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Sussex counties, Nov. 18, 1792. His wife married (2) Aaron Bedford, of. Stockholm, N. J. (3) ---- Daven- port, and died Feb. 1, 1803.
Children : Elizabeth, born Nov. 2.,, 1775, married Moses Dow, soldier of 1812 War. She died Jan, 11, 1832. He mar- ried as his second wife Elizabeth
- -, born Dec. 1799, died June 7, 1883. Both buried at Rockaway. Sarah, born July 22, 1778, married William, son of Robert and Phebe (Gardiner) Headley, Oct. 12, 1797, lived at Milton, died Sept .. 2, 1849. Both buried in Headley Ceme- tery at Milton: John, born Mar. 24, 1781, married and removed to Ohio about 1805. Mary, born Aug. 25, 1783;, married William Carr, removed to Portt Clinton, Ohio, died there. Moses Dow,
born Nov. 12, 1786, went to Fairport, now Horseheads, N. Y., married An Hammond, died Dec. 27, 1843. Both buried in Horseheads Baptist Cemetery David, born Jan. 11, 1790, married Sarah, daughter of Peter and Phebe (Angle) Card, Dec. 14, 1816, lived and died at Stockholm May 7, 1874. His wife born July 5, 1799, died Nov. 21, 1879. Both buried at the M. E. Ceme- tery at Stockholm.
In tracing this, my mother's family. in many of the states West and South, I have yet to find the name Strait, who could not find some connection with this Morris county family. They are scat. tered through the States of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Missouri, Tennessee, Ken- tucky, South Carolina and Georgia.
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Che Cuttle Family.
William Tuttle, wife Elizabeth and 5, 1760, married Tempe Wick, daughter three children came to Boston, Mass,, in of Henry. ship "Planter," from Northhampton, Eng., 1635, and soon after moved to New Haven, Conn., where his son Jo- seph was baptized Nov. 22, 1640. Jo- seph married Hannah Munson 1667 and had a son Stephen, born at New Haven May 20, 1673. Stephen married Ruth Fritz Randolph, removed to Wood- bridge, N. J., where he died in 1709. Will names children : Timothy, Joseph, Stephen and Samuel, and a cousin John Cooper
Timothy Tuttle, born at Woodbridge N.J., Oct. 16, 1696, married Cecelia Moore 1724, removed to Hanover, in Morris county, where he died Dec. 31, 1754. His wife was born 1700, and was buried at Hanover July 3, 1768. Will names children : Daniel, Isaac, Stephen, Abra- ham, Mary and Joanna.
Capt, Daniel lived at Hanover and had fifteen children, of which five served in the Revolution. Capt. Will- [ 1786. iam, son of Capt. Daniel, was born Nov.
Henry Wick was born Oct. 23, 1707, died Dec. 21, 1780. He married Mary Cooper. She was born Apr. 4, 1718, died July 7, 1787. Children : Henry, Jr., born Mar. 9, 1737, married Elizabeth Cooper Feb. 7, 1760, died Sept. 10, 1781. Mary, born Aug. 13, 1739, married Dr. Ebenezer Blachly June 19. 1758, died Sept. 18, 1796. James, born Dec. 19, 1741, died young; Phebe, born Nov. 9, 1746, married Dr. William Leddle ; Tempe, born Oct. 30, 1738, married Capt. William Tuttle as above, died Apr. 28, 1822.
Joseph, son of Capt. Daniel, was born 1758, married Esther Parkhurst Dec. 2, 1778, resided at New Vernon, N. J., died Apr. 10, 1802. His wife died Mar. 22, 1789, age 36. Children : Phebe, baptized Oct. 31, 1779; William, born Aug. 19, 1781; a child, born Oct. 27, 1783 ; Eliza. beth and Jacob, twins, born Aug. 24,
Jacob became a minister and married
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Elizabeth Ward, of Bloomfield, N. J., and had children : Rev. Samuel Lawrence, born at Bloomfield Aug. 15, 1815, died Apr. 16, 1866. Rev. Joseph Farrand, born at Bloomfield Mar. 18, -1818, married Susan, daughter of Rev. Barnabas King, was his colleague many years at Rockaway, removed to Craw- fordsville, Ind., as president of Wabash College, and is still resident.
