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State of Service: VA
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
Birth: abt 1716 / King William / VA Death: 01 Jan 1804 nr Georgetown / Scott / KY
Qualifying Service Description:
Fetched water for Brayants Station VA (later KY) duirng siege by British and Indian forces August 1782
Additional References:
SAR Patriot Index Edition III (CD: PP2210, Progeny Publ, 2002) plus data to 2004
"Boone A Biography" by author, Rob't. Morgan, publ, 2008 by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, - a few mi. n/e of Lexingon -Bryan's Station, 1782, Chapter 14, pg 310-29
"Bryant's Station and Memorial Proceedings", Reuben Durrett, JP Morton & Co, Louisville KY 1897, pg 47-50
DRAKE, KY IN RETROSPECT, pg 209
Spouse: Taliaferro/Tolliver Craig Sr Children: Joyce; Joseph; Benjamin; John; Sarah Sally; Elijah; Tolliver Jr; Rejoice; Elizabeth; Lewis;
Author: James English Vaughn Jr.
Mary (Polly) Hawkins was born September 19, 1716 in King Williams County, Virginia, and she died January 6, 1804 in Craig’s Settlement, Clear Creek, Kentucky. She is buried in the Great Crossing Cemetery in Georgetown, Scott Co., Kentucky. Mary (Polly) Hawkins was a descendant of Sir John Hawkins (1532 - 1595), a cousin of Sir Francis Drake and a Rear Admiral in the English Navy, who fought under Queen Elizabeth I defeating the Spanish Armada in 1588. Mary (Polly) Hawkins married Toliver Craig (1704 – 1799) circa 1730 in Spotsylvania, Virginia. Toliver and Mary had a large family of eleven children, John, Toliver Jr., Lewis, Elijah, Joyce, Jane, Elizabeth, Joseph, Benjamin, Jeremiah and Sallie. All of their children were married adults before the family moved from Virginia to Kentucky to escape religious persecution. Mary (Polly) Hawkins Craig was about 66 years old at the time of the American Revolutionary War action that is known as the Siege of Bryan’s Station. She is thought to have been the leader of the women and children who left the protection of the fort to carry in the daily water supply from a nearby spring under the muskets of the hostile Canadian Rangers and Wyandot Indians laying siege to the Station. Mary (Polly) Hawkins Craig also is listed as a NSDAR Ancestor (A027259) for her role in the defense of Bryan’s Station. Her eldest son, John Craig, was a Captain in the Virginia (Kentucky) Militia, and he was in command of Bryan’s Station during its siege in August of 1782.
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Orange Co., (formed 1734 from Spotsylvania) Virginia claimed territory that ran to the east bank MS River