THE ONLY DOCUMENTED SON OF THOMAS CRUMP OF JAMESTOWN AMD ELIZABETH BUCK WAS JOHN CRUMP.
THIS JOHN CRUMP DID NOT HAVE ANY SONS, THUS NO MALE CRUMP CAN CLAIM A PATERNAL ONLY LINE OF DESCENT FROM THOMAS CRUMP.
WILLIAM CRUMP WAS NOT MARRIED TO MARY SPILLMAN
THERE ARE TWO WILLIAM CRUMP MEN IN THE SAME AREA AT THE SAME TIME WHO ARE NOT RELATED. ONE WAS MARRIED TO FRANCIS MOUNTNEY AND THE OTHER WAS MARRIED TO ANN VAULX.
WILLIAM CRUMP OF NEW KENT COUNTY WAS NOT BORN IN VIRGINIA AS HE WAS TRANSPORTED BY LEWIS BURWELL WHO CLAIMED A HEADRIGHT FOR BRINGING WILLIAM CRUMP TO THE COLONIES.
Y DNA TESTS HAVE PROVED THAT THESE TWO WILLIAM CRUMP MALES ARE NOT CLOSELY RELATED IN TERMS OF HAVING A COMMON MALE ANCESTOR ON THEIR MALE ONLY LINES OF DESCENT.
NEITHER OF THESE MEN NAMED WILLIAM CRUMP WERE THE SON OF THOMAS CRUMP OF JAMESTOWN.
Thomas' surname is recorded in the genealogical literature as Crumpe, Crompe, Crampe and Crumfort. The muster of the inhabitants of James Cittie taken on the 24th of January 1624 records the shared residence of John West, who arrived on the ship, "Bony Bess", and Thomas Crompe. Their inventory included corne (sic-corn), 5 barrells; pease (sic-peas) and beanes, 3 bushells; bacon flitches, 2; peece, 1; swords, 2; house, 1 (Reference: "Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5" by John Frederick Dorman, Vol. I, 4th Ed., 2004, p34.)
Thomas appeared before the General Court on 24 Jan 1624/25 as Sergeant Thomas Crompe and testified that "Mr. Best did first dress Lieut. Harrison's wounde". Thereafter he testified before the General Court at intervals until 1632 as arbiter in a difference over an account, to preserve a will, to prove a will, in 1629 brought suit against William Barnes, a debtor, twice as a member of juries to try cases of murder and concerning the shipment of tobacco. He was Burgess from James City, Feb-March 1631/32, and from The Neck of Land (near Jamestown), 1632 and 1633 as Crampe and Crumpe.
Thomas' patent, 28 Sep 1633, for 500 acres of land in James City County lay in the neck of land bounding east on a creek which runs between the glebe land and the neck and south adjoining land belonging to the orphans and heirs of Mr. Richard Buck. 50 acres being for his own personal adventure and 450 acres for the transportation of nine persons to the colony (headrights) [Ref: Patent Book "I", page 287].
Thomas Crump married, about 1625, Elizabeth Buck, the daughter of the late Rev. Richard Buck. As Thomas and Elizabeth were residens of Jamestown Island from the mid-1620s until early 1632 and apparently did not own land there, they probably occupied the Rev. Richard Buck's property in the eastern end of Jamestown Island, acreage which Elizabeth had a legal interest.
Thomas sold the above mentioned 500 acre tract of land to Elizabeth's oldest brother, Gercian Buck, on 01 Sept 1636 shortly before Gercian attained his majority. Gercian died two years later and his brother, Peleg Buck, inherited the land and repatented it on 29 May 1638. When Peleg Buck died the tract fell to John Crump, son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Buck) Crump, by inheritance and he repatented it on 29 Nov 1654 with additional land totaling 1250 acres. Elizabeth (Buck) Crump was living in March 1654/5.
Thomas died sometime prior to 1652 and was survived by his widow, Elizabeth, and their son, John.
In 1655, Elizabeth (Buck) Crump was sued by John Bromfield, the widower of Bridget (Burrows) Bromfield, who sought to recover his late wife's legal interest in the Buck land holdings in Archer's Hope. It was determined that Bridget, whose late first husband, John Burrows, had been a guardian of the Buck heirs, was entitled to a life interest in the property, but not fee simple ownership, which ultimately descended to the Rev. Richard Buck's male heirs. Elizabeth (Buck) Crump married Mathew Page sometime prior to 02 Dec 1657, having conveyed to him the Archer's Hope acreage that she owned outright (Ref: HEN 1:405 DOR 1:428-429, 784; PB 6:298).
The only documented child of Thomas and Elizabeth (Buck) Crump was John Crump.
"It was previously thought that William Crump of New Kent County was a younger son of Sgt. Thomas Crump (1600-1652) and that he married a daughter of Hannah (Boyle) Hill Spilman Mountney. Subsequent research has established that the William Crump, of Lancaster County, VA, who married Mrs. Mountney's daughter, Frances (Mountney) Crump, was not the same person and that William Crump of New Kent County, who deposed 24 June 1659 he was aged 27 (York Co. Wills, Deeds, Orders &c3, 1657-62, p. 62), had a wife, Anne, who on 24 May 1660 gave a power of attorney to acknowledge the deed whereby her husband had on 08 Nov 1657 assigned to Charles Woodington his right to 500 acres of a patent for 1000 acres in James City County near the Rickohock path, Kiscohonsicke Swamp and Weckenoskeekicke Swamp issued, 26 Jan 1656/7, to him and Mr. Humphrey Vaulx (York Co. Wills, Deeds, Orders &c3, 1657-62, p. 81r), with year of his assignment written "ffifty one"; Patent Book 4, p. 52 [77], was NOT (my emphasis) son of Sgt Thomas Crump. On 12 June 1648 a patent issued to Lewis Burwell named William Crump (of New Kent County) among the headrights (Patent Book 2, p. 181). On 06 May 1659, Elizabeth (Burwell) Vaulx, wife of Robert Vaulx, referred to William Crump (of new Kent County) as her attorney and kinsman. These records with the association with the related Burwell- Vaulx-Woodington families, suggest that William Crump of New Kent County was himself an immigrant to Virginia rather than native born. Descendants of William Crump (of New Kent County) are traced to Elizabeth Hawes Ryland, "A Tentative History of the Crump Family of New Kent County, Va." (typewritten; Richmond, 1949); Malcolm Hart Harris, "Old New Kent County" (West Point, 1977), I, pp. 167-70; William Curry Harllee, "Kinfolks II (New Orleans, 1934), pp. 1188-1209; Marius Randolph Barham and Nellie McLane Barham, "A Crump on Every Stump", (n.p., 1986)" (Source: "Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5" by John Frederick Dorman, Vol. I, 4th Ed., 2004, pp784/5, Footnote #9).
Sources:
1) "Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5" by John Frederick Dorman, Vol. I, 4th Ed., 2004, pp784/5.
2) "Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers 1607-1635 A Biographical Dictionary" by Martha W. McCartney, 2007, pp236/7.
Bio by Gresham Farrar.
