Edward Cranfield (
fl. 1680–1696) was an English colonial administrator.
Cranfield was governor of the
Province of New Hampshire
The Province of New Hampshire was a colony of England and later a British province in North America. The name was first given in 1629 to the territory between the Merrimack and Piscataqua rivers on the eastern coast of North America, and was n ...
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
Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region of the Americas, and the most easterly of the Caribbean Islands. It occupies an area of and has a population of about 287,000 (2019 estimate) ...
, 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.
[ ppendix to Jeremy Belknapp's History of New Hampshire/ref>
]
References
''Calendar of state papers''
''English Colonies in America''
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17th-century English people
Colonial governors of New Hampshire
Colony of Barbados people
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