The Crandall Line
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Elizabeth NN
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� 20 June 1605 Winterbourne
He married Eleanor
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� <1602
� 8 June 1618 at Westerleigh
Elder John Crandall � c1648, Newport, Newport, RI
Mary Opp
� c1620, , , England
� 1 Aug 1670, Westerly, Washington, RI, Age: 50[www19]
Notes from LINK -
The very earliest mention of Elder John Crandall seems to be in Newport, Rhode Island as a grand juror on 8 Sep 1643.
He was also mentioned in a case against Thomas Gennings in Newport 3 Dec 1643.
Elder John is owed �0, 04s, 06d from the estate of Henry Sandyes of Boston, MA in his inventory dated 7 Feb 1651.
[This is from the account books of Sandyes and many individuals are mentioned.]
The next mention of Elder John is the account of his journey to Lynn, MA from Newport on Baptist church business to visit
William Witter, referred to as "an aged member" in July 1651. He traveled with Rev. John Clarke (pastor of the first Baptist
Church in Newport) and Obadiah Holmes. They were subsequently arrested for being anabaptists and were all fined �
Clarke, �20; Holmes, �30; and Elder John �5. In default of the fines, each was "to be well whipped." Elder John was finally
allowed to go home on bail.
Elder John first appears as a freeman in the township of Newport in 1655.
He is listed as a Commissioner for the town of Newport 2 Nov 1658.
In that same year, Elder John, along with Thomas Olney, Samuel Gorton, and John Tripp, was "chosen and authorized to
draw up a letter to be sent to Mr. John Clarke in England, to be presented to his Highness and Councell ..."
He was appointed as a Commissioner from Newport again on 17 May 1659.
Elder John was chosen in 1659, along with Arthur Fenner, Thomas Cooke, and Robert Westcott, "... to marke out the
westward bounds of our collony ... "
Listed 27 Aug 1661 as one of the original petitioners for the settlement of Askomicutt [Westerly, RI]. The other eight listed
are: Josoph Torrey, John Cranston, William Vaughan, John Coggeshall, Hugh Mosier, James Barker, Caleb Carr,
James Rogers [spellings as in original document].
Elder John was listed again as Commissioner for the town of Newport 22 May 1662.
Listed as a committeeman from Newport regarding legislation on the same date.
Listed again as a Commissioner from Newport 17 June 1662.
Listed as a quasi tax collector in Newport in 1662.
Listed as a Commissioner from Newport 12 May 1663.
He is mentioned again in Rhode Island history in relationship to his "intrusions" into Stonington, CT. The complaint is dated
30 Oct 1667, mentioning that he had "laid out a mile square of land for his son [John, Jr.] within the limits of their town."
On 14 Apr 1668 he participated in a religious debate in Boston, MA. He is called "Grendall of Narragansett."
Elder John signs over "all ... my goods, Chattels, Debts, household stuf ... and ... have putt my ... sonn in ... posession of all ...
promisses by the delivery unto him of one shilling in silver currant mony ... of England ..." This is a document dated 3 Oct 1670
and involved his son, John, Jr.
Elder John, as a Rhode Island "officer", was seized and taken to New London, CT for trial on 2 May 1671.
His "mantion house", containing 200 acres, "... lyeing ... in ... Westerly alias Squomacutt ... " is turned over by John Crandall,
son of John, deceased, to brothers Jeremiah and Heber, "now residents in Newport ... and in the tuition of their mother
Hannah Crandall ... ", document dated 13 May 1678.
Notes from Thomas Minor Diary LINK Article - "Elder John Crandall, the Miller" -
1668 July
"wensday the 8. I was at Crandals mill" p. 85.
1668 August
"the ffifte day wensday I was at Crandals mill saterday the .8. Crandall and his wife was heare" p. 86.
1669 December
"wensday .29. I was at Crandals mill" p. 93.
1670 July
"thursday 21. mr Crandale was heare I had fouer loads of oats" p. 97.
1670 August
"The 2 day of Agust 1670. Crandals wife was buried" p. 97.
1673
"wensday .24. I was at Crandalls mill" p. 119.
1675-6 [The Indian wars were heating up and endangering scattered homesteaders in Westerly. As a consequence, many settlers, including John Crandall, moved to Newport safely located on the island of Aquidneck. John Crandall died while he was in Newport.]
Early Settlers of Westerly, RI J.D. Champlin, Jr.,
New England Historical & Genealogical Register, Vol 14, January 1860, p. 23
CRANDALL, John - Freeman, Newport, 1655; Commissioner 1658; his name is the first on list of free inhab. Westerly in 1669. He was the first Elder of the Baptist Society of Westerly. He d. abt. 1676. (In a letter from Samuel HUBBARD to Dr. Edward STENNETT, pastor of a Baptist Church in Bell Lane, London, bearing the date Newport, R.I., Nov. 1676: "Now, dear brother, although we are not destroyed by the Indians, God hath visited this land by taking away many by death - in, in this place, of all sorts. Of the old church, first, Mr. Joseph TORREY; then my dear brother John CRANDALL; then Mr. John CLARKE; then William WEEDEN, a deacon; then John SALMON."): had sons John, Joseph, Peter, Jeremiah, Eber, & (James?).
� 18 Jun 1672, Warwick, Kent, RI
Elizabeth Gorton
EC LINK
� 1646, Warwick, Kent, RI
d. 1704, Age: 58[www19]
Children
John CRANDALL
Elizabeth Crandall
Mary CRANDALL
Peter CRANDALL
Samuel CRANDALL
She married Stephen Wilcox
NAN LINK
b 1670 in Kingstowne, Westerly, Rhode Island[rt8].
was born 1670 in Westerly, Kings Co., Rhode Island.[www18][www19]
Lineage = Crandall -> Wilcox -> Saunders -> Barb�
[rt1] Reference Texts
[www1] WWW References
[hs1] Prof. Dr. Herbert Stoyan references
[S418] Bonner & Bass references - change ending of URL below to find the source. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mysouthernfamily/myff/sources/sou0003.html#S418
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