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Descendants of John Jonathan Crouch

Generation No. 2

2. JOSEPH² CROUCH (JOHN JONATHAN¹) was born 1748 in Randolph Co Virginia. He married ELIZABETH WARWICH 1766. She was born 1748 in VA, USA.

Children of JOSEPH CROUCH and ELIZABETH WARWICH are:

8.	i.	JONATHAN³ CROUCH, b. 1767, VA, USA; d. Bef. 1850, ?.
	ii.	MARY CROUCH, b. Bet. 1767 - 1790, Virginia.
	iii.	JOSEPH JR CROUCH, b. Bet. 1767 - 1790, VA, USA.
	iv.	JAMES CROUCH, b. Bet. 1767 - 1790, Virginia.
	v.	ANDREW CROUCH, b. Bet. 1767 - 1790, Virginia.
	vi.	EDWARD CROUCH, b. Bet. 1767 - 1790, Virginia.

3. ANDREW² CROUCH (JOHN JONATHAN¹) was born 05 Sep 1750 in Augusta, VA, USA, and died 26 Jul 1780. He married JUDITH WESTFALL 1772 in Ft Pleasant, Hampshire, WV, USA, daughter of JACOB WESTFALL and JUDIKE HORNBECK. She was born 12 Oct 1754 in Hardy, WV, USA, and died 06 Oct 1841 in Huttonsville, Randolph, WV, USA.

Notes for ANDREW CROUCH:
Sources:
Title: Ancestors and Descendants of Thomas Jefferson Crouch
Author: Mary Stephenson Sailors
Repository:
Note: possession of Brian and Nicki Austin
Call Number:
Media: Book

Children of ANDREW CROUCH and JUDITH WESTFALL are:

9.	i.	MAJOR JOHN³ CROUCH, b. 03 Jul 1773, Huttonsville, Randolph, WV; d. 19 Apr 1859, Huttonsville, Randolph, WV, USA.
10.	ii.	JACOB CROUCH, b. 28 Dec 1776, Huttonsville, Randolph, WV; d. 1867.
11.	iii.	ELIZABETH CROUCH, b. 13 May 1779, Huttonsville, Randolph, WV, USA; d. 22 Dec 1839, Huttonville, Randolph, VA, USA.
12.	iv.	ANDREW CROUCH, b. 06 May 1780, Huttonsville, Randolph WV; d. Aft. 1870.

4. ELIZABETH² CROUCH (JOHN JONATHAN¹) was born 1752 in Virginia, and died 1820 in Scioto, OH, USA. She married HENRY DELAY May 1747 in Hampshire, VA, USA, son of JAMES DELAY and MARY MOORE. He was born 1749 in Hampshire, VA, USA, and died 1810 in Ross, OH, USA.

Children of ELIZABETH CROUCH and HENRY DELAY are:

	i.		HENRY³ DE LAY, b. 1771, Hampshire West, Augusta, VA, USA; d. 1815, Gallia, OH, USA.
	ii.		MARY DE LAY, b. 1773, Hampshire, VA, USA; d. 02 Sep 1831, Vermilion, IL, USA.
	iii.		JAMES DE LAY, b. 1775, Hampshire West, Augusta, VA, USA; d. 06 Sep 1824, Danville, Vermilion, IL, USA.
	iv.		JONATHAN DE LAY, b. 1776, Tygert Valley, Augusta, VA, USA; d. 02 Jul 1827, Jackson, OH, USA.
	v.		JACOB DE LAY, b. 17 Dec 1781, Dist, West, VA, USA; d. 13 Oct 1845, Berlin Crossroad, Jackson, OH, USA.
	vi.		WILLIAM DE LAY, b. 27 Dec 1787, Fayette, Bourbon, KY, USA; d. 05 Feb 1852, Newell, Vermilion, IL, USA.
	vii.		ELIZABETH DELAY, b. 1789, Fayette, Bourbon, KY, USA; d. 04 Sep 1860, Ripley, IN, USA.
	viii.		ELEANORA DE LAY, b. 1790, Fayette, Bourbon, KY, USA; d. Pike, OH, USA.
	ix.		JANE DELAY, b. 1791, Fayette, Bourbon, KY, USA; d. Pike, OH, USA.
	x.		ANNE DE LAY, b. 1792, Bourbon, KY, USA; d. Pike, OH, USA.
	xi.		ISAAC DE LAY, b. 1795.

5. ELEANOR² CROUCH (JOHN JONATHAN¹) was born 1760 in KY, USA, and died 1826 in Fairfield, OH, USA. She married (1) CHARLES JR. NELSON 1780, son of CHARLES NELSON and ELIZABETH TINDLE. He was born 1745 in VA, USA, and died 1802 in Bourbon, KY, USA. She married (2) EDWARD MCALLA 1803 in Ohio. He was born Bet. 1740 - 1760, and died in Fairfield Ohio.

Children of ELEANOR CROUCH and CHARLES NELSON are:

	i.	ELIZABETH³ NELSON, b. Bet. 1781 - 1800, Kentucky.
	ii.	JOHN NELSON, b. Bet. 1781 - 1800, Kentucky.
	iii.	LEVI NELSON, b. Bet. 1781 - 1800, Kentucky.
13.	iv.	ELIAS NELSON, b. 1790, KY, USA; d. 1859, Wabash Adams, IN, USA.
	v.	CHARLES NELSON, b. 1798, Kentucky; d. Wabash Adams, IN, USA.

