Person:William Cromwell (8)

Records in Augusta County, VA

From Chalkley's:

• Vol. 2 - Entries by right of military service under proclamation of 1763, viz: 1,700 acres for William Cromwell, 10th May, 1776; 940 acres for Francis Kirtley; 1,500 acres for Henry Gains; 1,000 acres for Peter Hog;

1,000 acres for Charles Scott; 1,000 acres for James Walker, John Posey, Goodrich Crump, Jesse Scott, Marshall Pratt, John Poe, Robert Scott, Hugh Stephenson, Thomas Rutherford. (These records are certified from Rockingham.)

1.   Christopher Gist and Settlement on the Monongahela, 1752-1754, by David B. Trimble, in Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. (Richmond, Virginia: Virginia Historical Society)
   Vol. 63, No. 1 (Jan., 1955), pp. 15-27 (13 pages).

   Christopher Gist was accompanied on the Monongahela country by his three sons, Richard, Nathaniel, and Thomas, his daughter Nancy, and his daughter Violetta and her husband, William Cromwell. The Cromwells owned a tract of 318 acres at the beaver dam on the Youghiogheny, but they lived on a tract adjoining and belonging to Christopher Gist, since "Cromwell's wife was afraid or did not choose to live so far from her father adn mother, there being at the time by a very few families of white people settled in this country."