Col. William Crawford

Notes for COLONEL WILLIAM CRAWFORD: "There has been a good deal of confusion among historians of Western Pennsylvania and Ohio growing out of the fact that there were two Colonel Crawfords, living near each other, and both devoting their energies to the military service of the, at the time, western country...Colonel Crawford of Washington county, was born at Chambersburg, Pa., in 1744, twenty-two years later than the other Colonel Crawford. His mother was left a widow with five small children to care for. She married John McKinney and had four children. After her marriage with him they moved to the region of the Potomac, near where Hancock now is located. The Indians broke up their home there and scattered the family...Our Colonel Crawford of Washington county had served his time in Loudon county, Virginia, and enlisted as a soldier under Captain Campbell, where, dressed in the kilts of the Scotch trooper, he learned the art of war, serving to defend the frontier against the bands of marauding savages who continually harried the settlers. He married Alice Kennedy of Chambersburg in 1767. He made a trip to Western Pennsylvania in 1769, and returning for his family settled in Muddy Creek region in 1770, where he tood up 500 acres of land and became a comparatively near neighbor of the other Colonel Crawford of Fayette county...We have now in hand the commission of Colonel Crawford of Washington county, which, if we did not know it was issued to him, we would suppose belonged to the other Crawford. He was commissioned in 1779 by Patrick Henry, Governor of Virginia, as a captain of militia when he was in the service of that State. But in 1786, after the boundary dispute between Pennsylvania and Virginia was settled, he was commissioned as lieutenant-colonel of the militia of Pennsylvania by the Supreme Executive Council of that State. He was stationed at Wheeling as late as 1793, where he received orders from Brigadier General Taylor of Pennsylvania, which orders we have. It follows as a matter of course that all mention in history of military services rendered by Colonel Crawford, after 1782, wre rendered by Colonel Crawford of Muddy Creek, as the death of the other Colonel Crawford took place in that year...As it is, we must be satisfied to know that he was engaged in the Mad Anthony Wayne campaign which cleared the Indians out of Ohio and was in the service as late as 1793, as commissions and documents show. We know he was active in the campaigns of General Harmar and Mad Anthony Wayne. " (William Crawford Memorial, The. Brooklyn : Eagle Book printing Dept., 1904. p.145-151)

"...On the 27th of the same month (January 1794), Colonel William Crawford donated two Pounds for the building of the new church. This may have been the first New Providence or Glades Church, where the colonel is buried... Colonel William Crawford went fishing on February 26, and he had to have a pike line and a quart of whiskey to be sure it was a successful trip..." (Leckey, Howard, L., "The Tenmile Country and Its Pioneer Families", p. 500)

"THE CRAWFORDS OF MUDDY CREEK-There have been numberous histories written about Colonel William Crawford of Muddy Creek, and most of them mention his brother, John Crawford, because their movements in this section were closely parallel, though John Crawford never attained the military prominence of his brother. It is also possible to confuse Greene County's Colonel William Crawford, with Fayette County's martyr of the same name. In official Pennsylvania records, William Crawford of "the Glades" did not exceed the rank of captain during the Revolution, but under Virginia jurisdiction he was the colonel of Frontier Rangers with headquarters at John Ankrom's Fort on Tenmile. We get his bit of information from various pension applications of these Rangers. (James Pribble, Harrod Newland, etc). It is regrettable that the life of Colonel William Crawford, as partly finished by his son, John Crawford, was never finished or published, but Crumrine and Evans have both seen and used it in their histories. John Crawford's recollections of the life of his father are in the NN Series of the Draper Papers at Madison, Wisconsin. These recollections give one of the best pictures of pioneer times in this section and are told by a man who grew up with the times, having been born the years his father settled on Muddy Creek.

John Crawford, (or James) father of Colonel William Crawford, was born in Scotland, and came to America, settling at an early date on a tract of land near what is now Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. He died in 1748, leaving three sons and two daughters, namely: George Crawford, Arthur Crawford, who was adopted by the Indian Chief, White Eyes, when in 1756, that chief was head of a party of Indians who destroyed the cabin of John McKinney, the second husband of Colonel William Crawford's mother on Big Kanawha. This story is told in L.K. Evans, along with the future life of our subject, William Crawford; Mary Crawford, and John Crawford.