More About CHARLES NELSON:
Residence: 1850, Wabash, Adams, Indiana

14.	vi.	JAMES NELSON, b. 12 Jan 1799, Bourbon Co KY; d. Bef. 1860, Franklin Twp, De Kalb IN.
	vii.	CATY NELSON, b. 1802, Bourbon, KY, USA.
	viii.	ISAAC N NELSON, b. 1802, Bourbon, KY, USA.

6. DAVID² CROUCH (JOHN JONATHAN¹) was born Aug 1767 in Augusta, VA, USA, and died 1853 in Nicholas, KY, USA. He married ELIZABETH LOUISA CASSITY 05 Dec 1786 in Harrison, VA, USA, daughter of JOHN CASSITY and GARNER ASHBY. She was born 14 Jan 1767 in Augusta, VA, USA, and died 1853 in Nicholas, KY, USA.

Notes for DAVID CROUCH:
ID: I2789
Name: David Crouch
Sex: M
Birth: AUG 1767 in Randolph Co. or Augusta Co., Virginia, USA
Death: BEF MAR 1853 in Nicholas Co., Kentucky, USA
Will: 29 MAR 1845 Nicholas Co., Kentucky, USA
Probate: FEB 1853 Nicholas Co., Kentucky, USA

Note:
Interview with David and Elizabeth Cassity Crouch
This interview reveals what life was really like for our ancestors in the wilds of what was to become West Virginia! John Shane interviewed David and Elizabeth, who was the daughter of our John and Garner Ashby Cassity, in their home in Nicholas County, Kentucky. The interview is part of the Lyman C. Draper Collection called the Kentucky Papers.

This transcription was done by Linda Cassidy Lewis from a photocopy of the actual notes taken by John Shane, if you believe errors have been made, please let us know! Punctuation has been enhanced and Linda's notes are in these brackets . Shane's original notes to himself are in parentheses ( ). \\

[Date of interview c.1841-43.]

From the "Draper Collection Manuscripts" Vol 12CC225-29

Nicholas County Kentucky

David Crouch

About 4 miles west [or north?] of Sharpsburg, in the edge of Nicholas. Part and the fullest part of the statement from his wife who has the liveliest recollection. Both are blind. His wife daughter of old Jno. Cassidy, that had a station in Tygarts Valley, Virginia.

"I was born, August 1767, on the heads of the Monongahela in Randolph County, Virginia. He, my father, was one of the first settlers there. Came to Tygerts Valley when I was 3 years old. Tygerts Valley River is one of the heads of the Monongahela. (So that I couldn't understand, nor did he seem to know where his nativity was.) My father lived in Tygert's Valley 17 years. ( i.e. from 1770 to 1787. Seemed to have been born on some other of the water course and in 1770 when he was 3 years old, his father moved on to Tygert's Valley. Where he remained seventeen years until 1787.) We were forted there almost until I was a grown man. In fact the Indians did mischief in the neighborhood after I left. I came to Kentucky and my father in 1787.

My father lived some years on the South Branch. Went from there to Carolina, lived two or three years, say, on the Yadkin in the same (neighborhood us didn't say so) section with Boone, then came back again. He wanted to live on the gun and the range. As soon as the range was gone he wanted to move. When he came to KY he bought 5 miles this side of Lexington. The range there was as good as a wheat field. When it gave out he wouldn't stay. Moved to Bourbon and from there again, in due time, to Ohio where he died. The troubles on the South Branch with the Indians (there were troubles) were before my recollection. My father said he lent his horse, saddle and bridle to some man to go against the Indians. The man was killed and the horse and c. .e. the bridle and saddle he never got. \

We were about 50 miles from the South Branch he had five mountains to cross in going there that were so steep a horse could hardly carry a man over them. Never a wagon could get to the South Branch then and I don't know that they could get to it from Tygert's Valley now. There was not a wagon or wagon rut in Tygert's Valley.

Once a year my father would send in to the South Branch and get three bushels (80 pounds to a bushel) of salt. That would last us a year. Packed it over on horses. There was a way to get into Greenbriar but that was not much better than the other (this way to the South Branch.) There were two or three pretty stiff mountains on that way and then South Branch was a rich country settled in earlier than Greenbriar. There was but little settlement in Greenbriar and perhaps as late as ours, especially in the back part of Greenbriar.

Mrs. Crouch's father was from the South Branch. Her grandfather and her husband's father were (Mr. C's) from the eastern shore of Maryland to the South Branch. My mother said I Mrs. Crouch was 4 years old when I left the South Branch. It is the earliest thing I recollect, crying for a little toy my cousin Ashby had. I told him he might as well give it to me as I was going away and he might not ever see me again and it has been so. My grandfather Ashby was brother to that Ashby that made early pre-emption settlement in this state Kentucky. \\\\

Most of the people on the South Branch were married by the Squire. Had no preachers living there. But my mother and father* were married by one McCue, a traveling Presbyterian preacher that came along, only stopped a night or two and then went on to Greenbriar where he lived. One Scarborough, an old man that went about here teaching some time ago (don't know what's become of him) said he knew McCue well. *Tom Wright has brought it to my attention that what I deciphered as "m & f" he sees as "h & I" and so believes that Elizabeth Crouch was speaking of herself and her husband being married by McCue. This is possible, since I found the handwriting at this point in the manuscript to be particularly hard to read. \\

I was born 14 January 1767. Was married 5 December, would have been 20 if I had waited until the next January 14. (Which makes her leaving the South Branch to be in 1771 and her being married December 5, 1786.) (I find she was born in '67 from her saying she was 76 , 14th of last January, the only way she kept account of her birth.) Joseph Redding was the first preacher I ever heard. Used to stop at my father's, he and sometimes John Taylor, both traveling. That first sermon was when I was 7 or 8 years old. I recollect this text. "Behold the ax is laid at the root of the tree.", and c.. We had only traveling preachers.

