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Subject: Crockett.Joseph.1775.Jessamine.BIOS


Joseph Crockett 1775 - 1829
Jessamine County KyArchives Biography

Author: The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 8, page 208

Joseph Crockett, 1775, was a minute man, a lieutenant at White Plains and 
commanded a company at Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, Valley Forge and 
Monmouth. He was at the surrender of Burgoyne, in many battles with Morgan's 
Rifle regiment and in the expedition under Gen. George Rogers Clark he gave 
valuable service. He received land grants and was a pensioner when he died in 
Kentucky, 1829, aged eighty-seven. Upon his tomb is inscribed, "Honest and 
Patriotic in Life". (Note: Elizabeth Moore's first husband was kin to Thomas 
Jefferson. During the Revolution Governor Jefferson sent Joseph Crockett to 
guard their property from British and Indians.  Her first husband, Tucker 
Woodson died during the war and she fell in love with and married Joseph 
Crockett and they traveled to Jessamine County, Kentucky where they lived the 
rest of their lives.  Right now their old homestead is located across from 
Chaumiere on Catnip Hill Road, on the Baker farm.  He and Elizabeth Moore are 
buried in the Crockett Burying Ground there.)


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