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State of Service: VA
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
John Crabb Jr, was born about 1749 in Westmoreland Co, VA as the son of John Crabb Sr. (d. 1779) and Jane Middleton. He was a gunner on the Virginia naval vessel Diligence. He served during the Rev War for 3 years and died bef Mar 1799. He married Elizabeth Rust abt 1774. He was a descendant of Dr. Thomas Gerard, one of the early settlers and land owners of Maryland. Through the Gerard lineage he has royal descent from King Edward I of England as noted in the Plantagenet Ancestry by David Faris. His will is recorded in Westmoreland Co VA on March 25, 1799 and names his wife Elizabeth and children: John, Jane Middleton, Samuel, David, Benedict, Molly Rust, Magdalen, Sally Rust, William Middleton Crabb.
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