Person:George Walters (21)

Records in Virginia

• 1777 -- Early Adventurers On the Western Waters, Mary Kegley, Vol. 2,pp. 49, 118: Montgomery Co. VA Entry Book B, 1783-1787, p. 86: Chsrtian (Christina?) Crewsey [Crewey], Commissioner's certificate and John, George, William Crewsey [Crewy] sons of said Christian Christina?] who was assignee of George Walters, Commissioner's certificate, 400 acres both sides of Mile Creek including great road and the improvements [New River].

• 1778 - George Walters included on a list that were fined two months pay for refusing to march out to protect the county frontier, taken into custody and treated as a deserter. [Montgomery Co. Militia; Court Martial]

• 1782 - Between Sept. 7th and Sept. 9th - page 86. Christian (Christina?) Crewsey (Crewey), (Commissioners certificate) and John, George, William Crewsey (Crewey) sons of said Christian (Christina?) who was assignee of George Walters, Commissioner's certificate, 400 acres both sides of Mile Creek including great road and the improvements (New River)

• April 15, 1785, Christiana and her sons returned to the original 344 acre claim and settled there permanently. According to family tradition and as evidenced by surviving Montgomery County records, Christiana supported herself in later years by running a tavern from her house. She offered up at least part of her land to Montgomery County on which to build a county courthouse for the new town of Christiansburg; she donated the land on May 1, 1790. The county seat was incorporated in 1792.

• 1785, Montgomery County, VA - 2 deeds in 1785 & 1790 involving Christina & sons. Alledgedly, Christina and her sons were very upset over husband George Walters's Loyalist leanings, threw him out of the house, and Christina took back her maiden name.

• 1785 Montgomery County, VA Survey Book D. page 242 - April 15, 1785 [Survey Date] - Christiana Crewey and sons John, George, William and Jacob Crewey [assignees of George Walters] --344 acres on both sides of Mill Branch of New River. By right of settlement of George Walters adjacent to Peterson and Hans Meadows.

• 1787 Montgomery Co., Va. Delinquent Tax List , Virgina Genealogical Society Quartery Vol XXIV #2, 1 May 1996, Christenah Walters - 10 -

• 1791-1800, Wythe County, VA - Survey Book 1 - p. 159: Chrisiana (Christiana) Crewy, John, George, William, and Jacob Crewey, sons of said Christiana assignee of Geo. Walters, 400 acres on both sides of Mile Barnch to include the Great Road where they now live, settled 1777.

Notes

When the Revolution started Christiana was very pro-American, but George was pro-British and initially went to fight for England. Despite the fact that her husband later spent 18 months fighting with the American army after he was tried for treason towards the close of the Revolution (the alternative to prison), Christiana apparently never forgave him for his original Tory sentiments and refused to let him come home. He left and never returned, and Christiana took back her maiden name of Crewey. Her four sons took that name for awhile as well, but apparently reverted to Walters some time later. [1]

1.   Family tree maker. (MyFamily.com, Inc., c2003).

   A manuscript by H.L. Price, in the V.P.I. Special Collections Room, speaks of Christiana Crewey Walters. On March 18, 1793, she gave the Courthouse Square to the town of Christiansburg, which was named for her. The deed says that if the town does not use the land for a courthouse it is to revert to her heirs.
   :When discussing a son of Rev. Edward Morgan, who in 1844 married Elizabeth Walters, a granddaughter of Mrs. Christiana Crewey Walters, Mrs. Morgan wrote the following from information from the manuscript of H. L. Price:
   :Christiana was from Holland and her husband, George, was from England. They married before coming to America. However, George did not sympathize with the American Cause and returned to England, deserting his wife and 10 children [Christiana had 12 children but lost two of them]. Christiana converted her house into a tavern and did well enough to be able to buy and sell land. Incidentally, we do not know when George returned but when he did, after the war was over, Christiana would not let him into her home.
   
   http://www.genealogy.com/users/d/o/y/Herbert-W-Doyle/GENE14-0001.html

2.   Kegley, Mary B, and F. B. (Frederick Bittle) Kegley. Early adventurers on the western waters. (Wytheville, Virginia: Kegley Books, c1995, 1998 (Marceline, Missouri : Walsworth Pub. Co.))
   pg. 146 & 150.

   Oath of Allegiance
   We whose names are hereunto subscribed do swear or affirm that we renounce and refuse all allegiance to George third King of Great Britain, his heirs successors and that, I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to the Commonwealth of Virginia as a free and independent State and that I will not at any time do or Cause to be done any matter or thing that will be make known to some one Justice of the Peace for the said State all treasons or traitorous Conspiracies which I now or hereafter shall know to be formed against this or any of the United States of America.
   
   The list of persons, who were administered the Oath of Allegiance, in Montgomery Co., by John Montgomery, in 1777 include -- George Walters
   
   1778 -----
   The records of the Montgomery Co. Militia; Court Martial; April, 1778
   Fined two months pay for refusing to march out to protect the county frontier, taken into custody and treated as a deserter -- list includes - George Walters
   
   1780 - August
   "Following the confessions, Montgomery and Botetourt Counties proceeded to bring these persons to trial for misbehavior and treason against the State. Those who were tried were:" On this list was -- George Walters
   
   The action taken by the court varied from posting bond to "gaol" in Augusta to enlisting in the Continental Army, to receiving thirty-nine lashes.
   
   Those who enlisted included George Walters, who was charged with being a soldier in the British service, who was "a poor and ignorant man". He agreed to enlist for 18 months from the time of arrival at General Washington's Camp.
   
   1780 - Sept.
   "The following Montgomery County soldiers of the Revolutionary War enlisted in Chesterfield County, Virginia. The register of troops who enlisted since Sept. 1, 1780 is found in the Size Roll of Troops, or the so-called Chesterfield Register. The names of the men who were from Montgomery County, Virginia at the time of their enlistment, have been selected from complete records. The register includes birth place, residence, height, color of hair, eyes and complexion, as well as occupation, age and date of enlistment (Sept. 11, 1780, unless otherwise stated), and length of service (one year six months unless otherwise stated)."