Person:Samuel Craycraft (1)

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Samuel Craycroft is mentioned in the following declaration by his son, Joseph Craycroft, in support of the Revolutionary War Service of his other son, Charles Craycraft, as follows:

Also Appeared before me at the same time [19th day of September [1832] and place [Greenup County, Kentucky] Joseph Craycraft aged about 64 years & 6 months who being duly sworn doth on his oath declare that he knows that his brother Charles Craycraft who has made the foregoing declaration did enter the service of the United States in the month of March 1781 in the Virginia Militia under Capt Anderson Major Higgins – Col Edmonds’s reigement and that he continued to serve in the militia until about the time Cornwallis surrendered in the fall of 1781. That this affiant went with his brother Charles into the army as a substitute for his father Samuel Craycraft and this affiant staid with his brother in the army until his said Brother joined the light-horse or rangers under Maj’r. McPherson. That the troops to which he and his brother belonged rendevouzed at Romley Hampshire county Virginia then went to Winchester thence to Richmond This affiant was not in the engagement with the light-horse of the British because before the light-horse came to Richmond this affiant with others was sent back to guard some baggage which he staid with until they got to Brock’s bridge on Pamunky where they left the baggage and went in pursuit of the British Army that was then retreating towards York, and in the progress of this pursuit the time for which this affiant had turned out expired & he was discharged and returned home and never saw his brother any more until his return home in the fall This affiant was not with his brother as a spy against the Indians but he was at the Horse Shoe fort on the lands of James Parsons on Cheat River in the County of Monongalia Virginia when his Brother brought in two women & three children that he had taken from a house that was besieged by the Indians in the night time the name of one of these women was Polly Anderson and the name of the other was Betsy Cameron or Camrell and this affiant knows the fact that his brother was then in the service as a spy and had been for some time before & continued for some time afterwards in that service.

(Signed) Joseph [his X mark] Craycraft

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   JC3 SAMUEL CRAYCRAFT was born about 1742 in Hampshire Co., Virginia, the third child of Joseph Craycraft and Ann Stanton. He married Elizabeth _________ about 1740. They had five children. He died after 1774.
   
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