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+ Hall's Norwalk, pp. 309-11.
# Macdonald's Jamaica, pp. 33, SS, 41, 42, 242. Ct. Col. Records, I. 465. E. J. Records, 11. 17, 95, and 10, o. e.
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LUKE WATSON, the last-named of the petitioners of 1664, was the only one of them all that retained an interest in the Jersey enterprise, and became one of the founders of this town. His father married Elizabeth, the daughter of Wil- liam Frost, of Fairfield, Ct., and had died before 1645. His widow was then married to John Gray, and with her hus- band, and son, Luke Watson, removed first to Newtown, and then to Jamaica, L. I., whence they came hither. Watson was a man of some consideration at Jamaica, being one of the "four men " chosen, August 6, 1659, " to be presented for magistrates to ye Governor." He was among the first emi- grants to this place. He was located next north of Capt. Baker. He had an allotment of 170 acres of upland on the W. side of Rahway river, and N. of its W. branch; also, 130 acres of upland on the E. N. E. of Rahway river, and W. of William Johnson and Jeffry Jones; also, 100 acres on the S. side of the Creek ; also, 24 acres of meadow on Rahway river, and 6 acres elsewhere. His wife's name was Sarah. He sold, July 22, 1673, to " William Case of Road Island," for "2000 Pounds of good and Merchantable Sheep Wool," all his "Neck of Upland and Meadow laying and being on the East End of Elizabeth Towne River and known by the Name of Luke Watson's point within the bounds of Elizabeth Towne," computed to be 100 acres. He obtained, Jan. 21, 1675, a warrant for the survey of 400 acres. The next year, he removed to the Hoar-kill settlement [Lewes] in Delaware, renting his house and lot to Benjamin Wade, to whom he sold them, March 16, 1674, for £24. The remainder of his in- terest here, he sold, in 1678, to William Broadwell and Joseph Frazey. He was an active and useful citizen while here, and in 1683, 1687, 1689, and 1690, he was a member of the Gen- eral Assembly of Pennsylvania, of which his son Luke, Jr., was a member in 1697 .*
Such were the original petitioners-all of them originally from New England, and in full sympathy with the prevailing sentiments of that region. Two of them only-Bailey and
* Ct. Col. Records, I. 465. Macdonald's Jamaica, pp. 32, 37, 46. Proud's Pa., I. 236, 335, 340 352, 417.
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Watson -- became Patentees; and, of these, only one a set- tler, and he but for ten or eleven years. The other Patentees were Capt. John Baker and John Ogden.
Captain JOHN BAKER heads the list. He had been, for some time, a resident of New Amsterdam, though an English- man by birth, and had acquired a familiarity with the Dutch language, that made him, on several occasions, useful as an interpreter in dealing with the Indians. It is probable, as previously intimated, that he was thus employed, by Denton and his Associates, in the Staten Island negotiations for this town, and so became interested in the enterprise. The earli- est definite information of him is found in the Records [Dutch] of a Court, held at the City Hall, N. Orange [N. York], Nov. 14, 1673, in an action against Captain John Backer :-
Jan Smedes and Jan Myndersen, Carters declare that about nine years ago shortly after the surrender of this place [1664], they rode 300 p's of firewood out of the bush for Claes Dietlofsen, and afterwards brought the same firewood to Capt. Backer's house within this city, and the bill for carting has not yet been paid them by said Backer as they are prepared to declare on oath. Capt. Backer resided in Broadway in the house now occupied by Willem Van der Scheure [Schuyren].
