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Hi Stacey, Your post seeking info on your “Daniel’s” family was made several months ago, but perhaps you might still enjoy receiving some various bits of information, or perhaps some other Crane/Mulford researchers could be interested...
I am going to paste way below some material from “John Littell’s 1852 Family Records or Genealogies of the First Settlers of Passaic Valley” on John Crane and his father Joseph.
But beforehand, additionally through some of what can be gleaned on her, Daniel Crane’s mother “Betsey Mulford Crane” was a colorful lady of her day. At a time when Union Village (NE corner of Warren Township) was being formed, Betsey Mulford Crane wrote in her diary on July 5, 1824, “A great time at Elam Gunung’s. A Liberty Pole raised and the place called Union Village.” On September 10, 1824, she wrote of the new meeting house being built as “I went to Camp Meeting through the mud. It was thought there were 4000 people there” . (Taken from Barbara Tomblin’s Villages at the Crossroads, A History of Warren Township.)
And Betsey Mulford Crane’s letters to her brother Daniel (as found within The Daniel Mulford Letters, 1803-1811 appearing in Genealogy Magazine of New Jersey, July Vol 12, no.3) are some delightful bits of reading)... Here is a part to one, speaking of her sons, that even speaks to your ancestor Daniel’s birth!
New Providence, New Jersey, April 17, 1810 to Mr. Daniel Mulford, Savannah, Georgia. “Dear brother, Elias is got hearty as any other boy but he is lame yet. Mulford can do as many sorts of work as old Caleb Cotam. Sylvester is a smart little boy, just begins to go to school. Squire Ball is our school master at present. We have got another son born the 7th of March, thinking of calling him Daniel Ludlow”......................
Next follows the Littell material...
Page 102
JOSEPH CRANE, brother of Isaac, came up from Westfield, and purchased of Nathaniel Smith, in May, 1764, the Farm of 154 acres lying north of Isaac Crane's, and west of Benjamin Pettit's farm, and extending to the river. He married Ruth Miller, sister of his brother Isaac's wife, and had children, 7 sons, and 4 daughters:
1. Samuel, who married, 7th. Nov. 1792, Abby Roberts.
2. John married 23d Sept. 1792, Betsey Mulford, daughter of Jonathan, Jun.
3. Stephen married Esther Thomas, daughter of William, of Stony Hill, and went to Ohio.
4. Jonathan married Keziah Tappin, daughter of James Tappin, and went to Ohio.
5. Abner married, in Ohio, Huldah Robinson, daughter of John, from Westfield.
6. Joseph, Jun., married Sally Bebout, daughter of William; lived on the Bebout farm.
7. Moses married, in Ohio, Susannah Dilts, of Warren County.
8. Joanna married William Valentine, son of Obadiah; went to Redstone. [See Valentine.]
9. Annar married Benjamin Corrington, 13th Nov. 1782; went to Redstone.
10. Ruth married William Hole, 5th July, 1785, son of Charles; went to Redstone. [See Hole.]
11. Betsey married, 1st May, 1794, Daniel Doty, son of John; went to Middletown, Ohio. [See Doty.]
Joseph Crane was born 1741, and died 7th June, 1778, aged 37 years.
Ruth, the widow of Joseph Crane, went to Ohio, with her sons, and died, over 90 years of age.
Page 103
JOSEPH CRANE, JUN., and Sally Bebout, had children: (6th Generation.)
1. William Bebout Crane, who married, 24th April, 1820, Deborah Conklin, daughter of Captain Benjamin Conklin, and had children: 1. Elias; 2. Mulford; and 3. Jerusha.
His wife, Deborah, then died, and he married, 2d, Nancy Potter, daughter of Samuel, son of Caleb, son of Colonel Samuel Potter, and had other children: 4. Elizabeth; 5. Hannah; 6. Sarah; 7. John; 8. Jacob.
William B. Crane removed to Ohio.
2. Eliza married Levi Clark, son of Daniel S. Clark, Esq. [See Clark.]
3. Ruth married Linus H. Stephens, son of Christopher. [See Stevens.]
4. Jacob, who, with all the young children, except Hannah, went to Ohio and Illinois.
5. Aretas married his cousin, a daughter of Daniel Doty, son of John. [See Doty.]
6. Hannah, who died at about 19 years, unmarried.
7. Ira.
8. Nancy.
9. Catherine married her cousin, Daniel Doty, son of Daniel, of Middletown, Ohio.
10. Joseph.
11. Sarah Wheeler.
Joseph Crane died 3d June, 1829, aged 58 years.
His wife, Sally, died 31st August, 1825, aged 47 years.
JOHN CRANE, (2d son of Joseph Crane,) and Betsey Mulford, lived on part of his father's farm, and had children: (6th Generation.)
1. Jonathan Mulford, who died a young man.
2. Elias, who went to Indiana, married, and died there.
3. Huldah married Levi Willcox, Jun., son of Levi, and went to Illinois. [See Willcox.]
4. Orpha married Dr. Erastus D. Crossfield, from New England, and went to Warren County, Ohio, and had an only child, John, Edgar Crossfield.
5. Deborah married Ezra Ludlow, son of Joseph; lived in Elizabethtown. [See Ludlow.]
6. Sylvester married Huldah Bonnel, daughter of Philemon; had three children; his wife died 13th Sept. 1835, aged 29 years. The children were Rachel, who died at 8 years and 6 months, John, and Elias. Sylvester went to Illinois, and took Elias, who soon died. John lives with his grandfather Philemon Bonnel. Sylvester was a lieutenant in the Mexican war.
7. Mary married Aaron H. Lanning, of Warren County. and had children: 1. Laura Burnet Lanning; 2. Orpha Jane Lanning; 3. John Joseph Lanning.
8. Daniel went to Indiana, and married Catherine Rogers.
9. Harriet married Samuel G. Benedict, from Connecticut, --went to Illinois, where he died, and she removed to her sister Crossfield's, in Ohio.
Page 104
10. Elizabeth married Samuel T. Day, son of Stephen, and lives where her father did. [See S. T. Day.]
John Crane died 18th July, 1843, aged 79 years.
His wife, Betsey, died 9th March, 1828, aged 53 years...................
I hope this may all be of some useful information !
Good luck,
Jan in CA
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