CRIPPEN, Japez

1680 - 1785  (104 years)  Submit Photo / Document

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• Name	CRIPPEN, Japez
  Birth	9 Jul 1680	Falmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, British Colonial America
  Gender	Male
  Burial	Jul 1785	Bennington Village Cemetery, Bennington, Bennington, Vermont, United States
  Death	7 Jul 1785	Manchester, Bennington, Vermont, United States
  WAC	3 Feb 1915	SLAKE
  _TAG	Reviewed on FS
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  Person ID	I28112	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Family	FULLER, Thankful ,   b. 19 May 1689, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United Statesd. 20 May 1748, Sharon, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States (Age 59 years)
  Marriage	9 Jul 1707	Colchester, New London, Connecticut, United States
  Family ID	F15278	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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  Jabez Crippen was born in Falmouth, Mass. 1680. Jabez moved to Colchester, Ct. prior to 1700. Married 7/9/1707 to Thankful Fuller of Colchester, daughter of John Fuller and Mehitable Rowley Fuller of Barnstable, Mass. John's grandfather Edward came on the Mayflower. Mehitable R. Fuller's great-grandfather, William Palmer came with the Pilgrims on the ship Fortune. Jabez and Thankful had ten children, all born in Colchester, Ct. and were all baptized in the First Congo. church in East Haddam, Ct. In about 1740 Jabez moved to Sharon, Litchfield County, Ct. There are conflicting reports of when and where Jabez died, one says he died in Manchester, Vt. in 1785, another says he died around 1760 after moving with most of his sons to Amenia, NY. to live in a hamlet called Crippentown Crippentown, USA The following is from a short bio contained in Charles F. Sedgwick's 1842 "History of Sharon" (CT) "CRIPPEN, JABEZ was from Colchester, and was an original proprietor of the township. He drew the twenty-first home-lot, and his house stood on the ground now occupied by the Grosvenor house, so called, nearly opposite Governor Smith's. He was the first selectman ever chosen in the town. He had sons, Jabez, John, Samuel, Thomas and Joseph. His son Thomas lived where Russel B. Calkin now lives. About the year 1752, the father removed with several of his sons, into Amenia, N. Y. near where the late Jonathan Pennoyer lived; and that neighborhood was formerly called Crippentown. Mr. Crippen died at Manchester, Vermont, about 1785." ANOTHER VERSION; CRIPPIN, THOMAS, of Haddam, and his wife Francis, and Francis his widow. His will, dated May 10, 1705. Inventory dated Jan. 24, 1709-10. Estate, £47, 'Ss. Children, Catherine Rowley, Mary Corbee, Mercy Crippin, Experience Crippin, Thomas and Jabez. These children were living at the settlement of the estate in 1710. Jabez, above, son of Thomas, was an original proprietor of the town of Sharon, Conn. He first located at Colchester, and removed from Colchester to Sharon. He m. Thankful Fuller, at Colchester, July 9, 1707, and had issue, Susanna, b. May 21, 1708; Francis, b. June, 26, 1710; Lydia, b. March 17, 1713; Thomas, b. May 15, 1715; Jabez, b. July, 14, 1717; John, b. March 20, 1720; Mehitabel, b. July 6, 1722; Samuel, b. July 7, 1724 ; Joseph, b. June 7, 1726; Thankful, b. April 2, 1728. His sons John, Jabez, Jr., Thomas, Samuel, and Joseph, in 1752 removed to Armenia in Dutchess County, New York, at a place called Crippintown. Jabez, sen'r, d. at Manchester, in Vermont, in 1785. Francis, dau'r of Jabez, sen'r, m. Timothy Carrier, Feb. 26, 1729-30, and had issue, Elizabeth Thankful, 2d Elizabeth, and others. Gripping, or Cropping, has 1 coat of arms. Jabez was a man of some reputation in Sharon, whei'e he was the first selectman elected in the town. A good family in Plymouth Colony.