Joseph Crane (1696 - 1781)

Born 17 May 1696 in Windham, Windham, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Couch) Crane — married about 12 Jul 1719 in Windham, Windham, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 20 Aug 1781 at age 85 in Westchester, New York, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

Joseph Crane was born on 17 May 1696 in Windham, Windham, Connecticut Colony. He was a child of Jonathan Crane and Deborah Griswold.^[1][2]

Joseph married Mary Couch on 12 July 1719 in Wilton, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony.^[3]

Mary (Couch) Crane died in Southeast, Westchester, New York Colony in 1766. Joseph passed away on 20 August 1781. Most of his children were near Southeast, so he probably died near there. His land is now covered by a reservoir. No burial location for him is known.^[3]

JOSEPH CRANE, the son of Jonathan, the son of Benjamin Crane. Born in Windham, Conn. When the new meeting-house was built there, he, with a few other young men, in the year 1713, built a pew for their own use. Just the date he left Windham does not appear, but he evidently while a young man followed his uncles Joseph and Elijah Crane to Fairfield, where he married about the year 1719 Mary, daughter of Samuel Couch of that place. She was born Dec. 15, 1695. Mr. Couch gave his son-in-law property in Fairfield, deed dated Sept. 8, 1725. … he appears to have removed to Norwalk, and from there to the place now known as South East Putnam County, N.Y., locating in the town last mentioned about the year 1730 on the north side of “Joe’s Hill,” about one mile and a half east of Sodom Corners, where on the east branch of the Croton River he built “Crane’s Mill.” The site of this mill is now covered by the Sodom Reservoir. Miss Kate Crane, a descendant of this line, writes that recently an old English clock has been found in South East with the following mark inside the case: “Joseph Crane, 1620.” This clock may have been a wedding present… ^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F742-H6G : 7 January 2020), Joseph Crane, 1696.
2. ↑ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB414/i/13127/67/234337441
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} North American Cemetery Transcriptions from NEHGS Manuscripts, 1642-1977. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2016.) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1675/i/53955/37/1424344908
4. ↑ "Genealogy of the Crane family", by Crane, Ellery Bicknell, Volume 2, page 33; (https://archive.org/details/genealogyofcrane02cran/page/32/mode/2up?)

• Crane, Angeline Smith Pickering. The Genealogy and History of the John Keysar Smith Family of Valley Rest, Florence, Nebraska (Angeline Crane, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1922) Page 36
• "History of Putnam County, New York" Pg 365