Genealogy Report: Descendants of James Crumley
Descendants of James Crumley
1.JAMES1 CRUMLEY was born Bet. 1706 - 1712 in Yorkshire County, England or County Monoghan, Ireland, and died September 1764 in Frederick County, Virginia.He married CATHERINE GILKEY 1732 in Chester County, Pennsylvannia, daughter of DAVID GILKEY and BARBARA.She was born Bet. 1695 - 1720 in Yorkshire, England, and died 1816 in Berkley County, Virginia.
Notes for JAMES CRUMLEY:
World Family Tree CD 16, Tree 1253 listed the name as Cromley, states that James was the son of John Cromley, who never came to America,and Mary no last name.
per Paul Nichols, (http://www.his.com/~pnichols/crumley.html/)
The name Crumley is thought to be derived from the (Irish Cromlaoich) , which would translate literally to "descendant of bent hero" [1] Very few Crumleys (or variants Crumly, Cromley, Crumbley) were in the United States before 1800. [2]James Crumley was among the Quakers who settled in Chester County, Pennsylvania, in the early eighteenth century.A Valentine Crumley came to Philadelphia in 1749 from Germany and settled in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.The Crumleys in Sullivan County, Tennessee, were descended from another German immigrant, George Crumley (who may have been related to Valentine Crumley). [3]The ancestry of most of the 20 or so Crumley families in the United States at the time of the first census in 1790 can be traced to one of these immigrants.Two hundred years later, the number of American Crumleys has grown to about 5000-6000. [4]
James Crumley, ancestor of this branch of the family, was the first Crumley known in the United States.Several of his descendents have researched their family history, and their findings are summarized in published books, [5] manuscripts, [6] a genealogy compendium, [7] and a comprehensive manuscript in preparation. [8]Two Crumley discussion groups are active on the Internet. [9]There is also information on the Crumleys and allied families in a recent Frederick County, Virginia, history. [10]
James first settled in East Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania, but his place of birth has not been determined.Some accounts suggest he came from County Monaghan, Ireland. [11] and others say Yorkshire, England. [12]He could have been among the many Quakers who left England in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, settled for some time in Northern Ireland, and then came to America. [13]The only records of James Crumley that have been found in Chester County were tax rolls, where he was listed between 1732, when he must have been at least 21 years old, and 1740. [14]He was probably at least a nominal quaker and followed the migration of other East Nottingham Quakers to the frontiers of Frederick County, Virginia.The first record of his purchasing land there was on 04 June 1745, when he acquired a 250 acre tract at the head of Yorkshireman's Creek from Giles and Sarah Chapman. [15]The Chapmans were among the 70 original Quaker families that settled in the Shenandoah Valley and organized the Hopewell Friends Meeting. [16]
James Crumley eventually obtained much more land, including a large grant of 742 acres on Mill Creek (mostly in Berkeley County, now part of West Virginia) from Thomas, Sixth Lord Fairfax in 1752. [17]His "home plantation" was on the Apple Pie ridge, about a mile south of White Hall. [18]The ridge is said to have been named for the delicious apple pies baked by the Quakers, and it is still covered with orchards 250 years later. [19] There James conducted his business as a "cordwainer," dealing in Spanish leather goods.He purchased this land in 1748 from David and Barbara Gilkey. [20]Very old family records from Richard Griffith, a prominent Frederick County genealogist, indicate that the Gilkeys may have been the parents of his wife Catharine, but no marriage documentation has been found. [21]
In a 1932 letter, Richard Griffith wrote, "James Crumley was a man of Considerable wealth for his day and time, and his position an important one.He was the friend of Lord Fairfax, and there is evidence to show that he was a visitor at Greenway Court, and was entertained there at least twice, probably oftener." [22] Greenway Court, the manor home of Lord Fairfax, was the seat of government of all of the Northern Neck of Virginia. [23]
James was one of three Quakers elected to the Vestry of Frederick Parish in 1752, indicating that he was considered a "most able and discreet person" as provided by the law. [24]Although the Vestry was actually under the jurisdiction of the official Episcopal Church, it had political functions as well, and it was not unusual for Quakers to be members.The previous vestry had been dissolved amid charges of persecution of Quakers and failure to build a church with money provided by the House of Burgesses.Along with William Roberts, James Crumley was selected "church warden" in 1755 and 1756.He received 5 shillings, 4 1/2 pence reimbursement on 14 September 1758 for furnishing provisions to the colonial militia. [25]