1. John Warrick's station was the highest up of any in Tygert's Valley.
2. David Hadden's was next.
3. Joseph Crouch's the next. He was my oldest brother. Moved from there, here and from here to Ohio and there died. This, my brother Joseph's station, was nearest to me, (Mr. C) (where I lived) (it was one of the last that was built.)
4. George Westfall's--the son. His father's and his were the first two forts, I think, occupied in this country. Mr. C never lived but in one of the forts, George Westfall's.
5. Ebenezer Pettiss' (or Petty's) next.
6. John Cassidy's (my wife's father) next.
7. Jacob Westfall's next, the father of George. Old Jacob Westfall afterwards had (not at first though) something of a mill. Sort of tub mill. The first fort ever was there, was old Jacob Westfall's, the father. The first year, first summer, we lived there and then they began to build other forts.
8. Col. Benj. Wilson's next.
9. Barker's settlement, below Wilson's station.

The forts were not very far apart, but 4 or 5 or 6 miles apart. There were some ten or twelve forts (they said, without counting) All the forts were stockaded with bastions for sentry to stand in of nights. Something like 25 or 30 miles I reckon from one end of settlement to the other. It was the beautifullest country for wild fruit I ever saw. Had it not been for the fruit and game, that country could not have been settled as it was. Of the fruits, in kind, there were sarvice berries (growing on a tree as thick as your leg and high as the joice on a common log house, with a bark resembling that of the maple, the fruit round and red but not like the haws, spread a sheet under the tree and shake down a 1/2 bushel.) Whortle berries and cranberries, 2 miles of cranberry swamp by Westfall's, 500 bushels could be gotten there.

The first difficulty with the Indians I can recollect of was the killing of Darby Conolly's family. He was settled out about 3 miles above Warrick's Station. Was the highest up of any family, up near the head of the river. I suppose when we first settled in Tygert's Valley the Indians were peaceable. This was a year or two, maybe three, before the Battle of the Point. I can just remember it. I think it was the first mischief ever done in our section of the country. When the Indians came into now Greenbriar, they would sometimes come over on to the head of our river, into what is now called Randolph County, they join. The Indians killed Conolly and some of his family, though not all. For I remember of the oldest boy being in the fort with me and being about my age. His name was David too. I think this was in the spring. They most always did their mischief in the spring.

Frank Riffle and William Currans were killed next. They were living in George Westfall's fort. Perhaps next year after this first. They were not at their farms, expect were planting. Late, at near dusk, they started for the station. The men were before, walking, and were shot. Susan Shavers, a married daughter of Riffle's, and some other woman, only one that was with her, I expect one of her sisters, were the women. They were behind and were to ride. They heard the guns and just mounted the horses and rode to the fort. The horses galloped and Susan Shavers' horse, as he came galloping along, just jumped over her father. It was so dark she never saw him. Only saw a bulk of something, didn't know what it was. The Indians had stripped the clothes every bit off of him and stretched him right across the road. Both the men had farms.

The third inroad of the Indians was at a time of the Meeting of Commissioners to adjust land claims. This was the first and only Meeting of Commissions ever held there. After that they went out to Greenbriar. there was very little difficulty in settling land claims there, it was not a hard matter to do. They had set a day or two at my father's (Mr. C's father) and were pretty nearly through when a case came up in which they had need of a man in Greenbriar to prove some fact. They sent off Thomas Lackey as a messenger after him. As Lackey went, he discovered Indian sign and turned back to alarm the station. This discovery and return happened to be seen by the Indians who waylaid their own sign in ambush. Lackey got back to the station that night but didn't stay. They went on up to Warrick's fort--10 miles above and the next morning the court (who were men appointed out of the settlers and had farms for whose safety they were also alarmed) and six other men went out to examine the sign, about 6 or 7 miles. When they got there the Indians fired on them and killed John Nelson, John McClain and James Ralston and shot my brother Jonathan Crouch through the arm. This was the last of this.

4. John Alexander and his stepson, Jacob Everman, were passing from Hadden's fort to Warrick's fort. The Indians fired on John Alexander and wounded him in 3 places and took Jacob Everman prisoner. He was with them ten years and didn't come from them till after we came to KY. His stepfather and his mother, when they came to Maysville, a year or so before we did, heard of Jacob Everman. by some Indian trader to whom they gave $20 it may be and he got Everman for them.

