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State of Service: VA
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
Burial data from Patriot Index. Draft manuscript. Florida Society SAR (FLSSAR). 1995-6
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Author: Howard Paul Keefe
Christopher Crigler was born in Germanna, Spotsylvania County Virginia in 1721, married Catherine Finks in 1750, had 11 children and died in 1808 or 1810 in Virginia. His family was originally from Austria but moved to Germany in the 1600s. Christopher’s father Jacob Krigler immigrated to the USA in 1717 along with many other Germans heading to Philadelphia but a raging storm drove the ship off course and they landed in Virginia. Governor Alexander E. Spotswood of Virginia reimbursed the captain of the ship for unpaid fares but required the German immigrants to move inland to Spotsylvania County where they worked his mines and farmed his land in order to repay him. Eventually they moved to Madison County and obtained land grants in 1726. Jacob married Susanna Koch in about 1719 and they had four children (including Christopher). Christopher was commissioned an Ensign in the Culpepper Militia on August 18, 1763 and is listed as a Patriot by the SAR and DAR for services rendered to the American Army in the War of Independence. He is recognized as a Patriot in SAR files 83055 and 98042.
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