MONTGOMERY COUNTY WAR RECORDS

REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIER
 

ANTHONY CRUTCHER

No birth, death, etc. records. He was a Lt. with the North Carolina troops in the Revolutionary War and served to the end of the war. A land transfer in Spotsylvania Co., Va. links him to Surry Co., N. C. It is believed that he married a Binkley about 1795. He was appointed to Court, Pleas & Quarter Sessions by Gov. Wm. Blount of Tennessee Co. Anthony was a noted Indian fighter on the Red River. He was on the commission that laid out and established the town of Clarksville, Tenn. in 1785   (from  THE. PECK FAMILY, page 57).
 

Gift of Will: From Mary Curtis of Davidson Co., Tenn., to niece, Nancy C. Crutcher and the other children of brother-in-law, Anthony and his wife Elizabeth, namely
William
George
Elizabeth
Carter
Fanny
Sally
Thomas
Patsy
Dated. Feb. 23, 1807. (Will Book A, page 57 Wills and Records of, Montgomery County, Tenn.) S
 

From The Montgomery County Genealogical Journal, May 1972-  Ann Evans Alley, Editor-  Page 69- Article by Anita Whitefield Darnell
 
 



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