Person:Robert Crockett (11)

Description of Robert Crockett's death

"On the 2d of June, 1769, a larger company of adventurers was formed, for the purpose of hunting and exploring, in what is now known, as Middle Tennessee....The company consisted of more than twenty men [including] Robert Crockett.....The hunters here [Wayne County] dispersed in different directions; the whole company traveling to the southwest. They cane to Roaring River and the Caney Fork. Robert Crockett was killed near the head waters of Roaring River, when returning to the camp, provided for two or three days' traveling; the Indians were there in ambush, and fired upon and killed him.[from the Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century, J. G, M, Ramsey. 1860, page 96. Book available to read at the HathiTrust web site]

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Armstrong, Zella. Southern Genealogies number 1, Historical Southern Families 1600's - 1800's. (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1974)
   pg. 206.
2. ↑ Ramsey, James Gettys McGready. The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising its settlement as the Watauga Association, from 1769 to 1777 ; a part of North-Carolina, from 1777 to 1784 ; the state of Franklin, from 1784-1788 ; a part of North-Carolina, from 1788-1790 ; the territory of the U. States, south of the Ohio, from 1790 to 1796 ; the state of Tennessee, from 1796 to 1800. (Charleston: John Russell., 1853)
   1860.