William-5 was the 3rd child of John-4 Crippen II and one of three unnamed wives.

4 CRIPPEN siblings: Ichabod, John III, [Self], Reuben, and Levi.

William Crippen, descendant of Pilgrim Edward Fuller, married Content Standish, descendant of Pilgrim Myles Standish, military captain of the Mayflower on March 8, 1796 in Saratoga, NY.

10 CRIPPEN children: Stephen Gilbert, Isaac, Laura, Calvin, Lucinda, Ansel, Libbeus, Elizabeth "Betsey", Lovisa, and Seth W.
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ABOUT FINDING WILLIAM CRIPPEN's HEADSTONE: In about 1970, Russell L. Warner and his wife Kathryn Elizabeth Crippen made a trip back east and were searching for the burial place of William Foot(e). After a futile search, they went to the DAR museum in Albion, NY, where some Wilder burial records were noted in the records of a small cemetery located on Lot 52 in Gaines twp, Orleans, NY. A short trip was then taken to that cemetery to see the actual headstones. Two unrecorded stones were found: one for William Foot, great-great-grandfather of Russell, and the second in memory of William Crippen, Kathryn's great-great-grandfather!
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Russell Lewis Warner wrote: "A daughter and son-in-law of William Crippen were known residents of Orleans Co., NY at the date of his death, so he may have been on a visit there when he died.

"The notion of some of his descendants that he was very poor when he died should have been dispelled upon a study of his probate file in Rochester, NY. In fact, a listing of his possessions in the inventory lends credence to the belief that he was a contractor working on the Erie Canal as well as a land-owner in Penfield township. The numbers of shovels and wheelborrows--and tools--shown by his inventory certainly were unnecessary for a farmer. Perhaps his death occurred on a trip to get contracts on construction of the canal in the Orleans Co., NY area. His son, Ansel, by family tradition, was a water-boy during the building of the canal so he was probably working for his father."
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Source: Russell Lewis Warner's recounting of the above quoted research was published by "The American Genealogist," (TAG) 50:4:240 (1974), "The Ancestry of Content (Standish) Crippen," pgs. 240-244.
MS held by Mary E. Warner.
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Lineage (direct) to Thomas-1 CRIPPEN:
CRIPPEN: William-5 Crippen, John-4 Crippen, John-3 Crippen, Lieut Jabez-2 Crippen, Thomas-1 CRIPPEN.
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Lineage to Edward-1 FULLER, passenger on the Mayflower, 1620:
FULLER: William-7 Crippen, John-6 Crippen, John-5 Crippen, Jabez-4 Crippen m. Thankful-4 FULLER, John-3 Fuller, Samuel-2 Fuller, Edward-1 FULLER.
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Lineage to Captain Myles-1 STANDISH, military leader of the Mayflower passengers, 1620, BEGINS with William and Content (Standish) Crippen's children:
STANDISH: William-5 Crippen married Content-6 STANDISH, Israel-5 Standish Jr., Israel-4 Standish Sr., Samuel-3 Standish, Josiah-2 Standish, Myles-1 STANDISH.
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Source: Kathryn E. Crippen and her husband Russell Lewis Warner, compilers of the Crippen family records regarding William Crippen and his wife Content Standish, 1960-1980.
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Source: "Myles Standish. Mayflower Families Through Five Generations", Vol. XIV, pub. 1997, pg. 159, compiled by Russell Lewis Warner, GRS. (1912-1980).
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Photo of William Crippen's headstone located and taken by Connie, a CRIPPEN/ROWLEY descendant, on 5/20/2011. Thanks for working with me on this, Connie! You found Dad's Wilder and Foote family headstones there, too, just like he and mom did back in 1970 or so. Too bad that dad's old photos were to poor to be usable.
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Photo of William Crippen's headstone taken by David Cox, a Crippen descendant, using special camera filters to bring out the inscription on this 188 year-old headstone, 7/13/2011.