Major Joseph Croshaw (c. 1610-12–1667) was a planter living near
Williamsburg
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in the
Colony of Virginia
The Colony of Virginia, chartered in 1606 and settled in 1607, was the first enduring English colonial empire, English colony in North America, following failed attempts at settlement on Newfoundland (island), Newfoundland by Sir Humphrey GilbertG ...
. He was the son of Captain
Raleigh Croshaw
Captain Raleigh Croshaw or Crashaw (c. 1584 – 1624) was an English merchant and early immigrant to the Colony and Dominion of Virginia who represented Elizabeth City County in the House of Burgesses in 1624.
Virginia settler
Although Croshaw i ...
. He became a planter and lived a few miles from present-day
Williamsburg, Virginia. On December 10, 1651, he patented land which became the plantation known as Poplar Neck:
Poplar Neck subsequently came to be owned by Colonel
John West through West's marriage to Croshaw's daughter Unity.
Family Croshaw married five times and had eight children:
1. The name of the first wife (m 1631) (English wife's name was not recorded in Early VA History See: William & Mary Historical journal)
* Mary Croshaw (1632-1687), married 1. Henry White; 2. Thomas Taylor.
* Richard Croshaw (1633- )
* Rachel Croshaw (1635-1670), married 1. Ralph Graves (grandson of
Captain Thomas Graves); and 2. Richard Barnes.
* Betty Croshaw (1636-1637)
*
Unity Croshaw
Unity Croshaw was a colonist of British Colonial Virginia, the first surviving European colony in North America. Born in the colony, she was the daughter of Major Joseph Croshaw, and a granddaughter of Raleigh Croshaw, who came to the Colony of ...
(1636-1669), married
Colonel John West.
* Benjamin Croshaw (1640-1645), died young.
* Joseph Croshaw (1642-1650), died young.
2. Widow Finch
3. Mrs. Anne Hodges (d.1663), widow of Augustine Hodges
4. Mrs. Margaret Tucker (d.1664), widow of Daniel Tucker
5. Mrs. Mary Bromfield (d. bef. 28 May 1673), widow of Thomas Bromfield
* Joseph Croshaw (1667-1682)
Croshaw died on April 10, 1667, the same day his will was written and recorded in York County, Virginia. The inventory of his estate was substantial and included numerous household objects made of both
pewter and
silver. One large silver tankard was valued at four pounds sterling (equivalent to about £330 in 2017). The inventory of 1668 also listed the Croshaw estate as having 1000 bricks manufactured either by their own servants or by transient laborers.
[''Records of York County'', Croshaw, vol. 1664-1672]
References
Sources
*"Crowshaw", by Martha Woodroof Hiden; William and Mary Qtrly (2), XXI, pp265 70.
*"General Historie", by John Smith, 1624, Vol III, pp 78 81, Vol IV, pp. 151 154.
*"The Complete Works of Captain John Smith", edited by Philip L. Barbour; Vol II, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC, 1986.
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1610 births
1667 deaths
People from colonial Virginia
American planters