The following records were in the manuscript section
of Samuel W. Comstock's research records, and were included on the
microfilm copy of the Kathryn Crippen Warner collection microfilmed
by the Church of the Latter Day Saints (Mormon). I have transcribed
them here exactly as they were written in the manuscript.
Virginia Accomack County
Accomack, Va. August 1946 by Mrs. Susie W. Johnson Surrogate Court
Thomas Crippen signed as a settler in Accomack Co. Va. in Feb. 1681. He was
listed as paying taxes on a household of 5 grown people in 1685 and thereafter.
There was much trading between here and our own coastal ports, the West Indies
and England. Often members of the same family settled in different colonies
I do not know, they never listed where they came from. They seemed eager to
forget the past. They wouldn't have come to the colonies if things had been
very rosy at home
Thomas Crippen (the Elder) who came 1681
His will year 1734
To Son Paul 350A where I now live
To Son William
To grandsons John and Thomas Crippen sons of Thomas & Elizabeth 200A
on Seaboard side
To grandson Robert son of Thomas & Elizabeth Crippen
To grandson Bennett son of Thomas & Bennett
To Margaret Crippen (not mentioned as to who she is)
Wife not mentioned
[It is uncertain if these early Virginia Crippen families have any
ties to the Thomas and Frances (Bray) Crippen family.] |