5. William Leavitt's family was 3/4 of a mile from Cassidy's fort in a clearing. It was the last of March or first of April, for they were engaged in clearing. the family had all been out assisting. Mrs. C's father had been there all the day before alone and all the morning alone making them a plough. The Indians never troubled him, although alone, because they saw his gun beside him. A part of the family, (Mrs. Lurenna Leavitt, her oldest daughter, Jane and a little boy of hers, an illegitimate child (for she, Jane, was not married), Elizabeth and Lurenna, second and third daughters) came to the house to get dinner. The family yet in the field were William Leavitt, the father, William Leavitt, the oldest son, James Leavitt, another son about 14 years of age who had cut his foot so that he could not work and was employed in taking care of two little twin babies, Davy and Tom, his brothers about 9 months old, and then there were further Nathan and Katy who were younger than James and of course, older than the twins.

When they came to get dinner Mrs. C's father started for his. They wanted him to stay. He said he could get home in time and declined. John Cassidy got home, my mother (Mrs. C's) set down some dinner to him and he had sat down and was eating, when old Mr. Leavitt came running to Cassidy's fort with the alarm that Indians were there. The men staying out in the field, the Indians had attacked the house as soon as they saw my father leave. When old Mr. Leavitt saw the Indians at the house he ran as hard as he could to our station to give the alarm. James forgot that he was lame (found he could run didn't think of being hurt) and picked up a child, of the twins, under each arm and followed on after his father. (I suppose Nathan and Kate got to Cassidy's also.) William, the oldest son, took off to another neighborhood (settlements) to spread the alarm. (Thus all in the clearing escaped was old Mr. Leavitt Mrs. Crouch's uncle?) When the Indians came the old woman ran and got as far as the barricade. When an Indian (one of them) attacked her, while the other Indian pursued after the daughters who had started up a hollow. The old woman told me (Mrs. C) there were but two Indians.

The one came up to her. The dog flew at the Indian, said she couldn't help but laugh. He turned around with his tomahawk and cursed the dog. She was tomahawked and scalped just at the barricade. She fell down and didn't stir. Pretended to be dead. She lived eight days after. Was a most dreadful sight. There were not many that could stand it to stay with her. I went. Some, when they had seen her, couldn't get out of the room. She was sure her daughters had escaped, as she had seen them running and the contrary was never told to her. She wanted Mrs. C. (or her mother, her mother I suppose) to take Lurenna, her daughter, and keep her till she was married. Had the girls ran to the fort, instead of up the hollow, they might have escaped. but they ran up to where it was so steep they couldn't get out of the way and the Indians just came up and took them. The Indian had tried to take Jane prisoner, could see where he had dragged her along 2000 yards and she had put her heels down and held back. When he found she wouldn't run he tomahawked her. Her little boy wasn't dead yet when they got there, my father (Mrs. C's) (and uncle?) (who was at Mrs. C's father's?) the Indian had knocked it's head against a tree and threw it into a sinkhole that was not far from the barricades. When they brought in the bodies to lay them out, they would jerk round, so they couldn't keep them straight. Jane was cut and gashed most awfully. They couldn't get them in coffins and had just to bury them so.

In Barker's settlement lived one Jonathan (they thought it was Jonathan) Buffington. Nobody was forted up at the time we speak of. All living out, till the season when the Indians would become troublesome, which was almost always in the spring, just about corn planting time. Buffington went to the South branch of the Potomac to get salt, and while gone the Indians came, burnt up his house and destroyed his family. This was in 1781 Whether they were taken captive, whether they were first killed and thrown into the flames or whether they shut alive in the flames and consumed of them alive he never learned one particle to enable him to know. \\

After the burning of Buffington's house they took one Daugherty and his wife, old people living alone, prisoners. She was too frail to travel and two Indians stayed behind and tomahawked her. They then took her scalp and bringing it along and when they came up, shook it in Daugherty's face. Daugherty lived in Barker's settlement. Did Buffington?

From this they went to Alexander Roney's. (Don't understand this--of the same party of Indians, some divided and went down into Barker's settlement. first they went down from Buffington's, living in some other neighborhood. Barker's settlement was adjoining to ours (Mr. or Mrs. C's?) in the direction of the settlement on the west fork of the Monongahela.) They shot Alexander Roney down in his yard and then went into his house. They took Mrs.Roney and her boy prisoner. (Her face was dirty and smeared over. They told her she was Indian. No, she said, she was a white woman and right pretty little woman when she was dressed up.) When they tied Daugherty by the fire? for the night they told him they meant to burn him when they got him over the Ohio (to the towns). They didn't have to tie Mrs. Roney.

The Indians had to pass over the West Fork of the Monongahela to get over into Ohio. (About 20 or 25 miles to get to the West Fork of the Monongahela, very little settlement between us and them, very little there). An express was sent to Major William Louder of that neighborhood, who raised men and pursued. they came on them in the night. It was in a rainy time. when they found they were in the sight of the camp, they turned back about 3 miles and shot off all their guns in a hollow log and loaded them afresh. They then came again, crept up, and waited till near day break. They crept so near they could punch them with their guns. Mrs. Roney lay between two Indians, Capt. Bull and Capt. Johnny. She rose up twice. The little Indian dog said whoo-hoo and she would raise up and say there were white people about I really believe. At length they became tired of her disturbing their rest and they told her to be still "Bets". This was what Daugherty said and the men were so close they could hear her talk.

