Judith (Leonard) Crane (1742 - aft. 1810)

Born 14 Feb 1742 in Raynham, Bristol, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Wife of Joseph Bassett — married Feb 1759 in Raynham, Bristol, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Wife of Henry Crane — married before 22 Aug 1779 in Massachusetts, United States

Descendants

Died after 1810 after age 67 in Livermore, Oxford, Massachusetts, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

Birth

Judith Leonard was born at Raynham, Massachusetts, on 14 Feb 1742, the daughter of Philip and Lydia Leonard.^[1]

Marriages

1. Judith Leonard of Raynham, Massachusetts married Joseph Bassett of Taunton, Massachusetts, at Taunton in February 1759.^[2]
2. Judith (Leonard) Bassett married Henry Crane.^[3] The marriage occurred between 26 Nov 1718, when "Judah" Bassett is called the widow of Joseph Bassett in his probate file,^[4] and the birth of their first children, the twins Henry Crane Jr. and Judith Crane, at Raynham on 22 Aug 1779.^[5]

Death

No record has been found of the death of Judith (Leonard) (Bassett) Crane. She is probably the female, aged 45 or over, in the household of Henry Crane in Livermore, Maine (then in Massachusetts) in the 1810 census.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016), Raynham, page 20 (subscription required)
2. ↑ Vital Records of Taunton, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (three volumes, Boston, 1928), volume 2, page 294
3. ↑ Albert Scott Bryant, Bryant Genealogy (Wayne, Me., 1979), page 43, who says that the widow of Joseph Bassett "m. 2nd, a Crane, and had among others, a dau., Judith Crane, who married James Timberlake SR. of Livermore, Maine."
4. ↑ Distribution of the estate of Joseph Bassett, in Bristol County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1686-1880, Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2017, case 1803, page 23 (subscription required). (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized mages provided by FamilySearch.org)
5. ↑ Transcription of birth records of Henry Crane Jr. and judith Crane, in Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016), Raynham, page 34 (subscription required)
6. ↑ United States Census, 1810, database with images, FamilySearch, Maine > Oxford > Livermore > image 2 of 14; citing NARA microfilm publication M252, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).