Although the evidence suggests that James Crumley was indeed a man of wealth and position, a 1758 court record indicates that he did have a brush with the law.There was a legal proceeding against Barbara (Gilkey) Hagen, thought by some to be James Crumley's mother-in-law.The record immediately prior to this one stated simply that it was "ordered that the Sheriff take James Cromley into custody for behaving indecently before the court." [26]In a 1936 letter, J. W. Baker, another Frederick County genealogist interpreted this behavior as evidence of some kind of family row. [27]
James Crumley's will was filed in 1757; it names five children-- John, William, Mary, Henry, and Samuel, a granddaughter Ruth Doster, a brother Thomas, and, written in between the lines, a sister Joan.He died shortly before the will was proved 09 August 1764. [28]The appraised value of his personal property was just over $500 [29]He was a slaveholder, as shown by his property inventory.One Negro man was valued at $65, a Negro woman and child at $55, and a Negro girl at $25.His widow Catharine was listed on county tax rolls in 1782 and 1787, [30] and an 1816 entry in the county deed book indicates she may have been living as late as 1799. [31]
James Crumley was a resident of Frederick County when George Washington won his first elective office as a Frederick County delegate to the Virginia House of Burgesses in July, 1758, so it is possible that the two may have had some contact.Washington, however, did not actually live in Frederick County and did very little campaigning there, other than to buy plenty of liquor for the voters. [32]There is at least a record of his writing James Crumley's name in his diary.After Washington received the Frederick County polling results, he made an alphabetic list of all the voters and their (public) choices.James Crumley and his sons John and William voted for Hugh West.One could vote for two candidates, and John and William also voted for Colonel Washington, but James cast only the one vote. [33]
[1] Woulfe, Patrick. Irish Names and Surnames Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1967 (Originally published Dublin, 1923)MacLysaght, Edward. The Surnames of Ireland, 6th ed. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1985.\\
[2] The earliest United States Census records show Crumleys in Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, South Carolina, and one in Massachusetts before 1800.
[3] Crumley, C. Jeff. Jr. Descendants of George Crumley, Sr. Sullivan County, Tennessee. Harmon H. Crumley family (updated by Jeff Crumley, Jr. Gaithersburg, MD: Published by the author, 1982. (This book is literally a reproduction of an earlier work updated to include the author's family.No connection has been found between these Crumleys, who settled in Sullivan County, and descendants of James Crumley, who settled in nearby Greene County.)\
[4] The number of Crumleys in the United State today was estimated from the United States Census sample, national telephone directories, and the Social Security Death Index, all of which produced quite similar results.
[5] Haunschild, Irmal Crumley, The Crumleys of Frederick County,Virginia and Greene County, Tennessee, and Their Descendants. Ada, OK: Published by the author, ca. 1795; Crumly, Jerry, (Pioneer Ancestors: Crumly, Copeland et al. Pensacola, FL: The Captains Choice, 1996,McCall, Ettie Tidwell. Patillo-Holleyman-Crumley and Allied Families. Atlanta, GA; Georgia State DAR 1943 (the author copied much of her information in the 1932 Richard Griffith letter- see note 22) Nash, Anne Casset. David Williams Cassat and Lillian Mary Berryhill: Their Descendants and Ancestors Rutland, VT. Academy Books, 1986\\\
[6] James Crumley, Quaker and slaveowner; Two men named William Crumly; Abraham Crumly, QuakerAbolitionist, Isaac H. Crumley, Quaker, Abolitionist and Prohibitionist, Judge Wendell Phillip Crumly, Charles Leonard Crumly, Conscientious Objector. manuscript in the files of the Berkeley County, west Virginia, Historical Society. (The author has not been identified), Morton, Paul W. The Crumley Family Manuscript collection of the Ohio Genealogical Society.\\
[7]American historical Company. Crumley. In:Colonial and Revolutionary Lineages of America Vol. 19, New York. Published by the author, 1957 (Commissioned by Alonzo E. Crumley, great great great grandson of James Crumley.)
