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In 1656 he had lands there, was made freeman
in 1658 and was a farmer one mile
south of the village, where he died May
31, 1691, leaving an estate valued at £526
and I2S. He married, April 23, 1655,
Sarah, daughter of William and Sarah
(Charles) Backus. Their son. Lieutenant
Jonathan Crane, born December i, 1658,
lived in Windham, Norwich and Lebanon,
dying June 6, 1735. For several years he
was deputy from Windham. He married,
December 19, 1678, Deborah Griswold,
born May, 1661, daughter of Francis
Griswold, of Wethersfield. John Crane,
second son of Lieutenant Jonathan Crane
and Deborah (Griswold) Crane, born Oc-
tober I, 1687, received lands from his
father in what is now Coventry, married,
September 16, 1708, Sarah Spencer, who
died September 15, 1715. John Crane,
eldest child of John and Sarah (Spencer)
Crane, born July 31, 1709, received land in
Wethersfield from his grandfather and
purchased more. His last days were passed
in Becket, Massachusetts, where he died
March 9, 1793. He married (second), November
II, 1742, Sarah Hutchinson, who
was the mother of his fifth son, Elijah
Crane, born February 22, 1746, in Lebanon.
He was one of the first settlers of Washing-
ton, Massachusetts, in 1760, and died there
January 15, 1818. He married Sarah Hill
of Woburn, Massachusetts, who survived
him a short time and died September 11,
1819, in Canton, New York. Their second
son, Amos Crane, born December 17,
1774, lived in Washington, where he died
July 25, 1863, having been thirty-two
years a member of the Methodist Church.
He married, October 30, 1799, Martha
Remington, of Suffield, who died November
16, 1841. Their eldest son, Amos
Crane, was born November 5, 1802, in
Washington, where he continued farming
until 1847, when he removed to Suffield,
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Connecticut. In 1842 he was a member
of the Massachusetts Legislature and in
Connecticut in 1853.
He married, September 26, 1828, Fanny
Lewis, of Suffield, and they were parents
of George S. Crane, born August 27, 1831,
who was a farmer and dealer in agricul-
tural implements in Suffield. He married,
March 23, 1859, Jennette D. Owen, and
they were the parents of Nellie O. Crane,
who became the wife of Louis P. Bacon.
Mr. and Mrs. Bacon were the parents of
a son and two daughters. The latter died
in early childhood. The son, Charles
Burton Bacon, born March 13, 1906, is a
student at the Middletown High School.
BACON, Henry,
Merchant, Manufacturer.
The ancestry of Mr. Bacon is given at
considerable length above (see Bacon, L.
P.) and includes many individuals identified
with the settlement and development
of Middletown through eight generations.
Among these the old New England spirit
of industry, thrift and high moral purpose
predominated, and among the descend-
ants are found many earnest in carrying
out the high ideals of their forebears.
Henry Bacon, third son of Charles W.
Bacon, was born October 20, 1874, in
Newfield, and has shared in developing an
important business in the city of Middle-
town, in association with his elder brother
above referred to. Henry Bacon attended
the district school near his native home,
a private school in Middletown, conducted
by Miss Patton, and was a student at a
Hartford business college, becoming well
prepared for the business career which
has enhanced his credit as a steady-going
and industrious citizen. When eighteen
years old he entered the shop of Lyman
D. Mills in Middletown, where he be-