When Elias Crandall Sr. was born on 17 October 1747, in Westerly, Kings, Rhode Island, British Colonial America, his father, Peter Crandall, was 34 and his mother, Esther Frink, was 31. He married Sarah Stillman on 30 April 1769, in Hopkinton, Kings, Rhode Island, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island, United States in 1790. He died in 1791, in Somme, France, at the age of 44.
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