John Crandall

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• Alternate death: 20 Aug 1830

John married Phebe Freeman on 3 Jan 1802 in Dighton, Bristol, Massachusetts. Phebe was born in 1785; died on 2 Nov 1842; was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Bristol Center, Ontario, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Intentions recorded 5 Nov 1801.

1. David Freeman Crandall was born on 15 May 1827 in Ontario County, New York; died on 20 Jun 1873 in Howell, Livingston, Michigan; was buried in Lakeview Cemetery, Howell, Livingston, Michigan.

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Called by John Cortland Crandall (citation details below) "Jonathan." Rhode Island Births and Christenings (citation details below) incorrectly gives his mother as "Esther", his father's second wife. Esther Lewis married Col. John Crandall in 1740.

John married Elizabeth Pratt on 18 Sep 1772 in Dighton, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Intentions registered 27 Aug 1772.

John married Mary Crandall on 19 Nov 1730 in Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island. Mary died before 17 Apr 1740. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Marriage performed by Theodoty Rhodes, Justice.

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He took the oath of allegiance in Westerly on 17 May 1679. Freeman in 1681. Deputy from 1699 to 1704. Justice of the peace. Lieutenant of militias. Administration on his estate was granted to his wife Mary on 29 Jul 1734.

Peter married Mary Babcock. Mary (daughter of James Babcock and Jane Brown) died after 29 Jul 1734. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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From Wikipedia:

John Crandall, one of the founding settlers of Westerly, Rhode Island, was born in 1618 (baptized February 15, 1617/8) in Westerleigh, Gloucestershire, England to James Crandall, a yeoman of Kendleshire in that parish, and his first wife Eleanor. The origin of the name is undoubtedly a place-name, Crundelend, in Abberley, Worcestershire, where people bearing the name were concentrated in the 16th century. [...]

While the exact date of Crandall's arrival is not known, it is believed to be 1637 when he arrived in Providence, Rhode Island, then a new settlement and a refuge for dissident Puritans from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

From Providence he came to Newport, Rhode Island, as early as 1651. (The first actual documentation for Elder John Crandall in American is in 1643 when he appears as a grand jury member in Newport.) He became a prominent member of the First Baptist Church in Newport there, subsequently the first elder of the denomination at Westerly, Rhode Island. With John Clarke and Obadiah Holmes he went to Lynn, Massachusetts, to hold services for the Baptists, was arrested there July 21, 1651, and sent to prison in Boston. Ten days later he was convicted of breaking the law by holding services and fined five pounds, in default of which he was to be publicly whipped. Upon his promise to appear at the next term of court he was released.

In 1655, he was a freeman of Rhode Island; in 1658-59, 1662–63, he was a commissioner.

With eight others he signed a letter to the court of commissioners of Rhode Island, dated August 27, 1661, in relation to a tract of land at Westerly, where they and others desired to settle.

He was a deputy to the general assembly in 1667, and in the fall of that year was living at Westerly. He and Joseph Torrey were appointed commissioners to treat with Connecticut as to jurisdiction over disputed territory, May 14, 1669, and he was supplied with thirty-five shillings by the colony of Rhode Island to pay his expenses to Connecticut.

On November 18, 1669, he received a letter from the governor and assistants of Connecticut, complaining that he and others had appropriated a large tract of land belonging to Stonington, Connecticut. He and Tobias Saunders answered the complaint for the Westerly people. He was conservator of the peace at Westerly in 1670, and deputy to the general assembly again in 1670-71.

He was arrested by the Connecticut authorities, May 2, 1671, and was advised by the Rhode Island government to decline to give bond. The Rhode Island colony promised to pay his expenses and defend him.

The name of his first wife (by whom he had at least seven children) is not known, but it was not Mary Opp as was previously thought and is widely mentioned. He married, as his second wife, Hannah Gaylord (born 1647), daughter of William Gaylord and Ann (Porter), of Windsor, Connecticut. She died in 1678. He died at Newport, where he had moved because of King Philip's War, in 1676.

