David Crockett, the Elder

Burial record:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8630430/david-crockett

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A Patriot of the American Revolution for NORTH CAROLINA. DAR Ancestor #: A027938

There is a patriot David Crockett, who, with William Crockett, was part of the original signatories of the Wautauga Association petition to annex Washington District to the Provincial Congress at Halifax, North Carolina. North Carolina failed to return an answer, yet John Carter, John Sevier, Charles Robertson, and John Hall appeared as delegates at Halifax and were accorded Seats. All the men signing the petition were frontier soldiers, and nearly all fought at King's Mountain." The original list, in the state archives at Raleigh, bears this indorsement: "Received August 22, 1776" (From 'King's Mountain Men,')

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David Crockett was killed in 1777 at his home near today's Rogersville, Tennessee, by Indians led by Dragging Canoe, who was principal chief of the Chickamauga, or Lower Cherokee, from 1777 until his death in 1792.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragging_Canoe

David Crockett was Davy Crockett's grandfather.

• Birth: 1729 Cumberland County Pennsylvania, USA
• Death: Aug., 1777 Rogersville Hawkins County Tennessee, USA

On the marker place at this spot by the State of Tennessee in 1927; "Here lie David Crockett, and his wife (Elizabeth Hedge), the grandparents of Davy Crockett who were massacred near this spot by Indians in 1777".

This cemetery is also known as "Rogers Cemetery", located on Rogan Road at Crockett Park in Rogersville. GPS N36 24.238 W83 00.525

Davy Crockett was named after his paternal grandfather, David, who was killed in 1777, at his home, near today's Rogersville, Hawkins County, Tennessee, by Indians led by "Dragging Canoe".

Dragging Canoe, as he was known to whites (c. 1738 – 1 Mar 1792), was an American Indian war leader who led a dissident band of Cherokee. Dragging Canoe led attacks on white settlements all over the American Southeast, especially against the colonial settlements on the Holston, Watauga, and Nolichucky Rivers in East Tennessee, and the Cumberland River settlements in Middle Tennessee (after 1780), sometimes raiding into Kentucky and Virginia as well. His brothers Little Owl, The Badger, and Turtle-at-Home are known to have taken part in his wars as well. (wikipedia.org)

Parents:

• William D Crockett (1709 - 1770)
• Elizabeth Boulay Crockett (1710 - ____)

Children:

• William Crockett (1748 - 1836)*
• John Crockett (1759 - 1834)*

Spouse:

• Elizabeth Hedge Crockett (1730 - 1777)

Burial: Crockett Cemetery Rogersville Hawkins County Tennessee, USA

Philadelphia was probably the the port of entry, since the Pennsylvania colony, which was established by Quakers, appeared to welcome them. The puritanical New England colonies were less tolerant of the newcomers and had no use for either Scots or Irish.

The primary pattern of their western migration took them out of Pennsylvania along the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, continuing south and west into what would become Tennessee, or, as the Crocketts did, into North Carolina and then to Tennessee.

Crocketts may have scouted the area or made the move to Virginia as early as 1743. The signature "David Crockatt" appears as a witness to a lease dated January 1743 in Frederick County, VA, between Morgan Bryan - grandfather of Rebecca Boone, wife of Daniel Boone - and Roger Turner. Bryan had come to the area in about 1730 and brought settlers from Pennsylvania with him.

By 1748, David the elder had established a home in the Shenandoah Valley, just over the border in the northernmost part of Frederick County, VA, "4 miles from Watkins Ferry lying on both sides of the Wagon Road".

Michael Wallis: David Crockett, the Lion of the West, 2011.

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