I am told that all this has been carefully reasearched and is documented.

The name CRAM was originally VON KRAM. They were Teutonic Knights of the Hanseatic League formed in Palestine during the Crusades. From there, Ludolf von Kram went to England from Germany and went into the service of King Henry VIII as a hired knight (or mercenary). As a reward for fighting the Scots so effectively (in other words, killing great numbers of them) the King awarded Ludolf von Kram the Manor of Falling at Newcastle on the Tyne and Ware which is just south of the Scottish border. (I presume as a semi guardian.)

His son anglicized the name from von Kram to CRAM. Ludolf von Kram's grandson, John Cram, came to the Massachuset's Bay Colony in 1632 and founded the American line. By 1639, John Cram was in Exeter, New Hampshire.