Joseph Tuttle, son of Stephen, was
born 1698, came to Hanover Neck 1734, married Abigail Ogden, was squire, deacon and colonel, died 1789, and Was buried at Whippany, N. J.
Children : Ruth, married David Kitchell; Samuel, born Sept. 22, 1724. married Sarah (Ford) Kinney, died May 31, 1814. Moses, born Nov. 19. 1732, married Jane Ford, died July 11, 1819. (Children of Samuel and Moses, see Ford family.) Joseph married Jemima Haines ; David married Sarah Coe.
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REV. JOSEPH FARRAND TUTTLE, D.D., L.L.D. Born, Bloomfield, N. J., March 18, 1818. Died, Crawfordsville, Ind., June 8, 1901.
Che Allen Family.
The following data given me many years ago by the late James Madison Allen at. Newark, who had made many researches of the Allen family at Rocka- way hold good to-day. I have added and corrected a few of the data that have come under my own researches, and from the collector of the Alling- Allen families of Connecticut and from the Allens at Chicago, Ill., and others. George P. Allen writes me from New Berlin, Fla., that he has failed to make any connections with the Roger Alling family, of New Haven, Ct., whose de- scendant, Samuel, came to Newark, N. J., and some of his descendants to Mor- ris county. The name has many spell- ings, and the families quite numerous in Central New Jersey. Captain Job always wrote Allen, while some one en- graved on his tombstone the name Allin.
Tradition says that Samuel Allen and sons, Ebenezer and Job, came from the north of Scotland, where they had been imprisoned for their religious opinions, and first landed at Amboy, N. J. Job
came from thence, while still a young. man, to Rockaway previous to 1730, and built a forge there at that date, known after as the "Job Allen Iron Works." They were located about two hundred yards above the present dam. The Sanitarium farm at Denville, compris- ing two or three hundred acres was Owned by him at this time. His wife's mame, according to the old deeds and papers, was Christiana, and they were probably not married earlier than 1735 or 6, as the first child Anua was boru 1737. No mention was ever made among the old papers at Rockaway of his father Samuel or his brother Ebene- zer, and it may have been possible that Christiana was his second wife. He was at this early date the founder and Tamilder of the first iron industry at Rockaway. not very large in that day compared with the present, and may be said to have been the founder and build- er of the first church at Rockaway, as some of the frame work was made as Yearly as 1752. He was an early member
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. of the Morristown Presbyterian church where some of his children were bap- tized, while the church at Rockaway was building. He was carpenter, mil- ler and forgeman ; constructed some of the first roads and bridges, and many of the first dwellings, when every nail used was hand-made.
Children : Anna, born Apr. 19, 1737, married Thomas Baldwin ; Eunice, born Dec. 5, 1738, died unmarried, probably buried at Rockaway ; Christiana, borli June 1, 1742, married David Cory, of Rockaway, Apr. 23, 1758. He was born 1724, died Feb. 19, 1769. Both probably buried at Rockaway. Elizabeth, born July 10, 1749, baptized at Morristown, N. J., Sept. 18, 1743, married John Biga- low, of Rockaway. Both probably died at Rockaway. Deborah, born July 13, 1746, baptized Aug. 17, 1746, died in in- fancy. Lois or Loisa, born June 6, 174S, baptized July 10, 1748, married (1) Dan- iel Talmage, of Baskingridge, N. J., Dec. 21, 1766. He was killed at Lacka- waxen, Pa., July 22, 1779, had three children. See Talmage family. She married (2) John Harriman and lived where David Lash now lives ; had three children. See Harriman family. Job, born Aug. 27. 1750, baptized Aug, 14, 1751, married Mary Minturn or Mintou, of Parsippany, N. J., Jan. 2, 1773. She was born Dec. 22, 1757, married (2) Stephen Jackson 1810 and died at the residence of her son Isaac at Newark, Apr. 21, 1826. Job, at the age of 17 when his father died, ran the farm, kept store, ran a forge and mill under the Jacksons, was captain in the militia
service, was carpenter by trade, rebuilt and completed the Presbyterian church in 1794, died Mar. 16, 1798. All buried at Rockaway. Jane, born Dec. 12, 1751, married Benjamin Beach, died Apr. 16, 1780. He married (2) Mary (Serrin) Bigalow, and died May 17, 1827. See Beach family. Polly, Mary ou the tombstone, born Dec. 29, 1758, married Thomas Osborn, removed to Parsippany, died May 5, 1801. Deacon Thomas Osborn was born Oct. 11, 1753, married (2) Hannah (Howell) Minton, who was born June 20, 1763, died Mar. 20, 1829. She was a daughter of Gidson Howell and wife Sarah Gordou, who lived at Littleton, N. J., and the widow of Lemuel Minton, by whom she had chil- dren : Heury, James, Sarah, Mary and Stephen. Deacon Osborn died July 27, 1818. All buried at Parsippany.
