I have tried to form a complete genealogical list of the Cranmer family, but I have found it an impossibility. There were at least four original branches of the Cranmers of Ocean and Burlington counties, whose descendants are so numerous and are so much mixed up by inter-marriage of "Cranmer with Cranmer" that at this late day there is no such thing as untangling the intricate web of their kinship.

Mr. Salter says that in the year 1681 there was a William Cranmer living on Staten Island, and further, that he had sons, Josiah, William, and John, who settled in New Jersey.

I have seen records that established the fact that there was also a Thomas Cranmer who settled in New Jersey as early as the year 1716, for in that year Thomas Cranmer and Abigail Willits laid a proposal of marriage before the Monthly Meeting of Friends at Little Egg Harbor. This is the first marriage recorded in the Monthly Meeting books. And another record goes on to say that two years after the above date Thomas Cranmer was living in that locality. I do not think that Thomas Cranmer remained in Egg Harbor many years after his marriage. The supposition is that he settled somewhere in the lower part of Ocean county (then Monmouth county); in 1728 Thomas Cranmer and Mary Ridgway married. This might have been the above named Thomas Cranmer, who married a second wife, or else the son of William Cranmer the first, who came from Staten Island.

In the year 1729 there was an addition to the first colony of Cranmers, who settled in Ocean and Burlington counties; this was Stephen Cranmer and his wife Sarah, who brought their certificates to the Friends' Meeting of Little Egg Habor, and settled at Bass River. A venerable lady whose mother was a daughter of the first John Cranmer, told me that her mother said that Stephen Cranmer came from the same place that the other Cranmers did, but that he was not a near kinsman of theirs. The Cranmers of New Jersey claim to be the descendants of Thomas Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury, who was burned at the stake for his devotion to Protestantism by order of Queen Mary, at Smithfield, England, May 21st, 1556. I believe the Cranmers are right in claiming descent from Archbishop Cranmer, for I have seen a likeness of him, and I have seen many Jersey Cranmers who possessed a striking resemblance to the Archbishop.

The Cranmers do not all spell their names alike - some have it Cranmer, and others Cramer, and still others Crammer, but the variation is easily accounted for. In old times most people had but little if any learning, and orthography suffered in their hands. Give half a dozen persons a name to spell that could be spelled a half a dozen ways, and it would be pretty sure to be accomplished, each one having spelled it in his own peculiar style, and thus it came about that there are so many ways of spelling one name.

William, Josiah, and probably Thomas Cranmer, were the forefathers of the Cranmers of Ocean county, N.J., and John and Stephen were the ancestors of the Cranmers of Burlington county, they having settled at Bass River.

The Cranmers are noted (especially former generations) for being partial to family names. I have heard it said that many years ago there were six Josiah Cranmers, all residing within a short distance of each other; and in order to distinguish one from another they were denominated thus: Old Josiah and Young Josiah; Big Josiah and Little Josiah; Over-the-creek Josiah and Poplar Neck Josiah.

I believe there has been a score or two of John Cranmers. I have heard the distinguishing titles of several of them which are as follows: John's John and Semor's John; Long John and Short John; Poplar Neck John and Beach John; Over-the-Plains John and Patty's John; Captain John and Bank John; Neddy's John and Bass River John.

There has been a large number of William Cranmers and also several Thomas Cranmers.

The present race of Cranmers are many of them successful seamen. There is a large number of Captain Cranmers, in some cases all the male members of a family are captains.

It appears that the first generations of Cranmers belonged to the Society of Friends. In the books of the Monthly Meeting of Little Harbor are recorded the marriages of the following members of the Cranmer family:

In the year 1716 Thomas Cranmer and Abigail Willits were married.

1721 John Cranmer and Mary Andrews were married.

1726 the above-named John Cranmer married a second wife, she being Rebecca Stout, of Shrewsbury, N.J.

