In my search fro Dooley – Crawford ties in the FamilySearch records, I came across a Lincoln county Kentucky deed for a John Crawford. In this 1793 deed, John Crawford apprentices his 16 year old son, Robert to Thomas Todd. While I don’t know more about this Crawford family or how they connect to my James Crawford research, I do have some infomration about John in my files.
In the tax records for Lincoln County, a Jn Crawford is shown with 607 acres on ‘H Fork'”‘ in 1796.
In 1800, those same tax records show Robert Crawford with 200 acres on Hanging Fork.
Since the Robert owning 200 acres of land on Hanging Fork in 1800 may be the same as the Robert in the apprenticeship, I decided to do more research on John Crawford in Lincoln county, Kentucky. Thanks to the hint in the tax records that a John Crawford was the original owner of the land, I searched the Kentucky Secretary of State site to see what I could find regarding this land. A search of that site uncovered the warrant and survey.
The survey gives a land description.
Virginia and Old Kentucky Patent Series
Patent VA 7612.0
Description: Crawford, JohnSurvey
Lincoln County
Surveyed the 14 day of December 1787 for John
Crawford 913 acres of land by virtue of part of
an entry of 1000 acres made the 24 day of Oct
ober 1786 upon a preemtion warrent No 2690
[87] acres the ballance of said preemption fall
ing into Samuel Craigs preemption claim
of one thousand acres and represents by the
dotted lines lying on both sides of the hang
ing fork of Dicks River adjoining Samuel
Craigs preemption on the Northwardly side
of the same and James Logans preem
tion of 400 acres on his Eastwardly side and
William Craigs deceast preemption of 1000 acres on the southwardly
side and bounded as followeth to wit Beginning at James
Logan’s SE corner of his 400 acres preemption at a white oak and two Hickory
saplings at A thence north 25 degrees east 218 poles crossing the Hang
ing fork to a beech tree at B Logans NE corner in the line of
WIlliam Craigs Preemption thence with the line of said Craigs Preemtion
south 65 degrees east 57 poles to a Walnut tree at C thence
south 38 degrees East 112 poles to a sugar tree at D thence
south 11 degrees east 618 poles to a sugar tree at E a corner of aid
Craigs preemption Handing on the bank of the Hanging fork and on
the East sideof the same thence with the said Craigs line south 58 deg
rees east 314 poles Passing Craigs Corner 15 poles to a Black
Walnut Sugar Tree and Hoopwood at F thence South 32 degrees west
270 poles to a Hicory and two sugar tree saplings at G thence North
70 degrees west 100 poles to a stake standing in Craig’s line at H thence with
Craigs line North 25 degrees East 39 poles to a Stake and pounters
in said line at I thence running north 70 degrees west 360 poles to
an Elm sapling and a sugar tree Mark JC at K from thence
running north 25 degrees east 188 poles passing on to corner 60 poles form
K and So continuing the course to the beginning at AScale of 100 pole to half inch
Samuel Davis ast
James Thompson S L C
Variations East
Chain Carryers Wm James
and Saml Gilmore
Marker John Crawford
