Person:John Scranton (2)

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Captain John Scranton
b.Est 1641
d.2 Sep 1703 Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States (probably)
Parents and Siblings
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m. Bef 1641
  1. Captain John ScrantonEst 1641 - 1703
  2. Sarah Scranton1645 -
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Captain John ScrantonEst 1641 - 1703
  • W.  Mary Seward1651/52 - Bef 1689
m. 12 Mar 1673/74
  1. Mary Scranton1678 - 1743
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Captain John ScrantonEst 1641 - 1703
  • W.  Mercy Johnson1665 -
m. Est 1689
Spouse and Children
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m. 16 Dec 1691
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Facts and Events
Name[1] Captain John Scranton
Gender Male
Birth[1] Est 1641 Estimate based on dates of births of sibling.
Marriage 12 Mar 1673/74 Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, United Statesto Mary Seward
Marriage Est 1689 Estimate based on date of death of his first wife and date of his third marriage.
to Mercy Johnson
Marriage 16 Dec 1691 Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, United Statesto Elizabeth Bishop
Death[1] 2 Sep 1703 Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States (probably)
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 2. John Scranton, in Talcott, Alvan, and Jacquelyn L. Ricker. Families of Early Guilford, Connecticut. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing. Co., 1984)
    1036.

    "2. John Scranton, son of John and Joanna, died 2 September 1703. He married/1 12 March 1674 Mary Seward who was born 28 February 1652 and died 1688. He married/2 Mercy Johnson who was born 12 January 1665. He married/3 16 December 1691 Elizabeth Bishop who was born 1660 and died August 1727. Lived in East Guilford, Conn."

  2.   1. Capt. John Scranton, Jun., in Scranton, Erastus. A genealogical register of the descendants of John Scranton of Guilford, Conn., who died in the year 1671. (Hartford Conn.: Case, Tiffany & Co., 1855)
    14.

    "1. Capt. John Scranton, Jun., is the first of the name born in Guilford. He located in East Guilford, now Madison, within the limits of Hammonasset School District, and in the East Street, about half a mile west of said river. The year he settled there can not be ascertained; but he and several other families were residing there in 1672. He was twice married. 1st. To Mary Seward, March 12,1673-4, daughter of William. She was born February 28, 1652. [Town Records, p. 77.]. 2d. To Widow Elizabeth Clark, December 10, 1691, daughter of John Bishop, and died August, 1727. Farmer. He died 1703, aged 62."

  3.   John Scranton, 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)
    4:41.

    "John (Scranton), Guilford, s. of the preced. m. Mary Seward, d. prob. of William of the same, had Mary, John, and Mehitable, was propound. for freem. 1670; and by sec. w. Eliz. Clark, perhaps d. of Thomas, had Mercy, b. 1688; Eliz. 4 Nov. 1692; Ann, 23 Dec. 1693; Ebenezer, 16 Mar. 1696; and Deborah, 3 Dec. 1697. John d. young; but other seven ch. were liv. 1703, at d. of the f."

  4.   CPT John Scranton, II, in Find A Grave.

    This burial is not documented in the Hale Collection. There appears to be no evidence of the actual place of burial.

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