Cpt James Crawford & ?

!NOTES:
(1) This person is my distant uncle (5x Great).
(2) This person is an ancestor of my aunt-in-law Debra Rogers McIntyre.

!REFERENCE:
http://www.martygrant.com/
http://www.martygrant.com/genealogy/crawford/

!NOTES:B/D, Bapt/D, and Parents -
5 Oct 1749 James Crawford Son of Ditto Parents (James Crawford and Cassiah his wife) Born Janry 1st 1748/9.
* From "The Register Book for the Parish Prince Frederick Winyaw. Ann: Dom: 1713", Elizabeth W. A. Pringle, 1916. The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America. p. 27.;

!DEED:25 May 1770 Marion Dist, SC Deeds B-314 Jordin GIBSON Jr and wife Mary of Pee Dee, Craven Co, to James CRAWFORD of same place for 30 SC in his possession for 1 year by indenture 200a NE side Pee Dee River bounded by Great Marsh conv by Hon. George SAXBY to Jorden GIBSON 4 & 5 Dec 1761. S: Jordan Gibson, Mary (X) Gibson. Wit: Samuel BUXTON, Jordan GIBSON;

!JURY LIST:1778 Georgetown Dist, SC Prince George Parish, James CRAWFORD;

!CENSUS:1790 Prince George Parish, Georgetown Dist, SC pg 54 James CRAWFORD, 16+ (Bef 1774) "1-1-6-0-7";

!NAMED:13 Dec 1794 Marion Dist, SC Deeds A-48 Charles JONES of Georgetown Dist, SC to Peter McWILLIAMS of same. Proven before James CRAWFORD, JP 21 Dec 1794;

!DEED:13 Dec 1797 Marion Co., SC Deed Book D, p. 183
John Sanders to James Crawford Junr for L5 sterling, 200a beginning on his own land runing on Levi Gibson line to Buckelses corner, on Buckels line toward Catfish ... p/o grant to John Sanders 9 Nov 1796.
S: John Sander (sic)
Wit: Robert Lucas, Joseph (his mark) Lane.
Pr before James Crawford JP 10 Mar 1798.
Elizabeth (her mark) Sanders wife of John Sanders rdr 7 Apr 1804 before Robert Moody, JQ.
* From "Marion County South Carolina Abstracts of Deeds Volume One Books A - E 1800-1811", Lucille Utley, Alita White Sutcliffe, 1996.;

!DEED:11 Mar 1798 Marion Co., SC Deed Book D, p. 189
John Sanders to James Crawford Jr for L30 SC, 350a adj head of Hicker grove marsh bg Oxendines corner runing towards John Tarts to bacl line ... Gibsons corner ... p/o grant to John Sanders 7 May 1792.
S: John Sanders
Wit: Robert Lucas, Joseph (his mark) Lane.
Proven before James Crawford, JP 11 Mar 1798.
Elizabeth (her mark) Sanders, wife of John Sanders rdr 7 Apr 1804 before Robert Moody, JQ.
* From "Marion County South Carolina Abstracts of Deeds Volume One Books A - E 1800-1811", Lucille Utley, Alita White Sutcliffe, 1996.;

!CENSUS:1800 Marion Dist, SC pg 806 James CRAWFORD age 45+ (bef 1755) "21001-02010-1-2";

!DEED:27 Nov 1802 Marion Co., SC Book D page 18
Johnathan Tart and Ann Tart of Marion Dist., to James Crawford of Marion Dist for $346, 400a Es Great Pee Dee River ...
S: Jonathan Tart, Nancy Tart
W: James Crawford, Osburn (X) Lane;

!NAMED: 4 May 1804 Marion Dist, SC Administrations A-59 Dr. Thomas T. WICKHAM, decd. Ann WICKHAM, Stephen SHACKELFORD, Jams McREE, adms. Letters of appraisment to: Enos TART, James CRAWFORD, Levi GIBSON, John GIBSON, John BETHEA Sr;

!NAMED:11 Jun 1804 Marion Dist, SC Inventory Book 1800-1811 pg 74 Estate of Dr. Thomas T. WICKHAM. Appraisers: ... James CRAWFORD ...;

!NAMED: 5 Jul 1804 Marion Dist, SC Sales Book A-259 Doctor Thomas T. WICKHAM Estate. Purchasers: ... Enos TART ... James CRAWFORD ...;

