Sarah Crew

Biography

Sarah Crew was born circa 1670 in Charles City, Charles, Virginia, United States. Her parents were Captain Nicholas Gatley and Sarah Gatley. 10 documented Children - Geni somehow we have a couple of extra children?

Sarah married John Crew on October 13, 1690 in Henrico County, Virginia. Together they had the following children:

She died on January 1, 1760, in Charles City, Charles, Virginia, United States.

John died in New Kent County between 1749 and 1752 at about eighty to eighty-three. John and Sarah were very likely buried in a Friends’ cemetery. Their ten children were all born in Charles City County. With some exceptions, the children were firmly committed to the Society of Friends. Because birth dates are not known with certainty, they are listed in order of their marriages:

1. Sarah (Crew) Ellyson i. Sarah Crew married Robert Ellyson in 1714/15. They had five children and lived in New Kent County, Virginia where Robert was overseer of the Black Creek meeting. In 1738, he was made treasurer of the Henrico monthly meeting. The family suffered numerous fines but remained in New Kent County.
2. John Crew, III; ii. John Crew married Agatha Ellyson in 1717. They also lived in New Kent County where John was a minister and Agatha was an elder. The family, including eight children, suffered many fines. The Virginia yearly meeting of May 29, 1762, reported that they were both deceased and ordered memorials read and recorded for them.
3. Andrew Crew, Sr; iii. Andrew Crew married Hannah Ellyson in 1720. They had eight children and continued to live in Charles City County, where they were members of the Weyanoke Meeting. The family suffered numerous fines, and at one point Andrew was imprisoned for two weeks.
4. Mary (Crew) Ladd; iv. Mary Crew married John Ladd in 1724. They lived in Charles City County with their eight children and were members of the Weyanoke Meeting. In 1726, John made testimony against bearing arms and paying tithes. For this testimony, they lost so many of their household goods to fines that the Quaker meeting aided them in their distress.
5. Joseph Crews; v. Joseph Crew married Massey Johnson in 1725 and lived in Hanover County, Virginia with their nine children. Joseph was fined in 1738. Joseph and Massey are subjects of Chapter 2.Elizabeth Crew married Thomas Stanley, Jr. in 1726. They had ten children and lived in Hanover County where Thomas was the first overseer of the newly established Cedar Creek meeting. The Cedar Creek meeting house was built on “Stanley Land”, part of an 800-acre tract granted to the Stanleys in 1714 by Governor Alexander Spotswood. A Quaker meeting house at Cedar Creek existed until a forest fire in the year 1904.
6. Elizabeth (Crew) Stanley; vi. Elizabeth Crew married Thomas Stanley, Jr. in 1726. They had ten children and lived in Hanover County where Thomas was the first overseer of the newly established Cedar Creek meeting. The Cedar Creek meeting house was built on “Stanley Land”, part of an 800-acre tract granted to the Stanleys in 1714 by Governor Alexander Spotswood. A Quaker meeting house at Cedar Creek existed until a forest fire in the year 1904.
7. Jane (Crew) Sanders; vii. Jane Crew married John Sanders, Jr. in 1727/8 and had nine children. They were fined in Hanover County and later migrated to Guilford County, North Carolina where they were among the original members of the Deep River monthly meeting. Jane died in 1793 in Guilford County.
8. William Crew; viii. William Crew Married Hannah Sanders in New Kent County in 1729 and had eight children. They suffered seizures of property in 1733 because William refused to bear arms and again in 1735 for refusal to pay tithes. They later moved to Louisa County, Virginia. William was put on probation by the Quakers in 1750 and dismissed from the church later that year. He died in 1771 in Louisa County.
9. Anne (Crew) Lane married William Lane (Ladd) in 1733/34 in Charles City County and had seven children. In 1764, the family moved to New Garden monthly meeting in Guilford County, North Carolina with other relatives. William was dismissed from the Society of Friends in 1769.
10. David Crews; x. David Crew married Mary Stanley in 1733/34, having at least two children. After Mary passed away, he married Mary Ladd, the widow of Samuel McGahee in 1754. David was disowned in 1758 for neglecting to ensure that his children attended regular Quaker meetings. His son, David, Jr., is further described in Appendix A. This “Neglected child”, David, Jr., was a soldier in both the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War. He was a later business associate of Daniel Boone and was a citizen and a military guard of Boonesboro, Kentucky.

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Origins

“John Crew | Stumbling in the Shadows of Giants” (Posts about John Crew written by CH Jones) (document attached)

By August 4, 1690, John Crew had married Sarah Gatley, but neither one was of legal age yet. Sarah’s father was Nicholas Gatley. Nicholas died in 1678 leaving an estate valued at 6000 pounds of tobacco to his daughter, Sarah. The case gets a little complicated from here. Sarah’s mother (Nicholas Gatley’s widow) was also named Sarah. I do not know her maiden name. Because Sarah (the daughter) was a child when Nicholas died, Sarah (the mother) became administrator for the Gatley estate. Sara (the mother and widow) later married John Smith. After John Smith died, she married her third husband, William Morris. William Morris died by 1689, leaving her a widow for the third time.

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The profiles below are extra children added along the way undocumented don't belong to these parents unless someone can produce Quaker Meeting or proper documentation- suggest they be marked as parents unknown.

1. Gatley Crew; ?? No Gatley Crew for this generation.
2. Lydia Crew. We need an Anne Crew who married William Lane (Ladd) in 1733/34

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Media Attached to this Profile

• ** information below- we need to find the source file to back up our statement of the information below and add the attributions. It should be easy, this is a well-documented lineage. Sarah’s mother remarried twice after her father died, causing a lawsuit to regain Sarah’s portion of her father’s estate. She was awarded 4605 pounds of tobacco, and the court warned her mother that if it wasn’t paid it would come out of her own securities. See "Gatley-Crew Family" in Sources for other family connections. Osborne is her mother's maiden name. ***

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References

1. See “John Crew | Stumbling in the Shadows of Giants” (Posts about John Crew written by CH Jones) (document attached) Not a primary source but a well sourced explanation.
2. Charles City County Court Orders, 1689, p.276
3. WikiTree contributors, "Sarah Osborne (Gatley) Crew (abt.1670-1760)," WikiTree: The Free Family Tree, (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Gatley-1 : accessed 10 April 2024). Cites
   1. Source: S131 Davis, Virginia Lee Hutcheson. Tidewater Virginia Families. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004. Ancestry.com online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006.
   2. "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:3CLK-8BC : accessed 10 November 2018), entry for Sarah /Gatley/, cites sources; "Downing family tree" file (2:2:2:MMDP-NZ1)
   3. L. Frank Bedell, "Crew Genealogy, 1397-1966" (Barnesville, OH: The Fiduciary Trustees of Friends Boarding School, 1969), p. 6.