David Crawford (colonel)

Colonel David Crawford (c.1625[1] – 1710) was a member of the House of Burgesses and an early plantation owner in Virginia.

Virginia Burgess

David Crawford
Born1625
Scotland
Died1710
Virginia
Cause of deathKilled by Pamunkey Indians
NationalityScottish-American
Occupation(s)Politician, Militia Colonel, Plantation Owner
Years active? - 1710
Known forVirginia politics and being the ancestor of Merriwether Lewis.
SpouseJane (Unknown)
Children9
RelativesMerriwether Lewis (1774-1809) great-great grandson.
For other people with the same name, see David Crawford.


Life

David Crawford was born circa 1625, in Scotland, emigrating to the Virginia Colony with his father, John Crawford around 1643.[2] 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.[3]

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.[4]

As an elderly man, he was killed by Pamunkey Indians at Assaquin Plantation, New Kent, Virginia in 1710.

References
  1. Ansearchin' News, Anderson Family Records, Captain David Crawford Family, W. P. Anderson, Tennessee Genealogical Society, Memphis Genealogical Society, page 145, 1970.
  2. Ansearchin' News, Anderson Family Records, Captain David Crawford Family, W. P. Anderson, Tennessee Genealogical Society, Memphis Genealogical Society, page 145, 1970.
  3. Lewis of Warner Hall: The History of a Family, Merrow Egerton Sorley, page 806, 1935.
  4. Lewis of Warner Hall: The History of a Family, Merrow Egerton Sorley, page 806, 1935.


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