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	Crawford County Government
		The Legislature on the March 12, 1800, passed an act separating Crawford, Mercer, Venango, Warren, and Erie counties from the territory of Allegheny County, which were to form temporarily one county under the name of Crawford.
		Crawford County was named in honor of Colonel William Crawford who was a staunch defender of the white settlers from the attacks of Indians.
		Crawford County, which is one of the largest counties territorially in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, consists of two third-class cities, fourteen boroughs, and thirty-five second-class townships.
	www.co.crawford.pa.us /history.htm (3277 words)

	FAM28.HTM
		For, while William Crawford was not a great or famous man, he was one of the most popular and respected citizens on the frontier, and his long record of service to his country was one to do credit to any man of that day or this.
		Crawford (if your lordship purposes to take the route of Pittsburgh), whom I took the liberty of recommending as a good woodsman, and well acquainted with the lands in that quarter, that he may be disengaged when we get to his house, which is directly on the communication.
		William Crawford had heard of the expedition, and in fact was several times consulted by the various militia officers in regards to the plans for it.
	thorin.adnc.com /~galliher/FAM28.HTM (14264 words)

	Truman W. Crawford, Colonel, United States Marine Corps
		Colonel Truman W. Crawford, 68, commander of the Marine Corps Drum and Bugle Corps from 1973 until retiring in 1998, died March 3, 2003, at a hospital in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
		Colonel Crawford became enamored of the form as a high school student in his native Endicott, New York, where he heard a performance of the U.S. Air Force Drum and Bugle Corps.
		Rangy and bespectacled, Colonel Crawford was a picture of ease when he was directing, seeming to will the music out of his scarlet-clad troops as he rolled back and forth on his heels.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /twcrawford.htm (741 words)

	Crawford Family Background
		Crawford is translated from Strathclyde Gaelic to be a crossing of blood; a bloody (CRU) pass (FORD) and hence Cruford.
		Patrick Crawford of Drumsoy, descended from #10, married Jane (the daughter of #28 and heiress of Auchnames) to reunite the ancient branch of Drumsoy with Auchinames, died 1733
		Crawford of Auchinames in Lanarkshire was Chief of the Name, the descendant of whom, Hugh Crawford, 31st of Auchinames, died in Canada in recent years (1960's) having first sold his heritable property.
	pages.prodigy.net /dr_fission/family_group/crawford.htm (4663 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/William Crawford (soldier)
		Crawford's service to the colony of Virginia in Dumore's War was controversial in Pennsylvania because the two colonies were involved in a bitter dispute over the boundary in the Fort Pitt region.
		Crawford had been a justice of the peace in Pennsylvania since 1771, first for Bedford County and then for Westmoreland County when it was established in 1773.
		Crawford was present at the Treaty of Fort Pitt in 1778, and helped to built Fort Laurens and Fort McIntosh that year.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/William_Crawford_(soldier) (1123 words)

	Clan Crawford Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In 1305 William was betrayed by John Montieth at Robroyston in Glasgow and was executed by the English in London on August 23, 1305.
		Sir William Crawford, son of Sir Ronald and cousin to William Wallace, was motivated by the murder of his father to join the revolt as a captain to Wallace.
		Colonel William Crawford was an officer in the British forces that captured Fort Duquesne from the French in 1755.
	www.clancrawford.org /clan/pers.asp (1324 words)

	crawford
		Colonel William Crawford, born September 02, 1722; died June 11, 1782 in Wyandot Co., Ohio.
		William Crawford, born Unknown in Estill Co., Kentucky; died March 08, 1820 in Estill Co., Kentucky.
		Valentine7 Crawford (Joseph6, Valentine5, Valentine4, William3, Lawrence2, Hugh1) was born November 15, 1775 in Albemarle Co., Virginia, and died March 29, 1860 in Estill Co., Kentucky.
	www.geocities.com /davidsclow/crawford.html (3176 words)

	edsanders.com - Simon Girty
		Colonel Crawford and Dr. Knight were captured, at a distance from the main body, which was soon dispersed in every direction.
		Crawford and Knight were compelled to sit apart from the rest, and immediately afterwards the doctor was given to a Shawnee warrior, to be conducted to their town.
		Colonel Crawford's hands were then tied behind his back; a strong rope was produced, one end of which was then fastened to the bottom of the stake.
	www.edsanders.com /hist005.htm (2092 words)

