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

Hi Dale, I've traced my Crawfords to Chester, SC in the early 1800s. I don't know if my family is connected to any in your documents -- did you run across any Crawfords that headed north & inland? Cheers! Robert Crawford Edwards On Oct 22, 2011, at 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