1728 Thomas Cranmer and Mary Ridgway were married.

1728 Timothy Ridgway and Sarah Cranmer, daughter of the first William, were married.

1737 Thomas Havens and Sarah Cranmer were married.

1743 Levi Cranmer married Esther Horne. Levi, son of the first William.

1746 Anthony Morris and Sarah Cranmer were married.

1747 William Cranmer, Jr., was married. The son of the first William.

1758 Caleb, son of Stephen Cranmer, Sr., of Bass river was married. This was his first marriage. He had three wives.

1758 Abraham Cranmer and Abigail Birdsall were married.

William Cranmer's Family. - Mr. Salter states that William and Josiah Cranmer first settled near New Egypt, and soon traded their place for lands and privileges near Cranmertown, between Mannahawkin and West creek, in Ocean county, and that William then moved to the vicinity of Waretown. I cannot agree with him about William living at Waretown, for the following record does not favor such a statement. In an old book that once belonged to Edward Andrews' son, Samuel, it is recorded on one of the fly leaves (among other important records) that William Cranmer, who had settled at Barnegat, was the first proselyte that Edward Andrews was instrumental in making, after his own conversion, and also that the above-named William Cranmer used to walk from Barnegat (twelve miles) to the Little Egg Harbor (Tuckerton) meeting, where Edward Andrews often preached to the edification of those assembled. The substance of the above record is also a tradition among the Friends of Egg Harbor. If William Cranmer had lived at Waretown, he would have had to walk sixteen miles to Egg Harbor. Some authors say that the Little Egg Harbor Meeting was established in the year 1704. In 1712 William Cranmer signed his name as a witness to the will of Edward Andrews. And about the same time he made locations of lands in Little Egg Harbor, one tract being salt marsh on the bay shore.

William Cranmer had a son Levi, and a son William, and a daughter Sarah, and he may have had other children.

Levi Cranmer resided at Barnegat, and in the year 1743 married Esther Horne. He was one of the founders of the Quaker Church at Barnegat. He had a daughter who married John Arnold, and another who married William Camburn; no account of any sons.

In 1747 William Cranmer, Jr., married, his wife's name not recorded. This William, son of the first William, it is said, settled at Poplar Neck, and had children named Andrew, Samuel, Josiah, Amariah and William.

First Branch. - Andrew Cranmer married Catharine ______, and had a son Job and probably other children. It is probable that Andrew's wife was a Ridgway of Barnegat. Job Cranmer married and had children, Job, Elias and Mary, who married a man by the name of Sprague.

Second Branch. - Samuel Cranmer married Mary, daughter of Jacob Gale, and had children named John, Alexander, James, Marjorie, Lydia, Desire and Nancy. James married Martha Soper. Marjorie married Liberty Price. Desire married Samuel Stevens. Lydia married Moses Crane. Nancy married Samuel Gale.

Third Branch. - Josiah, son of William Cranmer, Jr., had children named Mary, Hezekiah, Ann and Charlotte.

Mary Cranmer married Captain Samuel Falkinburg, of Little Egg Harbor, and had children named John, Hezekiah, Timothy, Samuel, Josiah, George, Mary Jane, Lemuel, Fountain, Nelson, Charles, and a girl that died.

Hezekiah Cranmer was a school teacher and a local preacher among the Methodists and was considered an estimable man. He married Edith, daughter of Joseph and Keziah Seaman. Their children were Joseph, Jonathan, Zilpha, Sarah and Keziah.

Ann, daughter of Josiah Cranmer, married George Mott, and had children named Mary Ann, Fountain, Hannah, Jane and Ann.

Charlotte, daughter of Josiah Cranmer, married a man by the name of Churchwood, of New York City.

Fourth Branch. - Amariah, son of William Cranmer, Jr., married Hannah Rogers. No account of their posterity.

Fifth Branch. - William, son of William Cranmer, Jr., married Nancy Somers, (I believe of Salem county, N.J.) Their children were William, Borden, Emily and Clara.

William Cranmer married Mary, daughter of Charles Adams, of Bass river. His second wife was Elizabeth, daughter of James and Triphena Hughes. Emily Cranmer married Joseph Ridgway, Esq. Clara Cranmer married ______ Somers, of Salem county.

Josiah Cranmer's Family. - Josiah Cranmer was a brother of William, who settled at Barnegat. Josiah settled at Cranmertown, and had children: Josiah, Nathan, William, Ruth and Elizabeth. Nathan Cranmer settled on Pappoose Branch near the "Plains," in Burlington county. Nathan was the forefather of Gideon, Abraham and John of that section. I think Nathan Cranmer had a son Abraham who married Abigail Birdsall; a grandson Abraham, who married Abigail Headley, and a great-grandson Abraham, who was shot when in the forest hunting for deer - his comrade mistaking him for a deer.

