In the late 1700's and early 1800's, most of the Crews family of SC was living in Colleton Co. and Beaufort Co. There were at least six heads of households living on the Colleton side of the Salkehatchie River in 1810 and by 1820 three of them, Macaijah, Alexander, and Roger had moved to Camden Co., GA. Edward, Samuel, and Jonathan remained in Colleton at least for a while. Benjamin and John are shown living in Beaufort in 1820. SC hwy 63 was once known as Crews Ford Road indicating that the family ran a ford across the Salkehatchie River Where hwy 63 crosses. The Crews farms in Colleton were located about a mile south of present day Islandton, SC where the Salkehatchie and the Little Salkehatchie Rivers converge to form the Combahee River. I have a copy of a tax return for the year 1824 that I got from Huxford's records in Homerville, GA. It's a return for the estate of John (C. or G.) Crews Sr. for taxable property in the Parish of St. Bartholomew and the District of Colleton, SC. The tax was one dollar on 1334 acres of land. At the bottom of the page, it was paid on the 30 April 1825 to the tax collector for Prince William Parish(which is in Beaufort Co)and the person who paid it is John Crews Jr. There is a Jonathan in Colleton and a John in Beaufort in the 1820 census. From this tax return we know they are father and son and that John Crews Sr. died prior to 30 Apr 1825. Huxford has stated that Alexander Crews was born about 1755 in Charleston District, SC, in the portion now Colleton Co, and was a son of John Crews. I have always doubted that Alexander was born this early for 3 reasons. First, he didn't have his first child until 1795. Second, his second wife, Lucy Dubois b.1785, would be 30 years his junior. Third, Huxford says he served in the Indian Wars in 1838, an impressive feat for an 83 yr. old man. It's more likely that Alex. was born in the 1770's which I have seen in some gedcoms. If John Sr lived an average life of 70 yrs. and died in 1824/5 then he could have been the father of Alexander in the 1770's and some of the other younger Crews men who appear in the early census records of Colleton and Beaufort Counties in SC. David