The connection of the Crane family with the Rogers family is shown m the following extracts of wills.
ROBERT CRANE of Great Coggeshall in the County of Essex, grocer (without
dr.te) proved 18 March 1658. Mentions wife ; refers to marriage contract entered into with brother in law Mr Nathaniel Bacon ; lauds &c in West Jersey, Essex
son Robert Crane
son Samuel Crane and his lawfull issue r.ud
son Thomas Crane ; they to pay my son Robert Crane and his issue ; lands &c in Stocke Street, lands in Gr' Coggsshall in occupation of myself a:id William Cottyes, lands in Church Street, sometime Spooners and other estates ; refers to a surrender made untc the William Turners (father and son) of Markes Tey &c.
To my daughter [Margaret*] Rogers, wife of Nathaniel Rogers, now of New England,
c'.er'i, four hundred pounds ; to r.:y grand children Samuel, Nathaniel, Ezekiel, Timothy and John Rogers f\lij pounds apiece ; they to accept of a bond of four hundred pounds mado to rna from Mr Joshua Foote, now or
late of New England, on which there is now due for principal one hundred and fifty pounds, besides use ;
*from Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts
to daughter Mary Whiting wife of Henry Whiting of Ipswich, two hundred pounds, the remainder of her portion ;
to my grand children Henry and Mary Whiting one hundred pounds apiece at their ages of one and twenty years or days of marriage respectively ;
to my daughter Elizabeth, wife of William Chaplyn two hundred pounds ;
to my grand children Robert and Mary Crane, children of my son Thomas Crane, one hundred pounds apiece ; to Diana, Elizabeth, Margaret, Frances and Bridget, daughters of my brother Thomas Crane deceased, five pounds apiece; to my kinswoman Frances Stafford, widow, five pounds ; to Susan Voyse wife of John Voyse of Great Coggeshall, five pounds ; to my three kinswomen, the residue of the daughters of my sister Johan Foulsham, forty shillings apiece ; to Robert Crane, son of my cousin Robert Crane of Braintree, twenty pounds at his age of one and twenty years ; to William Fowleger, my servant, for his faithful service &e. thirty pounds ; to my son Samuel all my goods and wares in the shop and warehouses, my debts &c., and the lands and tenements in Lowhard &c had of John Edes, clerk, &c. ; sons Samuel and Thomas to be executors. Proved by the oath of Samuel Crane, the surviving executor. Pell, 179 (P. C. C.).
SAMUEL CRANE of Great Coggeshall, in the County of Essex, gentleman, November, 1669, proved 10 August 1670. To my sister Mrs Margaret Rogers, now of Ipswich, in New England (lands and tenements in various places) for life, and then to her children ; my sister Mary Whiting, wife of Mr Henry Whiting of Ipswich, Suffolk, and her children ; my sister in law wife of Daynes, late the wife of my brother Robert Crane ; my sister Elizabeth Chaplin, late the wife of Mr William Chaplin, of Bury S' Edmunds ; my brother Mr William Clopton and his children ; my cousin Mr Lawrence Stisted of Ipswich, grocer, and my niece
Mary, his now wife ; my uncle Mr. Edward Sparhawke and his son Samuel and daughter Sarah Sparhawke ; my kinswoman Mrs. Bridget Andrews, wife of Mr William Andrews, citizen and cheesemonger of London ;
John Garwood ; my father in law Mr. Robert Feltham ; my uncle Mr. John Crane, living about Horram in Suffolk, and his son John ; my cousin Cooper, widow, and cousin Burgis, widow ; children of my cousin Robert Foulsam, deceased ; my cousin Robert Crane of Braintree and his son Robert ; my cousin John Sparhawke ; my cousin John Sherman ; my cousin Mr John Blomfield ; my cousin Mr John Rogers and Mr William Hubbard, both in New England ; Christian Whiting, daughter of Henry ; Isaac
Hubbard; others mentioned. Penn, 97 (P. C. C.).
Note: from the following will, it is presumed that the sister in law of Samuel Crane was daughter of the wife of Mr. Robert Andrewes, and perhaps so surnamed.
ROBERT CRANE of Hadleigh in the County of Suffolk, gentleman, 14 May, 18 Charles II. 1666, proved 22 May 1669. My sister Mary Crane to be executrix, to whom all my tenements &c in Kelvedon, in the County of
Essex, the reversion of the jointure of my mother in law, the wife of Mr Robert Andrewes ; if my sister die the premisses to be sold by Thomas Goulding and the product to be equally divided betwixt the children of my
uncle Whiting and aunt Rogers in New England and the children of my cousin Thomas Goulding ; to the aforesaid Thomas Goulding and his heirs forever my house in Brantray; my two messuages in Coggeshall to William Fowler and his heirs forever ; to William Hawkins my two messuages on Fering Hill ; to Mr Whiting of Sermer, for preaching my funeral sermon, five pounds ; to the poor of Kelvedon five pounds.
Proved by Mary Stisted als Crane, wife of Lawrence Stisted, sister of the deceased and his executrix.
Coke, 5 (P. C. C.).
The following extracts from the Registry of Deeds of Suffolk County, Mass., refer evidently to the legacy of Robert Crane to his grandchildren, the sons of his daughter Margaret Rogers. By an Indenture made 24 October 1653 between Joshua Foote, late citizen and Ironmonger of London, then of Roxbury in the County Suffolk in New England, on the one part, and Robert Crane of Coggeshall in the County of Essex within the Commonwealth of England, on the other part, the former made conveyance to the latter of his dwelling house, lately purchased of Joshua Hues, situate in Roxbury, with four acres of land &c
belonging, as security ou his bond to pay 184� 7" 2d, dne to the said Crane &c.
Suffolk Deeds I. 335.
Testimony of Samuel Danforth, Thomas Weld William Park and David Richard 1-9-1655 that Nathaniel Rogers of Ipswich and William Barthelmew did enter upon the dwelling house, formerly possessed by Joshua Hewes in Roxbury and since belonging to Joshua Foote deceased and did legally take possession of the said dwelling house &c. and order to give warning that the said house and land in the deed of sale made by the said Joshua Foote unto and for the use of Mr Robert Crane &c. 20 October 1653, do legally and properly belong unto Nathaniel Rogers of Ipswich and to his brethren Samuel, Ezekiel and Timothy Rogers of Ipswich.
Suffolk Deeds II. 210.
See also: Memorials of the Cranes of Chilton