Israel Scranton (1778)

Born 4 Apr 1778 in Durham, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

Israel was born 4 Apr 1778 in Durham, Middlesex, Connecticut. He was the son of Abraham Scranton and Hannah Camp.^[1][2]

Israel Scranton married Ann Curtis 12 Oct 1800 in Durham, Connecticut.^[3]

Israel Scranton married Clarissa Pardee 9 Feb 1812 in Durham, Connecticut.^[3]

Israel Scranton paid in full on 10 Sep 1834 for 40 acres in the SouthEast quarter of the NorthWest quarter of Section 22 in Township 6 South of Range 6 East in the district of lands subject to sale at Detroit, Michigan Territory.^[4][5]

Research Notes

According to Erastus Scranton^[6] in the spring of 1832 Israel moved with his family to Dundee, Monroe County, Michigan. He was twice married; first to Ann Curtis 12 Oct 1800 and second to Clarissa Pardee 9 Feb 1812.

Scranton lists 17 children, born in Durham (1803), Camden North Carolina (1806, 1808, 1809), Durham (1810), Rochester New York (1813, 1814, 1816), and Durham (1817, 1819, 1821, 1822, 1825, 1827, 1828, 1832).

Note: The Barbour Collection for Durham has records for many of his children.

Sources

1. ↑ "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F74T-47S : 11 February 2018), Israel Scranton, 04 Apr 1778; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown.
2. ↑ Scranton: Page 35-36
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Connecticut, Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data: White, Lorraine Cook, ed. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Vol. 1-55. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002. Durham Vital Records page 82 from page 420.
4. ↑ Michigan, Homestead and Cash Entry Patents, Pre-1908 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1997. Original data: United States, Bureau of Land Management. Michigan Pre-1908 Homestead & Cash Entry Patent and Cadastral Survey Plat Index. General Land Office Automated Records Project, 1994. Israel Scranton, Detroit Land Office. Documetn 7738.
5. ↑ U.S. General Land Office Records, 1776-2015 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008. Original data: United States. Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records. Automated Records Project; Federal Land Patents, State Volumes. http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/. Springfield, Virginia: Bureau of Land Management, Eastern States, 2007. Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records; Washington D.C., USA; Federal Land Patents, State Volumes
6. ↑ Scranton: Page 62

See also:

• Scranton, Erastus. A Genealogical Register of the Descendants of John Scranton of Guilford, Conn., who died in the year 1671 (Case, Tiffany and Co., Hartford, 1855)