Elk Garden, Continued from Page 6

 
BOOK
NAVIGATION


Introduction
Earliest Settlement
The Mansions of Elk Garden
The Great Awakening
The Stuart Family
Lead, Salt, & Cattle
Wealth Leads to Politics
Addendae
Bibliography
Genealogies
Index












































 

Crabtree sold numerous warrants for land in Elk Garden, including LO 50–341 to George McConnell.


Topographic Placement of the Land Grants of “Down Town” Elk Garden
including the First Grant (Shelton) and Hendrick’s and Thomas Price

            Jacob Crabtree (1759-1846) was married to Mary Price, sister of Thomas and Richard (see the following).  He had been one of the thirty axmen who had gone with Daniel Boone to blaze the Wilderness Trail in 1775.  He was the Uncle of Isaac Crabtree, who was a survivor of the murder of James Boone, the son of Daniel.  It  ... Continued, Page 8


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