David Crawford (colonel)
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Colonel David Crawford ({{circa}}1625Ansearchin' News, Anderson Family Records, Captain David Crawford Family, W. P. Anderson, Tennessee Genealogical Society, Memphis Genealogical Society,
page 145, 1970. – 1710) was a member of the House of Burgesses and an early plantation owner in Virginia.
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| honorific_prefix = Virginia Burgess
| name = David Crawford
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| birth_date = 1625
| birth_place = Scotland
| death_date = 1710
| death_place = Virginia
| death_cause = Killed by Pamunkey Indians
| nationality = Scottish-American
| occupation = Politician, Militia Colonel, Plantation Owner
| years_active = ? - 1710
| known_for = Virginia politics and being the ancestor of Meriwether Lewis.
| spouse = Jane (Unknown)
| children = 9
| relatives = Meriwether Lewis (2nd great-grandson)
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Life
David Crawford was born circa 1625, in Scotland, emigrating to the Virginia Colony with his father, John Crawford around 1643.Ansearchin' News, Anderson Family Records, Captain David Crawford Family, W. P. Anderson, Tennessee Genealogical Society, Memphis Genealogical Society,
page 145, 1970. His father was later killed in Bacon's Rebellion of 1676.
His daughter Elizabeth (died 1762) married Nicholas Meriwether II of New Kent County, an ancestor of Meriwether Lewis.Lewis of Warner Hall: The History of a Family, Merrow Egerton Sorley, page 806, 1935.
Crawford amassed many acres of land and owned a large plantation that eventually became the site of Richmond, Virginia. On April 2, 1692, he was elected to the House of Burgesses as one of two representatives from New Kent County, Virginia, for two years. He introduced a piece of legislation, requiring that county clerks maintain an office in their respective county courthouse.
In 1693 he deeded his 400-acre Assaquin Plantation to his grandson William Meriwether. Four years later he gave his grandson David Meriwether 200 acres of land in St. Paul's Parish.Lewis of Warner Hall: The History of a Family, Merrow Egerton Sorley, page 806, 1935.
As an elderly man, he was killed by Pamunkey Indians at Assaquin Plantation, New Kent, Virginia in 1710.
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110721230818/http://www.daviesofpebbleton.org/archives/crawford_part1.html Crawford Family History - Part 1, by Bob Chope]
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Category:People from New Kent County, Virginia
Category:House of Burgesses members
Category:People from colonial Virginia
Category:Scottish emigrants to the Thirteen Colonies
Category:People murdered in Virginia
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