	WilliamCrawford
		William Crawford was burned at the stake on 11 Jun 1782 in Sandusky, Ohio.
		William Crawford, his brother, Valentine Crawford, and their half-brothers, John, Hugh, Richard, James, and Marquis Stephenson, raised in the Shenandoah Valley near Winchester in what is now Frederick Co., Va. naturally looked toward the west for their future.
		Crawford, when the news came in May, 1775, of the battle of Lexington, attended a meeting of citizens of Augusta Co., Va. and was appointed one of the committee for defense of the Colonies.
	home.columbus.rr.com /bloomgen/William_Crawford.htm (2098 words)

	Colonel Crawford & Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Crawford was a wealthy merchant and ship owner who, at various times, held office as the Norfolk County presiding court judge, high sheriff, militia lieutenant colonel, and representative of the House of Burgesses.
		The Colonel established the City of Portsmouth in 1752 upon 65 acres of land on the Elizabeth River that were a part of his extensive plantation.
		Colonel William Crawford is a character created by Eric Price while under contract with the City of Portsmouth in commemoration of its 250th birthday.
	www.oldetownetheatricals.com (591 words)

	American Border Wars by W. L. Stone
		The Colonel was afterward informed that when the Indians discovered their own loss to have been four more than that of the Kentuckians, four of the seven prisoners they had taken were handed over to their young men to be put to death by torture.
		Crawford and Williamson then directed their course for several towns of the hostile Indians-by whom they were unexpectedly drawn into an engagement upon an open prairie, the Indian warriors themselves being concealed by the shrubbery upon its margin.
		Crawford would probably have made good his retreat but that he lingered behind in anxiety for his son, whom he supposed yet to be in the rear.
	www.fortklock.com /borderwarsjbch7.htm (8622 words)

	Colonel William Crawford's Cabin - Connellsville, PA - Fay-West.com
		William Crawford was born in Virginia in 1732.
		Crawford was impressed with the western country and resolved to make it his home.
		Crawford served with the distinction during the Revolutionary War and was commissioned Colonel of the 7th Virginia in 1776.
	www.fay-west.com /connellsville/historic/crawfordcabin.php (532 words)

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		The story of William Crawford’s torture and subsequent murder by Sandusky Indians in 1782 reinforced frontier notions of Native American savagery and fueled demands for the removal of all Native Americans from the state.
		Colonel Crawford then raised himself upon his feet and began to walk around the post; they next put a burning stick to him as usual, but he seemed more insensible of pain than before.
		After learning of Crawford’s brutal fate on June 11, 1782, the Pennsylvania Packet reported that the state militia was “greatly enraged and determined to have ample satisfaction.” The newspaper, however, conveniently neglected to mention that Crawford was tortured in retribution for the slaughter of peaceful Delaware Indians at Gnadenhutten earlier the same year.
	www.explorepahistory.com /hmarker.php?markerId=580 (746 words)

	History of Fort Randolph (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		But he received a letter from Colonel Lewis stating that his commissary had left one hundred and sixty beeves in the woods at that place, and Captain Russell expressed the hope that half of these might be found.
		Colonel William Crawford, stationed at Pittsburg, wrote General Washington under date of July 12, 1779, and said: - "As soon as Fort Randolph was evacuated, the Indians burnt it".
		Colonel Thomas Lewis was in command of it most of the time.
	www.wvculture.org /history/settlement/fortrandolph04.html (915 words)