It was said that one bullet shot through two Indians and the Roney boy. Shot them all in the head.. It was said they killed seventeen and all but one and that he bled mightily. They tracked him to where he ran up the side of a stout branch and thought he must have jumped into a deep pond that was there to keep them from getting him. Daugherty called to them not to shoot him, he was a white man. Father said this was later than the Indians had formerly come and he had hoped they would not. Mrs. Roney afterwards lived at Ebenezer Petty's fort. The women there were threatening to drown her for whenever she got a dram she began to cry about Capt. Bull and Capt. Johnny, that she lay between that night. The men were going to drown her when she got back, she talked so. Would say she really was sorry for Capt. Bull and Capt. Johnny. We never pursued the Indians much from our neighborhood. If they did mischief they could get away and couldn't be tracked and we never could do any good following them. If they had taken horses we could have followed them. I don't recollect of them ever taking any horses from the valley.

Old Jacob Stallnicker and Adam his son lived in Jacob Westfall's fort. Adam had been to Col. Ben Wilson's mill and was returning, he and his father. They had gotten their flour and were returning home. The Indians fired and killed Adam. His father escaped on his horse. Old man, I think, said he saw but two Indians. I saw the tree that Adam fell against, the blood was there a long time. And I saw him after he was scalped and nobody ever would have known him. He had been as pretty a man as you would see in a month. But his face was now all sunk away to be not wider than your hand.

John White lived at Jacob Westfall's fort. Killed by the Indians in the neighborhood of Jacob Westfall's fort. Had married Adam Stallnicker's sister Katy. Adam helped to dig the grave. John White had gone up to the upper part of the valley on business. Adam Stallnicker helped make a coffin, which they sent up to bring White down in when he was killed, and while it was gone, he helped dig the grave in which White was to be buried. It was in the middle of summer. They found him so black and mortified they couldn't bring him and so brought back the coffin. Not long after, Adam Stallnicker was put in the same coffin and interred in the same grave which himself had prepared.

There were eight or nine families living in Warrick's station. The Indians attacked that station. They came in the night. Tied up a bundle of splits into a faggot and threw it onto the back shed of Warrick's house. (Kind of back shed that formed a part of the stockading.) The roof was of clapboards. These will crack in burning and when they got to burning the cracking waked the inmates. Warrick got a stick and punched a hole and let the bundle fall through. As soon as he saw it he knew it was Indians. It was tied with a buffalo or bear tug. He then punched the other boards loose so that all on fire fell down. (As they could get up in the loft and throw on water.) A black woman was poked through and told to go and alarm the nearest station. There was a barn about 70 or 80 yards from the fort. The loft was full of grain and below were two horses in it. The Indians next set this on fire. The horses ran round till they broke open the door and got out and so escaped. Warrick had a Negro man that understood shooting very well. He at first wanted to go and open the stable door and let them out. His master wouldn't consent to his meeting the danger. He then watched at the fort gate through the portholes and saw an Indian that appeared in the light of the fire and fired. It was not known what harm was done but no more appeared in the light. This fellow also got up in the loft when it was first known they were there and seeing it, he cursed and abused them. That was the only time while we lived there that the station was attacked. (I think he said it was attacked a second time after he left there.) John Warrick's oldest son, Capt. Jacob Warrick, William Montgomery's son-in-law, was killed at the Battle of Tippecanoe. John Warrick was in the Point Battle and fought from sun up to sun down. Jacob was then a baby and I nursed him while his father was there.

We came to this country from that, and old John Warrick together. My wife's father came in the spring by water and we came by land. My wife (then) his oldest child. He had no son then grown. Great part of the old settlers moved out when we did. The swamps were drained by the new settlers and brought, it was said, fine corn. Indeed too, we did not know how to make a living but mostly, as our fathers taught us, we lived by hunting. Knew little of farming. (Mrs. C demurred to this and maintained we had stock and c. ). That section was erected in Randolph County the last year we stayed there. It was Randolph County while we yet lived there.

By land was the cheapest way to come west. We drove our stock. It was the fall season. We had nary river to ferry at all. Greenbriar and New River were the only rivers we had to cross (of any size). Did not cost us $5.00 to come. Stock would fall away traveling so far and only having the range at night. When they went down by water they had to pack down to Red Stone. They said there was a fall of 50 feet in the Monongahela somewhere. We came through Greenbriar and on to Holston and so on to Kentucky, on it's south side. Lexington was? the crack of the best part of Kentucky. Everybody wasn't satisfied till they saw it.

We lived a mile this side of Bryan's station for sometime. I carried my gun half my life for fear of Indians and never saw a wild one. Saw seventeen prisoners Ben Logan had taken the year I came. I went over to Danville to buy some salt. There was a blanket hung up at the door of the fort house where they were, the house was full. I lifted up the blanket and looked in, they never turned their heads to see me, but kept them another way.

John Cassidy (Mrs. C's father) was the first person at Morgan's station after the attack. He had a station on the Licking at that time. Came to Morgan's station in the night.

Heap of truth in it, McClung's sketches, that I could witness. Old David Morgan, brother of Gen. Morgan, lived on the West Fork of Monongahela, not only about 30 miles from us. Was 70 years old at the time. Was in an encounter with two Indians. He killed one, then in a scuffle with the other, he got the Indian's finger in his mouth. Indian had gotten his knife out and had thought to kill Morgan with it. Morgan at length got it out of the Indian's hand and ran it into him, handle and all. He then flayed the Indian and tanned his hide. Was ever after called savage Morgan. My brother Jno. Crouch saw a razor strap that had been made out of that hide.

