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Greetings to all. Yesterday I posted the following on the CRUMP-L list at RootsWeb. Comments appreciated. Ed Crump
Over the past twenty years or so it has been assumed that William Crump of Lancaster County Virginia, and later Cecil County, Maryland was married to Mary Spillman, daughter of Hannah Boyle Spillman Hill Mountney. This theory was first proposed by long time Crump researcher Wayne Guthrie (now deceased). He arrived at this conclusion because William Crump was named son-in-law to Hannah Mountney at some point. Hannah had a daughter by Hill (Elizabeth) and one by Spillman (Mary). No one knew of a child by Mountney, and taking everything into consideration, Guthrie suggested that Mary must have been William's wife.
This was also before anyone realized that there was another William Crump in York County, VA, which later became New Kent County. That William was married to an Ann, so it was very confusing. When the York information became available Guthrie dropped William of Lancaster as a probable descendant of Sgt. Thomas Crump of Jamestown.
The Revised edition of "Adventurers of Purse and Person" identifies the daughter of Alexander and Hannah Mountney as "Frances". It is known that when William of Lancaster moved to Maryland in 1665 that his wife was "Frances". Most long time Crump researchers now agree that William Crump of Lancaster was, in fact, married to Frances Mountney and was never married to Mary Spillman, and that there were definitely two William Crumps who were contemporary with each other.
This is one of those cases where a theory by a knowledgable person got picked up as fact over the years and should now be corrected.
If anyone is interested in continuing this thread, please let me know and I can supply more detail. We are closer than ever to sorting out the two William Crumps, and once we do, everyone will be better served. And, we can focus in on which of them affects the lines we are working on.
My own personal theory is tht the William of York/New Kent was most likely descended from the Thomas Crump line (probably a grandson, but possibly a son), and that William of Lancaster was of a different line, although possibly related.
Until I can prove or disprove that William of Lancaster was related to my line (Adam Crump), I will continue to do some work on him. Adam Crump was fist in Maryland (1730 ish) but ended up owning approximately (possibly the same) land in Lancaster in the 1740's that William Crump had owned almost eighty years before! Adam came to Maryland from Ireland, so it is possible that this William was Irish!
Any thoughts or comments appreciated. Ed Crump, Jr.
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