John married (Unknown first wife of John Crandall). (Unknown died on 2 Aug 1670 in Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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From Wikipedia:

Note that there is no record of the name of Elder John [Crandall's first] wife in any Rhode Island records nor has a record of the marriage ever been found. Based on the approximate dates of birth of their children (with the eldest, John, born ca. 1649 based on the date he appears as a freeman in Westerly) it would appear likely that Elder John married his first wife in the latter part of the 1640s. It also would seem to indicate that he probably married her in America. Since she is referred to as a "Sabbath keeper" in communications from Samuel Hubbard, it is likely that she was of the Seventh Day Baptist faith, and perhaps she was a daughter of one of the SDB families in Rhode Island at the time.

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• Alternate death: 1698, Woodville, Washington, Rhode Island

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Blacksmith and farmer. "[H]e manufactured iron from bog ore and from black sand gathered upon the seashore." [The Babcock Genealogy]

Constable of Providence Plantation in 1671. Westerly grand jury, 13 Dec 1687; Selectman, May 1688 and May 1689; Town Councilman 2 Jul 1693 and again in 1696.

James and his wife Jane are recorded in 1692 as members of the Seventh Day Baptist Church of Newport and Westerly.

James Babcock (1641-1698) = Jane Brown (d. 1718)
James Babcock (~1665-~1721) = ?
Jonathan Babcock (b. 1703) = Elizabeth Larkin (~1702-1784)
Mary Babcock (b. 1724) = John Casey (1724-1794)
Sarah Casey (1755-1813) = John Rathbun (1750-1810)
Phoebe Rathbun (1797-1848) = Jeremiah Phillips (1800-1848)
Whipple Van Buren Phillips (1833-1904) = Rhoby Alzada Place (1827-1896)
Sarah Susan Phillips (1857-1921) = Winfield Scott Lovecraft (1853-1898)
Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937)
James Babcock (1641-1698) = Jane Brown (d. 1718)
James Babcock (~1665-~1721) = ?
Jonathan Babcock (b. 1703) = Elizabeth Larkin (~1702-1784)
Mary Babcock (b. 1724) = John Casey (1724-1794)
Sarah Casey (1755-1813) = John Rathbun (1750-1810)
Sarah Rathbun (1787-1868) = Stephen Place (1783-1849)
Rhoby Alzada Place (1827-1896) = Whipple Van Buren Phillips (1833-1904)
Sarah Susan Phillips (1857-1921) = Winfield Scott Lovecraft (1853-1898)
Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937)

James married Jane Brown about 1665 in Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island. Jane (daughter of Nicholas Brown) died between 30 Apr 1718 and 4 Feb 1719 in Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 30 Apr 1718
• Alternate death: 1719
• Alternate death: Bef Feb 1719, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island

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"On August 7, 1699, she was convicted of selling drink by retail, contrary to order, and was fined forty shillings for it, but the fine was remitted on her petition." [Babcock and Allied Families, citation details below]

James married Eleanor. Eleanor died before 8 Jun 1618; was buried on 8 Jun 1618 in Westerleigh, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Buried: 8 Jun 1619, Westerleigh, Gloucestershire, England

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• Alternate death: 12 Jun 1679, Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island
• Alternate death: 12 Jun 1679, Stonington, New London, Connecticut
• Alternate death: Aft 12 Jun 1679, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island

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Also called James Babcock.

First appears in Portsmouth, Rhode Island in 1642; came to Westerly with his family in March 1662. One of the initial freemen of Westerly. He was a blacksmith and a gunsmith.

"In 1678 he was baptized by Elder William Hiscox and he joined the Seventh Day Baptist Church of Newport and Westerly." [Ancestral Lines, Third Edition, citation details below.]

James married Sarah about 1640 in England. Sarah died after 1664. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 1665

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• Alternate death: 1694, Monmouth County, New Jersey

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Admitted an inhabitant of Aquidneck in 1638. One of the twenty-eight founders of Portsmouth, Rhode Island.

"1639, Apr. 30. He and twenty-eight others signed the following compact: 'We, whose names are underwritten, do acknowledge ourselves the legal subjects of his majesty, King Charles, and in his name do hereby bind ourselves into a civil body politicke, unto his laws, according to matters of justice." [The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island, citation details below.]

The identity of his children's mother is unknown. He married, second, between 1657 and 1659, Frances, widow of George Parker.

William S. Hornor's statement (citation details below) that he died in Monmouth County, New Jersey is probably due to confusion of this Nicholas Brown with his son Nicholas Brown. This Nicholas Brown's will was made and proved at Portsmouth, Rhode Island.