ; having been overseer of the highways in 1807-09. 2. Daniel, born April 13, 1778; became a minister. 3. Noah, considered below. 4. Sarah, born February 22, 1781, died April 20, 1835. 5. Nathaniel, born September 14, 1783, died January 3, 1785. 6. Jane, born February 5, 1785, died February 9, 1864 ; mar- ried, October 24, 1806, Amzi L., son of Dea- con Samuel Ball; lived many years in Orange county, New York, where he was sheriff, and subsequently returned to New Jersey, where he died September 26, 1860. 7. Mary, born September 30, 1788, died May 3, 1869; mar- ried Samuel Williams. 8. Rhoda, born De- cember 17. 1790. died February 28, 1841 : mar- ried, in 1810. Peter Doremus. 9. Nathaniel,.
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born March 20, 1794, died January 19, 1861 ; married Rebecca Harrison and had three chil- dren : Morington, Phebe and Irving.
(VI) Noah (2), third child and son of Dea- con Joseph and Hannah (Lampson) Crane, was born in West Bloomfield, August 2, 1779, died September 16, 1851. He was a Presby- terian minister. He was twice married, his first wife being a Grover, and his second Bethia T. Conkling, born January II, 1790, died July 28, 1869. By his first wife he had one child, and by his second seven. They were: I. Mary Ann, born September 26, 1805, died February 6, 1846; married James P. Crane, born in 1804, died in 1886; no children. 2. Lucinda, born July 24, 1811, died January 18, 1883; married, December 7, 1832, Pierson Hurd, and had six children : Imogene, Emma Louise, Stockton, Isabel, Walter and Orlando. 3. Joseph, born May 24, 1813, died December 14, 1884: married, November 5, 1839 Eliza- beth Conkling, who died December 1I, 1884, and had three children: Theron, born Novem- ber 29, 1840, died June 17, 1841 ; Charles Spen- cer, January 21, 1844; married Jenny Cornelia Miller ; Frances Bethiah, September 11, 1851, died December 9, 1855. 4. Henry Conkling, born May 24, 1816; see sketch elsewhere. 5. Samuel Crane, referred to below. 6. Amelia, born December 26, 1821, deceased. 7. Amelia, born June 6, 1824, died July 15, 1824. 8. Sarah Conkling, born April 3, 1828; married, Octo- ber II, 1849, John Robert Aiken, and had two children, Laura A., and Henry Conkling, both of whom died in infancy.
(VII) Samuel, fourth child and thir 1 son of Noah (2) and Bethia T. (Conkling) Crane, was born in Sparta, September 17, 1819, died in Newark, December 22, 1907. For many years he kept a country store in Sparta, and then came to Newark, where he learned sad- dlery. After this he removed to New York, where he engaged in the manufacturing and selling of trunks. For nineteen years he was one of the overseers of the poor for Newark, was an independent Republican, and at one time school commissioner. He was a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, of the New- ark Praying Band, for many years also of the Central Presbyterian Church, and towards the end of his life of the Third Presbyterian Church.
August 1, 1843, Samuel Crane married Naomi, eldest daughter of Jacob and Catha- rine (Drake) Williamson, born January 25, 1825, died January 25, 1904. Children: I. Gertrude, born November 16, 1844; married,
December 31, 1859, Charles A. Rogers, and has two children, Eva, born July 3, 1861, wife of George E. Chandler, and Walter, born Feb- ruary 18, 1864. 2. Linden C., referred to below. 3. Elvin, born January 10, 1850, died June 19, 1853. 4. Elvin Williamson, referred to below. 5. Frances C., born November 9, 1856 ; married, May 17, 1876, Samuel H. John- son and has one child, Edna F., born October IO, 1881. 6. Laura A., born February 20, 1860. 7. Samuel, born in 1863, died in infancy. 8. Lillian B., born November 7, 1865 ; married, December 18, 1890, Alfred L. Peer, born Sep- tember 30, 1859; no children.
(VIII) Linden C., second child and eldest son of Samuel and Naomi (Williamson) Crane, was born in Newark, November 13, 1847, and is still living in that city. He re- ceived a public school education and then went into business, where he has continued ever since. He is a Democrat and has been for a long time a member of the fire department. January 10, 1869, Linden C. Crane married Elizabeth Lydecker, born April 12, 1848, died October 15, 1895. They have had three chil- dren: I. Estella, born 1869. died August 12, 1881. 2. Flora B., born December 22, 1873; married, February 4, 1891, S. Walton Free- man, no children. 3. Ada M., born July 14, 1877; married, in 1900, Henry Jacobus; one child, Louise, born March 22, 1901.
(VIII) Elvin Williamson, fourth child and third son of Samuel and Naomi ( Williamson ) Crane, was born in Brooklyn, October 20, 1853, died in Newark, January 9, 1909. Both on his father's and his mother's side he traces his ancestry back to the early colonial times, for his mother was a granddaughter of General James Williamson, of the war of 1812, also of General Imla Drake, same war. His father moved to Newark while Elvin W. was quite young, and he received his early education at the Newark public schools and later at St. Paul's school, at that time in the charge of the Rev. Joseph Smith. Soon after leaving school he entered the law office of the Hon. Joseph P. Bradley and G. N. Abeel, and at once evinced a fondness for everything pertaining to the legal profession, even as a boy displaying executive ability, systematizing the routine business of the office and soon becoming most useful to his employers, with whom he remain- ed until the firm was dissolved. When Mr. Bradley was appointed to a seat upon the bench of the supreme court of the United States, Mr. Crane remained with Mr. Abeel, and when the latter received the appointment of prosecutor
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