Colonial Royal Governor. One of the early governors of Rhode Island Colony, elected November 8, 1678. He was possibly the first man in the English colonies to be granted a license to practice medicine, having been given it in 1663. His epitaph reads "Here lyeth interred the body of Major John Cranston esq. Governor who deceased this life the 12 day of March in the 55th yeare of his age, 1680".
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