!WITNESS:24 Nov 1804 Marion Dist, SC Deeds C-256 Mortgage. Charles MELOY of Marion Dist, SC to Sarah TART of same place for 20, 150a granted to John SMITH Sr NE side Catfish bound by Enos TART. S: Charles Meloy. Wit: Enos TART, James CRAWFORD Sr. Proven by James CRAWFORD Jr bef Samuel COOPER 19 May 1806. If Charles MELOY pays $100 to Sarah TART by 1 Jan 1806, deed to be void. Wit: James CRAWFORD Sr, probated by James CRAWFORD Jr. James CRAWFORD Sr appeared before Sam COOPER rec 19 May 1806;

!NAMED: 8 Oct 1808 Marion Dist, SC Administrations A-141 Walter OWEN, decd. John B. OWEN, Priscilla OWEN, adms. Letters of appraisement to: James CRAWFORD, John GASQUE, Daniel PLATT.;

!NAMED:29 Nov 1808 Marion Dist, SC Inventory Book 1800-1811 pg 120 Estate of Walter OWENS. Appraisers: James CRAWFORD ...;

!NAMED:22 Dec 1808 Marion Dist, SC Sales Book A-78 Walter OWENS Estate. Purchasers: ... James JOHNSON ... James CRAWFORD ... Gadi CRAWFORD ... James CRAWFORD Sr ... Henry GASQUE ...;

!NAMED:27 Feb 1809 Marion Dist, SC Inventory Book 1800-1811 pg 122 Estate of Joseph BASS. Appraisers: James CRAWFORD ...;

!TAXLIST:1809 Marion Dist, SC James CRAWFORD Sr;

!CENSUS:1810 Marion Dist, SC pg 83 James CRAWFORD age 45+ (bef 1765) "01101-30010-0-0";

!TAXLIST:1811 Marion Dist, SC James CRAWFORD Sr $10.38;

!NAMED: 8 Sep 1812 Marion Dist, SC Sales Book A-129 Sylvester ROCKWELL Estate. Purchasers: ... James CRAWFORD ... Enos TART ... James CRAWFORD Jr, James CRAWFORD Sr ...;

!TAXLIST:1814 Marion Dist, SC James CRAWFORD $49.83;

!WILL:16 Sep 1816 Marion Dist, SC, proven 11 Nov 1817. Names daughters: Elizabeth TART, Charity PORTER, Martha GASQUE, Nancy CRAWFORD, and Sarah Ann CRAWFORD, son James CRAWFORD. Exec: James CRAWFORD Jr *** See below for full transcript of this Will ***;

!NAMED:11 Nov 1817 Marion Dist, SC Minutes of the Ordinary 1810-25 Proved Will of James CRAWFORD by oath of ----, one of the witnesses and qualified James CRAWFORD as Executor.;

!ORDER:11 Nov 1817 Marion Dist, SC Minutes of the Ordinary 1810-25 Orders to James CRAWFORD, exor of James CRAWFORD to sell surplus property;

!RETURN: 1 Dec 1817 Marion Dist, SC Minutes of the Ordinary 1810-25 Return of Apprais. Of est of James CRAWFORD;

!SALE: 5 Oct 1818 Marion Dist, SC Minutes of the Ordinary 1810-25 Sales of estate of James CRAWFORD from James CRAWFORD Jr, exor;

!NAMED: 1 Apr 1820 Marion Dist, SC Minutes of the Ordinary 1810-25 First account current of estate of James CRAFFORD of Exor James CRAFFORD;

!PROBATE ROLL # 162 Marion Co., SC James Crawford, Sr. 1817
Will dated 16 Sep 1816 (see full transcript below).
Proved by John Finklea 11 Nov 1817. James Crawford qualified as Executor 11 Nov 1817.
... (Sales, appraisements, etc. in file, I did not abstract) ...
Account Current 1818 and 1819, James Crawford, Exec.
...
Paid John Tart heir to said estate
Paid: (not listed as heirs, but some are heirs)
B. Moody
Jas Stackhouse
John Gasque
John Bethea
John K. Windham
Abijah Porter
John Jones
Jesse Moody
Levi Blackman
Osburn Lane
John Davis
John Bridges
Hugh Crawford
John Gibson
Proved 31 Mar 1820 Thomas Harllee, Ordy...
* From "Marion County Probate Records" Volume 1, Lucille Utley, Danny Smith. Three Rivers Historical Society. 1985.;

!WILL: (From Marion Co, SC GenWeb page, transcribed by Winkie Robinson):

