Person:John Craggen (3)

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Name[2] John Craggen
Gender Male
Marriage 4 Nov 1661 Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Sarah Dawes
Death[1] 27 Oct 1708 Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
References
  1. Johnson, Edward F. Woburn Records of Births, Deaths, and Marriages . (Woburn, Massachusetts: Andrews, Cutler & Co., 1890-1919)
    Vol. 2, p. 44.

    CRAGGEN, John, Sen., s. of ---, [died] Oct. 27, 1708.

  2. Mathews, Barbara J. "Francis2 and Sarah (Craggen) Nurse of Reading, Massachusetts", in The American Genealogist (TAG). (Donald Lines Jacobus, et.al.)
    Vol. 69, p. 84.

    Sarah Dawes m. Woburn 4 Nov 1661 John Craggen, he d. Woburn 27 Oct 1708. "He was probably the John 'Cragon' transported with other Scottish prisoners from the Battle of Dunbar on the John and Sarah, which landed in Boston on 8 December 1651."

  3.   Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871. (American Ancestors, 2014)
    Case 5296: John Cargen 1708.

    Will of "John Craggin of Woobourne ... Husbandman, being very aged & much decay'd in my strength", dated 30 May 1704, proved 29 Nov 1708, "haveing made over all my housing and lands to my four sons in law, namely John Knight, Stephen ffish, ffrancis Nurse and Tho's Skelton, they haveing given me a bond to provide for me and my Wife while we live", names John's widow & children, grandson Benjamin Cragin, Deborah Craggin my son John's Widow and his children [later "my sons three children"], gran[d]son John Knight jun'r, daughter Anna [she "haveing promised to alow equall part with my sons in lawe towards the maintenance of my selfe and my wife"], daughter Elizabeth.
    23 Nov 1708: Inventory of John Cragen exhibited.