Alexander Crawford (ca. 1715-1764) emigrated from Scotland to Ireland, with his parents, and in 1723 they immigrated to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He married Mary McPheeters in 1745, and settled in Augusta County, Virginia. Descendants lived in Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas and elsewhere.
Family history of the Crawford families of Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri. The emigrant ancestor of this family was Ann Crawford, who was born in Ireland and immigrated to America before 1736. She stayed for a short period in Pennsylvania, was granted land in Augusta Co., Va. and moved there before 1748. She was the mother of four sons: 1. Alexander (d. 1764), who married Mary McPheeters; 2. Patrick (b. 1787), who married Sally Wilson ca. 1747; 3. James (b. ca. 1751); 4. George (b. 1779), who married Elizabeth Poage (b. 1791).
Family history and genealogical information about the descendants of John Crawford who was born ca. 1735. He married Sarah (surname unknown) sometime prior to the year 1762. They lived in Spotsylvania Co., Virginia and were the parents of two daughters and one son. Descendants lived primarily in North Carolina and Virginia.
From its establishment in 1745, Augusta County, Virginia served as a haven for Scotch-Irish, German, and, to a lesser extent, English immigrants who failed to find economic opportunity or religious freedom in the colonial settlements along the Middle Atlantic coastline. This little known but important work contains detailed genealogies of the twenty families mentioned in the title of the work, who settled in that region of "old western Augusta" that today encompasses Bath and Highland counties, Virginia. In addition to the family histories, the compiler has provided introductory chapters on the history of German and Scotch-Irish settlement to the region; a table of family members who fought in the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Civil Wars, and a full name index with approximately 10,000 entries.