John CRANE

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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."

John married Abigail CROSS on 29 Oct 1712. Abigail was born on 23 Jun 1694 in Windham, Windham County, Connecticut; died on 1 Sep 1765. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Settled first in Mansfield, Conn., but was of Lebanon in 1765, when in April of that year he declined to act with his brother Hezekiah as one of the executors of his father's will. He could not have long been a resident of Lebanon, for he was of Mansfield in 1762 and again in 1770. It is supposed the family removed from the town, as no records of his descendants are to be found at Mansfield where his children were born. It appears that he was twice married, for his grandson Edmund Franklin Craine, says he married a Welsh lady by name of Mary Neff.

Ebenezer married Sarah CURTIS on 21 Jun 1744. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Mr. Crane lived and died in Mansfield, Conn.; he was executor of his father's will, and it is supposed from the records that he lived on the Crane homestead, and that his father and mother spent their last days with him.

Hezekiah married Tamesin ELDRIDGE on 6 Jun 1749. Tamesin (daughter of Elisha ELDREDGE and Dorcas MULFORD) died on 15 Mar 1771. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]