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Subject: Captain William Crawford
Date: 19 Aug 1997
Name: Webmaster
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Text of Message: > In February of 1775, a group of armed men broke into a goal? in Westmoreland County where prisoners were held. When asked by whose authority they acted, they replied on the authority of Captain William Crawford.
> Does anyone know who Captain William Crawford was?
Ah, Captain Crawford! He turns up a lot in the early histories of
Washington Co.
As Boyd Crumrine puts in in his "History of Washington County, Pennsylvania",
"...there were also furnished from the settlements of Washington County, both before
and immediately after its erection as such, many hundreds of volunteers and militiamen,
who took gallant part, and did good service in the numerous expeditions that were
sent from the valleys of the Mongahela and Ohio against the Indian tribes
in the Northwest. These campaigns and expeditions were necessary for the protection
of the frontiers against incursion and massacre by savages, incited by white renegades
and the British, and sometimes led by officers of the royal army."
Well, in short, during the Revolution, the British tried to stir up Indian
hostilities on the frontier, which was the in Washington Co., thereby
causing the Colonies to have to spread resources out. The frontier did not have
any established army, and therefore relied upon militia. Col. Crawford was one
of the leaders of militia forces.
Crumrine says on p. 114, "[Col. William Crawford] was a regular army officer of
the Continental establishment, was well versed in Indian modes of fighting, and had
already made an enviable military record." Col. Crawford led an expedition in 1782
against the Indians at Sandusky. He apparently was from "Stewart's Crossings of the
Youghiogheny River" in what was then Westmoreland, and now Fayette, Co.
Crumrine doesn't say much about his early history, that is for the 1775 time
frame you mentioned.

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Subject:		Captain William Crawford
Date:		19 Aug 1997
Name:		Webmaster
E-Mail:		webmaster@chartiers.com
Text of Message:		> In February of 1775, a group of armed men broke into a goal? in Westmoreland County where prisoners were held. When asked by whose authority they acted, they replied on the authority of Captain William Crawford. > Does anyone know who Captain William Crawford was? Ah, Captain Crawford! He turns up a lot in the early histories of Washington Co. As Boyd Crumrine puts in in his "History of Washington County, Pennsylvania", "...there were also furnished from the settlements of Washington County, both before and immediately after its erection as such, many hundreds of volunteers and militiamen, who took gallant part, and did good service in the numerous expeditions that were sent from the valleys of the Mongahela and Ohio against the Indian tribes in the Northwest. These campaigns and expeditions were necessary for the protection of the frontiers against incursion and massacre by savages, incited by white renegades and the British, and sometimes led by officers of the royal army." Well, in short, during the Revolution, the British tried to stir up Indian hostilities on the frontier, which was the in Washington Co., thereby causing the Colonies to have to spread resources out. The frontier did not have any established army, and therefore relied upon militia. Col. Crawford was one of the leaders of militia forces. Crumrine says on p. 114, "[Col. William Crawford] was a regular army officer of the Continental establishment, was well versed in Indian modes of fighting, and had already made an enviable military record." Col. Crawford led an expedition in 1782 against the Indians at Sandusky. He apparently was from "Stewart's Crossings of the Youghiogheny River" in what was then Westmoreland, and now Fayette, Co. Crumrine doesn't say much about his early history, that is for the 1775 time frame you mentioned.