Jeremiah
Crane
Garthwaite
Born about in Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey
Ancestors 
Son of James Garthwaite
and Ann (Crane) Garthwaite
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Vashti (Brittin) Garthwaite
— married
1787 [location unknown]
Father of
Jeremiah Crane Garthwaite
Died about
at about age 57
in Elizabeth, Union, New Jersey, United States
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Biography
Jeremiah Crane Garthwaite was born to James and Anne Crane Garthwaite in Elizabethtown, New Jersey in 1765. (Cranford, New Jersey was named after the Crane family (Crane's Ford)).
Jeremiah christened 28 April 1765 St John's Elizabethtown. [1]
Drummer Jeremiah Garthwaite served with 1st Regiment, Essex County Militia, New Jersey Militia during the American Revolution.
Jeremiah Garthwaite is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A044404.
Jeremiah served in the Revolution, although not yet 17, as a drummer - Col Oliver Spencer Spencer-2982 - 1st Essex Regt. [2]
Jeremiah Crane Garthwaite married Vashti Brittin, daughter of William and Mary Pierson Brittin, in 1787
Jeremiah and Vashti Garthwaite had, in Elizabethtown:[3]
- William, b. 1792, married Elmira Parker, then Abba Ward
- Abba/Abigail, b. 1794, married Albert Pierson
- Samuel, b. 1796, married Mary Damon
- Mary, b. 1798, married Ira Pierson
- Anne, b. 1799, married Henry Geiger, settled in Newark
- Jeremiah Crane, b. 1800, married Caroline Darcy
- Elizabeth, b. 1802, married Joseph Wheeler of Newark
- Thomas b. 1804, married Margaret Brittin, daughter of Col. William of Madison
- John Rudd, b. 1806 died in a Mississippi River steamboat explosion
Jeremiah died in Elizabeth on 29 July 1822. His widow Vashti died there 10 years later, August 1832. She, and presumably he, are buried at St. John's Episcopal Church there.
Sources
- ↑ New Jersey, U.S., Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey, Church Records, 1700-1970 Elizabeth St. John, 1750-1856, Parish Register Vol. 1 image 50 by subscription https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/135217:62073?tid=&pid=&queryId=9183a02d346ddf04e15f769f969f2d70&_phsrc=JsM2&_phstart=successSource
- ↑ National Society of the Children of the American Revolution for Jeremiah Crane Garthwaite https://www.causeiq.com/organizations/national-society-of-the-children-of-the-american-r,223135123/
- ↑ John Littell, Genealogies of the First Settlers of Passaic Valley, 1851, p. 56, cited by [1]
- New Jersey Births and Christenings Index
- North America Family Histories 1500-2000 - Lineage of the DAR Patriot A044404
- New Jersey Abstract of Wills
- Revolutionary War Service Records
- https://sites.google.com/site/jcgnscar
- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7234798/gar
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Carl Garthwaite
Jeremiah Crane Garthwaite was only 11 when he enlisted. He was told he was too young to fight and he told them he could play the drum. He could and was accepted as a drummer. His older brother Henry also enlisted as a fifer at about age 13. Their Father, James was also a veteran of the French and Indian wars.
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