Capt. William Crispin and Jane Chudleigh

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Husband Capt. William Crispin ^{1 2}

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           Born: Abt 1610
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           Died: Abt 1682 - Barbados, West Indies
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         Father: [Ancestor] Crispin (      -      )
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       Marriage: 1665 2

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   Other Spouse: Anne Jasper (      -      ) 1 - Abt 1650

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   Other Spouse: Rebecca Bradshaw (      -      ) 2 - 28 Sep 1652 2

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• Biographical Sketch: John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911).
To read this brief biographical sketch of his life and career, click here.

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Wife Jane Chudleigh ²

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            AKA: Jane [Unk] 3
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Children

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1 M James Crispin ³

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         Spouse: Unknown (      -      )

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2 M Joseph Crispin ³

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           Died: Bet 1687 and 1698
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3 M Benjamin Crispin ³

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         Spouse: Alice [Unk] (      -      ) 3
           Marr: Bet 1698 and 1702

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4 F Jane Crispin ³

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         Spouse: Greenslaid Lucomb (      -      ) 3
           Marr: Bet 1687 and 1698

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5 F Eleanor Crispin ³

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           Died: Bet 1687 and 1698
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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6 F Elizabeth Crispin ³

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         Spouse: [Unk] Milliard (      -Bef 1702) 3
           Marr: Bet 1687 and 1698

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7 F Amy Crispin ³

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         Spouse: Daniel Johnson (      -      ) 3
           Marr: Bet 1698 and 1702

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General Notes: Husband - Capt. William Crispin

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He was companion-in-arms and brother-in-law of Admiral Sir William Penn, and named by his nephew, William Penn, the great founder of Pennsylvania, as one of his first commissioners of his new province of Pennsylvania. He was the ancestor of the Crispin family in America. He belonged to the ancient and honorable family of that name in Great Britain; and the part he took in affairs abroad during the time of England's Commonwealth, and in the events which led to the Restoration of King Charles II, also make him a person of some mark among the characters of that period. Captain Crispin commanded a vessel, under the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell, and participated in an expedition against the Spanish West Indies, which failed to perform its mission. Captain Crispin incurred the displeasure of Cromwell when the former joined the naval party's movement against the Protectorate and became a leader of the movement for the restoration of King Charles. Crispin threw up his commission and became one of the active fifth-monarchy men. After the restoration, Crispin is found at Kinsale, Ireland. In 1681, William Penn, son of the Admiral, having obtained the grant of Pennsylvania, proceeded to plant a colony there, and appointed three commissioners, one of whom was Captain Crispin. The latter sailed from England in 1681-82, and died in Barbados, to which his ship had been blown, probably from the Capes of Delaware. He had a purchase of five thousand acres in the province of Pennsylvania which was never laid out to him; also city lots in Philadelphia which were never patented to him.

There is contradictory information about his marriages. Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania mentions Anne Jasper and Jane [Unk]; Silas is given as a son of Jasper. Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania Biography gives Bradshaw and Chudleigh; Silas is given as a son of Bradshaw.

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General Notes: Wife - Jane Chudleigh

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For at least seventeen years after Capt. Crispin's death, his widow and younger children lived at Kinsale. William Penn granted of his "free gift" to James, Joseph, Benjamin, Jane, Eleanor, Elizabeth, and Amy Crispin, children of William Crispin by his second [sic] marriage, three thousand acres of land in Pennsylvania; as they were all minors at the date of this grant, August 8, 1687, he named Thomas Chudleigh, Martin Perse, and John Watts, of Kinsale, as trustees. One thousand five hundred acres of this were to be sold by the trus-tees for the children's education, support, and settlement in life; of the one thousand five hundred acres the portion of any child dying under seventeen years of age was to return to the Proprietary. As no return of the laying out of this land was sent to the trustees, they did not sell any of it; and William Penn, by deed of November 22, 1698, in consideration of Jane Crispin, though left in poor circumstances by her husband, having paid for the education and support of her children (and, as stated in the deed, Eleanor and Joseph having died after reaching seventeen years, Jane, Elizabeth and James having married very well, and Benjamin and Amy being capable of supporting themselves), granted to her, "Jane Crispin, of Kinsale, widow," half of the three thousand acres. This was afterwards inherited by her surviving children.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 357.

2 Frederic A. Godcharles, LL.D., Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania Biography, Vol. 19 (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1931), Pg 346.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 358.