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Ruth Crane
Full name : Ruth Crane Webb
Alternate spellings, aliases : Ruth Waldo Crane, Crain
Parents :
Father : Isaac Crane Sr.
Mother : Ruth Waldo
note : this is totally unconfirmed at this time; they were married 12 July 1716
at Windham. Ruth Waldo is the
daughter of John & Rebecca Adams Waldo, which makes Ruth Crane her own
husband’s cousin as their grandmothers were sisters (Mary Adams & Rebecca
Adams, daughters of Joseph Adams).
Date of Birth : 12 April 1718
Place of Birth : Windham, Windham County, Connecticut
Spouse :
Name : Ebenezer Webb Sr.
Date of Marriage : 3 December 1740
Place of Marriage : Windham, Windham County, Connecticut
Died : 11 February 1803
Date of Death : 28 February 1796 ‘aged 78’
Place of Death : Scotland Society, (East) Windham County, Connecticut
Burial Information : supposedly buried in the old burial ground in Scotland at
Windham, but in November 2001, the author of this webpage was unable to locate
any headstone or footstone, after several hours of searching.
Military Service : her children served in the
Revolutionary War
Residences, property : her father was relatively
wealthy leaving an estate at his death worth £3307.7.10; what part of this she
may have received is not known.
Occupation(s) : wife, mother
Religious participation : She was
admitted as a Communicant to the First Church of Windham on 23 May 1742, two
months before the birth of her first son.; in 1774
joined with others to separate and form the Scotland Society. From Connecticut Public Records, Volume
14, January 1774, page 246 : Upon the memorial of Zacheus Waldo, Zebulon
Hibbard, Benjamin Cleaveland, Joseph Allen, Lemuel Bingham, Ebenezer Webb, John
Palmer, John Walden, Israel Hale, Stephen Webb, William Perkins, Joseph Allen junr,
Jonathan Brewster, Ebenezer Bass, John Silsberry, Timothy Allen, Samuel Baker
junr, Jebediah Bingham, Zebulon Hibbard junr, Henry Bass, and Moses Cleaveland,
inhabitants of the third society at Windham, shewing (sic) that they, the
memorialists, and their families, have for a long time attended on the ministry
of Mr. John palmer of said Windham, and do conscientiously dissent from the
ministry established in said society, and that said society has assessed the
memorialists for building a meeting-house and supporting their minister :
praying to be made a distinct ecclesiastical society and be exempted from
paying said rates &c., as per memorial on file : Resolved by this Assembly,
that the memorialists and their families be and they are hereby constituted a
distinct ecclesiastical society, and shall be called and known by the name
Brunswick, and that they, their families and descendants, shall have and enjoy
all the privileges, advantages and exemptions which other ecclesiastical
societies by law and entitles unto, so long as they attend publick (sic)
worship and support the ministry among themselves, and shall not be taxed to
the support of the ministry or for building meeting-houses by said third
society; an the taxes already laid by said third society upon the memorialists
for building a meeting-house and supporting the minister which are not
collected shall not be collected, and they are hereby discharged therefrom.
1790 Federal Census. Windham,
Windham County, Connecticut.
