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State of Service: VA
Qualifying Service: Soldier / Patriotic Service
Author: Dennis Erroll Boyer
Alexander Crockett, son of Robert Watkins Crockett and Rachel Watkins, appears in the (1)Record of Baptisms, by Rev. John Craig, Pastor of Augusta Church, as baptized on 1 June, 1745, in Augusta County, Virginia. He married Mary Margaret Campbell (parents unknown), and they became the parents of Robert, John, Margaret (Carlyle), Elizabeth, Mary (Harper) and Martha.
Mary Margaret (Campbell) Crockett’s early “adventures” are recounted in (4)“Kentucky Antebellum Portraiture” (with a photograph of her portrait): “was stolen at the age of nine by the Indians on Clinch River, and kept for five or six years before prisoners were exchanged” ... “During this time, it is said, she forgot the English language, except some phrases from the Lord’s Prayer. Her petitions” ... “wer overheard by an Indian trader, who confided to authorities that he suspected she was white. Eventually this led to the recover of the ‘Alla-wulla-wulla’ (the beautiful praying child), and she was united with her family”.
When the Revolutionary War erupted, Alexander became involved with his local Augusta County militia, although his name has not been found in a roster or payroll, but he was with the militia at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, where he was morally wounded, then captured, to be returned with a group of prisoners/wounded turned over from the British command of Lord Conwallis, as attested in a (2)document dated 17 March, 1781. Lingering at Guilford Courthouse, aware of his impending demise, he made his will, signed May 16, 1781, before returning to his home, now in Rockbridge County, Virginia, to await his death.
The record of probate of Alexander’s will(3) recorded “it appearing to the Court from the testimony of Samuel McDowell,,,,esq. that at the time of making this Will the decedent was a soldier in the service of the United States, and that he Died in the service”, etc.
Alexander’s exact date of death, probably in 1781, is not known, nor is the location of his interment.
Of particular interest in this family’s lineage is that Alexander’s daughter, Margaret, married George Carlyle/Carlisle in 1791; George was also among the wounded (2)prisoners returned at Guilford Courhouse.
(1)List of baptisms by Rev. John Craig, Augusta County, Virginia, 1740-1749, pg.12 -"Robert Croket, a child baptised named Alexander of Calf Pasture". (2)"Cornwallis Papers, Public Record Office, London", Transcribed by Thomas E. Baker, Park Historian, Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, Greensboro, North Carolina, 1998. "PRISONERS & CASUALTIES in the BATTLE OF GUILFORD COURTHOUSE AS REPORTED by LORD CORNWALLIS & OTHERS" (3) Rockbridge County, Virginia, Will Book 1, p. 204 (4)Kentucky Antebellum Portraiture”, Whitley, Edna T., Nat. Soc./Colonial Dames in Amer. in Commonwealth of KY, 1956
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