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John was born in 1600 in Ayrshire, Scotland. The names of John's parents and wife are unknown. His wife died sometime before 1643 when John and his only son David Crawford arrived in Jamestown. John is said to have been killed in Bacon's Rebellion in 1676[1] (see Research Notes, below).
One source claims that John Crawford was the grandson of Malcolm Crawford, Chief of Clan Crawford 1551 - 1591. The source that states this claim is a sample genealogy on a sample website. It is not a reliable source.[2] Malcolm Craufurd of Kilbirnie, was the hereditary head of the Senior cadet branch of Clan Crawford. There has been no recorded Chief of the Clan by the name of Malcolm. See: Clan Crawford Chiefs. Malcolm was the first Crawford of Kilbirnie. This is perhaps the cause of the confusion about Malcolm being the clan chief.
Some other later sources seem to repeat the account from the 1903 published article cited above.[1]. Other researchers question the existence of this John and his involvement in Bacon's Rebellion. See this G2G discussion.
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(Not copied and pasted, as it is copywritten, but I have hand-typed a summary of what I read...) An excerpt I read in Chapter 2 Family Origins, 1685-1810, page 23 shows... John Crawford (1593-1676) a widower, was the first migrator/traveler of the Crawford family to the Colonies, likely with his young son David I (1625-1710) who left Scotland around 1643. John and David settled in the inland port of Jamestown. Between John and an older David, they obtained and bought up land stretching across James City, Hanover and New Kent counties.
David I married Jane (maiden name uncertain) and had their son David II (1662-1762). David I continued to expand the landholdings purchased and granted by the Crown.
David II As he aged, he expanded westward, growing his father's landholdings and claiming more and more lands granted by the British Crown. David II married Elizabeth Smith and had five children born between 1697-1707. David II continued to purchase land all the way to the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountain range in Amherst County where he build a large two-story house for the family. The home was later called Tusculum and "by the 1750s, the 4th generation Crawford family was one of the largest slave-holding families in Amherst, Virginia." David II died in 1762.
Excerpt from eGoogle books https://books.google.com/books?id=iAd_DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA23&lpg=PA23&dq=elizabeth+smith+crawford+1673-1767&source=bl&ots=A0Ji2ErToe&sig=ACfU3U1jXhhPUYVprmEysBuGsydvzu_-Og&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjK49iXkZ38AhUel2oFHZkGAxsQ6AF6BAgdEAM#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/560054/?offset=&return=1#page=1&viewer=picture&o=&n=0&q=
Thanks!
Edit: ok, maybe I did, and it takes it out of the comment, I put it in double quotes above, can you change the double quotes to square brackets? Or let me know if you're ok with me making that edit on the profile
edited by Jonathan Crawford
edited by Amy (Crawford) Gilpin
Crawford-7337 and Crawford-451 appear to represent the same person because: these profiles appear to be intended to represent the same person. Please merge. Thanks!
edited by Liz (Noland) Shifflett
Also, if John of Kilbernie has a haplogroup of BY3099 (which is different from everyone else in the clan crawford study), and Henry who has a paper trail to David has a CTS6344 (direct parent of BT3099), that seems fairly indicative that David came from the same immediate family, if not directly from John.
https://www.familytreedna.com/public/crawford?iframe=ycolorized Look for grouping "I2-01 Descendants of David (son of John) Crawford of VA, immig. 1640s" about half-way down
Henry Crawford (stating CTS-6344) : https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Crawford-18015 / https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1027367/question-about-john-crawford-1600-1676-ayrshire-scotland
At the moment, there seems to be a dearth of real evidence for anything related to "John Crawford of Ayrshire" in the colonies, or his supposed wife. I am wondering if he never came, and therefore if he might actually BE John of Kilbernie. With a haplogroup distinct from the rest of the family, it seems definitive that David is at least from that branch, regardless of which individual is his father.
There is, of course, the possibility that all the people who have that haplogroup are mistakenly tracing their paternal lines back to John of Kilbernie, and David instead is the one who is the outlier, and may not be related to the Crawfords. But that is what I hope to explore by contacting those users.
Thank you!