As Capt. Baker belonged, in 1673, to another jurisdiction, Claes, probably, gained nothing by the suit. The house that he occupied in Broadway, was on the East side, a short dis- tance below Wall st. After the conquest of the city, Gov. Nicolls appointed him, Sep. 25, 1665, Chief Military Officer at Albany. On this account, his name is not included among those who took the oath of allegiance here in February fol- lowing. In August, 1669, he was subjected to a court mar- tial, at Fort James, N. York, for an assault on William Paterson, a merchant of Albany, and judgment was rendered against him, Oct. 6, 1669. He continued in command at Albany, until May 14, 1670, from which time he became per- manently a resident of this town. His house-lot was of the ordinary size, bounded S., E., and W., by highways, and N., by Luke Watson. Afterwards, it came into the posses- sion of Matthias Hatfield, Esq., the grandson of the planter
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of that name. He obtained, Mar. 14, 1675, a warrant for the survey of 1200 acres, for " himself and his Wife, and eight other Persons " of his family. He was appointed Coro- ner, March 28, 1683, and Judge of Small Causes. He was a leading man in the community, and ever among the foremost in resisting the Proprietary assumptions, of which such fre- quent mention is made in the subsequent part of this history. He died in 1702 .*
JOHN OGDEN, the other Patentee who became a permanent resident, was one of the most influential founders of the town. He was at Stamford, Ct., in 1641, within a year after its set- tlement. He had previously married Jane, who, as tradition reports, was a sister of Robert Bond. In May, 1642, he and his brother, Richard, both of them, at the time, of Stam- ford, entered into a contract with Gov. Wm. Kieft, Gisbert op Dyck, and Thomas Willet, of New Amsterdam, Church- wardens, to build a stone church in the fort, 72 by 50 feet, for the sum of 2500 guilders ($1000), to be paid in beaver, cash, or merchandise; one hundred guilders to be add d if the work proved satisfactory ; and the use of the company's boat to be given the builders, for carrying stone, a month, or six weeks if necessary. The work was duly and satisfacto- rily completed.+
It was, probably, in this way that the two brothers became acquainted with the West end of Long Island. Early in 1644, in company with the Rev. Robert Fordham, Rev. Richard Denton and a few others, they removed from Stamford and settled Hempstead, L. I., of which John Ogden was one of the Patentees. At the expiration of five or six years, not liking the control of the Dutch, with whom he had consid- erable dealings at New Amsterdam, and disgusted with the cruelties practised upon the natives, of whom scores, soon after his settlement at Hempstead, had there, by order of the government, been put to death, he removed to the East end
* Munsell's Albany, VII. 98, 101, 257, 9, 263. Alb. Records, XXII. 78-94. N. Y. Col. Docmts., III. 117, 9, 143, 8. E. J. Records, I. 76; II. 18 ; B. 239; C. 13, 19; L. 3 ; O. SS. E. T. Book, B. 163. E. T. Bill, p. 110.
i Hinman's First Puritan Settlers of Ct., I. 232. Alb. Col. Records, II. 18, 169; IV. 240. O'Callaghan's New Netherland, I. 162. Thompson's L. Isld., II. 4, 5. The name appears, at times, as "Odgden," " Ochden."
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of the Island, to dwell among his own countrymen. In 1647, he had obtained permission, of the town of Southampton, to plant a colony of six families, at "North Sea," a tract of land bordering on the Great Peconic Bay, opposite Robbin Island, and about three miles north of the village of Southampton. Some two or three years elapsed before his removal, and the planting of the settlement at the North Sea, called, in the Colonial Records of Connecticut and New Haven, as well as in Nicolls' Grant, " Northampton."
He was made a freeman of Southampton, March 31, 1650, and was chosen by the General Court, at Hartford, Ct., May 16, 1656, and again in 1657 and 1658, one of the magistrates for the colony. He sat in the General Court, as a Represent- ative from Southampton, in May, 1659; and in the upper house, May, 1661, and afterwards. His name appears re- peatedly in the new Charter of Connecticut (obtained, Ap. 23, 1662, by Gov. Winthrop, from Charles II.), as one of the magistrates and patentees of the colony ; also, quite fre- quently, in the Records, both of Connecticut and New Ha- ven. He was held in high honor at home, being one of their first men.
During his residence at Northampton, Ogden, by frequent visits as a trader to New Amsterdam, had kept up his ac- quaintance with his old friends and neighbors on the West End of the Island. When, therefore, after the conquest, it was proposed to him to commence a fourth settlement, in the new and inviting region of Achter Kol, under English rule, he readily entered into the measure, and, in company with his old friend, Capt. Baker, purchased the interests of the Dentons and Goodman Benedict, and thus became, being a inan of. substance and distinction, the leading man of the new colony. He was among the very first, with his five full- grown boys, John, Jonathan, David, Joseph and Benjamin, to remove to the new purchase and erect a dwelling on the town-plot. He located his house, it is thought, on the Point road, now Elizabeth Avenue, near where Robert Ogden, his great-grandson, and Col. Barber, afterwards lived. The bounds of his home-lot are not recorded.