Mr. C had a sister that married a Ryan. That sister's son, living in Mercer [Mercer Co. KY], married into a family of Runyons. Runyons lived on this side of the Kentucky river, between there and Lexington. The whole family (of the Runyons) joined the Shakers and younger Ryan's wife thought she must go too. She left twins lying in the cradle and went. This brought Ryan into conflict with one, whom he beat him very severely. Another one, that came to his house, he beat nearly to death. The man thought to go to the law, but the magistrate advised him to keep away and let Ryan alone.

(For the more minute details in this account I am indebted to Mrs. C. Little things are erased from men's minds, while they are retained by women.)

D. Crouch's
Will
In the name of God amen! I David Crouch of the County of Nicholas and State of Kentucky, thinking of my latter and being of sound mind and judgment, and being desirous of disposing of such worldly estate wherewith it has pleased God to bless me with in this life do make and publish this my last will and testament as follows to wit:
First of all I will my body to the grave to be buried in a Christian like manner, and my soul to God who gave it.
Secondly, I will and bequeath to my beloved wife Elizabeth, the third part of my estate and negro woman Seal to wait on her and for her use and benefit during her life provided she should be the longest lived. And thirdly I will to my son Jonathan 50 dollars. And 4thly, my daughter Polly Breckenridge has had her full portion of my estate given her up to this date - therefore I give her nothing but my good wishes. And fifthly, I give unto my daughter Sally, negro Lewis for her to use and benefit during her natural life and after her death said negro Lewis I give unto whomever takes care of her my daughter Sally, after my death. I also give unto her my daughter Sally two beds and their furniture and one cow. Sixthly, I give unto my daughter Garner Gooden, two hundred dollars. And seventhly, I give unto my son Absalom, one hundred dollars. Eightly, I give unto my son Jesse negro boy Alfred. Ninethly, I will at my death that my land and the residence of my personal property and negro Ned be even on divide as the case may best be divided as follows, to my daughter Sally one sixth part, to my daughter Prudence Vanasdal one sixth part, to my daughter Katy Berman one sixth part, to my daughter Nancy Henry's heirs one sixth part, to my daughter Letty Manary's heirs one sixth part, to my daughter Eliza Cassity one sixth part, provided herein that I have given previous to this date to my daughter Prudence Vanasdal negro girl Nancy and to my daughter Eliza Cassity negro boy Lofs, which negroes are brought forward at my death and valued and this value to be deducted to each of my daughters towit (Prudence and Eliza) out of their sixth part of the estate foresaid.
Negro girl Seal I bequeath to my beloved wife Elizabeth so long as she liveth but then at her death to be sold and divided among my six daughters above mentioned with all and every part and parcel of my estate above mentioned between them equal not forgetting that my daughter Sally is to have negro Lewis exclusive of her sixth part above mentioned. And let it be distinctly understood that at the death of my beloved wife (should she be longest lived) that all of my estate then occurring is to be sold and divided as above mentioned, my just debt to be paid previous to a division. Which I appoint my son in law Isaac Vanasdal and my son Jesse Crouch my executors of this my last will and testament, hereby recording all other wills, this being my first and only will revoking all others. In testimony I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty ninth day of March A.D. eighteen hundred and forty five.

David Crouch
(his mark)

Notes for ELIZABETH LOUISA CASSITY:
Daniel1 Boone (Squire2, George3, George4, George5), son of Squire Boone and Sarah Morgan, was born in New Britian, Or Exeter, Berks, Pa 22 SEP 1734. Daniel died 26 SEP 1820 in St. Charles Co., Mo, at 86 years of age. His body was interred 28 SEP 1820 in Frankfort, Franklin, Ky.

He married Rebeccah Bryan in Yadkin River Country, North Carolina, 14 AUG 1756. Rebeccah was born in Winchester, Frederick Co, Virginia 9 JAN 1739. Rebeccah died 18 MAR 1813 in Hunting Creek, Rowan Co., Nc, at 74 years of age. Her body was interred 1845 in Frankfort, Franklin Co, Kentucky.

John Crouch Sr and family were probably present at this wedding of Daniel Boone.

Married: BET 5 DEC 1785 AND 1786 in Harrison (Randolph) Co., (West) Virginia, USA
Marriage Contract: 30 NOV 1785 in Harrison (Randolph) Co., (West) Virginia, USA

Inventory of David's estate found in the Nicholas probate records:

A true and just inventory and appraisement of all the personal estate of David Crouch deceased which was produced to us by Jesse Crouch and Isaac Vanarsdell his executors.
__ cash on hand $90, one note on Sara Hawkins, due 25 Dec next $90.- $180.00
One clock $10, one bureau $8, one dining table $4, one cupboard and ware $10- $32.00
One bed and furniture $15, one sheall table and 4 chairs $2, 1 pr. hand iron and tongs- $18
One reel and sugar desk $2.50, one wool wheel and desk $2, 1 looking glass .20cts- $4.70
One lot iron ware and two pr. pot hooks $5, cedar ware $1, 2 sets of gears $3- $9.00
One small wheel and wash pan $1, one crain $1, 1 grindstone .25 cts.- $2.25
One hand saw, auger and hammer, two chisels $1, two sythes $1.25 cents- $2.25
One pair steel yard and lot of old iron $1, two iron wedges and one axe$2- $3.00
Two shovel ploughs .50 cents each, one pair stretchers .75 cents, one casey and 1 diamond plough & 1 log chain $1.50, one ox cart $25, 1 cutting box & harrow $3- $11.50
40 barrels of corn $50, 78 doz oats $13, one small bay mare $100- $163
One large bay mare 80, one young gray mare $110, one old gray mare $50- $240.00
One yearling horse colt $45, one sow and nine shoats $20- $65.00
23 head of hogs $61, 12 sheep and 7 lambs $24, 2 calves $18, 1 yoke oxen $70- $173.00
One black spotted cow and calf $30, one red spotted cow $15, one red cow $18- $63.00
One loom $2, 6 table clothes $3, 40 barrels corn $50, one lot bacon $28- $83.00
One lot of oats $6.50 cents, one lot of hay $3, 1 lot wheat in sheaf $3- $12.50
Lewis $500, Priscilla $275, Alfred $750, Edward $800, Polly $600, Lawson $6.50- $3575

$4648.95

I do hereby certify that James Thomas and Nathaniel P. Ralls personally appeared before me the undersigned an acting Justice of the Peace for Nicholas County and was qualified according to law to view and appraise the slaves and personal property of the estate of David Crouch deceased. Given under my hand this 4th day of March 1853. Thomas Clark J.P. of Nicholas County Court. April term 1853.
This inventory and appraisement of the property of David Crouch deceased was produced in court, examined allowed and ordered to be recorded, which has been done.

D. Crouch
sale bill

March 4th, 1853, sale bill of David Crouch's property.

N.P. Ralls 1 grindstone 35 cts 0.35
John Horn 1 lot of iron 35 cts 0.35
W.W. Berry 1 pr. steelyards 75 cts, 2 scythes 1.40, 1 hand saw
and reap hook 25 cts 2.40
John Durham 1 pr streachers 85 cts 0.85
Wm. McCullough 1 shovel plough 50 cts 0.50
E. Sanders 1 shovel plough 10 cts, 1 carry plough 10 cts 0.20
J. Stewart 1 pair gears 85 cts 0.85
S.T. Johnson 2 iron wedges 1.05 1.05
Hiram Cassity 1 ox cart 14.00, 1 gray mare 154.00 168.00
R.G. Sharp 1 cutting box 1.20, ____ cow 27.60 28.80
Jos. Baird 1 harrow .50 0.50
Hiram Hawkins 78 doz oats 13.00 13.00
A.G. Sprat 1 bay mare 130.00 130.00
C.W.Congleton 1 bay colt 56.00 56.00
W.W. Foster 1 yoke oxen 87.00 87.00
John Crouch 2 calves 28.05
Rich. Crouch 1 white sow 10.15
J. McClain 1 red cow 24.50 24.50
D. R. Thomas 7 stock hogs 42.00, 14 shoats 32.34, 1 spotted sow
9.25 83.59
R.G. Sharp 1 stalk field rent 15.00, 1 wheat field 30.00 45.00
E. Molen 1 orchard field 20.00
R.D. Sharp 1 woods pasture 16.00
J. McCullough 1 woods pasture 18.50
Joseph E. Rees 10 acres oats land 16.50
______
Isaac Vanarsdell, executor $817.55

Nicholas County Court March term 1853
This sale bill of the property of David Crouch deceased was produced in court, examined, allowed and ordered to be recorded, which has been done.

Flags: More Info=Y, Will=Y He was married to Elizabeth CASSITY on 5 Dec 1785 in Harrison Co., VA.(110) (108) An interview with David and Elizabeth states that the date of marriage was 5 Dec 1786.

Harrison County West Virginia records book 1, page 2 and bond book 1, page 8. An interview with David and Elizabeth states that the date of marriage was 5 Dec 1786.

Harrison County West Virginia records book 1, page 2 and bond book 1, page 8.

99. Elizabeth CASSITY (103)(106) (80) was born on 14 Jan 1767 in VA.(103) (106)(108) She owned on 3 May 1853 in Nicholas, Kentucky. For text of the dower see the general notes for Elizabeth or text file ELIZCDOW.WPS. The text file has a drawing of the land boundaries. She has reference number 4HXZ-S6. She died in Nicholas, Kentucky. (103)
Dower of Elizabeth Crouch widow of David Crouch