Second Branch. - Josiah Cranmer, Jr., son of Josiah Cranmer, Sr., resided at Cranmertown, and married Sarah Wilkinson, of Long Island, and had children: Richard, Edward, Josiah, James, Isaiah, Samuel, Ruth, Ethelina and Miriam.

Richard Cranmer married Rebecca, daughter of Semon Cranmer, of Bass River, and had children: Elizabeth, who married Maurice Seaman, and had children: David, Jerusha, Ann, Maurice, Joshua, Aaron, Mary and Hannah. Richard and Rebecca Cranmer's other children were Daniel, Mary, Jesse, Louisa, Smith, Clarkson, Sarah and Richard.

Edward Cranmer married Naomi, daughter of Semon Cranmer, and sister to Rebecca, his brother Richard's wife. Edward and Naomi had one child, who was John C. Cranmer, who married Hannah, daughter of Captain Lamson. John C.Cranmer's children were Louisa, Elizabeth, Jane, Matilda, Amanda, Joseph, Charlotte, Sarah Ann, Maria, Caroline and Louisa.

Louisa Cranmer married Rev. Joseph Atwood. Elizabeth Cranmer married Norris Lippincott. Jane Cranmer married Captain Isaac Hewitt. Matilda Cranmer married Job Cranmer. Amanda Cranmer married first George Ridgway and second Captain Hezekiah Brown. Joseph Cranmer married two wives. Charlotte Cranmer married ______ Cranmer. Sarah Ann Cranmer married Nathan Cranmer. Caroline Cranmer married Rev. Samuel Parker. Maria Cranmer married Thomas Lippincott. Louisa Cranmer married Captain Thomas Crane.

Josiah Cranmer 3d, lived to a very great age. He was a jolly old chap, and was possessed of the rare gift of composing extemporaneous songs. It is probable that if he had been properly educated, he would have been a poet of considerable ability, for there was a large fund of wit in his rude composition. But, as Grey expresses it:

Josiah Cranmer married Sarah, daughter of Elizabeth Pharo, and had children: Wilkinson, Josiah, Barzilla, Timothy, Clayton, Joseph, Jarvis and Rachel. And about each one of these children the father composed one of his uncouth songs.

Wilkinson Cranmer married Susan Gaskill, and had children: Eliza, Sarah, Edith and Mary. Eliza Cranmer married Ezra Lippincott, Sr., Sarah Cranmer married Captain Fountain Jones. Edith Cranmer married John Pharo. Mary Cranmer married Samuel Lippincott.

Barzilla Cranmer married two wives; his second wife was Elizabeth Truax. Their children's names not ascertained.

Timothy Cranmer married Julia Cranmer.

Clayton Cranmer married Louisa Southwick.

Jarvis Cranmer married Catharine Bennett.

Rachel Cranmer married Captain Thomas Cranmer and had children: Elizabeth, Susannah, Amanda and George Henry.

James, son of Josiah Cranmer 2d, married Elizabeth, daughter of Jarvis Hazelton, of Mannahawkin. Their children: Sarah, Ann, Hazelton, Kesiah, Rachel, Elizabeth and Phoebe.

For a long term of years James Cranmer kept the boarding house at the Great Swamp, opposite Mannahawkin.

Sarah Cranmer married Aaron Inman. Ann Cranmer married Bront Slaight, and had children: James, Catharine, Henry Lemuel, Ann and Elizabeth. Hazelton Cranmer married Joanna ______ and had children: James, Abraham, Elizabeth Ann and Pressgrove. All of the sons are captains. It is a saying that as soon as a young Cranmer boy is weaned he takes a position on the quarter-deck of a staunch schooner, and during the balance of his life makes his home on the sea. I believe there are more Captain Cranmers than there are Captains of any other name, and they are known in every seaport on the Atlantic board of the United States of America, also the West Indies and South America, and some of them have visited some of the seaports of Europe.

