DESCENDANTS
OF
JOHN
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FIRST
GENERATION
JOHN SCRANTON, with the number of about twenty-five heads of families, made a settlement in Guilford on or about the 10th of October, 1639.
They came from Guilford and from the counties of Kent and Surry, in England.
The year of John Scranton's birth is not known, It is probable he was not over twenty-nine or thirty at the time of emigration, and lived after his arrival about thirty-one or thirty-two years, and died 27th of August, 1671, aged about sixty or sixty-one, and about two years before his son John was married. [Town Records, p, 68]
He was twice married.
First, to Joanna, (probably in England.) The name of her parents is not ascertained. She died July 22, 1661, about ten years before her husband.
Married second time to Ada, or Adaline Hill, who was the widow of Robert and had been the widow of Robert Johnson, May 22, 1666. She: died April, 1685.
Mr. R. Johnson died 1661. Mr. R. Hill, to whom she was remarried January 7, 1662, died August 3, 1663.
Mr. Scranton was a member of General Court in 1669 and 1670.
children
1
*John, Jun.
b. as early as 1641, and d. September 2, 1703, a. 62
2
*Thomas
b,
about 1643
3
*Sarah
b.
May 16, 1645; m. John Bushnell.
If they had more than three children, they died young, before they came to this country.