HISTORY: Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia, Chapter 7, Crawford, 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, pages 96-97.
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                      THE CRAWFORDS, OF HANOVER.   

  I.  ROBERT CRAWFORD, of Scotch parentage, born in county Donegal, 
Ireland, emigrated to America prior to 1728, with several of his sons:
         i.  James, who settled in Paxtang township, and had surveyed 
to him in March, 1738, 258 acres of land on the bank of the Susquehanna 
river, adjoining Robert and William Renick's land.  This location was 
subsequently secured by Joseph Chambers, James locating in Hanover 
township.
        ii.  Robert, settled in Hanover.
       iii.  Hugh, settled in Hanover. 
    2.  iv.  William, settled in Drumore township, Lancaster county.
    3.   v.  John, settled in Hanover. 

  II.  WILLIAM CRAWFORD (Robert), d. in June, 1767, in Drumore 
township, Lancaster county, Pa., leaving a wife Violet, and children as 
follows:
         i.  John. 
        ii.  Agnes, m. Robert McIlhenny. 

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       iii.  Isabel, m. William Moore. 
        iv.  Elizabeth, m. John Crawford.
         v.  Robert.
        vi.  Margaret. 

  III.  JOHN CRAWFORD (Robert), emigrated to Pennsylvania with his 
family and friends prior to 1728; he married, and had issue among 
others:
    4.   i.  James, b. 1730; m., 1st, Rosanna Allison; 2d, Agnes 
McDonald.
    5.  ii.  John, b. 1736; m. Elizabeth Crawford. 
    6. iii.  Richard, b. 1740; m. Elizabeth _____. 

  IV. JAMES CRAWFORD (John, Robert), b. 1730, in Hanover, seems to have 
removed to the West Branch in Northumberland county about 1770.  He was 
a member of the convention of July, 1776, which framed the first 
Constitution of the State, and on the 8th of October following 
commissioned major of Col. Wm. Cooke's regiment of the Pennsylvania 
Line.  He resigned October 12, 1777, on account of being deprived of 
his rank, but proposed to serve through the contest at his own expense.  
He afterwards filled the offices of sheriff, commissioner and justice 
of the peace.  He died about 1812 or 1813 and was buried in the old 
Pine Creek burying ground, near Jersey Shore.
  Major Crawford was twice married, first, to Rosanna Allison, daughter 
of John and Ann Allison, of Lancaster county.  She was a superior 
woman.  Her sister, Margaret Allison, a notable woman in her day, 
married Col. Hugh White, a soldier of the Revolution, who lived near 
Chatham's Run, Lycoming county, and from whom are descended the Whites 
of Williamsport and Wellsboro'.  Through the first marriage of Major 
Crawford comes the connection with the Allisons of the Juniata valley, 
one of whom, Robert, was a distinguished lawyer, a captain in the Black 
Hawk war of 1812, and subsequently a member of Congress.  The children 
of James Crawford and Rosanna Allison, all born in Hanover, were:
         i.  John, who served in the war of the Revolution; went to the 
lower Mississippi, where he died, unmarried. 
        ii.  Robert, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Michael 
Quigley.  Through her comes the relationship with the Quigleys, Cranes, 
Custards, Deis and others.  Robert was palsied late in life, and died 
about 1836 aged seventy-six.  He was buried in the Pine Creek burying 
ground.  His children were:  Ann, m. Levi Packer; George, m. Mrs. 
Elizabeth Weitzel White; Nancy, m. Hugh White; Frances, m. Robert Shaw; 
James-Allison; and Eliza, m. Thomas Condon. 
       iii.  Thomas, removed to North East, Erie county, Pa., where his 
descendants reside. 
        iv.  Ann, m. Benjamin Walker, whose descendants live at 
Laporte, Ind. 

  Major Crawford married, secondly, Agnes McDonald, daughter of Captain 
McDonald, of Cumberland county.  She survived her husband several years 
and is buried in Pine Creek graveyard.  They had one daughter, 
Elizabeth, who removed after the death of her mother to Erie county, 
where she died many years ago, unmarried. 

  V.  JOHN CRAWFORD (John, Robert), b. 1736, in Hanover township; d. 
April 8, 1789, in Hanover, and buried in the old Hanover church 
graveyard; m. his cousin, Elizabeth Crawford, b. in Drumore township, 
Lancaster county, Pa.; d. June, 1824, in Hanover, and there buried.  
They had issue:
         i.  William, d. November, 1829; m. Patty Crain. 
        ii.  Ann, m. Samuel Finney; d. December, 1823.
       iii.  Violet, d. April, 1844.
        iv.  Mattie (Martha), a character in her day; d. 1842.
         v.  John, d. February 18, 1811. 

  VI.  RICHARD CRAWFORD (John, Robert), b. about 1740 in Hanover; d. in 
1813 at the residence of his daughter, Ann Wilson, in Anthony township, 
Columbia, now Montour county, Pa., whither he removed upon the death of 
his wife; was buried in Warrior Run graveyard.  He m., in 1765, 
Elizabeth _____, b. in 1745; d. June 12, 1810, in Hanover, and there 
buried.  They had issue:
         i.  Paul, b. 1766.
        ii.  James, b. 1768; m. Mary Finney. 
       iii.  Ann, b. 1772; m. Hugh Wilson.
        iv.  Elizabeth, b. 1776; m. Rev. John Moody, who died at 
Shippensburg. 
         v.  Mary, m. Robert Moody.