The Minturn or Minton family lived at Parsippany. The father came from worth of England, the mother from Hol- Land. Children : Nancy, John, Lemuel, William, James, Jacob, born 1725, died Oct. 11, 1801; Heury, Nathan, David, Peter, Rachel, Hannah, Sally and Mary. who married Capt. Job Alleu.
Children of Captain Job Allen : Mancy, born 1773, married Joseph Kitchel, son of Abraham, born 1779, re- moved to Sacketts Harbor, L. I., and died 1847. Betsey, born 1775, married (1) Broadwell, (2)
Manting, both probably of Rockaway. Job, (3) boru July 2, 1780, married Bet- sey Jackson, daughter of Benjamin, 1800, She was born Feb. 14, 1782, died ZIar. 21, 1863. He ran the farm at Deu -
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ville at an early age, had a blacksmith shop and store at Rockaway from 1799 to 1814, at which date the family went to Ohio. John, married Charity, dangh- ter of Abraham Kitchel, July 10, 1805, went to Sacketts Harbor, L. 1. Maria,
Children of Job Allen (3) and wife Betsey : Job (4) born Nov, 27, 1801, at Deuville, baptized at Rockaway Aug. 13, 1809, married Clarissa Thompson, of Parsippany, died 1868. Phebe, boru Feb. 24, 1803, died in infancy ; William Mitchell, born Aug. 16, 1805, baptized Aug. 20, 1809, married Jane Lyon. Emily, boru Oct. 13, 1807, baptized Ang. 20, 1809, married Nathaniel M. Jacksou. James Madison, born July 28, 1810, bap- tized June 30, 1811, married (1) Harriet, daughter of Peter Post and Elizabeth (Kanouse) Brown, of New Foundland, Dec. 1832. She was born Mar. 9, 1816, died Dec. 16, 1871, buried at Oak Ridge, N. J. (2) Hannah Susan Clark in 1873, died at Newark 1897, buried at Oak Ridge. He was largely interested in. the iron and store business in several lo- cations. Isaac Jackson, born Jan. 21, 1814, married Susan Brown, sister of Harriet. She was born May 13, 1821. The above children were all born at Rockaway. Maria Brown, born June IS, 1817, at Frederick, O., married
James Richards, of Ohio. Clarissa Jack- son, born July 5, 1819, married Daniel, brother of James Richards, above. Lucy DeCamp, born Sept, 14, 1821, married Joshua Davis, of Ohio.
Children of James Madison and wife born 1788, married Anson Brown, of [ Hannah : Elmira Elizabeth, born Jan. Denville, and emigrated to Ohio in 1814. Jacob, married Elizabeth Seguire, no other records. Lucy, born 1798, (1793 on tombstone) married Chileon Ford DeCamp Sept. 5, 1815, died Jan. 6, 1836. He was born July 9, 1793, died Feb. 27, 1876. Both buried at Rockaway. 27, 1835, at Stockholm, N. J., married Joseph Richart, of Ohio, Oct. 12, 1853. Chilion Brown, born Mar. 29, 1836, at Stockholm, married Mary Wood, of Ohio, Apr. 15, 1863. Adroniram Judson, born July 15, 1837, at Philadelphia, Pa., married Amanda Ball, of Ohio, Sept. 25, 1862. James Madison, (2) born Jan. 22, 1840, at Philadelphia, married Roxana Moore Sept. 1865. She was a daughter of Virgil Douglass Moore, born Dec. 3, 1814, and Hannah M. Hongh, born May 8, 1817. Their son at Chicago, Ill., has made many researches in family con- Dections. Ira Brown, born in Ohio July 28, 1841, married Eva Tralove, of Ohio, iu 1866. Lucy DeCamp, boru Sept. 5, 1844, married William C. Fotter, of Ohio, in 1865. Mary Harriet, born Mar. 20, 1818, married Rev. A. S. Walsh, of Ohio, Nov. 27, 1867. William Russell, born in Ohio Mar. 8, 1852, married Cor. uelia M. John, of Ohio, Nov. 7, 1875.