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He was appointed, Oct. 26, 1665, a Justice of the Peace, and, Nov. 1, one of the Governor's Council. In the Legisla- ture of 1668, he was one of the Burgesses, from this town. To carry forward his improvements, or to meet previous ob- ligations, he borrowed, Oct. 9, 1668, of Cornelius Steenwick (the Mayor of the City of New York, a wealthy merchant), £191.5. 0, "one fourth part thereof to be paid in good Wheat at 4|6 pr Bushell one fourth part in good drie Ox hides at 6 stivers pr pound dutch weight One fourth part in good mer- chantable Tobacco at 4 stivers pr pound like weight and one fourth part in Good Corn fed fat Pork well packt in casks and delivered at New Yorke at Three Pounds ten Shillings p" Barrell." As security, he mortgaged, Ap. 29, 1669, " a Cer- tain Water Mill now in my Tenure or Occupation," as the mortgage expresses it, "near unto the Mansion or Dwelling House of Gov. Carterett in Elizabeth Towne."
This mill was located immediately west of the Broad-st. Stone bridge, and, with the dam across the Creek just above, was, doubtless, constructed by Mr. Ogden ; whence the Creek was frequently called, " Mill Creek," or "Mill River." The Governor's house was located east of the bridge, and north of the Creek, on the ground, latterly occupied by the Thomas house.
Three of his sons, John, Jonathan, and David, took the oath of allegiance, Feb. 1665, and were numbered among the original Associates. The house-lot of JOHN, Jr., contained four acres, and was 12 by 4 chains in length and breadth ; bounded, S. E., by John Woodruff, and Leonard Headley; N. E., by a highway ; N. W., by Mrs. Hopkins, Sen' ; and, S. W., by the Creek ; a highway between him and Mrs. Hop- kins. He had, also, twelve acres of " upland Lying upon the way that goes to the Governor's point ; " also, sixty acres of " upland Lying in the plaines " between Henry Norris and Leonard Headley ; also, nine acres of " meadow Lying at the East end of ye great Island." JONATHAN had a house-lot of six acres, 15 by 4 chains ; bounded, S. E., by his younger brother, Joseph ; and, on the other sides, by highways. He had twenty two acres of upland in a triangle, bounded by the
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Governor and Benjamin Parkis ; also eighty four acres of up- land "Lying in a plaine," bounded by Benjamin Parkis, Leonard Headley, Isaac Whitehead, Jr., and the Mill brook ; also, fourteen acres of meadow in two plots, on the Creek, and on the Great Island. DAVID's house-lot contained five acres, and was bounded, E., by the Mill Creek ; N., by Jef- fry Jones; and, W. and S., by highways. He had, in addi- tion, sixty acres of upland, bounded by Joseph Frazee, Wil- liam Letts, Samuel Marsh, Jr., and Capt. Baker ; also eight acres of meadow on Thompson's Creek .*
* Alb. Records, II. 169; IV. 240. Hoadly's New Haven Records, I. 178 ; II. 89, 191, 8, 298, 393. Trumbull's Ct. Records, I. 280, 1, 2, 295, 7, 814, 6; IL 3-11. Doc. Hist. of N. Y., I. 684. E. T. Bill, pp. 30, 106, 8, 110. E. J. Records, I. 8 ; o. c. 2; II. 19, 22, o. c., 21, 4, 5, 86, 42, 91, 2, 7; III. 3, 4; L. 18, 21. Ifinman, I. 259, 729. Howell's Southampton, pp. 26, 7, 90.
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CHAPTER V.
A. D., 1666.
The eighty Associates, their Origin, their Location - Of Puritan Principles - No Congeniality with Carteret and his Company.
SUCH, as just narrated, were the original Petitioners and Patentees. Who were the other Founders of the town ? What was their origin-what were their principles, and where did they locate ? In answering these inquiries, those, * who took the oath of allegiance, including all who were on the ground during the first year of the settlement, will be considered, in alphabetical order.
