I will write to you tomorrow. Our Crawford line is in North Carolina or South Carolina. Crawford women married a Ellerbe. Debbie On 10/22/2011 5:12 PM, Dale M Crawford wrote: > The earliest Crawford in my line that I have identified is Thomas Crawford, > who lived near what is now Georgetown, South Carolina in the 1740s and > 1750s. Some published material identifies the parents of this Thomas > Crawford as John Crawford and Mary Duke of Hanover County, Virginia. This > linkage is also repeated as correct by Ancestry.com and in the Mormon church > records. I have never believed that this John and Mary were the parents > because John's birth year was given as 1737, which makes him too young to be > the father of a man with an 11 year old child in 1753, which Thomas Crawford > was. > > I have some material, written and researched by Helen Imrey, that comes to > the same conclusion as I do but from a different direction, by meticulously > studying the land records around Georgetown. She identifies three different > and distinct Crawford families, one of which is my ancestor Thomas Crawford, > and another of which is the family of John and Mary Duke Crawford. While > there may be some connection, which I doubt, between my Thomas and this John > and Mary, it is not that of parent and child. The family of John Crawford > of Hanover County, Virginia, is a prominent, well-documented family and I > don't think that Thomas was closely related to that family. > > In any event, I thought this well-written and -researched material might be > of interest to some of you on this list. I will be happy to send this > material in a Word document to anyone who is interested (it is too large to > circulate via Rootsweb) if you send me your direct email address. In > particular, if any of you are researching my Thomas Crawford, I would very > much appreciate hearing from you. > > > Dale M Crawford > dalemcrawford@comcast.net > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CRAWFORD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > >