SAMUEL AND HANNAH (CLARK) CRANDALL AND FAMILY

This family lived in Westerly, Rhode Island for a number of years. Westerly is a town on the southwestern shoreline of Washington County, Rhode Island, first settled by English colonists in 1661 and incorporated as a municipality in 1669. It is a beachfront community on the south shore of the state.

Samuel and Hannah were married in 1747 and reared eleven children, listed below:

1747 Katherine
1749 Samuel
1752 Festus
1755 Hannah Clark, our ancestor
1755 Tamar
1757 Ethan Allen
1759 Susannah
1762 Fanny
unk   Delight
unk  Jane
unk   Mary

In the 1747 Colonial Census Index of Westerly, Washington County,  Rhode Island,  Samuel, head of his family, is 23 years old. [The year of his marriage.]

SAMUEL CRANDALL
BORN: 16 Jul 1724 in Westerly, Washington, RI
MARRIED:     1747  in Westerly
DIED:              1813   in Providence, Providence, RI

HANNAH CLARK
BORN: abt. 1727 in Westerly, Washington, RI
DIED: abt.  1821 at age 94
SOURCES: World Family Tree CD #1276, Vol. 2 about the family's vital records; Rhode Island Births 1636-1930; Elda Esch, "Benoni Dickinson and His Descendants"; John Cortland Crandall, "Elder John Crandall of Rhode Island and His Descendants, New Woodstock, NY, 1949; Family History Library Temple Records; Nellie Willard Johnson, 1937, "The Descendants of Robert Burdick of Rhode Island", the Goodwin-Burdick Family Association, page 21; and the Rhode Island Births and Christenings 1600-1914 on microfilm 936,814.