	Colonel Crawford Expedition - Sandusky Plains
		Crawford, but the latter held their own and could not be dislodged by all the artifices and fury of their savage assailants.(1) When the shadows of twilight began to deepen over grove and glade the savage hordes ceased hostilities and retired to more distant points on the plains.
		Crawford was entirely ignorant of the proximity of any body of white troops, though he had no doubt that Indian reinforcements were on their way.
		Crawford stood his ground, not attempting to gain cover, but the surgeon instantly took to a tree and raised his piece to fire, but desisted from doing so at the peremptory command of the colonel.
	www.heritagepursuit.com /CrawExp.htm (16625 words)

	Crawford County Government
		The county was formed in 1800 from a portion of Allegheny County and named after Colonel William Crawford, an early military hero and close friend of George Washington.
		Crawford County is shaped in the form of a rectangle, with the southeast corner missing.
		Crawford County originated The Pennsylvania Farmer publication, the first northern newspaper west of the Allegheny Mountains in 1805, and the Chatauquan Magazine in later years; the invention of straw paper; and the eradication of Bangs disease and Bovine Tuberculosis.
	www.co.crawford.pa.us /at_a_glance.htm (455 words)

	Colonel William Crawford & The Tenmile Country and Its Pioneer Families
		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.
		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.
		Colonel William Crawford was born in 1744, in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, and died in Greene County, on August 3, 1826.
	genforum.genealogy.com /crawford/messages/8623.html (820 words)

	Lowe-Volk Park
		The most famous historical event to take place in the area was the capture of Colonel William Crawford by Delaware Indians of Chief Wingenund's camp in June of 1782.
		During the retreat Colonel Crawford had become separated from the main body of soldiers.
		Crawford was then taken to a site near the Delaware Indian village of Tymochtee in what is now Wyandot County and burned at the stake.
	www.crawfordparkdistrict.org /html/lowe-volk_park.html (536 words)

	William H. Crawford Summary
		Crawford was born in Amherst County, Virginia, but his family moved south to Appling County, Georgia when he was a boy.
		Crawford soon became a respected and influential senator, and was elected president pro tempore in 1811.
		Crawford was again a leading candidate for the Democratic-Republican presidential nomination in 1824, but a massive stroke in 1823 ended his chances.
	www.bookrags.com /William_H._Crawford (1005 words)

	Crawford County, Indiana History and Genealogy Research Guide and Links
		William Harris Crawford (born 24 Feb 1772, in Virginia; died 15 Sep 1834, in Georgia) was a U.S. Senator (1807-1813); Secretary of War (1815-1816); Secretary of Treasury (1816-1825); and a presidential candidate in 1824.
		Crawford County, Indiana Marriages from 1818 to 1835, contibuted to genweb archives by Henry Hoover.
		Patoka Township is located in the northwestern corner of Crawford County, with the Crawford County townships of Sterling and Johnson, to the east and south respectively, Jackson Township, in Orange County, to the north, and Hall and Jefferson Townships, in Dubois County to the west.
	home.att.net /~Local_History/Crawford-Co-IN.htm (5338 words)

	OhioPix: Colonel William Crawford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Reproduction of a portrait of Colonel William Crawford at age forty.
		Crawford served in the French and Indian War, Lord Dunmore's War and the Revolutionary War.
		Crawford's troops fought off the Native Americans and their British allies at the Battle of the Olentangy on June 6, but on June 7 Crawford was captured.
	www.ohiohistory.org /etcetera/exhibits/ohiopix/image.cfm?ID=4550 (83 words)