Head of Family, Free White Males 16>, <16, Free White Females, Others,
Slaves
Ebenezer Webb, 1, 0, 2, 0, 0
Family :
Son : Darius
Date of Birth : 28 July 1742
Place of Birth : Windham, Connecticut
Married1 : Deborah Palmer, 9 October 1767, Windham, Windham County, Connecticut
Married2 : … nee : Lawrence
Died : 1828, Homer, Cortland County, New York
Notes : “…he removed ‘West’, as it was then called and lived in several places
in the State of New York,” John Adams Vinton
Son : Jerusha
Date of Birth : 17 April 1744
Place of Birth : Windham,
Connecticut
Married : never married
Died : 25 November 1827
Notes :
Daughter : Ann
Date of Birth : 13 March 1745-6
Place of Birth : Windham,
Connecticut
Married : Samuel Coburn, 31 May 1778
Died :
Notes :
Son : Jonathan
Date of Birth : 2 October 1747
Place of Birth : Windham,
Connecticut
Married : Abigail Curtiss
Died : 14 July 1830, Lisbon, New
London, Connecticut
Notes : served in Revolutionary
War; sired eleven children; son Ariel Webb may have served in War of 1812,
Atchison’s Reg’t New York Militia as Fife Major
Daughter : Alice
Date of Birth : 3 August 1749
Place of Birth : Windham,
Connecticut
Married : Ezekiel Perigo, 29
October 1772
Died :
Notes : lived in Hanover
Society, Lisbon, Connecticut; had nine children
Daughter : Ruth
Date of Birth : 22 February 1750-1
Place of Birth : Windham, Connecticut
Married : Nathan Rood
Died :
Notes : moved to Pennsylvania;
Nathan Rood was a Baptist Preacher, later becoming a Restorationist
Daughter : Elizabeth
Date of Birth : 19 February 1753
Place of Birth : Windham,
Connecticut
Married : John Wentworth, 25
November 1773
Died :
Notes : Lived in Hanover
Society, near Sprague, Connecticut
Son : Christopher
Date of Birth : 14 June 1755
Place of Birth : Windham,
Connecticut
Married1 : Olive Brown, (b. 8
January 1778, d. 21 march 1786)
Married2 : …nee: Davenport,
after 1786
Married3 : Sally Branch
Died : 1837, Cazenovia, New York
Notes : Christopher was a Patriot of the Revolutionary war. Four children by first wife include Reverend Daniel Webb, Methodist Minister;
also Adin; Abijah; Martin Luther
Son : Ebenezer, Jr.
Date of Birth : 28 May 1757
Place of Birth : Windham, Connecticut
Married : Abigail Rood, 28 August 1777
Died :
Notes : Patriot of the Revolutionary War; had two children in Windham (Sarah
b.1778, Reuben b.1780)
Daughter : Hannah
Date of Birth : 31 August 1759
Place of Birth : Windham,
Connecticut
Married1 : …nee: Baldwin
Married2 : Jonas Wright
Died : 23 January 1829
Notes :
Comments, sources, various additional :
Vinton, John Adams. The Giles Memorial – Genealogical
Memoirs of the Families Bearing the Names Giles, Gould, Holmes, Jennison,
Leonard, Lindall, Curwen, Marshall, Robinson, Sampson, and Webb; also Genealogical
Sketches of the Pool, Very, Carr and other Families with a history of Pemaquid,
ancient and modern; some account of early settlements in Maine; and some
details of Indian warfare.
Printed for the author, by Henry W. Dutton & Son, Washington Street,
Boston. 1864. pp 496 – 532, 556.
Crane, Ellery Bicknell. Genealogy of the Crane Family Volume
II. Descendants of Benjamin Crane, of Wethersfield, Conn., and John Crane, of
Coventry, Conn., also of Jasper Crane, of New Haven, Conn., and Newark, N. J.
and Stephen Crane, of Elizabethtown, N. J. with families of the name in New
Hampshire, Maryland and Virginia.
Press of Charles Hamilton.
Worcester, Massachusetts, 1900.
Lincoln, Waldo. Genealogy of
the Waldo Family. A record of the
descendants of Cornelius Waldo of Ipswich, Massachusetts from 1647 to
1900. Volume 1. Press of Charles Hamilton. Worchester, Massachusetts, 1902.
M637. 1790 Federal Census of Windham, Windham
County, Connecticut. Roll1. National Archives and Records
Administration. Washington, DC.
Viewed 2001.
Records of the Congregational Church in Windham, Conn. 1700-1851. Connecticut Historical Society. Hartford, 1943.
Connecticut Public Records, Volume 14, January 1774, page 246
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