Jasper Crane

According to all relevant sources, he was born April 2, 1651.

8. Jasper Crane2 [8], (Jasper1), married Joanna Swaine, born 1651, daughter of Capt. Samuel and Joannah Swaine. She died Sept. 16, 1720, aged 69. He was born at East Haven, Conn., and removed with his parents to New Jersey.

In 1684, he purchased the property of Robert Lyman, who had returned to England. He was a member of the Assembly in 1704, in Cornbury's time, and also a magistrate.

He with his brothers John and Deliverance, owned seats in the first Church in Newark. Jasper, Jr., was given his share of public honors, having been chosen by popular vote to fill the various offices of fence viewer, surveyor of highways, constable, and selectman, as well as committeeman, deputy to the Provincial Assembly in 1697-1702, and to see about settling the minister, and the boundary controversy between Newark and Elizabethtown, etc.

He received two warrants for land, one, April 27, 1694, and the other, April 10, 1696, aggregating 120 acres, located on branches of the Elizabethtown River.

Jasper Crane has a house lot located on the map of Newark, published in 1806, at the corner of High and Market Streets; whether this was meant for senior or junior does not appear.

It is quite certain that he located in that part of Newark called Cranetown, afterwards West Bloomfield, now Montclair. Soon after the year 1681, at which time the town of Newark ordered the laying out of a highway as far as the mountain, which act no doubt was for the accommodation of settlers in that portion of the town, and where in the year, 1694, the town records give him a location, and it is said that his descendants, and those of his brother Azariah, occupied nearly, if not quite, all the westerly side of the town.

He died March 6, 1712, aged 62. His tombstone stood in the Presbyterian churchyard on Broad Street, Newark. According to his will he had the following children:

29— 1. Joseph, b. 1676.

30— 2. Elihu, b. 1689.

31— 3. David, b. 1693.

32— 4. Jonathan, b. 1678.

33— 5. Sarah, b. 1683; m. Joseph WHEELER.

34— 6. Hannah, b. 1690; m. Robt. OGDEN, Esq.

Genealogy of the Crane Family (c. 1900), p. 304-5

• From the WikiTree, "Jaspar Crane, Jr. (1651-1712), posted on the Internet at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Crane-697:
  • "Jasper Crane Jr. (1651) was one of the prominent men of the New Haven Colony and one of the original settlers of Newark, N. J. [The New Ark Colony.] he was on the Committee of Safety to protect the Colony against De Ruyter, the Dutch Admiral, who cruised on Long Island Sound and threatened the settlement [New Haven Colony]. During the Revolution the colony [probably New Haven City or county]put into service three boats. One was called the 'Crane' in honor of the family who stood so loyally by the colony. It was sent to New York to assist in the defense under General Washington."