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Children:   John, Hannah (Huntington), Deliverance, Mercy (Bell), Micah, Azariah, Jasper

    Jasper was the son of Richard Crane and Margaret Gouldstone of Welwyn, Herts. He moved to London, where he was a parishioner of St. Stephen’s Church, Coleman St, whose minister was the fanatically rigid Puritan, John Davenport. When Davenport fled to the Netherlands, Crane accompanied him, and he was a member of the group which travelled with Davenport to Massachusetts on the Hector, in the summer of 1637. From there, the group moved south, to found the colony of New Haven, and he was one of the 60 signers of the  Fundamental Agreement of the New Haven Colony, signed on June 4, 1639. Although not wealthy (in the top quartile in wealth but no higher) he was clearly one of the leaders of the new colony, serving repeatedly as magistrate and member of the General Court. He was a surveyor, and with another laid out the original lots of the town. His own house was located on Elm Street, in a prime location next door to Davenport’s, and across the street from Governor Eaton’s. 

Jasper was one of four New Haven men entrusted with organizing the construction of what became the disastrous “Ghost Ship” of 1647, whose loss at sea was a major blow to the town. In the early 1650’s he was one of the founders of the New Haven satellite town of Branford. While in Branford, he became one of the principal organizers, in 1666, of the move of disaffected New Haven Colony citizens to New Jersey, leading to the founding of Newark. In Newark he was again, one of the town leaders, serving as thefirst President of the Newark Town Court and the first Deputy to the General Assembly of New Jersey, and serving almost continuously as magistrate until he was quite old.

Trivia

Jasper and Alice are the 5th ggrandparents of Thomas Edison