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Thanks, Dwayne. So it appears that both Tacy/Lucy and Huldah Crandall were cousins of Abner. Do you know how Tacy and Huldah were related? Since they lived near one another in Grafton, Rensselaer County, NY, Tacy and Huldah probably were closely related. As I mentioned earlier, my ancestor Michael S. Vandercook assisted Abner Crandall's widow to obtain a Revolutionary War pension. Why would he have been involved when he lived in Pittstown, several miles from Grafton? He assisted several other widows, and in most of these cases I have found a family connection. I suspect there is one with the Crandalls, too. Here is one possibility. Michael's daughter-in-law was Matilda Brown, daughter of Jeptha Brown. Michael helped Jeptha's widow to get a War of 1812 pension. There is circumstantial evidence Jeptha was George Hake's first cousin (George was the son of Hannah Brown). George's wife, Tacy Crandall, could have heard about Michael Vandercook's success in dealing with the bureaucracy of the Pension Office in Washington, D.C., and recommended his services to her cousin Abner's widow. This sounds contorted, but also consider that Jeptha Brown's son, Joseph B. Brown, married a woman named Huldah; Joseph and Huldah lived next door to George and Tacy (Crandall) Hakes, and the couple mortgaged their property to Foster and Huldah (Crandall) Reynolds. So there are repeated links between the Browns and Crandalls.
If anyone can shed additional information on the relationship between the Brown and Crandall families, please let me hear from you.
Ron Bachman
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