Captain James Cranmer (son of Hazleton) married Charlotte Pharo and had children: Henry Lemuel, Jane, Hazleton, Martha and Oscar. His second wife was Eliza Plum, and her children: Augusta, Eva and James Everett. Captain Henry Lemuel Cranmer, son of Captain James, married Anna, daughter of Captain John Hanson. Jane Cranmer married Mr. Potter.

Hazleton Cranmer 2d, married Sarah Snyder.

Martha Cranmer married Charles Kelley.

Captain Abraham Cranmer, son of Hazleton 1st, married Mary D. ______, of Philadelphia. Their children: Clarence, Mary, Fanny and Ida.

Captain Pressgrove Cranmer, son of Hazleton 1st, married Charity Cranmer. Their children: Eugene and Maria.

Elizabeth Ann Cranmer, daughter of Hazleton 1st, married Benjamin Kelley, and had children: Alonzo, Cornelius, Alexis, Frances, Napoleon, Theodore and James.

Kesiah, daughter of James Cranmer 1st, married Timothy Willits and had children: Amelia, James, Elizabeth, Ann, Lydia, Louisa and Adelia.

James Willits married Catharine Rutter. Amelia Willits married Isaiah Budd Cranmer. Elizabeth Willits married Captain Charles Parsons. Ann Willits married Captain Hezekiah Brown. Lydia Willits married Isaac Downs. Louisa Willits married Captain Samuel Berry. Adelia Willits married Charles Sprague.

Rachel, daughter of James Cranmer 1st, married William Rutter and had children: James, Elizabeth and John.

Elizabeth, daughter of James Cranmer 1st, married Captain Jarvis Jones and had children: Joel, Mary, Ellen, Eugene, Sarah, Isaac and Jarvis. Phoebe, daughter of James Cranmer 1st, married Robert Rutter and had children: Catharine, Hazleton and Hannah. Phoebe's second husband is John D. GifFord, and the children of this marriage: William H., John D. and Anna.

Isaiah Cranmer, son of Josiah 2d, married Phoebe, daughter of Jarvis Hazleton, and her children: Julia, Thomas, Mercy, Stephen, William, Joseph and Phoebe. Isaiah's second wife was Hannah White and their children were: Serena, Maria, Mary, Charity, Isaiah, Budd, Edward, and Ezra.

Julia Cranmer married Timothy Cranmer.

Captain Thomas Cranmer married Rachel Cranmer.

Captain Joseph Cranmer married Emeline Jones.

Serena Cranmer married James Edwards.

Maria Cranmer married Samuel Hazleton.

Mary Cranmer married Captain Isaac Cathcart.

Charity Cranmer married Captain Pressgrove Cranmer.

Isaiah B. Cranmer married Amelia Willits.

There are several of this family whose marriages I could not ascertain.

Samuel, son of Josiah Cranmer 2d, married Deliverance, daughter of Micajah Willits, Sr., and had children: Elizabeth, Willits, Mary, Sarah and Beulah. Elizabeth Cranmer married Jarvis Pharo. Willits Cranmer married Hannah Pharo. Mary Cranmer married Samuel Jeffreys. Sarah Cranmer married ______ Price. Beulah Cranmer married John Parker.

Ruth, daughter of Josiah Cranmer 2d, married James Pharo, son of Amos Pharo 1st, and had sixteen children.

Ethelina, daughter of Josiah Cranmer 2d, married Amos Southwick, and, like her sister Ruth, had sixteen children.

Miriam, daughter of Josiah Cranmer 2d, died unmarried.

A very large number of the people of Ocean county, N.J., and also other places, are of the Cranmer name or blood.

John Cranmer's Family. - It is said that John Cranmer was a brother of William and Josiah Cranmer, who came from Staten Island and settled in Ocean county, N.J. Tradition says that John Cranmer was the boss carpenter at the building of the first Friends' Meeting House at Tuckerton. In the year 1721 John Cranmer married Mary Andrews, and tradition says that she was the daughter of Edward Andrews, but according to a statement in his will I do not think she was his daughter, but it was likely she was the daughter of Mordecai Andrews, Sr. Mary died soon after her marriage, and in the year 1726 John Cranmer married Rebecca Stout, of Shrewsbury, N.J., and had children: Jacob, Semon, John, Rachel, Elizabeth, Rebecca and Hannah.

