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- John was a 1748 Tax Collector for Augusta Co., Virginia He lived at Cooks Creek Virginia.
From Sussex Co.DE, Abt 1739 to Augusta Co. VA (later named Rockingham Co.).
John and Margaret made their home on Cook's Creek about 4 miles from Thomas Harrison's place.
Settlers by the Long Grey Trail; pg. 261
John Cravens married, sometime between 1758 and 1762, Margaret, the widow of William Dyer. On 15th September, 1758, Henry Smith signed Thomas Fulton's bond as security for Margaret Dyer. Following her marriage to John Cravens the latter assigned the bond to his father Robert.
(Augusta Court Judgements, October, 1765, D; Henry Smith vs. Samuel Cowden.)
In 1762, "John Cravens and Margaret his wife, late Margaret Dyer administratrix of William Dyer, deceased," brought a bill of complaint vs. Charles Wilson, regarding payment of a bond of Wilson to Dyer, dated 24th December, 1752.
(August Court Judgements A, 1762.)
On the 20th March, 1765, Cravens was appointed guardian of Roger and John Dyer, "infant orphans of William Dyer, deceased."
(Order Book 9, p. 248).
John Cravens, (1722-1778), the eldest son of Capt. Robert Cravens, and wife Mary, was born in Sussex County, Delaware, and brought, in childhood, by his parents to Augusta, later Rockingham County, Virginia, about 1739. About 1759 he married Margaret Dyer, the widow of William, and daughter of John and Margaret Hiatt.
(Settlers by the Long Grey Trail; pg. 342)
John and Margaret Cravens made their home on Cook's Creek, some four miles southwest of "Thomas Harrison's", near a place called Fishers Spring.
In addition to his home plantation, he also acquired land in the old Linville Creek community, through the death of his father. At the time of his own death in 1778, he was a large landowner of the county. He died intestate.
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Davis Uriah I | Born 1707
1722 - 1778 (56 years)