Person Sheet


Name Benjamin Crane [immigrant]40
Birth ca 1630, England42
Death 31 May 1691, Wethersfield, Conn.42
Occupation Tanner63
Father John Crane [immigrant] (<1600-)
Spouses
1 Mary Backus [immigrant]42
Birth 6 May 1632, Prob. Sheffield, Yorkshire, England42
Death 8 Jul 1717, Wethersfield, Conn.42
Father William Backus [immigrant] (ca1606-1664)
Mother Elizabeth <unknown> (<1610-1643)
Marriage 23 Apr 1655, Wethersfield, Conn.42
Children Benjamin (1656-1693)
Jonathan (1658-1735)
Joseph (1661-)
John (1663-1694)
Elijah (1665-)
Abraham (1668-)
Jacob (1670-)
Israel (1671-)
Elizabeth (1672-)
Mary (1673-)
Notes for Benjamin Crane [immigrant]
On 15 May 1653 he testified at Flushing that he had lived at Dedham for 9 years with Mr. Joseph Clark and one year at Dorchester with Mr. Howard. The first record of Benjamin in Wethersfield, Conn., appears in the court records of March 1655. On 24 Feb 1656 he was granted a 2.5 acre home lot in Wethersfield, and on 14 Sep 1664 he purchased "John Dickenson's West Field" about a mile south of Wethersfield on the Middletown road where he located his home and the tanneries that were to become known as "Old Crane Tannery Place."63
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