Henry Crawford

     Henry Crawford died on 9 October 1801; This date -- from this particular record, must be researched further. This writer feels it unlikely that he died this early. If this death date is correct, then who raised his children? There might be something found within notary records in Quebec.^1,2
     While it is not yet proven that Henry Crawford is the father to Sarah b. c1785, Elizabeth b. c1787 and Jane b. c1789, this writer feels sure that he is and shall place him here while collecting corroborating information (1995).
"The History of Washington Co, NY", page 261, mentions that Henry Crawford on a list of members who attended the first meeting of United Presbyterian Church of Coila on 13 Aug 1785 on Old Turnpike Road. Coila was a hamlet of Cambridge.² Two fires in 1800, one in the War Department, the other in the Treasury Department, destroyed the earliest Revolutionary War pension application records. Nevertheless, certain pension records pre-dating 1800 survive in the form of Congressional reports. Found within these was Henry Crawford:

"Crawford, Henry. Rank: Dragoon; Regt. or Co.: Colo: Sheldon; Residence: Washington Co; Remarks: Wounded by a musket ball in the thigh at Mile square in Nov. 1777; enlisted May 7, 1777; discharged Nov. 15, 1780."

There is a Henry Crawford who shows up on the 1835 Pension Roll, as an invalid in NY with his papers missing due to fire in the war office. Another reference indicates that he was on a list of applicants for an invalid pension by NY to the House of Representatives on 25 Mar 1794, served as a dragoon in Sheldon's Regiment (Continental Line) and was disabled in November 1777. He was residing in Washington County at that time.³ He appeared on the census of 1790 at Cambridge, Washington Co, New York; Henry Crawford was enumerated with four females, which would fit: his wife and three daughters.⁴ He The Brome Historical Collection (Reel M137), had a report from the Land Committee for Stoke Township:
Henry Crawford, Feb 1796, from NY State.
Alburgh, VT 1796 Rateable Estates and Poles: Henry Crawford, 21 pounds 15 shillings.
So it would appear that Henry Crawford, who had lived in Cambridge, NY at least 1785-1794, had moved to the Alburgh/Caldwell's Manor area by 1796.²