Edward Cranfield (
fl.
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1680–1696) was an English colonial administrator.
Cranfield was governor of the
Province of New Hampshire
The Province of New Hampshire was an English colony and later a British province in New England. It corresponds to the territory between the Merrimack and Piscataqua rivers on the eastern coast of North America. It was named after the Englis ...
from 1682 to 1685, in an administration that was marked by hostility between Cranfield and the colonists.
Cranfield left New Hampshire in 1685 for
Barbados
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, where he was appointed commissioner of customs, where he introduced a 4.5% tax on sugar exports, and sat on the council in the 1690s. He died 1700 and is buried in
Bath Cathedral
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.
[ ppendix to Jeremy Belknapp's History of New Hampshire/ref>
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References
''Calendar of state papers''
''English Colonies in America''
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17th-century English civil servants
Colonial governors of New Hampshire
17th-century Barbadian people
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