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Elizabeth married David CRAWFORD. David (son of David CRAWFORD and Delores Jane AKERS) was born in Sep 1662 in Jamestown, James City, Virginia, United States; died on 6 Sep 1762 in Amherst, Amherst, Virginia, United States. [Group Sheet]

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David married Ann ANDERSON in 1727 in Hanover, Hanover, Virginia, United States. Ann (daughter of Capt John ANDERSON and Sarah WADDY) was born in 1708 in Saint Paul's Parish, Hannover County, Virginia, United States; died on 28 Aug 1802 in Amherst, Amherst, Virginia, United States. [Group Sheet]

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William married Margaret KIRKPATRICK on 18 Sep 1784 in Rockbridge County, Virginia, United States. Margaret was born in 1755 in Ireland; died in 1826 in Greene County, Tennessee, United States. [Group Sheet]

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• Misc: 24 Nov 1840, Greene County, Tennessee, United States; could not read or write and signed his will with 'his mark'
• Misc: 1 Jul 1844, Greene County, Tennessee, United States; was the owner of a slave woman named Dill

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Birth:

When John Henderson Sr. was born, Greene County, located in the Cumberland River Valley, was part of North Carolina. Following the War of Independence, the area surrounding Greene County was offered by North Carolina as a cession to Congress to help pay off debts related to the war. When he was 9 years old, the area he lived in became known variously as the State of Franklin, the Free Republic of Franklin, or the State of Frankland. It was an unrecognized and autonomous territory in what is today Eastern Tennessee. Franklin was created in 1784 from part of the territory west of the Appalachian Mountains that had been offered up to Congress. It was founded with the intent to become the fourteenth state of the new United States. After the summer of 1785, the government of Franklin (by then based in Greeneville), ruled as a "parallel government" running alongside (but not harmoniously with) a re-established North Carolina bureaucracy. Franklin was never admitted into the union. The extra-legal state existed for only about four and a half years, ostensibly as a republic, after which North Carolina assumed full control of the area. The creation of Franklin is novel, in that it resulted from both a cession (an offering from North Carolina to Congress) and a secession (seceding from North Carolina, when its offer to Congress was not acted upon and the original cession was rescinded). Ref: Wikipedia article "State of Franklin" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Franklin)
Note 1: The original name proposed for the new state was "Frankland" but the counties changed it to Franklin in an attempt to get Benjamin Franklin on their side. Although the State of Franklin rebellion was ultimately unsuccessful, it did contribute to the inclusion of a clause in the U. S. Constitution stipulating that new states could not be formed "within the jurisdiction of any other State" or states unless the state legislatures and Congress both okay the move. Ref: Smithsonian.com (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/true-story-short-lived-state-franklin-180964541/ )
Note 2: His grandson, John Severe Crawford (1850-1938) has a middle name that does not appear in any other generation of his family. It is possible he was named after the governor of Franklin, John Sevier, head of the convention of delegates that decided to succeed and become their own state. He eventually became 'governor' of the new state. John Sevier (1745-1815) was a recognized Revolutionary War officer, land speculator, indian fighter, and statesman who had settled in the area of Franklin on the Nolichucky River. He was nicknamed "Chucky Jack", referring to his homestead, and was later charged, but never tried, for treason for the succession of Franklin. In the same year that Franklin collapsed (1788), Sevier was elected to the North Carolina Senate and participated in the passage of a resolution pardoning him for his association with the rebellious Franklinites. He represented Greene County in the convention in which North Carolina voted to ratify the new federal Constitution. In 1790 he was elected to Congress.
Ref: NCPedia (https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/sevier-john)

Misc:
In his will, John H. Crawford gave his slave woman Dill to his wife Diana.

"Secondly - I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Diana all my stock of horses and cattle, and sheep, and hogs, and all my household and kitchen furniture of every kind and description whatever and one waggon and gearing, and all my farming utensils and one still and vessels and my Negro woman called Dill and all her increase of children, to have and to hold the same during her natural life or as long as she remains my widow."

" Eighthly - And touching my Negro woman called Dill and all her increase which I have bequeathed unto my wife during her natural life or as long as she remains my widow, after her decease or she ceases to be my widow I give and bequeath the said Negro Dill and all her increase unto my two youngest sons George Crawford and Isaac Crawford, their heirs and assigns forever."

John married Susanna Dinah WHEELER in 1803 in Greene County, Tennessee, United States. Susanna (daughter of James WHEELER and Margaret TITTSWORTH) was born in 1782 in Sullivan, Tennessee, United States; died in 1875 in Greene County, Tennessee, United States. [Group Sheet]