Person:Benjamin Crane (2)

His testimony 15 May 1653 at Flushing says he had lived at Dedham for 9 years with Mr. Joseph Clark and one year at Dorchester with Mr. Howard. He also claimed to have lived "up Hudson River" 10 miles with Mrs. Vandunkes, daughter of Mr. Daughty. In this testimony, Benjamin said that Mrs. Vandunkes "spoke Indian" and that she told him that "three Sagamores that lived up country had said that the Dutch governor had hired them to cut off all the english and kill all they could, for which they were to have a shipload of powder, kettles, etc."

His brother Henry helped with the estate of John Crane who is found in Boston by early 1637 and who owned 26 acres in Roxbury, MA in 1642.

In 1688, he deeded his tannery and land to his son John, in exchange for £3 yearly in corn or pork.^S1

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Crane, Ellery B. (Ellery Bicknell). Genealogy of the Crane Family. (Worchester, Mass.: Press of Charles Hamilton, 1895, 1900).
2.   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)
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   CRANE, BENJAMIN, Medfield 1649, m. 12 Sept. 1656, Elinor Breck, prob. d. of Edward of Dorchester, rem. to Wethersfield, freem. of Conn. 1658, d. 31 May 1691, leav. Benjamin, Jonathan, Joseph, John, Abraham, Jacob, Israel, Elizabeth and Mary. Perhaps he liv. some yrs. late in life at Taunton, for his s. John there took his w. and (wh. is better ground for the infer.) there Samuel Hackett m. 28 Mar. 1690, his d. Mary.