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Achilles/Archelous/Archelus/Archillus/Archillis/Archaelous CRAFT/CRAFTS

SAR Patriot #: P-140144

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State of Service: NC      Qualifying Service: Private
DAR #: A027159

Birth: 25 Dec 1749 / / NC
Death: 08 Nov 1853 Colley Creek / Letcher / KY

Qualifying Service Description:
  1. Private: CAPT Samuel Johnston, COL.Gorden, NC Miiltia, 1778
  2. Also, Light Dragoon: CAPT Alex Gordon, COL Francois de Malmedy, 1781

Additional References:

Pension S.30357 - Archillis Craft


Spouse: (1) Elizabeth/Betsy Adams; (2) Scena Wright
Children: Nancy; Ezekiel; James; Sarah/Sallie; John W; Stephen; Simon; Archelous/Archillis; Malinda; William; Charity;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1985-01-22 KY Unassigned Del Kerwyn Martin (125193) James   
1985-01-22 KY Unassigned Cordell Graham Martin (125194) James   
1994-10-17 VA 209951 Lowell Scott Hanes (141494) Nancy   
1997-08-21 TX 201020 Donald Earl Craft USA (Ret.) (148854) John   
1998-12-14 IN 2460 Floyd Glen Craft (151160) Archelous   
2002-11-07 MO 14856 Columbus Craft (159371) James   
2004-08-17 FL 20347 Harold Sherman Simpson Jr. (163151) James   
2004-08-17 FL 20348 Paul Edwin Simpson (163152) James   
2004-11-04 PA 20843 James Dixon Craft Jr. (163541) James   
2004-11-04 PA 20844 James Dixon Craft III (163542) James   
2004-11-04 PA 20845 Stephen Douglas Craft (163543) James   
2004-11-04 PA 20846 David Ian Craft (163544) James   
2010-12-10 FL 41132 William Millard Chandler (178386) James   
2010-12-10 FL 41133 Robert Bennet Chandler (178385) James   
2011-03-11 NV 41743 Fred Jones Jr. (179077) James   
2011-03-11 NV 41744 Fred Jones III (179078) James   
2011-04-21 KY 42147 Ronald David Kincer AF (179274) Archelous/Archillis   
2012-02-03 KY 45854 Hassell Henry Craft III (182305) James   
2012-02-03 KY 45855 Edgar Vinson Craft (182306) James   
2013-01-16 MO 51268 Toby Lee Hensley (186006) John   
2014-01-08 FL 56522 Galen Reid Simpson (189640) James   
2014-02-04 KY 57017 Paul Dean Adams (189960) Archelous   
2014-03-11 KY 57538 Stephen Gregory Amburgey II (190275) Archillis/Archelous   
2014-03-11 KY 57539 Kincer Gregory Amburgey Crovetti (190276) Archillis/Archelous   
2014-07-24 KY 59680 Samuel Archie Fugate (191713) Nancy   
2014-11-20 KY 60951 Carl Jerome Agner (190790) William   
2015-09-01 MO 66022 William Henry Hammons Jr. (196225) James   
2016-01-12 KY 67424 Richard Marion Smith (189961) Nancy   
2016-01-20 WA 67562 Ronald Eugene Black Sr. (196437) Nancy   
2016-08-23 KY 70868 Willard Bruce Mullins (199678) James   
2016-08-23 KY 70869 Ralph Edward Mullins (199679) James   
2016-11-02 KY 71595 Gene Porter Fouts (200207) James   
2016-12-31 KY 72533 Manon Dale Wright (200915) Archelous   
2016-12-31 KY 72534 Dannie Lee Wright (200916) Archelous   
2019-11-22 FL 89430 William Mark Holbrook (213777) James   
2021-02-26 IN 95865 Stephen Lee Ingram (218340) William   
2021-04-16 OH 96541 Jordan Michael Sandy (218911) James   
2021-05-07 OH 96895 Roy Arnold Lowery (219114) John   
2022-03-04 MN 100887 Gordon Archa Craft (221891) James   
2022-03-04 MN 100888 David Cody Craft (221892) James   
2024-03-08 KY 111097 Timothy Edward Taylor (229397) Charity   
Burial:
Craft's Colly Cemetery (C-0160632)
Location:
Ermine / Letcher / KY / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
2339834
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
n/a
Find A Grave Memorial #:
47279508
Marker Type:
vertical stone with DAR marker
SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:
  • There is a Kentucky State Highway Marker placed in 1981 and the DAR placed a marker and stone at the Crafts Colly Cemetery three miles from the unmarked grave of Archelous Craft
  • Photo displayed courtesy of Dale Corey, VASSAR
  • Per Find-a-Grave
    • Archelous Craft
    • Inscription - Archillis (Archelous)
    • Date of Death on Grave is "1749," Aged 104 years
    • Archealous was born enroute from England to America . He was the son of James Craft and a woman by the name of Sarah. I have seen information where she was called "Sarah, the immigrant" (not confirmed)


Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:

He is buried in an unmarked grave three miles from Craft's Colly Cemetery beside the road at the mouth of Pendleton Fork.



Author: Frank Furman

Archelous Craft, a son of James Craft, a Palatine, was born on 25 December 1749 in Neuse County, North Carolina. In 1785 in North Carolina, he married Elizabeth "Betsey" Adams, daughter of John Adams, Jr., and his first wife Mary Boone, sister of Squire Boone, father of Daniel Boone. Elizabeth was born in 1770 in Loudon County, Virginia, and died in 1810 in Letcher County, Kentucky. Archelous's second wife was Cena Wright, from Virginia, and she raised the younger children.

During the Revolutionary War, in 1778, Archelous Craft volunteered in Captain Samuel Johnston's Company in Wilkes County, North Carolina. They fought for two and ½ months against Cherokee warriors on the French Broad River. In 1780 Archelous again joined Captain Samuel Johnston's company, a North Carolina State Troops regiment commanded by Colonel Ben Herndon, which marched to Monks Corner on 14 April 1780, and the Siege of Charleston, South Carolina (29 March through 12 May 1780). He was involved in the 6 August 1780 battle at Hanging Rock, North Carolina, and saw General Greene. He was discharged in 1781 at Bell's Branch, near Salisbury, North Carolina, by Colonel Lock. Again in 1781, he volunteered for three months of service in Wilkes County under Captain Alex Gordon, Colonel Malmondy, and Colonel Lock. On 8 September 1781, he was engaged at Eutaw Springs, South Carolina.

In 1804 the Craft Family, along with a small band of pioneers, moved to Kentucky and settled about 1806-1807 two miles up Craft Colly, a tributary of the Upper Kentucky River. He received eight land grants totaling 400 acres between 1823-1841. On 5 November 1833, he received a pension for serving in the North Carolina Line.

The known children of Archelous and Elizabeth:

  • Nancy was born in 1783 and married William Caudill.
  • John William was born in 1795 and married Susan Hagin.
  • James was born in 1793 and married Drusilla Hammonds.
  • Stephen
  • Ezekiel
  • Archelous Jr. was born in 1801 and married Nancy Polly.
  • William was born in 1806 and married Rachel [surname unknown].
  • Sarah" Sallie" married William Hammonds.
  • Charity was born in 1809 and married Harvey Pritchard.

The Patriot died on 8 November 1853 at Craft's Colly Plantation, Ermine, Letcher County, Kentucky. 

Source: 

  1. Application for Pension, USA National archives S3035
  2. Julson, W. R., The Kentucky Land Grants: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1925.
  3. Collier, Joella Craft, A Family Called Craft, Kentucky. Pikeville: George Inc., 1997, page 366



Author: Dale Edward Corey

The biography was removed due to copyright infringements. Read the full biography from: Collier, Joella Craft, A Family Called Craft, Kentucky. Pikeville: George Inc., 1997, 

 

 




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