John Cranmer settled at Bass River.

I have not been able to learn the names of many of his posterity.

First Branch. - Jacob Cranmer married Phoebe Valentine and had children: Rebecca, who married John Johnson; Anne, who married Charles Allen; Sarah, who married James Gale, Sr., and Phoebe, who was the second wife of Francis French, Sr.

Jacob Cranmer married a second wife, who, it was said, was a Loveland. Jacob Cranmer lived somewhere about Bridgeport, and during his first wife's time he was one day at work in a cedar swamp some distance from his home, and his wife went to take his dinner to him, and while she was in the swamp a huge bear rushed at her. Her husband told her to run with all her might and he caught up his axe and stepped between her and the bear, and walked backwards for a long distance, facing the bear, with his axe drawn, ready to sink it into the skull of the beast whenever he came near enough to be reached. Finally the bear gave up the pursuit, and Jacob and his wife reached their home, where she soon after died from the effects of her fright and the fatigue of running from the bear.

Second Branch. - In the year 1754 Semon Cranmer married Mary, daughter of John Smith and Mary Ireland, his wife, and had children: Mary, Sarah, Christiana, Rebecca, Naomi, Semon, Catharine, Jesse, Martha and Elizabeth.

Mary Cranmer married William Rose, Sr., and had children: William, Mary, Semon, James, Jesse and Joel.

Mary Rose married James White, and had children: William, Reuben, Maria, Semon, Eliza, Sarah, James, Ann, Lucinda and Robert.

Christiana Cranmer married Hugh Magarthy.

Rebecca Cranmer married Richard Cranmer, (in the year 1781), and died in the year 1811. Her children: Elizabeth, Daniel, Mary, Jesse, Louisa, Smith, Clarkson, Sarah and Richard.

Elizabeth, daughter of the above-named Rebecca Cranmer, in the year 1800, married Maurice Seaman, and had children: Daniel, Jerusha, Ann, Maurice, Joshua, Aaron, Mary and Hannah.

Naomi Cranmer married Edward Cranmer, and was the mother of John C. Cranmer.

Semon Cranmer, Jr., married Mary Goldsmith, a widow, and had children: Sarah, Elizabeth and Martha. Elizabeth Cranmer married James Boden, and had children: Rebecca and Leander. Martha Cranmer married Jacob Thomas and had children: Mary Ann, John, Samuel, Sarah, Martha, Jane and Elizabeth.

In the year 1797, Martha Cranmer, daughter of Semon Cranmer, Sr., married James Anderson, and had children: Mary, Robert, Jane, Thomas, Rebecca, Lucretia and Helen.

Rebecca Anderson married Jacob Westler, and had children: Jacob and Frederick. Lucretia Anderson married Francis Ressellet, and had children: Leopold and Anne.

Helen Anderson married Frederick Steinberg. Their child was Rosanna.

Elizabeth, daughter of Semon Cranmer, Sr., was born in the year 1775, and died 1816. She married Ziba, son of Nehemiah Mathis, Sr., and had children: James, Mary, Daniel, Smith, Jesse and Martha.

Third Branch. - John, son of John Cranmer, Sr., in the year 1757, married Margaret Smith, sister to his brother Semon's wife, and had children: John, Amy, Mary, Jacob, Sylvanus and Ruth.

John Cranmer married Hannah Johnson, and had children: Elizabeth, who died in 1811, Daniel, John, Isaiah, Jonathan, Margaret, Asa, Hannah and Mary.

John Cranmer married Nancy Jenkins. Daniel S. Cranmer married Charlotte Loveland. Isaiah Cranmer married Rachel Randolph. Jonathan Cranmer married Ann Brewer. Margaret Cranmer married first ______ Randolph, and then Aaron Belangee. Asa Cranmer married Catharine Carr. Hannah Cranmer married Isaiah Weeks. Mary Cranmer married Samuel Weeks.

Mary, daughter of John and Margaret Cranmer, married Samuel Goldsmith, and had children: Samuel, Mary and Rebecca. No account of the marriages of Jacob, Amy, Sylvanus and Ruth Cranmer.