	Colonel William CRAWFORD Biography - Berkeley County GenWeb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Colonel William CRAWFORD was born in Berkeley County, Virginia, 1732 and died a horrible and agonizing death in Wyandot County, Ohio territory, June 11, 1782.
		McKnight, a fellow prisoner who later escaped, told of the torture of William Crawford: “He was stripped naked, severely beaten with clubs and sticks and made to sit down near a post which had been planted for the purpose and around which a fire of poles was burning briskly.
		His hands were then pinioned behind him and a rope attached to the band around his wrist and fastened to the foot of a post about 15 feet high, allowing him liberty only to sit down or walk once or twice around it and return the same way.
	www.rootsweb.com /~wvberkel/crawfrdwilbi.html (580 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Colonel Crawford then raised himself upon his feet and began to walk around the post; they next put a burning stick to him as usual, but he seemed more insensible of pain than before.” Crawford finally died from his wounds, but not before begging those around him to end his misery with a bullet.
		Crawford’s reputation as an Indian fighter made him the commander of an ill-fated expedition against the Delaware Indians of Sandusky, Ohio, in the spring of 1782.
		After learning of Crawford’s brutal fate on June 11, 1782, the Pennsylvania Packet reported that the state militia was “greatly enraged and determined to have ample satisfaction.” The newspaper, however, conveniently neglected to mention that Crawford was tortured in retribution for the Gnadenhutten Massacre.
	www.explorepahistory.com /hmarker.php?markerId=759 (912 words)

	AKValley.com--Fort Crawford
		In the spring of 1778 as the inroads of the Indians seemed to increase, one of the first duties assigned Colonel William Crawford, who in May of 1778 took command of the Virginia Regiment station in the Western Department, was the building of this fort.
		Colonel Crawford, taking with him a small party of men went up the river to determine the most elgible site for the post, and to begin its erection.
		Colonel Crawford commanded here at intervals during the years 1778, 1779 and 1780.
	www.akvalley.com /history/forts/fortcrawford/fortcrawford.shtml (364 words)

	Remembering SMA's "Crawford" Moon
		Crawford was one of the true vital parts of the modern history of Staunton Military Academy.
		Colonel Moon was the first person I met at SMA when I visited the campus as a brand-new cadet.
		Crawford had been a French teacher and I was the new one.
	silkscape.com /SMA/smamoon.htm (2599 words)

	Congressman John E. Peterson - Pennsylvania's 5th District
		Crawford County was created in 1800 from part of Allegheny County and named for Colonel William Crawford, a frontier hero.
		The 1,038 square miles of Crawford County are made up largely of foothills and flatlands, and agriculture and timber are its primary natural resources.
		The eight lakes of Crawford County draw outdoor enthusiasts to the area for sailing, swimming, fishing, camping and an endless variety of other activities.
	www.house.gov /johnpeterson/County/Crawford.htm (402 words)

	Ancestors of Sammy Max WILLIAMS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		William Baugh served as a Private in the Company of Captain Hewlett Sullivan of the 96th District of South Carolina during the Revolutionary War.
		John was a scout for Colonel William Crawford in the expedition of 1782 of the Ohio Valley.
		Richard's son Greenberry Choate was born 1751 in Va. Died 1842 in Ill..He has a pension approved 4 June 1833 and was living in Johnson Co, Ill. A pay voucher #2385 from the Rev War Aug 1782 put him in NC in Capt Wm.
	www.sammywilliams.com /Military/amer_revolution.html (363 words)

	Colonel Crawford
		Crawford County was named after Colonel William Crawford.
		Crawford and his attache's went toward what is now Leesville where he decided to break his sword because he didn't want die by his own sword in the hand of an Indian should he be caught; thus the probable naming of "Brokensword Creek".
		Crawford was captured at Leesville along with a few of his men, and transported back to the upper Sandusky area where they were tortured and burned at the stake.
	www.historicbyway.com /ColCrawford.htm (216 words)

	Early History of Monongalia County
		Colonel Crawford indicated that Zackquill Morgan, James Chew, and Jacob Prickett moved into present-day north-central West Virginia in 1766, and that he personally visited Morgan's farm, near Decker's Creek.
		In October 1785, at Colonel Morgan's request, the Virginia General Assembly specified that 50 acres of his land was to be laid out in lots of a half acre each, and a town, named Morgans-Town, established on the site.
		Because the new county's population was concentrated in the county's northern portion, it was decided to hold the county court meetings at Theophilus Phillips' plantation, Phillips' Choice, a few miles from New Geneva, in present-day Springhill Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
	www.polsci.wvu.edu /wv/Monongalia/monhistory.html (2059 words)

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