[8] Crumley, Truett W., Sr. The Crumley History Manuscript in Preparation.The author (919 Brian lane, Forest Park, Georgia 30297) has compiled information on more than 2000 descendents of James Crumley.\
[9] [email protected] http://www.genforum.com/crumley/
[10] O'Dell, Cecil. Pioneers of Old Frederick County, Virgina Marceline, MO Walsworth Pub. Co. 1995\
[11] McCall (1943) indicated that the Crumleys "were thought to have emigrated from County Monaghan Ireland."She may have reached this conclusion from a letter dated 27 February 1930 written by Father Thomas Crumley, who wrote that his father came to the United States from Guard Hill, a small settlement outside of Newbliss, County Monaghan, Ireland.This letter is available at the Handley Library Archives, Winchester, Virginia.
[12] The oldest reference asserting that James Crumley "was born in Yorkshire, England" was the 1957 volume of Colonial and Revolutionary Lineages of America.No supporting documentation was presented.\
[13] In Pioneer Ancestors, the author suggests that James Crumley could have been among the Quaker families who first emigrated from Yorkshire County to Ulster province in Ireland in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and then came to America.A second wave of these immigrants arrived just before James Crumley's name first appeared in the Chester County tax rolls.\
[14] Chester County, Pennsylvania, Tax Records.Chester county Historical Society Library, West Chester, Pennsylvania.In 1732, James Crumley's tax assessment was 1 shilling; only 6 of the East Nottingham taxables had an assessment this low.By 1735, his assessment was 2 shillings, 6 pence, about average for the township.
[15] Frederick County, Virginia, Land records. Deed Book 1, p. 220.
[16] Joint Committee of Hopewell Friends. Hopewell Friends History 1734-1934. Frederick County, Virginia.Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1975 (Originally published Strasburg, Virginia, 1936).\
[17] Joyner, Peggy Shomo.Abstracts of Virginia Northern Neck Warrants and Surveys.. Frederick County, Vol. II. Portsmouth, VA: Published by the author, 1985; Gray, Gertrude E. Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants Vol. II. 1742-1775. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1988. (H-421)\\
[18] This and the following tract are mapped in O'Dell (1995), page 170.
[19] Evans, Willis Fryatt,History of Berkeley County, West Virginia, Wheeling, 1928.\
[20] Frederick County, Virginia, Land records, Deed Book 1, p. 379.
[21] Griffith, Aaron H. Notes on My Family, 1872; Griffith, Richard E. Letter to Rev. Robert B. Nelson, 17 December 1932.These documents are available at the Handley Library Archives, Winchester, Virginia.Richard E. Griffith was the grandson of Aaron H. Griffith (b. 1802)\
[22] Griffith, Richard E. Letter to Herbert Milam, 29 December 1932.Documentation that James Crumley was entertained at Greenway Court has not been found.
[23] Weyland, John W. Historic Homes of Northern Virginia and the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. Staunton, VA: The McClure Company, Inc., 1937.\
[24] Meade, Bishop. Old Churches, Ministers, and Families in Virginia, Vol II, Philadelphia; J. B. Lippencott Co., 1910 (Originally published 1857); Meade, Everard Kidder.Frederick Parish Virginia, 1744-1780.Its Churches, Chapels, Ministers, and Vestries.)Winchester, VA: Cunningham Chapel Parish, 1947.\
[25] Hening, William Waller. The Statutes at Large.Being a Collection of all the Laws of Virginia from the First Session of the Legislature in the Year 1619. Vol III. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1969, originally published 1809-1823.(Page 214 documents payments made to 7 Frederick County residents - Henry Bowen, James Crumley, Nathanial Ball, James Cunningham, David Booth, Jacob Hite, and Robert Cunningham- but erroneously lists them under Culpeper County.)\
[26] Frederick County, Virginia, Order Book 8, p. 171.