Pursuant to an order of the Nicholas County Court made at the February term 1853 on the motion of the executors of David Crouch deceased. Appointing us the undersigned Commissioners to allot and assign to Elizabeth Crouch the widow of said deceased, her dower in the lands of which said David deceased seized and _____ lying in this county, make the following report.
We met at the mansion house of said deceased on Tuesday the 3rd day of May 1853 with A. L. Parks the county surveyor and according to the estimation found of the tract of land conveyed by H. Vanschoiak to David Crouch and Hiram Cassity, one hundred and twenty three acres, one rod 2 1/2 poles and according to the old field notes bounded as follows towit:
Beginning at a walnut and elm at (b) on the annexed plat then west 85 poles to an ash and buckeye (corner missing) then south 22 1/2 poles to a water beech and hickory, then S 65 1/2 W 179 1/2 poles to a stake, then S 1/2 W 11 1/2 poles to a stone in Clark's line corner to Cassity's 50 acres, then with the line of said 50 acre tract, S 59 1/2 E 94 1/2 poles to a stone in the field , then S 68 1/4, E 92 poles to a red oak tree, then N 20 E 7 poles to a beech tree, then N 35 1/2 E 29 1/2 poles to 2 beeches then N 2 1/2 E 134 1/2 poles to the beginning.
Of the above tract we allot and assign to Elizabeth Crouch, widow of said David Crouch deceased as her dower thirty six acres and 11 poles, including the mansion house, spring house, and some other out buildings, bounded as follows: Beginning at a stake in Wilson's line at (a) on the plat annexed, then with Wilson's line S 89 E 83 1/2 poles to a stake on the west side of a branch, 8/10 of a pole N 30 E of a walnut, then S 1 1/2 W 46 7/10 poles to a small sugar tree, then S 56 W 30 poles to a stake at figure 2, then S 27 1/2 E 7 poles to stake 3/10 of a pole S 27 1/2 E of an apple tree, then S 47 3/4 W 36 poles to a stake, then N 38 W 49 6/10 poles to the south gate post, then N 8 W 32 7/10 poles to a hickory (old call water beech and hickory) then N 2 1/4 E 23 9/10 poles to the beginning, 36 acres and 11 poles. James Thomas and N. P. Ralls this day personally appeared Before the undersigned an acting Justice of the Peace in and for Nicholas County and was qualified before the law to view and allot to Elizabeth Crouch, her dower right to lands of David Crouch deceased May the 3rd 1853.

Thomas Clark

Children of DAVID CROUCH and ELIZABETH CASSITY are:

15.	i.	AARON³ CROUCH, b. 02 Feb 1786, Montgomery, VA, USA; d. 08 Feb 1848, Harrison, Bartholomew, IN, USA.
16.	ii.	JOHNATHAN CROUCH, b. 15 Mar 1787, VA, USA; d. 1860, Washington, KY, USA.
17.	iii.	GARNER CROUCH, b. 1792, Bath, KY, USA; d. Bef. 1850, Sangamon, IL, USA.
18.	iv.	MARY W CROUCH, b. 1795, KY, USA; d. Aft. 17 Aug 1850, Washington, KY, USA.
19.	v.	PRUDENCE A CROUCH, b. 20 Oct 1795, Bath, KY, USA; d. 1872, Bath, KY, USA.
20.	vi.	ABSALOM CROUCH, b. 1799, Nicholas, KY, USA; d. 14 Apr 1891, KS, USA.
	vii.	LOUISA CROUCH, b. 1801, Bath, KY, USA.
	viii.	KITTIE CATHERINE A CROUCH, b. 1803, KY, USA; d. Aft. 1880, Nicholas Co Kentucky; m. (1) GEORGE BURNHAM, 13 Dec 1825, Nicholas, KY, USA; b. 1790, Kentucky; m. (2) WILLIAM HAMILTON, 27 Nov 1848; b. 06 Jul 1792, Kentucky; d. 21 Jan 1878, Nicholas Co Kentucky.

Notes for KITTIE CATHERINE A CROUCH:
1860 Dist 2 Nicholas Co KY she is listed a Ketty A (Kitty) short for Catherine, Nelson Taylor age 39 listed as farm labor.
She must have had children by first husband Burham, but before the 1850 census they were grown?

1870 Pct 4, Nicholas Co KY she is listed as Kittie, Wm is still alive, they have another family a widower, William Litton age 35, his kids Hamilton Litton age 8, James age 6, & John age 4 all b in KY, because the first name of the child is Hamilton leads me to believe Litton may have been married to one of William's daughters? Farm Laborer John Rice age 35 also lives there.

1880 United States Federal Census Record
about Kitty A. Hamilton
Name: Kitty A. Hamilton
Age: 78
Estimated birth year: <1802>
Birthplace: Kentucky
Relationship to head-of-household: Stepmother
Home in 1880: Carlisle, Nicholas, Kentucky
Marital status: Widowed
Race: White
Gender: Female
Father's birthplace: VA
Mother's birthplace: VA

1880 she is listed as step mother to Noah L Burnham age 60. Last names starts with Burn gets illegible after that,

More About KITTIE CATHERINE A CROUCH:
Residence: 1870, Precinct 4, Nicholas, Kentucky

Notes for WILLIAM HAMILTON:
1860 United States Federal Census Record
about Wm Hamilton
Name: Wm Hamilton
Age in 1860: 65
Birth Year: abt 1795
Birthplace: Kentucky
Home in 1860: District 2, Nicholas, Kentucky
Gender: Male
Post Office: Carlisle
Value of real estate: View image
Household Members: Name Age
Wm Hamilton 65
Ketty A Hamilton 55
Nelson Taylor 39

More About WILLIAM HAMILTON:
Residence: 1850, District 2, Nicholas, Kentucky

21.	ix.	JESSE CROUCH, b. 1804, Kentucky; d. 24 Feb 1899, Fleming Co KY.
22.	x.	LETTY N CROUCH, b. 07 Apr 1807, KY, USA; d. 1845, KY, USA.
	xi.	SARAH CROUCH, b. 1809, KY, USA; d. 1850, KY, USA.
23.	xii.	ELIZABETH CROUCH, b. 1812, Montgomery, KY, USA; d. Bet. 1870 - 1880, Trimball Kentucky.

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