_Thomas DUNHAM ______+
| (1622 - 1677) m 1646
_Jonathan DUNHAM ____|
| (1639 - 1706) m 1669|
| |_Martha KNOTT _______+
| (1633 - 1648) m 1646
|
|--David DUNHAM
|
| _Thomas BLOOMFIELD __+
| | (1617 - 1684) m 1640
|_Mary BLOOMFIELD ____|
(1642 - 1705) m 1669|
|_Mary WITHERS _______
(1620 - 1664) m 1640
[346] --Invalid Dates
[347] Birth: <1666>
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_Samuel MARSH _______
|
_Samuel MARSH ________|
| (1650 - 1684) m 1672 |
| |_Comfort MANN _______
|
|
|--Moses MARSH
| (1740 - 1808)
| _____________________
| |
|_Mary Marsh SHOTWELL _|
(1653 - ....) m 1672 |
|_____________________
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__
|
_John OGDEN _________|
| |
| |__
|
|
|--________ OGDEN®8
|
| __
| |
|_Jane BOND ®28 ______|
|
|__
[278]
Research on the wife of Stephen Crane: Among the founders of Elizabethtown and the colony of New Jersey in 1665, Stephen Crane is one of the most enigmatic. He was apparently a young man at the time of the settlement, for, though he had
undoubtedly lived elsewhere in the colonies, no record of him except in New Jersey has ever been found. The tradition connecting him with the Jasper Crane family of Newark, New Jersey (formerly of New Haven, CT) is without factual support.
[279]
His many descendants (among whom is Representative Crane of Illinois) will be pleased to learn that the paternit y of his wife has been determined from primary sources. A number of sources were involved in this research, and they will be dealt
withini the order in which the research was conducted.
[280]
The starting point of this work is the will of Daniel Crane, the second son of Stephen, which was made on 22 Feb 1722/3 and proved 3 June 1723 (NJ Wills A:249), which names as his executors his wife Hannah, and "kinsmen Joseph Woodruff and
Robert Ogden".
[281]
The first step was to determine whether or not Joseph Woodruff and Robert Ogden were related to each other and if so how. Reference to the wills of Jonathan Ogden (NJW B:351) and John Woodruff, Sr. (East Jersey documentsl, Lib D., p. 283)
provide he paternity of the two men. Jonathan Ogden, Robert's father, was a son of John Ogden, Sr. of North Sea, Long Island, and Elizabethtown. The Southhampton town records show that "Mr. John Ogden: sold certain properties to his
son-in-law, John Woodruff ("The First Book of Records of the Town of Southhampton", Sag Harbor, 1874, vol. II, pt. 2, original test, p. 55). There has been some confusion over the years as to whether this Mr. John Ogden is the later settler of
Elizabethtown or his much younger cousin, who settled in Southampton, having formerly lived in Connecticutt. The context of the records, however, leaves no doubt that it is the prominent settler of Elizabethtown (who is always called "Mr") and
not his obscure cousin that is being mentioned. Therefore, we can conclude that both Robert Ogden and Joseph Woodruff were grandsons of John Ogden and his wife Jane Bond, and thus first cousins.
[282]
The next step was to rule out any chance that these two menmight be the kinsmen of Daniel Crane's wife rather than he himself. The will of William Miller (NJW I:370) names his daughter Hannah, wife of Daniel Crane. William Miller was
originally from /easthampton, Long Island, and his wife's name was Hannah ____. Since their first child was not born until 1673 (gravestone of Samuel Miller, First Presbyterian Churchyard of Elizabeth), they were probably not married until
about five or six years after the Woodruffs and Ogdens we are discussing left Long Island. Further, no records or traditions point to any link between these two families, so it is safe to say that Joseph Woodruff and Robert Ogden are Daniel
Crane's own kinsmen
[283]
The possibility that Joseph Woodruff and Robert Ogden had married otherwise unknown sisters of Daniel Crane is easily dismissed since he would have then termed them brothers-in-law or brothers. There is also no evidence to suggest that Stephen
Crane was a blood relative of the Ogdens and Woodruffs.. ®8
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[582] --Invalid Dates
[583] Birth: <1771>
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