Did your Crawford family have any descendents who moved to Oxford County, Canada? I have a David Crawford who lived and raised his children in Canada. Dottie ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 12:03 AM Subject: CRAWFORD Digest, Vol 2, Issue 145 > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. David CRAWFORD abt 1710 Scotland - 1785 Frederick Co, MD > (K Powell) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 06:08:24 -0700 (PDT) > From: K Powell <[email protected]> > Subject: [CRAWFORD] David CRAWFORD abt 1710 Scotland - 1785 Frederick > Co, MD > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > Some digging: I learned that while we "knew" he disembarked at Philadelphia > harbor, records of marriages and births recorded at Christ Church indicate that > at least David Jr of the 6 known children did not move from Philadelphia PA to > MD until during the Revolution. Merion twp Philadelphia formed 1714(?); > Montgomery County PA formed 1784 from part of Philadelphia County. > > This family moved to Frederick County MD during the Revolution some time > between the births of David Jr's sons Thomas CRAWFORD (born 31 Jul 1775 > Philadelpia, Merion, PA) and Samuel CRAWFORD (born 25 Jan 1778 New Windsor, > Frederick, MD). This information indicates that all 6 children of David Sr were > born in Philadelphia, not MD, strongly suggesting that the whole family moved > about that time. > > Not long after, we see that the family begins migrating out further. Much of > who moved where when is unclear but by the War of 1812-14 Frederick Co MD is > clearing out of Crawfords. Some have tantalizingly moved, or moves are > suggested, to OH during or after that war. I've little doubt that some may have > moved "south", to VA and the states that mega state was broken up into. > > Part of why we don't find them in Frederick Co MD much after census has begun > is that same effect - some are in Carroll County. Carroll Co MD didn't exist > until about 1840 when it was created about half each from Frederick & adjoining > Baltimore Co. Some of these Crawfords are found there & some apparently marry > at Baltimore. > > At the time of his death 1785 David Sr's will indicates that his wife was "Mgt" > Margaret, I had hoped to learn who the mother of his children were. Repeated > online gedcoms show her to have been a Jane Douglas but I haven't yet found any > documentation for that. Their last child was born 1740 is as close as I've > gotten, so far. > > That 1785 will names David Sr's children Jonas, John, Thomas, David and > Abigail, including deceased James, but fortuitously names James' children. I > think I have tracked that James' son David L to Preble Co OH, then Rush Co, IN > by 1819. Thanks to this Crawford bunch's Litigous Genes, court records supply > additional documents. David L's son David A even sued his own father. > > More work to do, genealogy research is obsessive! > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________Ready for the edge of your seat? > Check out tonight's top picks on Yahoo! TV. > http://tv.yahoo.com/ > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the CRAWFORD list administrator, send an email to > [email protected] > > To post a message to the CRAWFORD mailing list, send an email to [email protected] > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of CRAWFORD Digest, Vol 2, Issue 145 > **************************************** > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 34 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len