Thomas Craig, Jr.

DAR Ancestor #: A049901

Thomas Craig was compensated for three Public Service Claims in Albemarle County, Virginia during the Revolution; one for 270 pounds of beef for State use, the second for 2 1/4 gallons whiskey and the third for 222 pounds of beef for Continental use.

From http://patriots.wordpress.com/patriots/

On 1 June 1779, Thomas Craig, along with Thomas Jefferson, was one of the signatories to the Albemarle Declaration of Independence. The original copy is preserved at The Virginia Historical Society in Richmond. Transcript is here: November 1, 1776     Albemarle, Amherst Dissenters for disestablishment and religious equality

"My three ancestors, Thomas Craig, John Jameson and Micajah Via, are amongst the signatories on this Albemarle County, Virginia petition, dated on 1 November 1776. This point in time was less than four months after the signing of the American Declaration of Independence. These Albemarle – Amherst petitioners were well aware of the threatening arrival of 30,000 British troops at New York and the enemy’s occupation of the city, that American forces had been roundly defeated at the Battle of Brooklyn, that the American ragtag army was routed at the Battle of Harlem Heights, defeated by the British at Lake Champlain, and that American troops were forced to retreat at the Battle of White Plains just three days prior.
"In the face of all of that, they addressed their words to the “Delegates & Senators, Representatives of the Common Wealth of Virginia at the City of Williamsburg” stating “in consequence of our having thrown off our dependence on the Crown & Parliament of Great Britain.” They closed by ardently wishing that the new Virginia “Commonwealth may become the envy of the Nations & the Glory of the World.” I count these men as Patriots of the Revolution because, if the Rebels had lost the fight, as it indeed appeared they would, and England successfully stopped the rebellion, they would have been considered traitors and suffered consequences."

Sources

1. Petition of Dissenters in Albemarle and Amherst Counties, [before 1 November 1776 signed: " .... Thomas Craig Edward Nash Valentine Shelton ...."