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John Crandall

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Name John Crandall [1, 2, 3] Birth Bef 15 Feb 1618 [4] Baptism 15 Feb 1618 Westerleigh, Gloucestershire, England [4]
Gender Male Death Bef 29 Nov 1676 Newport, Newport, Rhode Island [5, 6, 7]
Person ID I5728 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others Last Modified 13 Oct 2024
Father James Crandall, b. Abt 1589 d. Bef 7 Oct 1662 (Age ~ 73 years) Mother Eleanor d. Bef 8 Jun 1618 Family ID F714 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 (Unknown first wife of John Crandall) d. 2 Aug 1670, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island Children 1. John Crandall d. Between 25 Jan 1704 and 14 Aug 1704 2. Jane Crandall d. Bef 26 Mar 1715 3. James Crandall 4. Sarah Crandall d. Bef 1695 + 5. Peter Crandall, b. Abt 1655, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island d. Bef 29 Jul 1734, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island
(Age ~ 79 years)
+ 6. Rev. Joseph Crandall, b. Abt 1661, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island d. 12 Sep 1737, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island
(Age ~ 76 years)
7. Samuel Crandall, b. 1663 d. 19 May 1736, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island (Age 73 years)
Family ID F1383 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 13 Oct 2024
Family 2 Hannah Gaylord, b. 30 Jan 1647, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut d. 3 Aug 1678, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island
(Age 31 years)
Marriage Aft 2 Aug 1670 [5, 6] Children 1. Jeremiah Crandall, b. Aft 1670 d. Between 1 Aug 1718 and 28 Aug 1718, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island (Age < 46 years)
+ 2. Eber Crandall, b. 1675 d. Between 22 Aug 1727 and 15 Sep 1727, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island (Age 52 years)
Family ID F2037 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 13 Oct 2024
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Photos John Crandall John Crandall - 1
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Notes - 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.
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Sources - [S43] Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, from Gale Research, on ancestry.com.
- [S3730] The Descendants of Robert Burdick of Rhode Island by Nellie Willard Johnson. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse Typesetting, 1937.
- [S7882] Scott Andrew Bartley, "George Lanphear of Westerly, Rhode Island and His Descendants." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 153:131, Apr 1999; 159:333, Oct 2005; 160:47, Jan 2006.
- [S930] Paul M. Gifford, "The Probable Origins and Ancestry of John Crandall, of Westerly, Rhode Island (1618-1676)." Rhode Island Roots 32:165, December 2006.
- [S756] Early New England Families Study Project: Accounts of New England Families from 1641 to 1700 by Alicia Crane Williams. Online database, New England Historic Genealogical Society.
- [S3763] Babcock and Allied Families by Louis Effingham De Forest. New Haven, Connecticut: De Forest Publishing Co., 1928.
- [S930] Paul M. Gifford, "The Probable Origins and Ancestry of John Crandall, of Westerly, Rhode Island (1618-1676)." Rhode Island Roots 32:165, December 2006., year and place only.
- [S43] Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, from Gale Research, on ancestry.com.