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Persoonlijke gegevens Samuel Crowley 

• Alternatieve naam: Samuel Croley
• Hij is geboren rond 1741 in Spotsylvania Co, Virginia, Verenigde Staten.Bronnen 3, 4
• Beroep: Long Hunter & Indian Scout.Bron 5
• (Military) in het jaar 1774: Virginia Colonial Militia.Bron 4
• Hij is overleden op 10 oktober 1774 in Battle of Point Pleasant, Mason, West Virginia, Verenigde Staten.Bronnen 2, 3, 5
• Een kind van Jeffrey Crowley en Effariah Early
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 4 december 2022.

Gezin van Samuel Crowley

Hij is getrouwd met Elizabeth Strong.

Zij zijn getrouwd rond 1760 te Virginia, Verenigde Staten.Bron 5

Kind(eren):

1. Effaniah Crowley  1761-????
2. James Crowley  1763-1840
3. Mary Crowley  ± 1765-1835 
4. John Crowley  1768-1847
5. Littleberry Crowley  1772-????
6. William Crowley  1774-????
7. Samuel Crowley  
8. Benjamin Crowley  
9. Greenberry Crowley  

Notities over Samuel Crowley

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2  PLAC Died in the battle of Point Pleasants,Virginia

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Died:  Very early morning by an Indian force lead by the Shawnee Chieftain Cornstalk at the confluence of the Kanawha and Ohio Rivers on the day-long Battle of Point Pleasant.  That day, Colonel Andrew Lewis' 1,100 Virginia militiamen decisively defeated a like number of Indians and this action broke down the power of the Indians in the Ohio Valley and quelled a general Indian war on the frontier.  The battle also prevented an Indian alliance with the British, one of which could have caused the Revolution to have a different  outcome as well as having altered the entire history of the United States.  In 1908, Congress rewrote history by recognizing the claim the Point Pleasant was the first battle of the American Revolution.  It also passed a bill to aid in the erection of the monument at Point Pleasant.  Samuel Croley's name is inscribed on this monument and has been proved by historians to be the first man to die in the Revolutionary War.  He is also the man from whom Mary Crowley Kimsey named her first son.

In 1768 Samuel honed his skills as an expert Indian Scout and woodsman when he left his family at home and went on a "Long Hunt".  The proceeds of the hunting bought 213 acres in Henry County from Palatin Shelto

That 1768 "Long Hunt" is described in Wilderness Calling, The Hardeman Family in American Westward Movement, 1750-1900, by Nicholas Perkins Hardeman, The University of Tennessee Press, 1977, p. 7:

In 1768, the year of Creek, Hard Labor, and Fort Stanwix Indian Treaties, eighteen year old Thomas Hardeman joined a group of "Long Hunters" and trappers in an expedition deep into the forbidden zone beyond the Proclamation Line. ; The cluster of woodsmen, which included Ben and Samuel Crowley, crossed the mountains into the valleys of the Holston and Powell rivers.  These prototypes of the legendary mountain men, called long hunters because they stayed in the back country for months and even years at a time, went as far west as the Cumberland Basin and the sight of present Nashville...

In Elizabeth Strong Crowley 1780 Petition No.745 to the House of Delegates in which she was granted additional pension money for her husband's death, Samuel's widow describes him as being 'one of the Spies in the Expedition in the year 1774-- undertaken by General Lewis at the Point against the Indians, and that her husband was then killed...'

there is a will listed in Virginia Wills and Administration, Pittsylvania, 1777

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