Fourth Branch. - Rachel, daughter of John Cranmer, Sr., married Edward Allen, Sr., of Bass river. He was a son of Robert Allen, and grandson of Edward Andrews, and his children were: Charles, Simeon, Edward, John, Edith, Mercy, Sarah, Mary, Kesiah and Phoebe.

Charles Allen married Anne, daughter of Jacob Cranmer, Sr. Simeon Allen married a Johnson, sister to Mathias Johnson.

Edward and John Allen did not marry.

Edith Allen married Jeremiah Peterson.

Mercy Allen married Joseph Gale.

Sarah Allen married William Wilson.

Mary Allen married David Brewer.

Kesiah Allen married William Myers.

Phoebe Allen married ______ Sooy.

Fifth Branch. - Elizabeth, daughter of John Cranmer, Sr., married Nehemiah Mathis, Sr., and had children: Alice, Job, Elizabeth, Sarah, Hannah, John, Rebecca, Mary, Nehemiah, Phoebe, Ziba, Sophia and Nancy.

Sixth Branch. - Rebecca, daughter of John Cranmer, Sr., married ______ Carter, and was the mother of John Carter, and also of Catharine, first wife of Josephus Sears, Sr.

Seventh Branch. - Hannah, daughter of John Cranmer, Sr., married Joseph Burns, an English sailor. Joseph Burns was in a ship which sunk in the middle of the ocean, and all on board perished except Burns, who caught hold of a plank, to which he clung for the space of four days and nights. The sea washed every rag of clothes off his body, and the plank to which he clung chafed the flesh off his arms to the bones. Yet he held to the plank, his only hope. At the expiration of the fourth day, when nearly exhausted, and in his despair and misery, he was about to relinquish his hold of the plank and go down into the great deep, he cast one more lingering look about the lonely sea, and to his unspeakable joy, descried a ship in the distance. This joyful sight renewed his exhausted strength and expiring hope, and he clung still tighter to his frail support until the ship came up and the crew released him from his perilous situation. He lived many years after his adventure on the plank, and at last was drowned from a vessel which lay at anchor in some one of the rivers of Virginia. When telling his ocean adventure, he would remark that "those who were born to be hung would not be drowned," yet it seems he was destined to be drowned.

The children of Joseph and Hannah Burns were: John, Margaret and Mary. John Burns died unmarried. I think he was drowned. Margaret Burns married Robert McKean, and among their children were: Mary, Catharine, Forman, Frank and Samuel.

Mary Burns married Edward Alloways, and it is said that their posterity reside in and about Mount Holly, N.J.

Hannah, widow of Joseph Burns, died in the year 1819 or 1820.

Stephen Cranmer's Family. - I have not been able to collect a very concise account of Stephen Cranmer's posterity. There are but few records of them in the Friends' Monthly Meeting Book of Little Egg Harbor Meeting. The various clerks of the meeting have been very careless about recording many things that is customary to record in that denomination. A great number of people who were members and whose marriages, &c., ought to have been recorded, have from some unexplained cause been omitted and only now and then one been noticed.

From about the time of the Revolutionary War to about the year 1800 there were a large number of members who married out of the meeting, but there is no kind of a record pertaining to but a few of such marriages, as there formerly had been when members married without the consent of the meeting. If the Little Egg Harbor Meeting ever kept records of births, deaths and burials, the records have been lost. There is a tradition among "Friends" that many years ago, one of their books of records was destroyed in a house that was burned; and if so it must have been the book of records of births, deaths and burials. After a strict scrutiny of existing Monthly Meeting Books, I am satisfied they are continuous records from the establishment of the Monthly Meeting in the year 1715 to the present time, but with many omissions of various things that ought to have been recorded.

Old family Bibles usually have authentic records of the families of their owners, but I have not seen any old Bible formerly belonging to any of the ancient Cranmer's, therefore I am deficient in much valuable information in respect to Stephen Cranmer's posterity, and the old people who knew them or had later knowledge of them, like themselves have gone to the world of spirits, and their knowledge is buried with them.

In the year 1729 Stephen Cranmer and his wife Sarah brought their certificates to the Little Egg Harbor Monthly Meeting.

