Historical records matching Deacon Azariah Crane
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About Deacon Azariah Crane
Deacon Azariah Crane married Mary daughter of Captain Robert Treat the Milford Branford settler of Newark and afterwards the governor of Connecticut She was born in 1649 died November 12 1704
Children with Mary Treat:
- Hannah married John Plum of Milford Connecticut
- Nathaniel was born about 1680 probably in Newark and died in 1760 leaving a will in which he names his children
- Azariah born 1682 settled at West Bloomfield near his brother Nathaniel was a subscriber to the fund for erecting the parsonage and meeting house at Montclair was chosen one of the pounders November 2 170. By his wife, Rebecca, had eight children
- 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 highwayand in 1740 one of the fence viewers. By his wife Phebe he had seven children
- Jane born 1686 died September 12 1755 became the first wife of John Richards of Newark to whom she bore three children
- Mary born 1693 married a Baldwin
- John born 169S 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
- Richard died in infancy
- Jasper died in infancy
85. John Crane3 [25], ( Azariah,2 Jasper1), m. 1st, Abigail ______, about 1717. She was b. 1700; she d. June 25, 1744. 2d, Rebecca ______ . He d. Sept. 5, 1776, aged 81.
Will names children: Jonas, a minor, named for a son who died Jan. 24, 1745, aged 27 years.
This Jonas [the elder son, b. 1718, m. Hannah LYON] was father of RUFUS, and this Rufus was father of William, of Baltimore, Md.
[NOTE: The untimely death of the elder Jonas Crane and his wife, Hannah Lyon, left their one year old son, Rufus, orphaned. Rufus then went to live in the home of his grandfather, John Crane.]
He [JOHN CRANE, father of both Jonas's] lived on the east side of Broad Street, 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. He was chosen in 1740, recorder for strays as well as assessor of taxes. These duties he performed many years; also serving on many important town committees, such as looking after the parsonage, collecting for the parsonage and burying-ground, etc.; a freeholder in 1757.
Obadiah and Jonas (the younger son) were children by second wife.
Children:
86— 1. Jonas, b. 1718.
87— 2. Samuel, b. 1723.
88— 3. Abigail, b. 1725; d. Oct. 29, 1736, aged 11 years.
89— 4. John.
90— 5. Eliakim.
91— 6. Elias.
92 — 7. Matthias; graduated at Yale, 1747; chosen pound-keeper, March 11, 1766; d. about 1777.
93— 8. Benjamin, b. 1740.
94— 9. Obadiah, b. 1741; d. Sept. 28, 1784, aged 43; lived in the stone house. Broad Street; m. Azariah Crane; probably served in Capt. Squiers' Co., 2d Regt., Essex Co., in Revolution.
95— 10. Jonas, b. 1747.
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Deacon Azariah Crane's Timeline
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April 2, 1651
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New Haven, New Haven Colony
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1676
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| 1678 |
1678
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Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, Colonial America
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1680
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Newark, Essex County, Province of New Jersey, (Present USA)
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May 1, 1682
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Newark, Essex, New Jersey, United States
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May 1, 1682
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Newark, Essex County, Province of East Jersey, Colonial America
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1684
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New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, United States
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1686
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Newark, N J
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| 1689 |
1689
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Newark, Essex County, Province of New Jersey
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