This family, like many others once so prominent in the early enterprises of old Rockaway and Morris county, is Low uearly extinct and the name continued in many of the Western States. The Dame Job continued to the fourth gen- eration in this family, was perpetuated in the Talmage family, and also in the Hill family to the present day. See Talmage and Hill families.
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The following of the Allen lines were probable descendants of Roger, of New Haven, and connected with the families of the present date, were also prominent in Morris county.
Captain Samuel Allen, born Nov. 27, 1751, married Hannah, daughter of Epenitus Beach, the son of Zopher, of Newark, July 4, 1779, died Dec. 15, 1 way 1836.
1828. She was born Oct. 29, 1761, died Mar. 1851.
Samuel Allen, justice of the peace, lived at Shongum, N. J., died 1810, buried at Rockaway. His wife, Abigail, died Oct. 24, 1809, buried at Rockaway. His son, Samuel, Jr., lived at Mt. Free- dom, N. J., and was buried in Rocka-
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Children of Samuel, Jr. : William Allen, born Aug. 29,'1803, married (1) Lydia Norris, who died Apr. 11, 1834, aged 82 years, 8 months and 2 days, buried in Headley Cemetery. Children also buried there : Ogden, died Jan. 19, 1828, aged 1 year and 21 days : Jacob, died May 6, 1830, aged 1 mouth ; Eliza- beth, died Apr. 11, 1831, aged 3 years and 4 months ; Ira, living at Dover, born Nov. 23, 1832. (2) Jane McCormic, of Milton, May 7, 1840. She was born July 10, 1813. All buried at Headley Cemetery. Children : Charles, borm Mar. 18, 1841, married Sarah C. Allison. Ang. 15, 1863, died June 16, 1882. Abi- gail, born May 5, 1843, died May 19, 1862; Manrice, born July 10, 1846, died Mar. 30, 1876; Harriet, born Nov. 12, 1847, died Apr. 10, 1862 ; Wm. H., born I to Chicago.
Nov. 13, 1850, married Mary Jane Gregory Apr. 5, 1877, died Sept. 27, 1881; Augusta, born Dec. 21, 1852, mar- ried Alfred Ludlow Day Nov. 12, 1874. Children see Day family. John, (1) born Aug. 30, 1857, died Jan. 2, 1860 ; John, (2) born July 19, 1860. died July 14, 1895 ; Jane, died Apr. 8, 1878.
:. Amsy Allen at Mt. Freedom, the . father of Capt. David S., of Dover. .
Robert P. married Phebe, daughter of . Abraham Fordyce, of Shougom, re- moved to Tuckhannock, Pa. Children : Jennie, married J. Andrew Casterline, of Ninkey, as first wife ; Agnes, married Northup; Lewis, married .. Condict.
!/ Henry B., married. a daughter of Jabez Estile, of Rockaway, and removed
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Che Beaman Family.
The name originally spelled Beman, now modernized to Beaman and Bee- man. Gamaliel Beman settled at Dor- chester, Mass., in 1636, his descendants - removed to Connecticut and later to Vermont. One Simon Beman, of Spring- field, Mass., married Alice Young Oct. 15, 1654, and had sons, Josiah, (1) born Feb. 4, 1662 ; David, and perhaps others. There was a distribution of the estate of David, brother of Josiah, made in 1740, at Springfield, in which the property was divided among the representatives of his brother Josiah, then deceased, to John and Josiah, (2) Beaman, and three sisters. There was also a grant of land to Josiah Beaman, Jr., in Brookfield, Mass., of 60 acres in 1717.
Josiah (1) married Martha
who died Nov. 1691. (2) Lydia Waruer Apr. 29, 1696, and had children : Simon, born Feb. 6. 1697 ; John, born July 19, 1699, moved to Brockfield, Mass., and Josiah (2) and three daugh- ters.
