John Baldwin Crane

No primary source for the middle name ("Baldwin").

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.

Genealogy of the Crane Family (c. 1900), pps. 308-9, 319