JOAKIM ANDRIS [YOKAM ANDROSS, ANDREWS] was, proba- bly, from New Haven, Ct., and a son of Wm. Andrews, who came, to New Haven, previous to 1643, with a family of eight persons. His house-lot contained 4 acres, and was bounded, N. and E., by a highway ; S., by Matthias Hat- field ; and, W., by Dennis White. He had died, in 1675, and his widow, Amy, sold, June 22, 1675, to Thomas Moore, " the house Orchard Garden Home Lott Pasture for Calves," and all that might be claimed by the Concessions-a first lot-right-except 20 acres sold by her husband to Peter Moss, "and one peare tree and some Gousberry bushes," reserved for her own use .*
FRANCIS BARBER has left no memorial of his origin. He sold, Mar. 20, 1672, to Vincent Ronyon, carpenter, a house- lot (bought of Wm. Pyles, who had bought it of Thomas Moore), 40 rods by 16; bounded, N., by George Pack ; and fronting on the highway. He was still here in the following
* Barber's His. Coll. of Ct., p. 160. E. J. Records, I. 46, 7. E. T. Bill, p. 108.
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year, but must have removed, soon after, to Staten Island, where, on the W. side of the Island, on Smoking Point, Dec. 21, 1680, 88 acres of woodland and meadow were surveyed for him ; and where, in 1686, he served as Commissioner of Excise. The Barber family, of a later date, had another origin and a more illustrious record .*
ROBERT BLACKWELL was one of the carly settlers of this town, though his name is not found in any town docu- ment now extant. In a deed, on record in New York, Robert Blackwell is spoken of as "late of Elizabeth-town in New Jersey, merchant." He married, Ap. 26, 1676, Mary Manningham, stepdaughter of Capt. John Manning (by whom the city was surrendered, in 1673, to the Dutch) ; and so became the owner of Manning's Island, since known by his own name.+
ROBERT BOND was the father of JOSEPH, and a resident of Southampton, L. I., as early as 1643. He was appointed, Oct., 1644, by the General Court of Connecticut, in company with Mr. Moore, " to demand of each family of Southamp- ton, the amount they would give for the maintenance of scholars at Cambridge College." He was one of the com- pany that settled East Hampton, in 1648. He came, origi- nally, from Lynn, Mass., and was, doubtless, of the same stock with the Watertown family. He had a principal part in securing the land of East Hampton from the natives, and in transacting the business of the town. He was one of the first magistrates of the place, and repeatedly represented the town in the General Court of the Colony. John Ogden and Capt. John Scott having had some differences with the town about Meantaquit [Montauk] in 1662, Robert Bond was chosen one of the Commissioners to settle it. His intimacy with Ogden [tradition says that each married the other's sis- ter], and others of his neighbors, who were about to remove to these parts, led him to cast in his lot with them, and lend his valuable counsels to the settlement of this town, where his influence was second only to John Ogden's. Carteret, at
* E. J. Records, I. 24. N. Y. Col. Docmts., III. 409, 494. Albany Land Papers, I. 190 t N. York Deeds, I. 130. Alb. Records, XXXIII. 309. N. York Marriages, p. 31.
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his coming, was glad to avail himself of his mature experi- ence, and appointed him, Jan. 2, 1663, one of his Council, and an Assistant to the Justices. Gov. Winthrop, of Con- necticut, highly commended him. He was appointed, Mar. 13, 1675, Justice of the Peace. His first wife was Hannah, a sister of John Ogden. After her death he married, at Newark, in 1672, Mary, the widow of Hugh Roberts. She was the daughter of Hugh Calkins, an emigrant from Wales, in 1640, and a resident, first of Gloucester, Mass., and then of New London, Ct. He thus became interested in the Newark colony, and was elected, the same year, their Repre- sentative. He continued still to reside in this town, where he died, April, 1677. His wife survived him 24 years. Stephen Bond, of Newark, was one of his sons. The father received a Warrant for 360 acres of land at E. Town, June 30, 1675, but a caveat was entered against it, Jan. 16, 1677, by Benjamin Price, Sent. Joseph, at the same date, received a Warrant for 160 acres .*
JOHN BRACKETT, Sent, was from New Haven, Ct., of which he was one of the first settlers. He assented to the Cove- nant there, June 4, 1639, and, as late as 1643, was unmarried. At the seating of the congregation, in 1646, places were provided for him and "Sister Brockett," showing that, pre- vious to this time, he had taken to himself a wife. He was frequently employed in laying out lands about the town, and his name is of frequent occurrence in the Colonial Rec- ords, until 1660. When troops were raised to resist the encroaching Dutch, he was appointed, June 23, 1654, one of the "surgions." He was probably induced to accompany his neighbors to this colony, in order to aid them in laying out their lands. Near the close of 1667, several of the plant- ers having urged the Governor to define the exact bounds of
* Ct. Col. Records, I. 398, 400, 428. Howell's Southampton, pp. 28, 180. N. Y. Doct. His., I. 677, 680, 4. Hinman's P. S. of Ct., I. 289, 290, 729. Newark Bicentenary, pp. 111, 131. Newark Town Records, pp. 10, 23, 49, 85. Miss Calkins' Norwich, p. 171. Stearns' Newark, p. 79. 3 Mass. His. Soc. Coll., X. 84. E. T. Bill, p. 104. E. J. Records, II. 3, III. 25, 124, 133. In the Inventory of his estate, Ap. 18, 1677, his house and all his land were valued at £70; two oxen, £12. 10. 0; two cows, and calves, £9; one "farrow cow," £3. 15. 0; two two- year old heifers, £5; a canon, £1. 5. 0. The whole amounted to £151. 11. 5.
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their several possessions, he deputed Brackett, Dec. 19, 1667, in the absence of Vauquellin, the Surveyor-General, " to lay out, survey, and bound the said bounds of Elizabeth Towne the planting feilds towne lotts and to lay out every particu- lars man's proportion according to his allotments and the directions " of the Governor; "for the avoiding of all con- troversies and disputes hereafter concerning the same, hav- ing had certain notice of the good experience, knowledge, skill and faithfulness of John Brackett in the surveying and laying out of land." In the controversies of a later day, it was affirmed by the town's party, that they had " not seen, known, or heard of any one Survey made in pursuance of that commission." The surveys were probably made, but were superseded by later and more accurate surveys, and hence were not preserved. Brackett sold out his rights, as early as 1670, to Samuel Hopkins, and returned to New Haven, both he and his son, who, also, had been admitted as an Associate. Jolın, Jr., died at New Haven, Nov. 29, 1676. " Brackett's Brook," a branch of the E. Town Creek, in the north part of the town, indicates, probably, the locality of their allotment .*
NATHANIEL BUNNELL [BONNEL] was, undoubtedly, also, from New Haven, Ct., and of the same family with William and Benjamin, of that town. William was there previous to 1650. Nathaniel had a house-lot of six acres, 15 by 4 chains, bounded, E., by Thomas Price ; W., and N., by Isaac White- lead, Sent ; and S., by a highway. He had, also, an allot- ment of 120 acres, "Lying upon the South Branch of Elizth Town Creek, and ye plaine which said above mentioned Creek passeth through ;" also, " 12 acres of meadow Lying in the great meadows upon John Woodruffe's Creek."+
NICOLAS CARTER came from Newtown, L. I. His name appears, Ap. 12, 1656, among the purchasers of that place from the natives. His allotment there was 20 acres. He came there, in 1652, from Stamford, Ct. Ile is repeatedly spoken of, in the Newtown Records, among the leading men
* N. IIaven Col. Records, Index of Vol. I. E. J. Records, III. 12. E. T. Book, B., 20, 7. Ans. to E. T. Bill, p. 23. Hlinman, I. 240.
