Rash's Surname Index
Notes for John CREW
John Crew was an original member of the Curles Friends Meeting. In 1699/1700 John Crew gave 400 pounds of tobacco towards the building of a new meetinghouse. The meetings were first held at his house. March 18, 1703 the minutes record a request to have the meeting at his house.
The first Crew mentioned as Quakers in the surviving records were John and Robert Crew. John is regularly reported as a Quaker from 1699 to 1735. In 1699 he contributed 400 lbs to build the meeting house at Curles; a meeting was often held at his home from 1706-08. He was also noted as a member of the Monthly Meeting at Weynoake and the primary meeting at Old Man's Creek (sometimes called James Howards). In early 1709 he is reported removed from his house where the neighbors (Friends in the woods about Herring Creek) had been meeting and it was moved to William Ladds. He was clerk of the Weynoake meeting from 1711 to 1714; He was fined heavily in 1726 for refusing to bear arms and pay tithes, his fine was 1 mare, 76 lbs of tobacco, a gun & 5 pewter dishes. The next summer he was imprisoned for the same reason. Starting in 1735 he set on the select meeting. Records refer to him as from CCC before 1727 and from New Kent Co. after that date
Tidewater1, p.388 . John Crew and his family of Charles City Co. were active Quakers. John Crew and his wife Sarah Gatley sued her mother of her share of her father, Nicholas' estate in February 1689. Sarah and John were both under age and Sarah's mother had married twice after the death of Nicholas Gatley (before 1685) . She married John Smith and then William Morris but both were dead.
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