Thomas Cranston Explained

Thomas Cranston
Office:Associate Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court
Term Start:1762
Term End:1764
Office2:Speaker of the Rhode Island House of Representatives
Birth Date:30 October 1710
Birth Place:Newport, Rhode Island
Death Place:Newport, Rhode Island
Resting Place:Common Burying Ground
Newport, Rhode Island
Father:Samuel Cranston

Thomas Cranston was an associate justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court from August 1763 to May 1764,[1] and served as Speaker of the Rhode Island House of Representatives at the time that Cranston, Rhode Island was created in 1754. Historians believe either Cranston or his grandfather (or father) Samuel Cranston may be the namesake of Cranston, Rhode Island because the first page of the first town record book of Cranston bears the inscription "the gift of Thomas Cranston to the town called Cranston."[2] [3]

Notes and References

  1. Manual - the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (1891), p. 208-13.
  2. Steven Frias, Cranston and Its Mayors: A History (The History Press, 2011) pg. 10-20
  3. "Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island" published in 1909, http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/k/o/t/Steve-A-Kottmeyer/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0488.html