Crandal (or Crandall), Joseph

Crandal (or Crandall), Joseph a Baptist minister, was born at Friertown, R.I., in 1771. In 1774 his parents removed to Chester, N.S. He was converted at the age of twenty-two, ordained, in 1799, pastor at Sackville, N.B., and did the work of an evangelist all through the region in which he lived. In 1825 he itinerated in Prince Edward's Island. He died February 20, 1858. See Cathcart, Baptist Encyclop. page 286; Bill, Funeral Sesrmon. (J.C.S.)