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"The pioneer McCreery had also several daughters. Elizabeth married Colonel George Wilson in 1750. Jane married Major Andrew Donally, a pioneer of Greenbrier and Kanawha, and whose fort near Lewisburg was the scene of a battle with the Indians in 1778. Nancy—named for her mother, Nancy Crawford, of Dublin, Ireland—married James Huston, who went to Kentucky in 1783 and died at his home near Covington in 1818, at the age of ninety-five. The wife of John McCreery, Jr., was a daughter of Wallace Estill."[1]
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Elizabeth Agnes McCreary (born Crawford)
Gender: Female
Birth: 1716 - Damark Ireland
Marriage: 1732 - Augusta, Virginia
Death: 1768 - Virginia
Husband: John McCREARY (born McCreery)
Children: Elizabeth Crawford Wilson (born McCREARY)Captain Robert McCreery
Agnes Nancy Crawford was probably born in Ireland about 1711. Although her name was Agnes, she was known as Nancy. Some traditions say that she married John McCreery in Dublin and shortly thereafter they came to the colonies along with the family of John's brother, James McCreery. Another tradition says that John McCreery and Agnes Crawford eloped and were married on the ship that brought them to the colonies in 1732. The latter tradition says that Agnes Crawford's noble blooded parents never forgave her for running off with a man of common means. It is said that one of her brothers who had no heir came to Virginia and sent word to Agnes, asking her to come to see him, that he wished to adopt one of her sons to be his heir. Agnes replied that Capt. John McCreery was as good as any Crawford and if he wanted to see them he must come to their home. His answer was to return to Ireland without seeing any of them. We do not know when Agnes Crawford McCreery died except that she was still living in May 1768 when her husband, John, wrote his will.
John McCreary was a carpenter and settler of some means and enterprise. They are said to have first settled in Maryland where they lived for many years before moving to that part of old Augusta County, Virginia that would become Bath County in 1790. In the spring of 1753 John McCreery built a mill on the Cowpasture River just below Ebbing Spring, very near the current town of Williamsville, Virginia. John died at their home sometime in 1768. The record of the death of Nancy has not been found. Their sons, John, Jr. and Robert, both served as officers during the Revolutionary War. Capt. RobertMcCreery married Mary McClanahan. John McCreary, Jr. married a daughter of Wallace Estill. The pioneer McCrearys also had at least three daughters. Elizabeth married a Wilson in 1750. Jane married Col. Andrew Donnally in 1766, a pioneer of Greenbrier and Kanawha Cos. whose fort near Lewisburg was a scene of battle by the Indians in 1778. Nancy, named for her mother, married M. Huston of Kentucky, and John McCreary, Jr. married a daughter of Wallace Estill.
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