Person:Benjamin Crane (15)
Benjamin Crane
b.1 Mar 1655/56 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
d.20 Jun 1693
Parents and Siblings
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m. 23 Apr 1655
  1. Benjamin Crane1655/56 - 1693
  2. Lieutenant Jonathan Crane1658 - 1735
  3. Joseph Crane1661 - 1707
  4. John Crane1663 - 1694
  5. Elijah CraneAbt 1665 - Abt 1726
  6. Israel Crane1671 - 1707
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Benjamin Crane1655/56 - 1693
  • W.  Mary ChapmanAbt 1665 - 1687
m. 12 May 1686
Spouse and Children
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m. Abt 1689
  1. Benjamin Crane1690 - 1693
  2. Isaac Crane1692 - 1712
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Facts and Events
Name[1] Benjamin Crane
Gender Male
Birth[2][3][4] 1 Mar 1655/56 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Marriage 12 May 1686 to Mary Chapman
Marriage Abt 1689 Before birth of 1st child
to Martha Boreman
Death[2][5][6][7] 20 Jun 1693 drowned
Estate Inventory[1] 9 Nov 1693 Personal Estate Inventory taken by John Wells, Daniel Bowman
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Benjamin Crane, in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
    1:433.

    Crane, Benjamin, Jr., Wethersfield. Invt £55-03-06, personal estate. Taken 9th November 1693, by John Wells, Daniel Bowman.

    Inventory of Real Estate, £216-00-00. Taken 4 March 1698-9 by Jonathan Boreman and Jonathan Belding. On the 5th day of March, 1697-8, Mrs. Martha Terry, formerly Martha Crane, Widow of Benjamin Crane,Jr., Decd, personally appeared ... and presented the Invt. of Houseing and Lands at Hartford.

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Benjamin Clark, Jr., in Families of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut
    2:254.

    Benjamin, Jr.,2 (Benj.,1) b. [1 Mch. 1656-6](see fam of Benjamin, Sr. entry); m. 12 May, 1686, Mary Chapman (prob. dau of Edward, of Windsor), who d. 5 Sept. 1687, ae 22; he m. (2) Martha (dau of Samuel & Mary Betts) Boardman; he was drowned 20 June 1693; his wid. m. (2) 5 Jun 1697-8, Samuel Terry, of Enfield, Ct., and d. 1743, se. 77, having had 5 sons and a dau by her Terry husband. Benjamin's estate was invent.. 1693, at &pound55-13-10; he was a tanner; his life, tho' brief was samewhat eventful; he was one of the Weth. men most active in opposing the usurpation of Gov. Andross in 1687-90 and his outspokeness led to an attempt to arrest hi under a special writ entrusted to a person (not a civil officer) with a file of soldiers, who broke into his house but failed to find him., tho they greatly endangered the life of his wife, who was, at the time, enciente. A full account of this matter will be found in page 213 of our fist volume. For ldd. ppy. see Capt. VII, Vol I.

  3. ↑ Goldthwaite, Charlotte. Boardman Genealogy, 1525-1895: The English Home and Ancestry of Samuel Boreman, Wethersfield, Conn.; Thomas Boreman, Ipswich, Mass. : With Some Account of Their Descendants (Now Called Boardman) in America. (Hartford, Conn.: William F. J. Boardman, 1895)
    page 210.

    'Martha Boreman ([daughter of] Samuel), born in Wethersfield, Aug. 12, 1666, married as second wife about 1689, Benjamin Crane Jr. of Wethersfield, born March 1, 1656, son of Benjamin and Mary Crane.'

  4. ↑ Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
    Wethersfield Vital Records:74 (typescript).

    'CRANE,...
    Ben,s.Ben & Mary,b.Mar.1,1655'

  5. ↑ Goldthwaite, Charlotte. Boardman Genealogy, 1525-1895: The English Home and Ancestry of Samuel Boreman, Wethersfield, Conn.; Thomas Boreman, Ipswich, Mass. : With Some Account of Their Descendants (Now Called Boardman) in America. (Hartford, Conn.: William F. J. Boardman, 1895)
    page 211.

    '... the death of Mr. Crane, which took place June 20, 1693, ...'

  6. ↑ additions and corrections, in Goldthwaite, Charlotte. Boardman Genealogy, 1525-1895: The English Home and Ancestry of Samuel Boreman, Wethersfield, Conn.; Thomas Boreman, Ipswich, Mass. : With Some Account of Their Descendants (Now Called Boardman) in America. (Hartford, Conn.: William F. J. Boardman, 1895)
    page 728.

    'Note on Mr. Crane. "Benjamin Crane, aged about 38 years, Dyed by water being Drowned June [th]e 20th, 1693." (Weth. Rec.)'

  7. ↑ Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
    Wethersfield Vital Records:74 (typescript).

    'CRANE,...Benjamin,d.June 20,1693,AE about 38'

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