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From: Crofters <>
Subject: [CRAWFORD] [CRAFORD / CRAFFORD] Scotchm. & settler in New England-post 1671
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 17:29:00 +1100

Listers,
I thought this note of discovery might assist those looking for early
CRAWFORD / CRAFORD ancestors in New England, USA.

If anyone has Crawford connections to this line, I would be most
interested to know of the connection.

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"CRAFORD, or CRAFFORD, JOHN, Dover 1671, liv. with w. Elizabeth some
yrs. later at Portsmouth. MORDECAI, Salem, in 1663 had w. Judith. MUNGO,
Boston 1686, a Scotchm. had been some yrs. here, apprent. or a serv. of
John Smith, the mason, and this yr. was allow. to be an inhab. By w.
Mary he had Elizabeth b. 19 May 1681, wh. d. young; was, I believe,
among the adher. of Andros, imprison. Apr. 1689, but did not go home,
and is among the tax. 1695; by sec. w. Susanna had only ch. Mary,
wh. m. Stephen Paine; and d. 1712. The inv. of £109, 9, 10, had drugs
and medicines for two fifths. His wid. Susanna made her will 27 Aug.
1713, pro. 15 Sept. aft. mak. d. Mary and her h. Stephen excors. giv.
all to Mary, exc. £20 to ea. of the gr.ch. An early sett. Mr. Craford,
prob. of Watertown, had been drown. [See Winthrop I. 138], and lieut.
Feale, and three other gent. of that town, by order of 6 Oct. 1634, were
to the inv. of his est. for the Court."

Selected from the website at:
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/newengland/savage/bk1/465-476.htm

Regards
Croft

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