Edward Craft (1746 - abt. 1806)

Born 12 Oct 1746 in Boston, Suffolk, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Eliot (Winship) Craft — married 16 Jun 1768 in Lexington, Mass

Descendants

Died about 11 Apr 1806 at about age 59 in Middlesex, Ontario, New York, United States

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Biography

Born in Boston at his father's house on Back Street, now Salem Street.^[1]

Obtained from the geneology of the Craft Family compiled by James M Craft and William F. Craft 1630-1890 The same Major Edward Craft assisted in establishing American independence, while acting in the capacity of private,captain and major.. He entered the continental service from Worchester on the 19th of April 1775 as private of Captain Flaggs Co. of Minute Men at the time of the "Lexington Alarm". He was present at the Battle of Bunker Hill as Captain of A company of artillery in Co. Richard Gridleys regiment. A return of his company is on file at the State House at Boston. His brother Thomas Craft was one of the famous "Sons of Liberty" and was a member of the Boston "Teaparty".^[2]

Moved from Worcester to Murrayfield, Hampden Co., MA after the war. Murrayfield changed its name to Chester in 1783. He and his family moved to Middlesex, Ontario Co., NY in 1792; during this journey his daughter Hannah, age 14, was captured by Indians, and her brother Edward, age 23, rescued her, after tracking the Indians for a week.^{[3][2] [4]}

The Crafts Family Cemetery is in Yates County, NY, near Potter, the West side of Fitch Road, just south of Ferguson’s Corners, in the woods at the top of a hill, about 1/4 mile in.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Yates County Cemetery Project, “Edward Crafts Cemetery Info,” edwardcrafts.org, 21 Oct 2019.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Crafts, James M., and William F. Crafts. The Crafts Family: A Genealogical and Biographical History of the Descendants of Griffin and Alice Craft, of Roxbury, Mass. 1630-1890. (Northampton, Mass: Gazette Print. Co, 1893). Page 76 and Page 122.
3. ↑ Henry Knox Papers in the Collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA
4. ↑ Research notes and family lore passed on by Josephine Hull in possession of Swenson, Callan

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Acknowledgments

• Created through the import of thayer jan11.ged on 05 January 2011 by Allan Morton.
• Thank you to Diana Bardsley for creating Craft-849 on 5 Sep 13.