Joel Crawford

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DAR Ancestor #: A027606

Joel was married to Elizabeth Frances "Fanny" Harris c. 1760. His parents were David Crawford and Anne Anderson. Around age 14/16, Joel moved with his parents to Albermarle County,VA in 1750/52. The part of Albermarle they lived in became Amherst County in 1761. And in 1807 that same part became Nelson County. Joel received 400 acres of land from his father, on a branch of the Rockfish River in Virginia. The part of Richmond County, Georgia Joel moved to from South Carolina, became Columbia County in 1790.

Abstract of Joel's Will Will Book A page 60, Richmond County, Georgia Book: Historical Collections of Georgia Chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution online Ancestry.com.

To each child as they come of age, a slave, the eldest child to have the first choice. To wife, Frances, the remainder of the estate, as long as she lives or remains a widow. My executors to make a deed to Nathaniel Barnett to 200 acres land to be taken from the upper part of my tract of land on little Ogeechee. All other lands in Georgia and South Carolina to be equally divided among my sons. Wife, Frances sole executrix during widowhood. If she remarries, my sons, Robert, Nathan and Joel to be executors.

Signed on Oct. 28, 1787 Probated: Nov. 19, 1788 Witnesses: John Gibson, John Mowbray, Benjamin Mosley

Note: Will is at Richmond County. The name of county changed to Columbia two years after his death. DAR considers Columbia as his death county.

See Will at Ancestry.com

• *************************** American Revolutionary Service Joel and family moved to Stephens Creek, Edgefield District, South Carolina in 1779, about 30 miles from Augusta, Georgia. The following winter, all of South Carolina was over-run by the British Troops. Joel was seized and thrown into the Camden jail. Gaunt, hungry and miserable, he was subjected to taunts of passing Tory. Without medical aid and a scant supply of hard bread, Joel and about 250 others remained prisoners the greater part of the summer. Some of Joel's loyal neighbors gained his release. His house was burned twice by the Tories. In 1783, he and family moved to Georgia.
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