1William Richard Cutter and William Frederick Adams, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts, Vol. 4, p. 2211 (1910).
"(II) Stephen, second son of Henry and Tabitha (Kinsley) Crane, was born in that party of the town of Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, called Uncataquissett, set off as the town of Milton, May 7, 1662. The date of the marriage of his parents and of the birth of their first three sons--Benjamin, Stephen and Henry--are not recorded in the town books. The date of the birth of the fourth son John is fixed as the11 mo. 30, 1658, which would make the approximate year of birth of Stephen 1655-56. He was brought up on his father's estate, and probably continued in that occupation during his entire life. He married (first) July 2, 1676, Mary Denison, born in 1660, died June 17, 1721. Children, all born during the life of father: 1. Mary, July 1680. 2. Tabitha, October 7, 1682, died November 13, 1682. 3. Elizabeth, March 14, 1684; married Samuel Fuller, January 15, 1718. 4. Samuel, May 23, 1687. 5. Zerviah, November 30, 1690. 6. Benjamin, mentioned below. Stephen Crane married (second) Comfort, widow of Samuel Belcher, of Braintree, August 13, 1723; no children. He died at Milton, Massachusetts, July 20, 1738, and his widow died in Milton, December 21, 1745.
(III) Benjamin, youngest child of Stephen and Mary (Denison) Crane, was born in that part of the Blue Hill lands as were divided between Braintree and Milton, May 30, 1712, December 17, 1692.".