American Revolution on the Frontier

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Joseph and Jeanne de Vigné Crockett settled on this farm early in the 1760s. Three of their sons served as officers in the Revolutionary War. Col. Hugh Crockett, who lived here until his death in 1816, led militia during expeditions to North Carolina in 1780 and 1781. Col. Walter Crockett represented Montgomery County in the General Assembly in Williamsburg and, as a militia commander, suppressed a Loyalist plot against the lead mines near Wytheville in 1779. Lt. Col. Joseph Crockett served in the Continental army at the Battles of Brandywine, Germantown, and Monmouth and later led a Virginia battalion that served under Brig. Gen. George Rogers Clark in the West and Northwest.

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References/Bibliographic Citation:

Joseph Crockett, will (12 Jan. 1767), Augusta County Will Book 3, 506-509. Randell Jones, Before They Were Heroes at King’s Mountain (Winston-Salem: Daniel Boone Footsteps, 2011). F. B. Kegley, Kegley’s Virginia Frontier (Roanoke: Southwest Virginia Historical Society, 1938). Patricia Givens Johnson, William Preston and the Allegheny Patriots (Pulaski, VA: B.D. Smith & Bros., 1976). Marianne E. Julienne, “Walter Crockett,” Dictionary of Virginia Biography, 3: 563-565. https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/98-01-02-5631 Joseph Crockett roll call, 1781. Mary B. Kegley, Early Adventurers on the Western Waters, vol. 3. Randal L. Hall, Mountains on the Market: Industry, the Environment, and the South (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2012). Notable Southern Families, 204-206. Walter Crockett to William Preston, 7 April 1779, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 26 (1918): 371-372. D. B. Montgomery, A Genealogical History of the Montgomerys and Their Descendants (Owensville, IN: J. P. Cox, 1903), 280-282. https://books.google.com/books?id=2E06AAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false