Person:Benjamin Crow (5)

Benjamin Crow was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia

Contents 1 Early Land Acquisition in Augusta County, VA 2 Land Grant in Tennessee 3 Records in Augusta County, VA 4 Records in Tennessee 5 Sources		Welcome to Old Augusta Early Settlers Beverley Manor Borden's Grant Register Data Maps Places Library History Index
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Early Land Acquisition in Augusta County, VA

Acquisition of Land from Chalkley's:

• Page 325.--19th September, 1780. Edward Erwin (Irvine) and Mary, to Benj. Crow of Rockingham, part of 400 acres patented to Alex. Brownlee, 12th June, 1749. Teste: James Gauy (Guy), Francis Mara, Robert ( ) Gregg.

Land Grant in Tennessee

• No. 488, Page 398. For 10 pounds per 100 acres - To Benjamin Crowe, 300 acres in Greene County on south side of Nolichucky River on both sides of Meadow Creek, to watery fork of Meadow Creek. Richard Kaswell at Kinston, 20 September 1787. [North Carolina Land Grants recorded in Greene County, Tennessee, compiled by Goldene Fillers Burgner, pg. 44].

Records in Augusta County, VA

From Chalkley’s Augusta County Records:

• Vol. 2 - 1782--August 28th, Benj. Crow, a Continental soldier in 1777. Court of Claims.

• Vol. 2 - Insolvents and Delinquents, 1783: Benj. Crow, gone to Holston. (Note: "Holston" was later to become Tennessee).

• Vol. 1 - FEBRUARY 17, 1784. - (172) Sheriff ordered to apply to Hannah Sawyers, widow of James Sawyers, deceased, for sundry articles taken from Benjamin Crow and Patrick Ferren.

• Vol. 1 - A copy of the will of Walter Crow. Fee, 70 cents, paid in the office by W. Roalston. H. J. Gambrill. I, Walter Crow, of Rockingham County. To wife, Ann. To eight children, viz: Mary Harnsberry, James, John, William, Benjamin, Jacob Crow, Nancy Gregg, Rachel Harnett. Executors, wife Ann, and William Crow, third son of testator. "A certain obligation which John Crow obtained from William Crow at Lewis (Levines) Ferry, on James River, which John assigned to his father, Walter Crow, amounting to £20 principle, interest from August, 1784, if John shall pay some to Anne, etc.," otherwise the amount is to be deducted from John's share. Signed, sealed, etc., 6th August, 1789. Test: William Dunlap, Hannah (mark) Roadecap and lie for, etc. (Signed) William Ewen, C. R. C. Proved in clerk. 28th September, 1789, Rockingham County. Proven by Hannah Roadecap and lie for, etc. Signed) William Ewen, C. R. C. Proved in Rockingham, 26th October, 1789, by Elizabeth Roadecap. Administration granted widow, Anne; other executor failed to appear. By the Court. (Signed) William Ewen, C. R. C. A copy. Test: H. J. Gambill, D. C. R. C.

Records in Tennessee

North Carolina Land Grants recorded for Greene County, Tennessee, "For 10 pounds per 100 acres - to Benjamin Crowe 300 acres in Greene County on south side of Nolichucky River on both sides of Meadow Creek, to watery fork of Meadow Creek. s/Richard Caswell, Governor at Kinston, N.C.; 20 September 1787."

Then in Deed Book 3, "Benjamin Crow - 200 acres. Consideration of 10 Pounds (No further description) s/Alexander Martin (Governor) at Newbern, N.C. dated 26 December 1792".

Deed Book 3, "3 October 1799; Benjamin Crow, Greene County, Tennessee To Thomas Pate for $728.00, 440 acres in Greene County (further property description and location not recorded). Witnesses William Rankin, Sally Rankin. (Registered 24 Jan 1801).

Thomas Pate then conveyed this property back to Benjamin Crow.

Benjamin Crow then conveyed this 440 acres to John Neash, on 25 November 1801.

Benjamin Crow sold 30 acres in Greene County to Michael Neese for $100.00. (Registered 5 January 1804)

Benjamin Crow sold 27 acres to Joseph Patterson for $37.00. Witnesses, Thomas McLaughlin, John Reynolds, Robert Gragg. (Registered 24 December 1803).

Citation: Find-A-Grave

Sources

Chalkley's Augusta County, Virginia Records

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/j/o/n/David-Jones-GROVER-BEACH/PDFBOOK1.pdf

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~crow2000/bencrowfrontiersman.htm

1.   Ancestry Family Trees. (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.)
   Ancestry Family Trees.

   http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=8100166&pid=-962370558

2.   Find A Grave.

   Sgt Benjamin Crow
   BIRTH 1758
   New Castle, New Castle County, Delaware, USA
   DEATH 1832 (aged 73–74)
   Okolona, Clark County, Arkansas, USA
   BURIAL Benjamin Crow Gravesite
   Okolona, Clark County, Arkansas, USA
   
   https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/126645347/benjamin_crow