[27] Baker, J. W. Letter to Mrs. J. H. Franklin, 8 December 1936.Available at the Hadley Library archives, Winchester, Virginia.
[28] Frederick County, Virginia, Probate Records. James Crumley Will, Book3, p. 215-217, 1764.
[29] Frederick County, Virginia, Probate Records. James Crumley appraisement. Book 3, p. 231, 1764.
[30]Jackson, Ronald Vern. Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790. Virginia.Bountiful, UT; Accelerated Indexing Systems, 1978: Schreiner-Yantis, Netti, and Love, Florence Speakman.The Personal Property Tax Lists for the Year 1787 for Frederick County, Virginia (also Winchester Town).Springfield, VA. Genealogical Books in Print; 1987.\\
[31] Frederick County, Virginia, Land records. Deed Book 38, p. 472. "Received of Catharine Crumley by the hands of William Lynn fifteen Dollars and eighty Two Cents being the full amount of all Taxes and damages due upon a Tract of land returned Delinquent in the name of the said Catharine Crumley for Taxes due thereon for the year 1799."\
[32] Freeman, Douglas Southall. George Washington: a Biography. Volume 2 Young Washington New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948.\
[33] Abbott, W. W. (Ed.) The Papers of George Washington.Colonial Series 5, October 1757- September 1758. Charlottesville,VA University of Virginia Press, 1988.\
More About JAMES CRUMLEY:
Additional Information So: 29 April 2000, Paul Nichols [email protected]
Death fact: M. Skinner has 17 june 1758
FTM Home Pages: 30 September 2002, Margie-D-Skinner FamilyTreeMaker Homepage
Information Source: Bet. 1995 - 1996, Truett Crumley
World Family Tree: CD 09, Tree 0842, 2195,2196,2197,2981
More About CATHERINE GILKEY:
Information Source: Truett Crumley
Children of JAMES CRUMLEY and CATHERINE GILKEY are:
| 2. | i. | JOHN2 CRUMLEY, b. 1733, East Nottingham Township, Chester, Pennaylvania; d. 24 October 1794, Newberry County, South Carolina. | |
| 3. | ii. | MARY CRUMLEY, b. 1737, Chester County, Pennsylvania; d. Unknown. | |
| iii. | HENRY CRUMLEY, b. 1739, Chester County, Pennsylvania; d. 1832; m. SARAH /, 1766; d. Unknown. |
| Notes for HENRY CRUMLEY: per Truett, His descendants could have migrated into Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio. death info unknown. per Paul Nichols (http://www.his.com/`pnichols/crumley.html) [37] Henry's wife Sarah was named in Deed Book 11, p. 359 (24 October 1766).Her identify remains unknown.A later document (Deed Book 13, p. 533, 07 March 1770) indicated that Henry Crumley was leaving the county ("me hereunto moving"), and he appointed his brother William power of attorney.No descendents of Henry and Sarah Crumley have been found. |
| More About HENRY CRUMLEY: Additional Information So: WFT CD 04, Tree 3083 Information Source: 19 February 1997, Truett Crumley |
| More About SARAH /: Information Source: 19 February 1997, Truett Crumley |
| 4. | iv. | WILLIAM CRUMLEY, SENIOR, b. 1740, Chester County, Pennsylvania; d. Bet. 30 September 1792 - 1793, Frederick County, Virginia or Berkeley County, Virginia (Now West Virginia). | |
| v. | SAMUEL CRUMLEY, b. 1741, Chester County, Pennsylvania; d. 1764. |
| Notes for SAMUEL CRUMLEY: Per Truett, Marriage and death unknown. He could have died in the French-Indian War (1754-1763). He was not around when James' will was probated. |
| More About SAMUEL CRUMLEY: Information Source: Truett Crumley |