Captain Thomas CRAM
1696 - 1751 (54 years)-
Name Thomas CRAM Prefix Captain Christening 9 Nov 1686 Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire Birth 9 Nov 1696 Hampton Falls, Rockingham Co, NH, U.S.A. Gender Male Death 24 Aug 1751 Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire Person ID I168 kirkpatrick Last Modified 8 Apr 2007
Father Thomas CRAM, b. 1644, Exeter, Rockingham Co, NH, U.S.A. d. 1708, Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire (Age 64 years) Mother Elizabeth WEARE, b. 5 Jan 1658, Newberry, MA, U.S.A. d. Abt 1722, Hampton Falls, NH, U.S.A. (Age 63 years) Marriage 20 Dec 1681 Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire Family ID F47 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Mary Coleman BROWN, b. 1696, Hampton Falls, Rockingham Co, NH, U.S.A. d. 31 Mar 1756, Hampton Falls, Rockingham Co, NH, U.S.A. (Age 60 years) Marriage 1719 ? Children 1. Jedediah (Jeddediah?) CRAM, b. 1738, Hampton Falls, Rockingham Co, NH, U.S.A. d. 3 Jul 1828, Francestown, Hillsborough, NH, U.S.A. (Age 90 years) 2. Nathan CRAM, b. 1719 ?, Hampton Falls, NH, U.S.A. d. 1790 ? 3. Stephen CRAM 4. Elizabeth CRAM 5. Daniel CRAM 6. Mary CRAM 7. Peter CRAM 8. Thomas CRAM 9. Asa CRAM Family ID F46 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 8 Apr 2007
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Notes - Captain Thomas CRAM JR was born on 9 Nov 1696 in Hampton Falls, Rockingham Co, New Hampshire. He died in Aug 1751. Thomas was captain of the militia in Hampton Falls. He was a Masonian Proprietor of Ware, N.H. These Lords Proprietor, or Masonians, met at Porysmouth in 1749 to draw for lots in Ware. Thomas Cram's was lot #84, (Ranges 3 and 7). He was also one of the selectmen of Hampton Falls.
According to www.ironheritage.org/trail_2.htm, There is a place on Ottawa Lake Road (13 mile post zero and treaty tree) where Captain Thomas Cram placed the first marker at the survey point establishing the Wisconsin-Michigan state boundary in 1840. "As part of the settlement of the 'Toledo War' between Michigan and Ohio, most of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan was granted to Michigan for the'Toledo Strip' which was granted to Ohio. He made a treaty for passage with Chief Ca-Sha-O-Sha and the band of Ojibwa (Chippewa) near a large tamarack tree at the headwaters of the Brule River."
However, 1840 is the wrong time frame for our Captain Thomas Cram. If this is the correct date, perhaps it was his son that placed the marker?
- Captain Thomas CRAM JR was born on 9 Nov 1696 in Hampton Falls, Rockingham Co, New Hampshire. He died in Aug 1751. Thomas was captain of the militia in Hampton Falls. He was a Masonian Proprietor of Ware, N.H. These Lords Proprietor, or Masonians, met at Porysmouth in 1749 to draw for lots in Ware. Thomas Cram's was lot #84, (Ranges 3 and 7). He was also one of the selectmen of Hampton Falls.