Colonel Wiliam Crawford, after the death of this father, spent some time in Loudon County, Virginia, and then five years in a company of Rangers, returned in 1767, to the Conochacheague, where he married Alice Kennedy, a daughter of David Kennedy. Then in 1770, he removed to The Tenmile County, and settled on a tract of land near Glades Church, where the remainder of his life was spent. His military life included all the periond of the Indian massacres from the death of Thomas Cargo, until the Crow Massacre, for in 1793, we find him at the head of a company at Fort Ryerson on Wheeling Creek. His round-up of the Tories, while in service under Colonel Thomas Gaddis, and his pursuit of the Indians after the Corbly Massacre, are high lights of his career. Served as captain in the First Battalion, Washington County, Pennsylvania, Militia.

Colonel William Crawford was born in 1744, in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, and died in Greene County, on August 3, 1826. His wife, Alice Kennedy, is probably buried with him in the Glades Church Cemetery. They had two sons and seven daughters." (Leckey, Howard, L., "The Tenmile Country and Its Pioneer Families", p. 521-522)

"For in the year 1770 William Crawford is said to have become a resident of this immediate vicinity, Jesse VanMeter, James Hughes and Charles Swan having arrived the year before. Mr. Crawford's wife was a daughter of David Kennedy, of Chambersburg, Pa., who was a Presbyterian of the old Scotch-Irish stamp, and was not disposed to adopt the maxim, "When you are in Rome do as Rome does;" but who, on the contrary, always carried their religion with them, and the more fiercely their opinions were assailed the more brilliant the flame of their devotion grew." (Hanna, William. History of Greene County, Pa., 1992, p. 232)

The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 26 page 197 Miss Florence Crawford Jennings. DAR ID Number: 25537 Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Descendant of Lieut. Col. William Crawford and of John Flenniken. Daughter of William Kennon Jennings and Alice Crawford, his wife. Granddaughter of John Flenniken Jennings and Elizabeth Burwell Fitzgerald, his wife; Jefferson Crawford and Catherine Harper, his wife. Gr.-granddaughter of Benjamin Jennings and Dorcas Flenniken (1777-1819), his wife; John Crawford and Salome Jennings, his wife.
Gr.-gr.-granddaughter of John Flenniken and Miss Rankin, his first wife; William Crawford and Alice Kennedy, his wife. William Crawford, (1744-1826), served in a company of Rangers that defended the frontier of Virginia and, in 1779 he received the commission of captain, signed by Patrick Henry. The boundary line was extended and he was appointed lieutenant-colonel by the Supreme Council of Penna. He was born in Chambersburg, Penna., and died in Carmichael. Also No. 15828. John Flenniken, (1745-1810), was a signer of the Mecklenburg Declaration. He grew to manhood in Penna., and died there. Also No. 2384.

The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 39 page 271 Mrs. Lora Young Lofton. DAR ID Number: 38732 Born in Hancock County, Illinois. Wife of John T. Lofton. Descendant of Lieut. Col. William Crawford, of Pennsylvania. Daughter of William Crawford Young and Elizabeth Rutherford, his wife. Granddaughter of Hugh Young and Catherine Crawford, his wife. Gr.-granddaughter of William Crawford and Alice Kennedy, his wife. William Crawford, (1744-1826), served in a company of Rangers that defended the frontier of Virginia and in 1779 he received the commission of captain signed by Patrick Henry. The boundry line was extended and he was appointed lieutenant-colonel by the Supreme Council of Pennsylvania. He was born in Chambersburg; died in Carmichael, Pa. Also Nos. 15828, 25537.

The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 87 page 273 Mrs. Adelaide Armstrong Mckitrick. DAR ID Number: 86853 Born in Alexander, Ohio. Wife of W. S. McKitrick. Descendant of Lieut.-Col. William Crawford, as follows: 1. Elmer Armstrong (1812-95) m., 1844, Pamelia Booth (b. 1821). 2. Thomas Armstrong (1777-1853) m., 1796, Alice Crawford (1776-1850). 3. William Crawford m., 1757, Alice Kennedy. William Crawford (1744-1826) served in a company of Rangers in defending the frontier of Virginia; 1779, he received the commission of captain signed by Patrick Henry; was appointed lieutenant-colonel by the Supreme Council of Pennsylvania. He was born in Chambersburg; died in Carmichael, Pa. Also No. 38732.

The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 110 page 142 Mrs. Elsie Lofton Stripling. DAR ID Number: 109460 Born in Fort Worth, Texas. Wife of W. K. Stripling. Descendant of Lieut.-Col. William Crawford, as follows: 1. John T. Lofton (b. 1864) m. 1888 Lora Young (b. 1867). 2. William Crawford Young (1818-94) m. 1851 Elizabeth Young (1829-79). 3. Hugh Young m. Catherine C. Crawford (1774-1852). 4. William Crawford m. 1767 Alice K. Crawford. William Crawford (1744-1826) served in a company of Rangers in defending the frontier of Virginia; 1779 he received the commission of captain signed by Patrick Henry; was appointed lieutenant-colonel. He was born in Chambersburg; died in Carmichael, Pa. Also No. 86853.

