The Hendee Family Tree

Joseph Crane

Person Chart

Additional Names

Additional Names Name
Name at Birth Joseph Crane

Parents

Father Date of Birth Mother Date of Birth
Lieutenant Jonathan Crane 12/1/1658 Dorothy (Debra) Griswoid (Crane) 06 May 1661

Person Events

Event Type Date Place Description
Birth 17 May 1696 Windham, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America
Marriage 12 Jul 1719 Windham, Windham, Connecticut, United States
Death 20 Aug 1781 Dutchess, New York, United States

Facts

Fact Description
National ID Number 27

Notes

Joseph is the child of Jonathan Crane and Deborah Griswold. Joseph passed away in 1696. Joseph was born in 1696. Joseph Crane ... He passed away in 1781.

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 ahalf 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…