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Josiah Beamau (2) is lost in Massachu- setts and is supposed to have gone West at a very early age and settled at or near Dover, N. J. and became interest- ed in the iron business located there in 1720 by John Jackson and the Hurds. There is tradition that he came from Vermont, but as Vermont was not set- tled at this early date, it is not probable. This Josiah (2) had sons : David, per- haps the oldest; Josiah, a daughter Abigail, who married Joseph Edminster Feb. 19, 1747. She as his widow died Nov. 27, 1777, aged 50. Morristown Church Records show children : Han- uah, baptized May 29, 1748 ; David, bap- tized Apr. 29, 1751; Ledia, baptized July 21, 1754, and Joseph, baptized Oet. 16,1757.
David Beman was a member of the Presbyterian chorch at Morristown, N. J., before the building of the church at Rockaway, and was one of the founders and builders, and original members of the church at Rockaway. He owned a
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way, and was builder of some of the first forges in this section, was forge- man; miller and carpenter. In the church he was sexton, elder, deacon and chorister.
David Beman, married (1) Mary Stansborrough, daughter of Samuel. She died 1780. (2) Anna (Jackson) Ayres, daughter of Gen. Joseph Jackson, and widow of Robert Ayres. She was born Ang. 9, 1746, died Mar. 21, 1816, buried by the side of her first husband. David Beman died 1802, buried at Rockaway, but no monument, grave unknown.
Children of David and Mary : Josiah, baptized Oct. 3, 1756 ; Samuel, baptized June 10, 1759; Lydia, married Thomas Y Conger, who was a blacksmith at Rock- away, and had children : Harriet, John, William, Phebe, Hannah and perhaps others. Joauna, baptized as adult Apr. 3, 1812, never married; Sarah, boru July 13, 1765, married George Stickle, died June 14, 1836, buried at Rockaway. Ruhama, married (1) - Green, of Denville. (2) Strong, who was lost at sea on a voyage to Eng-
land about 1800. Children : Samuel, William, Susan, married -- -- - Mc-
Elroy, of Denville, and Mary, who mar- ried (1) Shoor. (2) Beaman Stickle as his second wife died at Aytelan, Wis., 1894.
Josiah Beaman, brother of David, was born 1732, married Huldah Winds, a sister of General William Winds, Sept. 11, 1760, died June 3, 1803. His wife was born 1720, died Aug. 15, 1792. Both buried at Rockaway. Children: Ahi- jah, baptized June 27, 1762. Mention is made in General Winds' will, dated the day before his death Oct. 11, 1789. of Abigail, Haldah and Susanna Bee- man, daughters of Josiah Beeman. I give fifteen pounds each. It is probable that these were all the children living at that date of Josiah Beaman. The names Josiah and David are prominent in the family. The name is now not known, ouly through inter-marriage. Should any one know more of this fami- ly, once so prominent in the early enter- prises, in church and Revolutionary service, I should be pleased to know so as to further preserve their records.
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Che Crane Family.
"To see ourselves as others see us" Iisome have been torn down and a new have invited my correspondents to write castle built in their place. what they knew of the Crane family. In the arrangement I have managed to get in a few words "edgeways," and like tombstone records, have recorded only the good deeds. and left out some of the bad. The name is spelled in many ways, so that nearly every one can have a choice, and about one half of the members usually prefer a change of name altogether. Some one, not relat- ed to the family has said that "the Cranes are noted for their frugality, honesty and piety," that means present company always excepted. All things change and we change with them.
The Cranes were originally from Cheshire county, England. The precise date will never be known as they may 'have worked out their road tax on the macadam road built there by the Romans before the third century. Under the similitude of a dream it may be taken for granted that they all dwelt in castles, of which there are many.
Tradition says they were all great warriors and that each community wa- well blessed with generals, colonels nia. jors and captaius, and that each Wer" tagged with a coat of arms. These armorial bearings may have originated by the way that each one made "hi. mark" with a pointed stick and pok? berry juice, it is not advisable to gis . any theory upon this subject. Que (! our enterprising relatives has traced th. family back from General Josiah Cran. for thirteen generations, without reach- ing the end or touching bottom. I wi !! commence where he left off and be co !- tent with eleven generations.
General Josiah Crane was in the ser. vice of King James aud for his servic -- was rewarded with a coat of arms and 3 goodly estate. It is said that some of his descendants went to the north of Ireland, some to Germany and late: Jasper. probably Stephen and Phebe. to America.
