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Stephen Crane (Continental Congress)

American politician (1709–1780)

Summary

American politician (1709–1780)

Field	Value
image	Stephen Crane (NYPL NYPG94-F149-419958 - cropped).jpg
name	Stephen Crane
office	Member of New Jersey Legislative Council
term_start1	1776
term_end1	1778
predecessor1	Office created
successor1	Abraham Clark
term_start	1779
term_end	1780
predecessor	Abraham Clark
successor	James Caldwell
office2	22nd Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly
term_start2	1770
term_end2	1772
predecessor2	Cortlandt Skinner
successor2	Cortlandt Skinner
governor2	William Franklin
state_assembly3	New Jersey
district3	Essex County
term_start3	1766
term_end3	1775
alongside3	John Ogden, Henry Garritse
birth_date	1709
birth_place	Elizabethtown, New Jersey, U.S.
death_date	July 1, 1780
death_place	Elizabethtown, New Jersey, U.S.
restingplace	First Presbyterian Church of Elizabeth
nationality	American
spouse	Phebe

Stephen Crane (1709 – July 1, 1780) was an American politician from Elizabethtown (present-day Elizabeth, New Jersey) who was a delegate to the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1776 and signed the Continental Association. He also served in the Provincial Congress of New Jersey, New Jersey General Assembly and New Jersey Legislative Council. Stephen did not attend the next Congress in Philadelphia as he needed to attend to divisions in his own state between East Jersey and West Jersey. He felt deeply about the taxes that Britain had imposed upon the Colonies and had made sure of his protest upon his journey to England with Matthias Hatfield.

Biography

Crane was born in Elizabethtown. He served as sheriff of Essex County and was elected as a member of its town committee in 1750. He was also a judge of the court of common pleas. From 1766 to 1773, he was a member of the colony's general assembly from 1766 to 1773 and served as speaker in 1771. He was also mayor of Elizabethtown before he became a member of the Continental Congress. Until his death in 1780, Crane held several public offices in New Jersey.

Crane was bayoneted by Hessian soldiers passing through Elizabethtown on their way to Battle of Springfield on June 23, 1780, and he died of his wounds on July 1, 1780. He was buried at the First Presbyterian Church of Elizabeth with his wife and father, Daniel Crane.

Family

Phebe Crane, wife (1714-1776)
William Crane, son; born 1748 in Elizabethtown, served as major of an Essex County, New Jersey regiment. Fought with Richard Montgomery in the Battle of Quebec, received a leg wound that required amputation years later. Promoted to brigadier general in the New Jersey militia after the war.
Ichabod Bennet Crane (July 18, 1787 – October 1857) grandson; born in Elizabethtown, commissioned a second lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps, served aboard the USS United States.
Charles Henry Crane (19 July 1825 – October 10, 1883) great-grandson; became a Brigadier General and Surgeon General of the United States (1882–1883).
Joseph Halsey Crane grandson
William Crane; (1778–1830) grandson,
Jonathan Townley Crane, great-grandson, father of author Stephen Crane.
Stephen Crane; great-great-grandson, author, who is best known for the novel The Red Badge of Courage.
Bruce Crane; American painter (1857–1937)

References

[https://books.google.com/books?id=-uzry987mP4C&dq=First+Presbyterian+Church+stephen+crane+1780&pg=PA75 ''A Stephen Crane Encyclopedia'']
[https://books.google.com/books?id=v9MBIctdjjkC&dq=First+Presbyterian+Church+stephen+crane+1780&pg=PA889 ''Biographical Directory of the United States Congress'']
A Stephen Crane encyclopedia, by Stanley Wertheim. Publisher: Greenwood; First Edition (1997) {{ISBN. 978-0-313-29692-5
Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, [1631–1776] by William A. Whitehead {{ISBN. 978-1-110-76182-1
Bruce Crane (1857–1937): American Tonalist. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 84-81018

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