Person:Edward Cranfield (1)

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Edward Cranfield
b.Abt 1615
bur.8 Nov 1700 Bath Abbey, Somerset, England
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Name[1][2][3] Edward Cranfield
Gender Male
Birth[1] Abt 1615 Rough estimate.
Burial[1] 8 Nov 1700 Bath Abbey, Somerset, England


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Edward Cranfield (fl. 1680–1696) was an English colonial administrator.

Cranfield was governor of the Province of New Hampshire from 1682 to 1685, in an administration that was marked by hostility between Cranfield and the colonists.


Cranfield left New Hampshire in 1685 for Barbados, where he was appointed commissioner of customs, where he introduced a 4.5% tax on sugar exports, and sat on the council in the 1690s. He died 1700 and is buried in Bath Cathedral.

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  2. ↑ Noyes, Sybil; Charles Thornton Libby; and Walter Goodwin Davis. Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire. (Portland, Maine: Southworth Press, 1928-1939)
    169.

    "Cranfield, Edward, after an active administrative career in Barbadoes and Jamaica, begun as early as 1639, was app. Lieut. Gov. of N. H., through infl. of Robert Mason, 9 May and arriv. at his post at Great Island 4 Oct. 1682. … Later called 'a most base Tory.' his admin. Was unpopular and ended 15 May 1685. He was in Bristol Jan. 1685-6, but of Barbadoes 'formerly of St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, Middlesex' in 1688 when he sold his Gr. Isl. House to John Hinckes. Returned to Eng. and bur. in Bath Abbey 8 Nov. 1700, leaving a widow and issue."

  3. ↑ Edward Cranfield, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    1:472.

    "Cranfield, Edward, New Hampsh. came in Oct. 1682, as lieut.-gov. sway. tyrannic. till he went home 1685, d. bef. 1704. Belkn. I. 91-115. Chalmers, 493-7."

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