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John Crandall

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	Joseph Crandall 1661 - 9/12/1737	Deborah Burdick 1/11/1660 - 9/12/1737

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John Crandall
1682 - 1/17/1767

John Crandall was born about 1682 in Westerly, Rhode Island and died on January 17, 1767 in Hopkinton, Rhode Island. Dates for birth and death are estimated. He lived to be about 85 years old.

Children of Mary and John: John Crandall 1705 – 1795 Deborah Crandall 1707 – unknown Mary Crandall 1710 – 1766 Elizabeth Tacy Crandall 1721 – 1795 Benajah Crandall 1735 – 1809 Martha Crandall 1736 – Unknown Hannah Crandall 1737 – Unknown David Crandall 1740 – 1819 Stephen Crandall 1742 – Unknown

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Click on any of the News, Events, or Discoveries buttons above to see historical things that happened during John Crandall's life. These are only some of the major events that affected the life and times of John, his family, and friends. For example, John is 18 years old when By the early 1700's, Virginia and Maryland have established a strong economic and social structure. The planters of the tidewater region, with abundant slave labor, have large houses, an aristocratic way of life, and a desire to follow the art and culture of Europe. Less wealthy German and Scots-Irish immigrants settle inland, populating the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia as well as the Appalachian Mountains. Those on the frontier build small cabins and cultivate corn and wheat.

Age	Date	Event
70	1752	Great Britain adopts the Gregorian calendar on 9/14/1752.

Age	Date	Event
67	1749	Laws in GA prohibiting the importation of slaves are rescinded. Georgia planters were hiring SC slaves for life and even openly purchasing slaves at the dock in Savannah.

Age	Date	Event
18	1700	By the early 1700's, Virginia and Maryland have established a strong economic and social structure. The planters of the tidewater region, with abundant slave labor, have large houses, an aristocratic way of life, and a desire to follow the art and culture of Europe. Less wealthy German and Scots-Irish immigrants settle inland, populating the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia as well as the Appalachian Mountains. Those on the frontier build small cabins and cultivate corn and wheat.
38	1720	The population of American colonists reaches 475,000. Boston (pop. 12,000) is the largest city, followed by Philadelphia (pop. 10,000) and New York (pop. 7000)
48	1730	Map of US Colonies
50	1732	James Oglethorpe establishes the Georgia Colony in the new world. The new settlers form friendships with the Creek Indian Nation towns in this area. Georgia is the thirteen English colony to be settled.
65	1747	The New York Bar Association is founded in New York City
68	1750	Charleston, SC, has become the most affluent and largest city in the South. It is the leading port and trading center for the southern colonies. The population in the Carolinas has exceeded 100,000 with many French Protestant Huguenots. The wealth plantation owners bring private tutors from Ireland and Scotland. Public education does not exist.
78	1760	The Cherokee War (1760-61) ends in a treaty that opens the Up County for settlement. The Bounty At of 1761 offers public land tax free for ten years, and settlers from other colonies begin pouring into the Carolina "Up Country".
81	1763	Georgia Gazette begins publication. It is the first newspaper in Georgia and the eighth newspaper in the English colonies.
84	1766	Britain passes the Stamp Act taxing all colonial newspapers, advertisements, leases, licenses, pamphlets, and legal documents. Later the same year, Britain repeals the Stamp Act in Britain -- but it continues to be enforced on colonists in North America

Age	Date	Event
7	1689	England's Bill of Rights created. European Nine Year's War begin and grows into a world-wide event. It ends in 1697.
8	1690	Ireland's Battle of Boyne
11	1693	National debt begins in England
16	1698	Tsar Peter the Great begins traveling Europe
19	1701	England's Act of Settlement created; War of Spanish Succession begins
25	1707	Scotland and England unite to form "Great Britain"
33	1715	War of Spanish Succession ends
56	1738	System of forced labor to build roads in France is devised by Jean Orry
61	1743	King George's War against North America and Caribbean begins
66	1748	King George's War against North America and Caribbean ends
74	1756	Seven Year's War begins
77	1759	Jesuits are forced out of France
81	1763	Seven Year's War ends; Peace is established in Paris between France, Spain, England and Portugal
82	1764	Britain passes the Sugar Act forbids American importation of foreign rum and taxing imported molasses, wine, silk, coffee, and a number of other luxury items.
85	1767	Jesuits are forced out of Spanish America

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Mary Yeomans
Born on August 28, 1685 and died about 1728

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The Children of John Crandall

Elizabeth Tacy Crandall
Born in Hopkinton, Rhode Island about 1721 and died in White Creek, West Virginia on June 1, 1795. She was about 74 years old.

Children of Thomas and Elizabeth: John Davis 1738 – 1739 William Davis 1739 – 1740 Nathan Davis 1740 – 1814 Elizabeth Davis 1746 – 1807 Mary S Davis 1750 – 1806 John Davis 1754 – 1842 ...

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