James CRAWFORD S.C. Will In the name of God Amen. I James Crawford of Marion District in the State of South Carolina being very weak in body but of perfect mind and memory thanks be given unto God calling into mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all all [word "all" repeated] men once to die do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament that is to say principally and first of all I give and recommend my Soul into the hand of Almighty God that gave it and my Body I reccommend to the Earth to be buried in a decent christian burial at the discretion of my Executors nothing doubting but at the [Universal] Resurrection I shall receive the same again by the Mighty power of God And as touching such worldly Estates wherewith it has pleased God to bless me within this life I give [desire] and dispose of the same in the following manner & form First I give and bequeath to my Daughter [Elisabeth] Tart One negroe Boy named [Dick] One other negroe Boy named Peter One negroe woman named [Fancy] and a Small Stock of Cattle the negroes and cattle before mentioned is now in the possession of my daughter [Elisabeth] Tart I also give to my well beloved Daughter Elisabeth Tart two other negroes one woman named Bess and one girl named [Cecy] Also I give to well beloved daughter Charity Porter one negroe one negroe [words "one negroe" repeated] Woman named Sally one negroe Boy named [Luke] one Girl named Gussie and one old negroe named [Molle] Also I give to my well beloved Daughter Martha Gasque one negro woman named [Bett] One Negro boy named Simon & one negro man named Joe Also I give and bequeath to my well beloved son James Crawford one negroe man [Isiiak] One negroe woman named [Sue] One Negroe Girl named Mary One negroe Boy named Bill and the Plantation and tract of land situate at [Cashenaway] Ferry on PeeDee Also I give to my well beloved Daughter Sally Crawford One negroe man named Ben One negroe woman named Esther and her three children Manuel David & [Nelle] Also I give to my well beloved Daughter Nancy Crawford one Negro man named [Borough] One negroe woman named [Lilah] & her two children Frank & Will Also I give to my well beloved daughter Sarah Ann Crawford one negroe man named [Pirce] One negroe woman named [Aley] One negro boy named [Porce] One negroe boy named Stephen & one negro boy named [Tim] Also I give the balance of my negroes that is not already named in my will to be equally divided amongst my children Share and share alike Also I give and bequeath to my three youngest daughters Sally Crawford Nancy Crawford & Sarah Ann Crawford the Plantation and tract of land which I now reside on Catfish to be equally divided amongst them the Balance of my land to be given all the remaining part of my property that I may be possessed of at the [stroke] of my decease to be equally divided amongst my Heirs share and share alike I likewise constitute make and ordain my well beloved son James Crawford the sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament and I do hereby utterly disallow revoke and disannul all and every other former Testaments Wills legacies bequests and [Executor] by me in anywise before named [willses] and bequests in ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last Will and Testament In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal Seventeenth day of September in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixteen and on the forty first year of the Independence of the United States of America signed sealed published pronounced and delivered by the said JamesCrawford Senior as his last Will and testament in the presence of us [who] in his presence and the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names Thomas Godbold } James Crawford {Seal} Stephen C Lane } John Finklea } South Carolina } Personally came before Thomas Godbold Esqr and John Marion District} Finklea who after being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God saith that they were present and saw James Crawford Sen Sign Seal and acknowledge this instrument writing to be his Will and Testament and [also] saw Stephen C Lane sign his name as a witness to the same Sworn to before me this 5th Day November 1817} Thomas Godbold Elisha Bethea [QU] } South Carolina} By Thomas Harllie Esqr Ordinary of said District personally Marion District} appeared before me John Finklea who being duly Sworn on the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God [doth] make oath and say that he saw James Crawford Sen Sign Seal publish pronounce and declare the same to be [will written] his last Will and Testament & hath said James Crawford of then of sound disposing Mind & memory & understanding to the [party] of this deponents knowledge and belief [and that the said John Finklea did] his name as a Witness thereto [at ......................]

