Isham Craddock

1810 Occaneechi- Saponi Heads of Families and others

Patrick County, Virginia - 1810 census

James Boiling

William Corn

John A. Corn

Samuel Corn

John Corn Jr. (Mayo)

Elijah Collins

Marvel Boiling

Nancy Corn

Isham Craddock

James Craddock

• Isham Craddock
  • BIRTH 1750 Pittsylvania County, Virginia, USA
  • DEATH 1808 (aged 57–58) Patrick County, Virginia, USA
  • BURIAL Burial Details Unknown
  • Find A Grave MEMORIAL ID 148024323 · Submitted by M Bell
• Please note, when looking for this family, please bear in mind, how the area they lived in, evolved: originally "Pittsylvania". 1777 a part became "Patrick Henry". North "part" of that county, combined with part of "Bedford", to become "Franklin". 1791, "Patrick Henry" divided to become "Patrick" and "Henry".
• The first known Craddock to reside in Virginia, was William Craddock / Cradouke/ Croodecke, Croodicke. On February 20, 1618, he was named provost marshal (title given to a person in charge of an army) of Bermuda City. Today, it's called Bermuda Hundred, at the southwestern edge of the confluence of the Appomattox and James Rivers. It was there, too, that John Rolfe (husband of Pocahontas) grew tobacco.
• William Craddock returned to England and brought his wife Francis to the thriving colony in 1622. Then William was recorded as died prior to July 31, 1623. 100 acres of his land was incorporated into Charles City. I have not be able to ascertain if he left descendants. His wife, Frances, likely remarried.
• Over the next 100 years, Craddocks turned up in other Virginia counties, mostly due to the continual boundary changes taking place within Virginia. Prince George & James City, later to become Brunswick, housed the Craddocks as the counties continually split, especially Brunswick, to become: Nottaway, Amelia, Lunenburg, Pittsylvania, Halifax, Montgomery, Henry, Patrick. Amelia, formed in 1734, was the home of the Revolutionary soldiers: Henry, Lieutenant Richard, and Captain William Craddock. William who fought in the Virginia Line, was captured in Charleston, and later moved to Warren, Kentucky.
• Who was Isham Craddock? I know as a descendant, he did indeed exist. My grandmother, Ona Hazel Craddock Bell, is my proof. However, there are mountains of knowledge, still left to be discovered. DNA may be our best determination….
• Some years ago, I found an inquiry: "Looking for any information on four brothers that arrived in Patrick Co, VA in the late 1790s. The four brothers were Isham, James, Thomas, and Nathaniel Craddock. There may have been a fifth brother John and maybe two sisters. Need to know the names of their parents, where they were born, where the parents were born." I failed to make note of the person placing the inquiry. Also note, Patrick County was not in existence in 1790; it was then Henry County. It could have appeared that the family was moving, though it was just a county name change.
• All of the information above, seems to fit in this (my) family line. My ancestor grandfathers, though not all these specific people, were James, Isham, Nathaniel, and Thomas Craddock. From what I have researched, the Craddocks seemed to have come from Amelia County, Virginia via Halifax and Pittsylvania. It was very common for whole families, including many relatives, to move and establish itself out on the frontier as the Craddocks did in Amelia, Virginia, Subsequent generations would "outgrow" the area, perhaps, not the landed heir, the first child, and move away from the family "home". The distance from Amelia to Patrick, VA, near 200 miles, often took another familial generation, to get there.
• Isham was not the son of William Cross Craddock (1735-1795). He could have been a cousin, related through William Craddock born about 1638 in Wales; later to reside in Prince William, VA. The Sapphony or Saphoni Indian / Mungeleon connection was through his wife, Frances Goins, likely occurred when the Craddocks were living in Pittsylvania. Pittsylvania was the home of the Saphoni Indians (a branch of the Sioux), and the home to one of the largest black populations due to the growing tobacco economy.
• Frances Goins Craddock has been recognized in the last decade, as a Melungeon, a person of mixed heritage, probably Saponi or Lumbee Indian. I am sure DNA will eventually answer those mysterious questions.
• I have yet to discover any Goins family with a black bloodline claiming Frances as a child. The Indian connections seem quite strong from Michelle Erbeck's statement disclosing that the Indians were not happy with Frances' marriage to a white man, and set out to do away with her husband. She apparently was successful beating off the attack.
• Isham Craddock was noted as an early settler in Patrick, VA. A reprint of a 1793 article from the Danville Bee, in described Isham as one of those hardy settlers that "Went into a rough country and on whom devolved the task of clearing farm lands from mountain sides and where sheer brawn and hardiness a simple life was led."
• Isham Isham died about 1808. His wife, Francis Goins Craddock, probably died before 1799. Isham or his wife did not show up in the 1780 or 1790 census records, nor his father John or James Craddock. There is no mention of his name in the early records after 1799. Though Isham and Francis seemed to have been on this Rock Creek property and as early as 1786, it wasn't officially surveyed. Isham left 311 acres on Rock Run Creek, in Henry, VA, to his children. This land adjoined John Going's (Goins) property. John, could have been Frances' brother.
• Gravesite Details: Buried on Rock Creek land in what was Henry, Virginia; practically in Patrick Co. at the time
• Francis and Isham's known children are:
  • 1. Nancy Craddock 1774 – aft. 1860 m. James Hollandsworth 1771 - 1866
  • 2. Patsy Craddock 1775 – 1811 m. Thomas Hollingsworth / Hollandsworth 1775 - 1830
  • 3. Nathaniel Craddock 1776 – abt. 1850 m. Caty Handy 1791 – abt. 1860
  • 4. Thomas Craddock 1781 m. Sarah Bryant 1785 - 1801
  • 5. Isham Craddock 1782 - 1810 m. Sarah Lerah Hollandsworth 1780 - 1796
  • 6. James Craddock 1784 – 1860 m. Levicy "Pollie" Purdy 1797 - 1813
  • 7. John Craddock (bef. 1800 - ?)
  • 8. Zamis Craddock (abt 1796- bef. 1850) m. Robert Akers (1796-1849)
• Submitted by: M. Bell