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The following is DIRECTLY from the book:
The Tenmile Country and Its Pioneer Families by Howard L. Leckey, Historian (Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2001). This book can be found on Ancestry.com under "Stories and Publications" (subscription required) or in some libraries. I've only included information that involves Colonel William Crawford and his related families (not his military movements, that's a whole chapter). The book also includes names/dates for descendants of Colonel William Crawford.
"...On the 27th of the same month (January 1794), Colonel William Crawford donated two Pounds for the building of the new church. This may have been the first New Providence or Glades Church, where the colonel is buried... Colonel William Crawford went fishing on February 26, and he had to have a pike line and a quart of whiskey to be sure it was a successful trip...(p. 500)
THE CRAWFORDS OF MUDDY CREEK
There have been numberous histories written about Colonel William Crawford of Muddy Creek, and most of them mention his brother, John Crawford, because their movements in this section were closely parallel, though John Crawford never attained the military prominence of his brother. It is also possible to confuse Greene County's Colonel William Crawford, with Fayette County's martyr of the same name. In official Pennsylvania records, William Crawford of "the Glades" did not exceed the rank of captain during the Revolution, but under Virginia jurisdiction he was the colonel of Frontier Rangers with headquarters at John Ankrom's Fort on Tenmile. We get his bit of information from various pension applications of these Rangers. (James Pribble, Harrod Newland, etc). It is regrettable that the life of Colonel William Crawford, as partly finished by his son, John Crawford, was never finished or published, but Crumrine and Evans have both seen and used it in their histories. John Crawford's recollections of the life of his father are in the NN Series of the Draper Papers at Madison, Wisconsin. These recollections give one of the best pictures of pioneer times in this section and are told by a man who grew up with the times, having been born the years his father settled on Muddy Creek.
John Crawford, (or James) father of Colonel William Crawford, was born in Scotland, and came to America, settling at an early date on a tract of land near what is now Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. He died in 1748, leaving three sons and two daughters, namely: George Crawford, Arthur Crawford, who was adopted by the Indian Chief, White Eyes, when in 1756, that chief was head of a party of Indians who destroyed the cabin of John McKinney, the second husband of Colonel William Crawford's mother on Big Kanawha. This story is told in L.K. Evans, along with the future life of our subject, William Crawford; Mary Crawford, and John Crawford.
Colonel Wiliam Crawford, after the death of this father, spent some time in Loudon County, Virginia, and then five years in a company of Rangers, returned in 1767, to the Conochacheague, where he married Alice Kennedy, a daughter of David Kennedy. Then in 1770, he removed to The Tenmile County, and settled on a tract of land near Glades Church, where the remainder of his life was spent. His military life included all the periond of the Indian massacres from the death of Thomas Cargo, until the Crow Massacre, for in 1793, we find him at the head of a company at Fort Ryerson on Wheeling Creek. His round-up of the Tories, while in service under Colonel Thomas Gaddis, and his pursuit of the Indians after the Corbly Massacre, are high lights of his career. Served as captain in the First Battalion, Washington County, Pennsylvania, Militia.
Colonel William Crawford was born in 1744, in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, and died in Greene County, on August 3, 1826. His wife, Alice Kennedy, is probably buried with him in the Glades Church Cemetery. They had two sons and seven daughters." (p. 521-522)
"John Crawford, brother of Colonel William Crawford, was born in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, November 1, 1748, and died in Venango County, Pennsylvania, February 18, 1812. He came to Muddy Creek with his borther in 1770, and served at times in his brother's Militia Company. His house, built near the Glades was a stong one and frequent used as a place of refuge during the Indian raids, and has been called Fort Crawford, though never so designated in writings of the times. It was at his home Reb. McMillan reports holding services on his first trip into the section. About 1797, John Crawford sold his land on Muddy Creek and removed to Venango County. His wife was Isabell Parker, who was born August 21, 1756, and died December 30, 1839. (Beers "History of Venango County")" (p. 523)
Anyone interested in this line of Crawfords, should also get "The Crawford Memorial". I purchased it on CD on ebay for about $15. It is also viewable on microfiche through the Church of Latter Day Saints (FamilySearch.org).
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