1 Savage's Geneal. Dic., I. 800. E. J. Records, II. 130. E. T. Bill, p. 103.
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of the town, until 1665, the date of his removal to this place. His son, Nicholas, born, 1658, was apprenticed, Mar. 25, 1669, to " Richard Painter, Tayler," of Elizabeth Town. The Indenture says,-" Unlawfull Sports and Games he shall not use. Taverns or Tipling houses hee shall not haunt or frequent, his Masters Goods he shall not Imbezle purloin or by any unlawfull means diminish or Impair, his Masters Secrets he shall not disclose." His house-lot contained five acres, 10 by 5 chains, bounded, E., and S., by highways ; N., by the Creek ; and S., by William Hill. He had, also, twenty acres of upland on Luke Watson's Point, adjacent to Edward Case and Jacob Melyen ; also forty acres of upland "in a swamp lying at the E. side of the blind Ridge," bounded partly by Aaron Thompson and Jacob Melyen. This tract and his house-lot he sold, Mar. 16, 1679, to Benjamin Wade, for £30, payable in Pipe staves. He had, also, seventy acres of upland, bounded by Roger Lambert, George Pack, and the swamp; also, 193 acres of upland, on the Mill Creek, bounded by Barnabas Wines, the plain, a small brook, and the Creek; also 22 acres of meadow, in the Great Meadow, and 18 acres on Thompson's Creek. His allotments con- tained 368 acres. He bought, also, Mar. 9, 1674, of Jacob Melyen, then of the city of N. York, 101 acres of land on the South Neck. The most of his lands he sold, May 18, 1681, to Samuel Wilson, and shortly after died .*
CALEB CARWITHY [CARWITHE, CORWITH] was the son of David, a resident of Sonthold, L. I., where he died, Novem- ber, 1665. Caleb was a mariner, and quite a rover. At Hartford, Ct., he was arraigned, Oct., 1646, for pursuing an absconding debtor on the Sabbath-day. Previous to 1654, he made trading voyages between New Haven and Boston. In 1661, he resided at Southampton, L. I. He was admitted, in 1664, a freeman at Huntington, L. I. The following year he came to this place. In the winter of 1668, he entered into an Association with John Ogden, Sent, Jacob Melyen, William Johnson, Jeffry Jones and others of this town, for
* E. J. Records, I. 7, 73, 101 ; II. 92, 8 ; III. 23; IV. 34. E. T. Bill, p. 104. Riker's New- town, pp. 48, 6, 50, 62, 418.
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whaling purposes. His house-lot adjoined Charles Tucker on the West, and George Ross on the N. West. He sold thirty acres of land, Feb. 8, 1672, for £11, to William Piles. A year or two after, he removed to Southampton, L. I., where he was living in 1683, and where his descendants have been quite numerous and respectable .*
WILLIAM CRAMER was a carpenter, from Southold, L. I., where he married Elizabeth, the sister of Caleb Carwithy. He attached himself to the Governor's party, and seems not to have been numbered with the Town Associates. He was appointed, Ap. 27, 1670, Constable of the town, in place of William Pilles. His house-lot contained six acres, of irregu- lar form, bounded, on the N. W., by Evan Salisbury, and on every other side by highways. He had, also, 5 acres of up- land, adjoining Jolin Little ; also, 10 acres of upland, lying in the swamp, bounded by Barnabas Wines, Richard Beach, and John Little; also, 20 acres of upland, bounded by Stephen Crane, Roger Lambert, and the great swamp ; also, 60 acres, adjoining the last plot and Crane's brook, bounded, also, as be- fore, by Crane, and Lambert ; also 80 acres, " at the two mile brook," bound by unsurveyed land and the brook; also, 8 acres of upland "in the Neck," bounded by Caleb Carwithy, Luke Watson, and the Creek meadow ; also, 6 acres of meadow on the Creek, and 14 acres of meadow, "at Rahawack :"-in all 209 acres. He sold out, Sept. 1, 1677, to John Toe, weaver, and soon after removed with Luke Watson to the Hoar-Kill [Lewes], Delaware. He had died in 1695.+
STEPHEN CRANE was from Connecticut, and was, probably, nearly related to Jasper Crane, of Newark, who was one of the first settlers of New Haven, Ct., in 1639, was at Branford in 1652, and at Newark, in 1667. The family is quite ancient and honorable. Ralph Crane accompanied Sir Francis Drake to America in 1577, and Robert Crane was of the first com- pany that came to Mass. Bay, in 1630. Sir Robert Crane was of Essex Co., Eng., in 1630; and Sir Richard, in 1643,
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