BIO: James CROUCH, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, page 174.
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  CROUCH, JAMES, was born about 1728, in Virginia.  The Crouches were 
an old family, who emigrated at an early day from England and settled 
in King and Queen county, near the court house.  James Crouch received 
a good education, came to Pennsylvania prior to 1757, purchasing about 
three thousand acres of land in York county, where the town of 
Wrightsville now stands, on which he settled for a few years, but which 
he subsequently sold and removed to then Paxtang township, Lancaster 
county, Pa., where he bought one thousand acres of land. He was a 
soldier of Quebec, being a sergeant of Capt. Matthew Smith's company of 
Paxtang volunteers.  On his release from captivity he became an officer 
of the associators, and subsequently paymaster of the battalion.  He 
served during the whole of the Revolutionary war with honor and 
distinction.  He died at his residence, Walnut Hill, near Highspire, 
Pa., on the 24th of May, 1794, aged 66 years.  Colonel Crouch married, 
September 22, 1757, Hannah Brown, born 1727; died May 24, 1787. Their 
children were: Edward, Mary, married Col. James Cowden, Elizabeth, 
married Matthew Gilchrist, removed to Washington county, Pa., and 
Hannah, married Roan McClure.