Person:John Crockett (18)

Information on John Crockett

• John Crockett was one of the Overmountain Men who fought in the "Battle of Kings Mountain" during the American Revolutionary War.
• John moved his family to Morristown, Tennessee, in the 1790s and built a tavern there.
• In 1791, John Crockett's mill and house were destroyed by a flood. John Crockett moved his family to Jefferson County (now Hamblen County). In 1792, John built a log cabin-tavern on the road from Abingdon, Virginia to Knoxville, Tennessee, and continued to live there until his death.
• John Crockett lived near the Nolichucky River, (Present Limestone), Washington County (Present Greene County), Free Republic of Franklin (Present Tennessee), United States

John Crockett and Rebeckah Hawkins were the parents of David "Davy" Crockett, the Tennessee Pioneer and Adventurer.

Land Grant in Tennessee

Greene Co. TN Land Grant: Page 290, No. 1050. John Crockett - 300 acres southside of the main Holston Road within a few miles of Perkins Iron Works on Mossy Creek, waters of Holston River, adjoining Grills. Alexander Martin at Hillsborough, 14 April 1792. [North Carolina Land Grants recorded in Greene County, Tennessee, compiled by Goldene Fillers Burgner, pg. 123].

Greene Co. TN Land Grant: Page 320, No. 1243 - 197 acres on waters of Lick Creek, Stocktons Fork. Alexander Martin at Newbern, 27 November 1792. [North Carolina Land Grants recorded in Greene County, Tennessee, compiled by Goldene Fillers Burgner, pg. 126].

Other Research References

James Calvin McMullin

From Greene County, Tennessee query:

posted by Lyn Harris

HAWKINS/HARRIS

CROCKETT, David "Davy" was born in Limestone, Greene Co. 8/17/1786. His mother was REBECKAH HAWKINS who was married to John Crockett. I am looking for information linking Rebeckah HAWKINS to the Family. Rebeckah's sister or aunt married SIDON HARRIS. Lyn Harris Fri Aug 29 13:28:00 1997

Descendant Lineage:

1) John Crockett married Rebecca Hawkins 2) Margaret Jane Crockett married Sidon John Harris 3) Elizabeth Jane Harris married Andrew Jackson Blythe 4) Thomas Jefferson Blythe (#10527840) married Esther Elvira Baum - the ancestors of President William J. "Bill" Clinton.

(DAR Library # A027944)

1. ↑ Armstrong, Zella. Southern Genealogies number 1, Historical Southern Families 1600's - 1800's. (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1974)
   pg. 328.
2. ↑ Hinson, Gail W. Some Descendants of John Lewis and Margaret Rees of Wales, 1713-1997. (Anundsen Publishing Co., Box 230, Decorah, Iowa 52101, 1997)
   pg. 193.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} John B Crockett, in Find A Grave (Cemetery Unknown)
   Memorial# 60040856, Oct 13, 2010.

   Birth: Aug. 10, 1759, Washington County, Tennessee, USA
   Death: 1834, Hamblen County, Tennessee, USA
   Burial: Unknown

4.   Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.

   John Crockett
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Crockett_(frontiersman)

5. ↑ John Crockett, in "King of the Wild Frontier", Autobiography by Davy Crockett
   Page 2, 1834.

   "My father's name was John Crockett. He was by profession a farmer, and spent the early part of his life in the state of Pennsylvania".
   
   "My father was in the Revolutionary War and I have learned that he took part in that bloody struggle. He fought, according to my information, in the battle at Kings Mountain against the British and Tories, and in some other engagements of which my remembrance is too imperfect to enable me to speak with any certainty. My father lived in Lincoln County in the state of North Carolina. How long, I don't know. But when he removed from there, he settled in that district of country which is now embraced in the east division of Tennessee, though it was not then erected into a state".

6.   Crockett, Davy. A narrative of the life of David Crockett of the state of Tennessee. (Philadelphia: E.L. Carey and A. Hart, 1834).

   My father's name was John Crockett, and he was of Irish descent. He was either born in Ireland or on a passage from that country to America across the Atlantic. He was by profession a farmer, and spent the early part of his life in the state of Pennsylvania. The name of my mother was Rebecca Hawkins. She was an American woman, born in the state of Maryland, between York and Baltimore. It is likely I may have heard where they were married, but if so, I have forgotten. It is, however, certain that they were, or else the public would never have been troubled with the history of David Crockett, their son. I have an imperfect recollection of