Subject: Re: [CRUMP] CROMPE Date:Thu, 17 Feb 2000 09:01:45 -0600 From: Ed Crump Jr <[email protected]> To: "Constance M. Diamond" <[email protected]> Constance, I am not sure if a "Reply" goes to the list, or just to the sender, so if this only comes to you and you consider it worthy of discussion then you can post it. Perhaps you can explain how we should use Reply when it is intended for the whold list. This message concerns Bridget and other "early" Conneticut Crumps: >From "Conneticut Puritan Settlers", Royal P. Huffman, Case, Tiffany and Company, Hartford, 1852, p. 768 (Call Number R929.1 H66) "CRUMP, THOMAS, of Hartford, was a servant of Gov. Hopkins, and d. in 1644-5. Andrew Bacon and George Graves, March 5, 1644/5, testified in Court, that were with Thomas _Crump_, when he was sick, not long before his death; he said "his debts being paid, he desired his master would doe w'th yt as he pleased," [his estate] and probably left no family. Thomas, was a defendant in Court, at Hartford, in a action of slander, in 1643; Gov Hopkins settled his estate, 1644-5; George _Crump_, of Hartford d. in 1644; Crombe, Alexander, 1663; Crompe, Bridget, &t, aged 18, embarked in the Merchant's Hope, Hugh Watson, Master, for Virginia, in 1635. This name is now found at New London, in Conn., and in Virginia." So, two things are obvious (1) the Merchant's Hope went to Conneticut after leaving England and before arriving in Virginia, and (2) there were Crumps in Conneticut before 1650! This is NOT the Sgt. Thomas of Jamestown, but I do not know who he is. In looking at a map of the United States, Conneticut is not as far from Virginia as one might imagine. It was clear that there was travel between the two. There were no Crumps in Conn. by the 1660's however. The references to the legal actions are readily available in the early legal books and records of Conn. Food for thought! Ed Crump in Louisiana (researching Crumps prior to 1730)