Stephen Cranmer settled at Bass River, and was one of the prominent men of that time and place, and also a person of considerable wealth. It is said that he owned, and lived on the farm which in modern times was owned and occupied by his grandson, Caleb Cranmer, Esq., and this place was also the homestead of Caleb Cranmer, Sr., son of Stephen, Sr. There is a hill near the centre of the farm where Stephen Cranmer and many of his posterity are buried. It was formerly called the Cranmer graveyard, but a few years ago it was established as a public burial place, and then many of the dead were taken up from other burying places in Bass River and re-interred in the Cranmer burying ground, and now it is the principal graveyard in Bass River.

I have several ancient business documents with Stephen Cranmer's signature attached to them. His wife appears to have been a prominent member of the Society of Friends, for in the 1759, she and Mercy, wife of Micajah Mathis, Sr., were appointed as delegates to attend the Quarterly Meeting at Burlington city.

It is out of my power to say how many children Stephen Cranmer, Sr., had. He had a son Isaac and a son Caleb, and there may have been other sons. In the Little Egg Harbor Monthly Meeting books is record of the following named women: Ann Cranmer, Susannah Cranmer, and the records state they were daughters of Stephen Cranmer. Some of them obtained certificates in order to marry in the Mount Holly Friends' Meeting, and the others desired certificates for the purpose of removing to Mount Holly. In the year 1783, Susannah, daughter of Stephen Cranmer, got a certificate in order to marry in the Mount Holly Meeting. In 1784, Keziah and Sarah, daughters of Stephen Cranmer, got certificates for Mount Holly Meeting. In 1784, Sarah, widow of Stephen Cranmer, got a certificate for the purpose of removing to Mount Holly. By the above records it is evident that Stephen Cranmer's widow and his daughters all removed to Mount Holly at the same time, but if this widow was Stephen Cranmer's first wife (and there is no account of his having a second wife) these daughters must have been old maids, for in the year 1729 when Stephen Cranmer came to Egg Harbor he was married and from the year 1729 to the year 1784 would be fifty-five years, so that the unmarried daughters of Stephen Cranmer's first wife must have been on the old maids' list.

If I have been rightly informed, Isaac, son of Stephen Cranmer, Sr., married Rebecca Jones, (probably of upper Burlington county) and had children: Stephen, Zadoc, John, Mary, Hope and Sarah. Isaac married a second wife who was Eunice, daughter of Richard Devinney, Sr., and sister to Phoebe, wife of Eli Mathis, Sr., and also sister to Mary, wife of James Pharo 2d. The second wife's children were William and Zadoc, both of whom removed to the West.

Isaac Cranmer, Sr., kept the jail when it was in Burlington city.

John, son of Isaac Cranmer, Sr., married Martha, daughter of James Pharo 2d, and his wife, Mary Devinney. John Cranmer's children were: Mary, Rebecca, Eliza, John, Elma, Lavinia, Sarah and Zadoc. Mary Cranmer married John Berry, and among their children were Eliza, Joseph, John, Samuel, Ephraim, Maja, Chalkley, Hannah, Mary, and a girl who died.

Rebecca Cranmer married Samuel, son of John Forman, Esq.

Eliza Cranmer married John McMullin.

John Cranmer, Jr., married away from his native place.

Elma Cranmer married Joseph Adams, and among their children were Eliza, Reynolds, Martha, John, Edwin and Margaret.

Eliza Adams married Captain Lewis Bragg.

Martha Adams married Micajah Mathis, son of Ellis Mathis.

Lavinia Cranmer married Benjamin Jones, and among her children were Eliza, Zadoc and William.

Sarah Cranmer married Samuel Stiles, Jr., their children being Samuel and Elizabeth.

Samuel Stiles married Mary Throckmorton, and had children named Alphonso, Sidney and Louisa.

Elizabeth Stiles married Albert, son of Timothy Pharo. Their children were Franklin, Hannah, Albert, Clarence, Archelaus, Joseph, Merritt, Harvey, Ernest and Horace.

Zadoc Cranmer married away from his native place. He resides in Mount Holly, where he is well and favorably known. His living children are Josephine, Ada and Sarah.

