Genealogy of the Crane Family: Descendants of Henry Crane, of Wethersfield and Guilford, Conn., With Sketch of the Family in England. E-book. Formato PDF Ellery Bicknell Crane   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

For a time the work was pushed with considerable vigor, but through too close application to business, which demanded atten tion, and extra hours given to genealogical research and compila tion the writer became overworked and forced to put aside his labor of love. At no time, however, has the task been wholly abandoned, correspondence has been kept up, and as promptly as responses arrived were noted in the manuscript.

The Ancestry of Edward Rawson, Secretary of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay: With Some Account of His Life in Old and New England. E-book. Formato PDF Ellery Bicknell Crane   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Mr. Rawson may have possessed peculiarities and individualities, but even by the light Of the present day, after making due allowance for his time, the record he has left behind of services rendered will bear comparison with many other Of the workers during those early and trying experiences in the life of the Colony. Dr. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, of Boston, the antiquary who com piled for publication the early records of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, says in his introduction or preface to that work, Of all the secretaries of this Colony, none surpassed Mr. Rawson in peculiarities of chirography, and in the use of similar forms for different letters. He had various ways of writing the letters e and r, very Often writing them in such a careless manner that nothing but the context could possibly lead to the discovery of his intentions. In the use of the letters 72, u, c, and t and c, and I, he was equally faulty. In a few instances the peculiar style of writing used by Secretary Rawson, such as the condensation of two letters into one, and by an extra stroke of the pen the making of one letter assume the appearance of two has not been followed. Several of the most common instances are the use Of an m for 7272, as Pemiman for Penniman, and an m, for an n, as Haimes for Hines. He seems to have adopted a style of contractions or contracted expressions, or half spelled words.