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Name Israel CRANE, 8G Uncle
Birth 1 Nov 1671729
Death 28 Apr 1707729
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Father *Benjamin CRANE (1630-1691)
Mother *Mary BACKUS (1632-1717)
Spouses:
Unmarried
Notes for Israel CRANE
728Inventory in Vol. IX, Page 355.
Israel CRANE, son of Benjamin CRANE & Mary BACKUS, Wethersfield.
(œ=currency in pounds)
Died 28 Apr 1707 Invt. œ287-12-00.
Taken 29 May, 1707, by John Russell and Ebenezer Belden. Inventory œ444-18-10. Taken 1719-20, by Joshua Robbins and Joseph Belding.
The children:
Lydia, age 5 yrs, 4 Aug 1706
Hannah, 4yrs, 24 Nov 1706
Elizabeth, 2 yrs, 23 Sep 1706; and
Martha, 1 yr, 18 Mar 1706-7
Court Record, Page 94 - 2 June, 1707: Adms. granted to Lydia Crane, the relict.
Page 114 - 5 July, 1708: This Court, pursuant to an order of the
General Assembly of this Colony, made 13 May, 1708, direct and order
Lydia Crane, Adms., to sell so much of the land as may produce the
sum of œ11, for payment of debts.
Page 137 (Vol. VIII) 4 May, 1713: This Court appoint Jonathan
Belding of Wethersfield to be guardian to Lydia Crane, Hannah, Elizabeth
and Martha Crane, children of sd. decd. Recog., œ200.
Page 116 "(Vol. IX) 5 January, 1719-20: Whereas, Adms. was
formerly granted on the estate of Israel Crane, the sd. estate remains
unsettled, no account of Adms. rendered. The administratrix being
incapable to manage, this Court grant letters of Adms. unto Lt. Jonathan
Belding of Wethersfield.
Page 119 - 9th February, 1719-20: Lydia Crane and Jonathan
Belding, Adms., exhibit an account of their Adms:
œ s d
Have paid in debts and charges, 7-00-00
The inventory amounted to, 444-19-06
The moveable part was 42-09-06
Subtracting the sum of 7-00-00
There remains for distribut'n 437-19-06

Order to distribute the estate as followeth :
To Lydia Crane, widow, her dower and œ11 s16 d06
To Lydia, Hannah, Elizabeth and Martha Crane, daughters of the
sd. decd., to each of them the sum of œ106 s10 d09

And appoint David Goodrich, Joshua Robbins, 2nd, and Thomas Wright, distributors.
Page 52 (Vol. XI) 17 August, 1731 : Martha Crane, one of the daughters of Israel Crane, late of Wethersfield, showing to this Court that in the dist. of her father's estate returned into the Court of Probate in the year of 1719-20, there being only four daughters, each one having distributed to them œ7-10-00 right in the dwelling house of her father, deceased, the widow having her third part in whole, yet the distributors did not declare nor ascertain in their return the parts of sd. house in severallty to sd. daughters, which remains still to be done, and the sd. Martha having her right not only through her own share, but also hath bought of her sister Elizabeth Crane her part or right in sd. house, and so hath just and good right to 1/2 of sd. house, and moved to this Court that some meet persons may be appointed to set out to her in severallty 1/2 part of sd. house for her use and improvement, including 1/2of her mother's thirds: Whereupon this Court do appoint Nathaniel Burnham, Deacon Jonathan Belding and Ensign Joshua Robbins of Wethersfield to set out to sd. Martha Crane J^ part of the dwelling house of sd. Crane, decd., including the widow's thirds, and make return of their doing thereon unto sd. Court of Probates.
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