!REFERENCE: A History of Marion County, South Carolina From Its Earliest Times to the Present, 1901, by W. W. Sellers, Esq., of the Marion Bar. 1902. pp. 142-147
- Bishop Gregg, p. 71, says : "Of the settlers at Sandy Bluff, the Murfees, Sanders, Gibsons and Crawfords accumulated the largest properties, and became most prominent. John Crawford, the first of that name, had three sons -James, John and Hardy. James, the eldest of them, amassed a large fortune for that day, and maintained through life a high character for integrity. He was a Captain in the Revolution, and a valiant soldier in the cause of liberty." In a note, the Bishop says : "He was the grand-father of the late Chapman J. Crawford, of Marion." Thus we have the origin of the once extensive family of Crawfords, so far as Marion County is concerned -to whom they married and what children they had, we are pretty much in the dark. Bishop Gregg says, on p. 75 "About the same time, two families of James and Lucas, came down the river, and settled on Catfish. With the latter of these, the Crawfords and Evans intermarried." Who of the Crawfords intermarried with the Lucas family, and whether they were males or females, is now unknown, and perhaps past finding out, and the same may be said of the Evans and James.
...
Crawford. - James Crawford, the grand-father of the late Chapman Crawford, had a son named James, the father of Chapman; whether there were other sons or not, is not now known ; there were daughters - the wife of old Osborne Lane was one; the first wife of old William Bethea was another, who was the mother of the late John C. Bethea; another daughter married a man by the name of Porter ; she was the grand-mother of Robert P. Porter, now living at Marion. James Crawford, the father of Chapman J. Crawford, married Miss Rachel Nevils, and by her bad two sons, Chapman J. and William H., and three or four daughters ; one married Peter P. Johnson, of Fayetteville, N. C. ; one married D. C. Milling, of Darlington, and one married D. J. McDonald, long a merchant at Marion, and Representative from Marion in the State Legislature in 1850, and finally failing in his business, removed to Arkansas. James Crawford, the second, was a very prosperous man, left a large estate, and died in the prime of life. His widow, Rachel, married Dr. Cherry, and by him had several daughters; one of them married, first. Dr. Richard Scarborough, of Marion; he soon died childless, and his widow then married Major O. P. Wheeler, and after some years he died, and she remained his widow for several years, when she died. Another daughter of Mrs. Cherry became the wife of the late C. Graham, of Marion ; she died before he did, and left an only child, a son, Herbert C. Graham, now residing in Marion. Another daughter, Sarah Jane, became the wife of Dr. J. Hamilton Wheeler, who died and left her a widow with two children, Ed. B. Wheeler and Tiston C. Wheeler, now residing in Marion ; their mother, Sarah Jane, still lives. Dr. Cherry, a most excellent and upright man, died away back in the '40's ; he was a well-to-do man. The sons of James Crawford, the second, were Chapman J. and William H. Crawford. Chapman was an ambitious, energetic and enterprising man; married, first, a Miss Jolly, an only child of Joseph Jolly, a very wealthy man in West Marion ; she died, leaving an only child; he married again, and the second wife died, and he married a third time. I think he had two or three children in all. Dr. Ross married the daughter by the Jolly wife; Junius H. Law, of Darlington, married a daughter by one of his other wives. By his energy and push and by his marriages, he made property and left a large estate at his death, which occurred in November, 1852, when only in the prime of life; he lived fast (not in the sense of a dissipated life) and went through life in a hurry. His younger brother, Wm. H. Crawford, grew up and married a Miss Durant, sister of Rev. H. H. Durant, of the South Carolina Conference of the Southern Methodist Church; he married, loth February, 1840, the same day of Queen Victoria's marriage to Prince Albert. Captain Crawford started out in life with fine prospects; he went into a large mercantile business at Marion, in partnership with his brother-in-law, D. J. McDonald, who had had some training for such business??a man of push and enterprise, but lacking in business judgment. The firm seemed to do well for a few years and then began to go down, and finally failed altogether, and Captain Crawford's whole property was swept out, and he with his family were left penniless. McDonald emigrated, to Arkansas, and was said to have built up again; but Captain Crawford remained poor to the day of his death ; he lived in Marion until three or four years ago, when he moved to Georgia, and died there about two years ago, eighty years of age. Captain Crawford was a good man, but the reverses to which he had been subjected soured his disposition, and he became apathetic as to all mankind; he left two sons, George and William, who are the only hope of perpetuating the name in that branch of the Crawford family. George Crawford is married and has children, whether sons or daughters, is unknown to the writer ; William is yet single. The connexion is yet large, but the name, like many others, may become extinct at least in that branch of the family, in another generation or two. What changes are wrought in one hundred and sixty years! The first James Crawford married a second time, and had a daughter, Sallie, who became the wife of the late Barfield Moody, a prominent man in his day in Marion, of whom more may be said hereinafter. Recurring to the late Chapman J. Crawford, it is proper to say that he was elected to the lower House of the Legislature in 1844, as hereinbefore stated, and again in 1846, and served two terms. In 1852, he was a candidate for the Senate against Dr. Robert Harllee, and after a very heated campaign, he was beaten by 171 majority, and, like Horace Greeley in 1872, did not survive the campaign more than a month. It was thought and said by some that his defeat killed him or contributed to his death ; he was a very ambitious man. ;

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