General Notes

Name Suffix:<NSFX> Sr
Ancestral File Number:<AFN> K6ZP-XP
Joseph Louis Crockett Sr. was an Emigrant from Donegal Ireland,he and his wife Sarah Stewart, (daughter of Thomas Stewart) were fleeing the economic depression and religious persecutions of that time. They left Ireland about 1708 going 1st to New Rochelle, New York, but soon move to Pennsylvania and then to Virginia, appearing in the South prior to that trans-Appalachianleap for the Pacific.Joseph and his family settled on the Roanoke River nearShawsville, Va., the present Crockett Springs being on the oldCrockett estate.Joseph and his family arrived in Va. between 1716 and 1718.[History of the Crockett family]Virginia Frontier says the family of Joseph Crockett came from Pennsylvania to Virginia before 1748. Land was taken first onthe branches of Reed Creek of New River and on the South Fork ofHolston. The first home place was on a tract of 1154 acressurveyed in March 1748 for Joseph and Esther Crockett on astream that flows though the Valley of Contention and Strife.Another tract entered near by was at a place called the Cove.The stream referred to was a north branch of Reed Creek known asCove Creek and the land above the gap of the mountain belongingchiefly to the Crocketts was known as Crocketts Cove. EstherCrockett was the widow of Samuel Crockett, whose family also hadsettled on Reed Creek. In the retreat of the frontier people in1755 and 1756 the family of Joseph Crockett retired from WesternVa. In 1757 he was reported No Inhabitant, of Augusta Co. Afterthe war they returned to Western Va. stopping this time on theSouth branch of the Roanoke. Joseph Crockett assumed payment ofthe John McCurry to James Patton in June 1763Hugh Crockett the eldest son, made an entry for 400 acres in1766 between Jospeh Crockett's land and ye wagon road fromVause's land. In May 1767, Samuel Crockett Purchased from Wm.McCurry 248 acres on the South Branch of Roanoke, and entered200 acres joining the land he lived on.Jan. 12, 1767, was proved on March 17, 1767, by Philip Love and Thomas Barnes two of the witnesses. He gave his wife Jean, for her life time one-third of the home place on South Fork of Roanoke joining Mr. Mattison and also her bed and bed clothes;to his well beloved son, Hugh the above mentioned plantation onwhich he should maintain his mother during her lifetime, and likewise fifty pounds of his effects; to his , Walter andJoseph, the plantation he formerly lived on and the plantationwhich joined it which Walter then lived on, both being one Survey (Crockett" Cove ) to his son, Samuel, the survey on Seeder Run above Willey's (Cedar Run now Wytheville; to his son, Robert the tract on the head of Peak Creek and the tracton Camp Run above Samuel Montgomery's and to sons Walter,Joseph, and Robert, a tract at the head of South Fork ofHolston; Joseph a BLEW ROAN horse and saddle and gun; Robert aroan two year old "STALLING' colt and his gun; Martha a horseor mare worth 12 pounds and here saddle and her feather bed andbed clothes; Elizabeth, the same as Martha; Agnes, fiveshillings; Mary, five Shillings, and Know More; the rest of theestate to be divided equally BETWIXT WIFE, and SONS WALTER,HUGH, JOSPEH AND ROBERT, AND DAUGHTERS MARTHA AND ELIZABETH.Walter qualified as executor with sureties, William Christian,David Looney and Thomas Barnes. Augusta Will Bk 3, 506. we aretold that Robert Crockett was killed by Indians in Tenn. Hughmarried Rebecca Lorton and continued to live on the Roanoke.Joseph, Walter and Samuel developed the lands on NEw River; Marymarried Jacob Kent and lived on the Roanoke; Elizabeth is givenas the wife of William Robinson of the Roanoke; Agnes, as thewife of Henry Davis of New River and The Holston; and Martha asthe wife of Thomas Montgomery.Much of the above information was taken from Kegley Virginia Frontier

BIOGRAPHY: # Note: Joseph Louis visited France after the death of Louis XIV in 1715. There was such hatred against Protestants and persons w