Caleb, son of Stephen Cranmer, Sr., lived on his father's homestead, and was a man of property and infiuence in his native place. He had three wives - his first wife's name not now known. She was the mother of Isaac Cranmer, of Bass River, and she may have had other children. The second wife is said to have been a daughter of ______ Baker, and she was the mother of Caleb Cranmer, Jr., in his time known as Caleb Cranmer, Esq., also Chalkley, Stephen, Eli, Martha, Mary, and it is said, other daughters, who married and lived in distant sections, and there was a John Cranmer who is said to have been a son of Caleb Cranmer, Sr., and he, it is said, resided in Philadelphia, and that Henry Howell, Sr.'s, wife was a daughter of Caleb Cranmer, Sr.

In the year 1758, Caleb Cranmer, Sr., married his first wife; his third wife was Phoebe, widow of Job Mathis, Sr., and sister of Captain John Leake, Sr., of Bass River. No children by this marriage.

Isaac, son of Caleb Cranmer, Sr., (by his first wife) married Dorcas, daughter of Hezekiah Adams, Sr., and had children: Charles, George, Bethiah, Mary, Uriah, Isaac, Hope and Lucy Ann.

Charles Cranmer married Mary Gaskill and had twelve children.

George Cranmer married Lucy Cale, and had children: William, Zadoc, George and Phoebe Ann.

Bethiah Cranmer married ______ Sooy. Mary Cranmer married Isaiah Robbins. Uriah Cranmer married Maria Franklin. Isaac Cranmer did not marry. Lucy Ann Cranmer married Edward Johnson. Caleb, son of Caleb Cranmer, Sr., was known as Esquire Cranmer, and he and his half brother Isaac, were wealthy and prominent men of Bass river. Caleb Cranmer, Esq., married Mary, daughter of Hezekiah Adams, Sr., and sister to his half brother Isaac's wife. Their children were: Joseph, Baker, Caleb, Anne, Julia and Mary Jane.

Joseph Baker Cranmer married Sarah, daughter of Arthur Thompson, Sr., and had children: Arthur, Joseph, Elizabeth, Josephine, Rebecca and Helena. Arthur Cranmer married Mary Mathis. Elizabeth Cranmer married Rollin Ashley. Josephine Cranmer married Captain Josiah Mathis. Rebecca Cranmer married Howard Harris. Helena Cranmer married Joseph Cake, Jr.

Caleb S. Cranmer married Ann, daughter of Recompense Darby, and had children: Joseph, Sarah, Achsah and Lavinia.

Joseph Cranmer married Eliza Johnson. Sarah Cranmer married Henry Budd. Achsah Cranmer married Nathan B. Willits. Lavinia Cranmer married Marmaduke Cranmer.

Ann, daughter of Caleb Cranmer, Esq., married Thomas Allen, and among their children were Caleb, Mary, Maria, Thomas Jefferson, Uriah and Joseph Baker.

Julia, daughter of Caleb Cranmer, Esq., married Stacy, son of Maja Mathis, Sr., and had children: Caleb, Mary Ann, Chalkley and George W. Mathis.

Caleb Mathis married Judith Collins, Mary Ann Mathis married ______ Endicott. Chalkley Mathis married Mary Jane Shourds. George W. Mathis married first Abigail Lane, and second, Jennie Vansant.

Mary Jane, daughter of Caleb Cranmer, Esq., married Captain Oliver Loveland. I cannot name their children.

Chalkley, son of Caleb Cranmer, Sr., married Achsah, daughter of Captain John Leake. Their child, Caleb Cranmer, who married Mary Ann Mott. Among their children were Fountain, Chalkley and Abigail. Achsah, widow of Chalkley Cranmer, Sr., married Captain Josephus Sears, and was the mother of Chalkley, William and Jesse B. Sears.

Martha, daughter of Caleb Cranmer, Sr., married John, son of Micajah Mathis, Sr. They lived at Chestnut Neck, Atlantic county, New Jersey. Their children were Beriah, Jennings, Reuben, Caleb, John, Shreve, Chalkley, Charlotte, Mary, Elizabeth and Sarah.

Mary, daughter of Caleb Cranmer, Sr., married David Cavileer, Sr. I think they had no children.

Eli, son of Caleb Cranmer, Sr., married a daughter of Jonathan Gifford, Sr., of Little Egg Harbor.