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             Husband: Edward CRAFTS (1 2 3 4 5 6)
                Born: 19 APR 1752 in Pomfret, CT (7 8)
             Married:
                Died: 17 MAR 1821 in Derby, New Haven, CT (9 10)
              Buried: in Derby Colonial Cemetery, Derby, New Haven, CT (11 12)
              Father: Samuel CRAFT
              Mother: Judeth PAYSON
             Spouses: Abigail CLARK; Anna BALDWIN
                Wife: Melissa
                Born: l 1768 (13)
                Died: 19 JAN 1844 (14)
              Buried: in Derby Colonial Cemetery, Derby, New Haven, CT (15 16 17)
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              Mother: 
             Spouses:

Footnotes

  1. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 2, p 407.
  2. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 255.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan255.html.]
  3. William Cothren, History of Ancient Woodbury, Connecticut (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), 526.
  4. 1790 Derby Census.
  5. 1820 Derby Census.
  6. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 251.
    ... chief mate of the schooner Naugatuck, one of the Fishing Company's vessels, volunteered to procure them from the wreck, which he accomplished by swimming with great exertion and hazard ... The boat was put off while he was on the wreck for the last time, leaving him to go down with it ... a young man of great promise, universally esteemed ...
  7. Compiled and edited by Jacqyelyn Ladd Ricker, The Ricker Compilation of Vital Records of Early Connecticut (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2006), 3503.
  8. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 805.
  9. Ibid., 805.
  10. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 270.
    Craft, Dr. Edward, died Apr. 19, 1821, age 69. (Flag).
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan270.html.]
  11. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 805.
    Doct Edward Crafts | Dea of the Presbyterian Church | and for many years a successful | Physician and influential citizen | of Derby. He was born at Pomfret April 19 1752 and died March 17 1821 aged 69 years.
    Mrs Melissa | third wife of | Doct E Crafts | died Jan 19 1844 æt 75.
  12. Derby Colonial Cemetery Photograph - Derby, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem26063.html.]
  13. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 270.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan270.html.]
  14. Ibid., 270.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan270.html.]
  15. Ibid., 270.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan270.html.]
  16. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 805.
    Doct Edward Crafts | Dea of the Presbyterian Church | and for many years a successful | Physician and influential citizen | of Derby. He was born at Pomfret April 19 1752 and died March 17 1821 aged 69 years.
    Mrs Melissa | third wife of | Doct E Crafts | died Jan 19 1844 æt 75.
  17. Derby Colonial Cemetery Photograph - Derby, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem26109.html.]

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