More About COLONEL WILLIAM CRAWFORD: Burial: Unknown, Glades Church Cemetery, Pennsylvania, USA26 Military service: 15 Mar 1779, Captain of the Virginia forces, commissioned by Patrick Henry, Gov. of Virginia

Notes for ALICE KENNEDY: "For in the year 1770 William Crawford is said to have become a resident of this immediate vicinity, Jesse VanMeter, James Hughes and Charles Swan having arrived the year before. Mr. Crawford's wife was a daughter of David Kennedy, of Chambersburg, Pa., who was a Presbyterian of the old Scotch-Irish stamp, and was not disposed to adopt the maxim, "When you are in Rome do as Rome does;" but who, on the contrary, always carried their religion with them, and the more fiercely their opinions were assailed the more brilliant the flame of their devotion grew." (Hanna, William. History of Greene County, Pa., 1992, p. 232)

The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 26 page 197

Miss Florence Crawford Jennings. DAR ID Number: 25537 Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Descendant of Lieut. Col. William Crawford and of John Flenniken. Daughter of William Kennon Jennings and Alice Crawford, his wife. Granddaughter of John Flenniken Jennings and Elizabeth Burwell Fitzgerald, his wife; Jefferson Crawford and Catherine Harper, his wife. Gr.-granddaughter of Benjamin Jennings and Dorcas Flenniken (1777-1819), his wife; John Crawford and Salome Jennings, his wife.
Gr.-gr.-granddaughter of John Flenniken and Miss Rankin, his first wife; William Crawford and Alice Kennedy, his wife. William Crawford, (1744-1826), served in a company of Rangers that defended the frontier of Virginia and, in 1779 he received the commission of captain, signed by Patrick Henry. The boundary line was extended and he was appointed lieutenant-colonel by the Supreme Council of Penna. He was born in Chambersburg, Penna., and died in Carmichael. Also No. 15828. John Flenniken, (1745-1810), was a signer of the Mecklenburg Declaration. He grew to manhood in Penna., and died there. Also No. 2384

The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 39 page 271 Mrs. Lora Young Lofton. DAR ID Number: 38732 Born in Hancock County, Illinois. Wife of John T. Lofton. Descendant of Lieut. Col. William Crawford, of Pennsylvania. Daughter of William Crawford Young and Elizabeth Rutherford, his wife. Granddaughter of Hugh Young and Catherine Crawford, his wife. Gr.-granddaughter of William Crawford and Alice Kennedy, his wife. William Crawford, (1744-1826), served in a company of Rangers that defended the frontier of Virginia and in 1779 he received the commission of captain signed by Patrick Henry. The boundry line was extended and he was appointed lieutenant-colonel by the Supreme Council of Pennsylvania. He was born in Chambersburg; died in Carmichael, Pa. Also Nos. 15828, 25537.

The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 87 page 273 Mrs. Adelaide Armstrong Mckitrick. DAR ID Number: 86853 Born in Alexander, Ohio. Wife of W. S. McKitrick. Descendant of Lieut.-Col. William Crawford, as follows: 1. Elmer Armstrong (1812-95) m., 1844, Pamelia Booth (b. 1821). 2. Thomas Armstrong (1777-1853) m., 1796, Alice Crawford (1776-1850). 3. William Crawford m., 1757, Alice Kennedy. William Crawford (1744-1826) served in a company of Rangers in defending the frontier of Virginia; 1779, he received the commission of captain signed by Patrick Henry; was appointed lieutenant-colonel by the Supreme Council of Pennsylvania. He was born in Chambersburg; died in Carmichael, Pa. Also No. 38732.

The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 110 page 142 Mrs. Elsie Lofton Stripling. DAR ID Number: 109460 Born in Fort Worth, Texas. Wife of W. K. Stripling. Descendant of Lieut.-Col. William Crawford, as follows: 1. John T. Lofton (b. 1864) m. 1888 Lora Young (b. 1867). 2. William Crawford Young (1818-94) m. 1851 Elizabeth Young (1829-79). 3. Hugh Young m. Catherine C. Crawford (1774-1852). 4. William Crawford m. 1767 Alice K. Crawford. William Crawford (1744-1826) served in a company of Rangers in defending the frontier of Virginia; 1779 he received the commission of captain signed by Patrick Henry; was appointed lieutenant-colonel. He was born in Chambersburg; died in Carmichael, Pa. Also No. 86853.

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