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Facts and Events
Records in Virginia
Zachariah Crawford made the following affidavit in support of his brother-in-law, John McDaniel's Revolutionary War Pension Application, as follows:
- [p 8: On July 4th, 1840 in Rockingham County Virginia, Zachariah Crawford, 65 or 66 years of age gave testimony that he was well acquainted with John McDaniel late husband of Elizabeth McDaniel; that they were married when he was quite a young boy of 6 or 7 years of age; that John McDaniel came to his father's house shortly after the revolutionary war ended wearing a horseman's Cape covered with bearskin and a soldiers clothing his coat was blue with trimming; "... Deponent has often heard the said John McDaniel relate that he entered early in the revolutionary war, and served to the in thereof, and that whilst in the service he was taken prisoner at Charlestown South Carolina [May 12, 1780], but was exchanged some short time after being made prisoner, deponent further states that he has often heard the said McDaniel relate that he belonged to the Cavalry or Light horse part of the time while in the service as aforesaid; and he has heard him state that he was commanded by a Captain __ Laird [perhaps David Laird?] a part of the time whilst in the Army and deponent further states that he has a perfect and distinct recollection that the said John McDaniel and Elizabeth Crawford left his father's house for the purpose of going to the Parsons to get married, he cannot tell the exact year but he does know it was in a few years after the revolutionary war; he well recollects that he went to school in the year 1791, he then being 15 or 16 years of age, took with him to school a paper for a phone paper his teacher took it from him and examined it and stated to him it was the Parsons certificate certifying to the marriage of John McDaniel and Elizabeth his wife, the said John McDaniel and Elizabeth had then been married several years, the said John McDaniel and Elizabeth his wife always lived together as man and wife and acknowledge each other as such to the day of his death. The said John McDaniel has been dead 29 years and that Elizabeth McDaniel has remained his widow ever since that period.
- S/ Zecback Crawford
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