John CRANE

1690 - 1765  (75 years)

• Name	John CRANE  [1]
  	John Crane was one of the early settlers of Coventry, Connecticut. October 1743, John Crane of Mansfield, and Wm. Williams with others asked the Assembly to fix site for Second Society Meeting-house. John Crane's will is dated may 31, 1764, proved March 16, 1765, probated March 19, 1765. Will mentions wife Abigail, children Hezekiah, Ebenezer, John, and Mary Allen, three grandchildren of his daughter Abigail Barrows, and three grandchildren of daughter of Ruth Paddock. Mrs. Crane's will was dated July 6, 1765, proved Sept. 25, 1765, probated oct. 1765. He died in Mansfield, March 1, 1765, aged 75. She died Sept. 1, 1765, aged 71 In what has been known as the Gurley burial-ground, situated about a mile and a half northwest from the meeting-house in North Mansfield, John Crane and his wife Abigail were buried, and their gave-stones were standing in 1868, bearing the following inscriptions: "In memory of Mr. John Craine who died March ye --1765 in ye 76 year of his age," "In memory of Mrs. Abigail ye wife of Mr. John Craine, who died Sept ye --1765, in ye---year of her age." [1]
  Birth	1689 or 1690  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	1 Mar 1765	Mansfield, Connecticut   [1]
  Person ID	I93418	Main Tree
  Last Modified	6 Dec 2018

  
  

  Family	Abigail CROSS,   b. 23 Jun 1694, Windham, Windham County, Connecticut d. 1 Sep 1765 (Age 71 years)
  Marriage	29 Oct 1712  [1]
  Children	+ 1. Ebenezer CRANE,   b. 4 Jul 1720, Mansfield, Connecticut  [Birth] + 2. Hezekiah CRANE,   b. 10 Oct 1725, Mansfield, Connecticut d. 8 Jan 1795, Mansfield, Connecticut (Age 69 years)  [Birth]
  Family ID	F39046	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Dec 2018

  
  

• Sources

  [S10307] Ellery Bicknell Crane, Genealogy of the Crane Family Vol. 2 Descendants of Benjamin Crane, of Wethersfield, Conn; and John Crane, of Coventry, Conn.; also of Jasper Crane, of New Haven, Conn.; and Newark, NJ, and Stephen Crane, of Elizabethtown, NJ, (Forgotten Books).