John Crane, Sr. of Newark

Children of JASPER CRANE and ALICE ? are:

3. i. JOHN CRANE I,was born 1635 in New Haven Colony, and died 1694 in Newark, Essex Co., NJ. He married (1) ELIZABETH FOOTE. She was born 1637 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., CT. He married (2) HANNAH ?.

Family

John born about 1635 died in 1694 came to Newark from Branford with his father and married twice:

first, Elizabeth sister of Nathaniel Foote of Wethersfield, who bore him four children:

1. John 1671 died February 22 1739 married and had children
2. Jasper 3 1 1679 died 1749 or 1769 married Ann and had children
3. Daniel 1684 died September 8 1747 married Phebe daughter of Nathaniel and granddaughter of Sergeant John Ward and Sarah

By his second wife, Hannah, John Crane may have had other children not of record

Biography

2—1. John, b. about 1635. Rev. Stephen Dodd says he married Elizabeth Foote, a sister of Nathaniel Foote, of Wethersfield. Conn., and settled in Brauford, Conn., in 1663, signing the Branford agreement with his father. He with his brothers Delivered and Jasper were among the first to remove to the settlement of Newark, N. J., in the spring of 1666. The first town meeting was held in Newark. May 21, 1666. He died in 1694, aged 59. He was first elected to public office there as fence viewer. Jan. 2, 1670-1, and he soon became prominent in public affairs. He had a seat in the first meeting-house in Newark. Was among the deputies to the General Assembly of New Jersey, 1671-5. In 1674, he was chosen by vote of the town to warn the people, at his end of the town, of town meetings. He was chosen grand juryman for 1677, and selectman in 1683. His house lot plated on the map of Newark, published in 1806, places it on Broad Street, northerly from Trinity Episcopal Church and the upper Common, and ex- tending to the Passaic River. He was to have the '-silver bole," and at his death, the bowl evidently went to his brother Azariah, although it may have passed through the hands of Delivered. A warrant was issued under date. April 27, 1694, to him for seventy-three acres of land, in eight parcels, the fifth by Maple Island. His will, dated, 1694, proved Jan. 6, 1695, names wife Hannah. She was his 2d wife

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