John Scranton, Sr., of Guilford

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The first settler from Surrey or Kent, England. Landed in Boston, 1637; New Haven, 1638; Guilford 1639. Info. compiled by Rev. Erastus Scranton, "Memorial to the Scranton Family", Descendant of the First Settler, John Scranton, A.M. Harford , Press of Case, Tiffany and Co. 1855, p.104, CS71.S433, published: 1855.

John and about 40 others left Surry & Kent England to escape religious persecution. They were referred to as "Puritans". Erastus listed over 800 descendants.

"JOHN SCRANTON, with the number of about twenty-five heads of families, made a settlement in Guilford on or about the 10th of October, 1639.

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Sue E Fitzpatrick AboutRevisions View in: English (default) history The first settlers of Guilford, Connecticut came to America as passengers on the Saint John. The company of settlers on the Saint John was led by the Reverend Henry Whitfield, who had been the rector of St. Margaret's at Ockley in Surrey since 1616.

They sailed from England on 20 May 1639 under the command of a Captain Richard Russell, and arrived at New Haven (then Quinnipac), Connecticut, between the 10th and 15th of July 1639.

While still at sea the settlers organized a single communal plantation; this was outlined in a document now known as the Plantation Covenant. It was signed by twenty five men.

Guilford, CT Plantation Covenant We whose names are herein written, intending by God's gracious permission, to plant ourselves in New England, and if it may be in the southerly part, about Quinpisac [Quinnipiac, later named New Haven], we do faithfully promise each for ourselves and families and those that belong to us, that we will, the Lord assisting us, sit down and join ourselves together in one entire plantation and to be helpful to the other in any common work, according to every man's ability and as need shall require, and we promise not to desert or leave each other on the plantation but with the consent of the rest, or the greater part of the company, who have entered into this engagement.

As for our gathering together into a church way and the choice officers and members to be joined together in that way, we do refer ourselves until such time as it shall please God to settle us in our plantation.

In witness whereof we subscribe our hands, this first day of June 1639.

Robert Kitchell Abraham Crittenden John Housingsoe John Mepham Wm. Plane John Bishop Wm. Crittenden Thomas Joanes Thomas Naish John Stone Francis Bushnell Henry Doude John Jurden William Noble Wm. Stone Francis Chatfield William Dudley Henry Kingstone John Norton Richd. Sutridge Thomas Cooke John Hoadley Wm. Leete John Parmarly Rev. Henry Whitfield The names of the Guilford settlers that came to New Haven in the second ship in July, 1639, are believed to be as follows:

Francis Austin George Bartlett Edward Benton Samuel Blachley William Boreman Richard Bristow Alexander Chalker John Caffinch, rem. to N.H. Samuel Desborough Thomas Dunk Thomas French George Highland John Johnson John Linsley Thomas Mills Thomas Reif John Scranton John Sheader or Sheather Jacob Sheafe William Somers John Stevens Edward Seward Jasper Stillwell Benjamin Wright Links http://www.wellswooster.com/tree/getperson.php?personID=I22437&tree... http://dunhamwilcox.net/ct/new_haven3.htm Sources HISTORY of THE COLONY OF NEW HAVEN To its absorption into CONNECTICUT by Edward E. Atwater with Supplementary History and Personnel of the Towns of Branford, Guilford, Milford, Stratford, Norwalk, Southold, etc. compiled by Robert Atwater Smith assisted by Bessie E. Beach and Lucy M. Hewitt Meriden, Conn. The Journal Publishing Company, 1902

They came from Guilford, and from the counties of Kent and Surrey, in England.

The year of John Scranton's birth is not known. It is probable he was not over twenty-nine or thirty at the time of emigration, and lived after his arrival about thirty-one or thirty-two years, and died 27th of August, 1671, aged about sixty or sixty-one, and about two years before his son John was married. [Town Records, p. 68.]

He was twice married.

First, to Joanna, (probably in England.) The name of her parents is not ascertained. She died July 22, 1661, about ten years before her husband.

Married second time to Ada, or Adaline Hill, who was the widow of Robert and had been the widow of Robert Johnson, May 22, 1666. She died April, 1685.

Mr. R. Johnson died 1661. Mr. R. Hill, to whom she was remarried January 7, 1662, died August 3, 1663.

Mr. Scranton was a member of General Court in 1669 and 1670."

History of the Colony of New Haven to its Absorption into Connecticut by Edward E. Atwater, Guilford Personal Sketches

"The names of the Guilford settlers that came to New Haven in the second ship in July, 1639, are believed to be as follows:

Francis Austin, George Bartlett, Edward Benton, Samuel Blachley, William Boreman, Richard Bristow, Alexander Chalker, John Caffinch, rem. to N.H., Samuel Desborough, Thomas Dunk, Thomas French, George Highland, John Johnson, John Linsley, Thomas Mills, Thomas Reif, John Scranton, John Sheader or Sheather, Jacob Sheafe, William Somers, John Stevens, Edward Seward, Jasper Stillwell, Benjamin Wright.

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JOHN SCRANTON

possibly one of the company that came in the second ship to New Haven with his wife Joanna, who died in 1651. He married in 1663 Mrs. Adeline (_____) Hill, widow of Robert Hill.

He died Aug. 27, 1671; his widow died in 1685.

The children, Thomas, John and Sarah, all by the first wife, married and left descendants. Probably most all persons of this name in Connecticut are descendants of this John Scranton."

Families of Ancient New Haven by Donald Lines Jacobus, pg. 997

"Deputy (Guilford) to N.H. Leg., Jan., 1664."

A "Mr. John Scranton" is buried at North Guilford Cemetery in Guilford, CT

"Lived in Guilford, Conn."

Families of Early Guilford, II:1036

Inscription Although this person was likely interred in Guilford's original village cemetery (now the commons and public park in downtown Guilford), no surviving gravestone was known in 1818 when all gravestones at the Village Green, but not the people's remains, were dispersed to other town cemeteries. Gravesite Details Time and weather had erased the location of this grave when the cemetery was moved

GEDCOM Note

John Scranton, I BIRTH 1609 Cranbrook, Tunbridge Wells Borough, Kent, England DEATH 27 Aug 1671 (aged 61–62) Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA

Spouses Joanna Scranton 1621–1651 (m. 1638)

Adaline Thomas Scranton 1613–1685 (m. 1666)

Inscription Although this person was likely interred in Guilford's original village cemetery (now the commons and public park in downtown Guilford), no surviving gravestone was known in 1818 when all gravestones at the Village Green, but not the people's remains, were dispersed to other town cemeteries. Gravesite Details Time and weather had erased the location of this grave when the cemetery was moved