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Authorities differ as to the date or lo- cation. Jasper may have settled at Shawmit, now Boston, Mass., as early as 1630, and taken a part in the first settlement of New Haven, Conn., by overland route April 9, 1638. He may have returned to Boston aud returned to England, and sailed direct from Lou- dou with his family in ship Arbella, which left London Apr. 26. 1639, and was the first ship to enter the harbor at New Haven.
We learn of Jasper in Boston June 21, 1640, as agent for Mr. Roe, of Lou- dou, regarding honse lot and three acres of land, lying in Boston, wherein Will- iam Herricke uow dwelleth. This theo- ry would prove that he may have been in Boston as an agent for a London Company previous to this date. As sur- veyor and land agent it is quite proba- ble that he dealt largely in real estate and building lots. He sigued the first agreement at a general meeting at Mr. Newman's barn in New Haven, June 4, 1639, and took the oath of fidelity with Caufield, Pennington, Eaton and others. His house lot number 49. drawu Feb. 6, 1607, was located ou what is now Elo street, corner of Orange street, occupied by the church of St. Thomas. Delivered had number 40, and John number 62. At the organization of government of the colony, he was "freed from watch- ing and trayning in his own turn, be- cause of his weakness, but to find some one for his turn." He was a member of the General Court with Robert Treat, and magistrate many years in the colo- ny. Was interested in a bog ore fur
nace at East Haven in 1651, removed to Branford, seven miles east of New Haven, in 1652, was deputy magistrate and magistrate in 1658 at Branford. In 1664 was commissioner to administer oath of allegiance to all the freemeu of New Haven after the union with the Counecticut colony. In 1665 he was ap- pointed one of the committee of safety to protect the colony against DeRuyter, the Dutch admiral, who was cruising in the sound threatening the colony. Among other honors he had fifth seat in the meeting house. Notwithstanding the disability of the weakness that pre- vented Jasper Crane from "watching and trayning" in his own person he seems to have lived in high authority in the midst of affairs in stirring times. A power in the colonial wilderness, it was as a Moses that he led the twenty-three families of Branford to the canaan of the Passaic lands, captain over these ex- iles even as Robert Treat was captain over the forty-one families of Milford.
The Passaic settlement first bore the name of Milford, but was changed to Newark at the suggestion of the be- loved pastor of the church at Branford. The home lot that fell to Jasper Crane at Newark was directly north of the Essex county court house, and is now the site of St. Paul's Episcopal church. The meeting honse was nearby, and surrounded by a palisade, and in the cupola a guard of settlers kept watch for hostile Indians, while the worship was in progress.
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dates 1590, 1605, 1610. It is quite proba- bie that he was twice married, and that Stephen, born about 1630 was of the first marriage. His will dated at New- ark 1678, names wife Alice, who probably died before his death in 1682, was proved 1681. One authority gives Stephen, who settled at Elizabeth, as born 1640. Some conjecture that this Stephen was a brother of Jasper and that Phebe, who married Canfield, was a sister. Traditionally we can have Stephen as a brother and as a son ; per- haps there were two Stephens.
We give the tradition of Israel Crane a great-great grandson of Stephen, of Elizabeth Town. "About 1625 A. D. thirty years before Elizabeth Town. N. J., was settled, during the persecutions of the Puritans in England under Queen Elizabeth, the ancestor of the Crane family came to America. His name was Stephen. The ship in which be came is supposed to have sailed from the west of England, favored by em- barkation by a fog, which allowed es- cape in case of pursuit. When the fog passed away the ship was out of sight of land. It is said to have sunk at Amboy. N. J., but all on board were saved. Stephen Crane and his fellow voyagers settled Elizabeth Town, named for Queen Elizabeth, who confirmed the purchase of lands from the Indians."
From what I have before stated it is hard to accase any of the Crane family with drawing the long bow, it may have been attributed to his mother's rela- tion. 1625 and 30 make 1655, ten years before Elizabeth Town was settled. Sail-
ing from the west of England would give a Cheshire county location. If the ship sunk at Amboy in 1625, the name was not known at that time. If they then settled at Elizabeth Town at that time, the settlement must have been abandoned forty years. We presume this Stephen to have been at least twen - ty-five years of age when he left Eng- fland. Nathaniel, his reputed son, was born 1680, which is not probable. This Stephen is not mentioned in the New England settlements, but there were many others there. If he died after 1710 he would have been over 110 years of age.
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