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OFFICES: Queen Anne Parish Vestry, Prince
George's County, in office 1716-1719, 1722-1723,
1725-1726, 1731-1734; justice, Prince George's
County, 1719-ca. 1733 (quorum, 1727-ca. 1733);
justice, Court of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol De-
livery, commissioned 1729; churchwarden, Queen
Anne Parish, Prince George's County, in office
1730-1731. WEALTH DURING LIFETIME. LAND AT
FIRST ELECTION: 194 acres in Prince George's
County (all by purchase). SIGNIFICANT CHANGES
IN LAND BETWEEN FIRST ELECTION AND DEATH:
purchased an additional 1,234 acres in Prince
George's County, and possibly as much as 1,534
acres, 1723-1725; patented 470 acres in Prince
George's County in 1723. WEALTH AT DEATH.
DIED: will probated on March 8, 1733/34, in
Prince George's County. PERSONAL PROPERTY:
TEV, £978.15.4 (including 14 slaves, 159.5 oz.
plate, and books); FB, £772.12.4. LAND: ca. 2,040
acres in Prince George's County.
CRABB, RICHARD (?-1780). BORN: in Frederick
County. NATIVE: at least third generation. RE-
SIDED: in Montgomery County. FAMILY BACK-
GROUND. FATHER: Henry Wright Crabb (1722/23-
1764). MOTHER. Ann Snowden. AUNT: Margaret
Snowden (1726-1793), who married John Contee
(1722-ca. 1796). BROTHERS: Jeremiah Crabb
(1760-1800); Ralph; and John. SISTER: Elizabeth.
HALF FIRST COUSINS: Richard Brooke (1736-
1788); Richard Thomas(ca. 1728-1806); and Evan
Thomas (1738/39-1826). OTHER KINSHIP: his
great-uncle was Philip Thomas (1693/94-1762).
PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION: literate. OCCUPA-
TIONAL PROFILE, probably a planter. PUBLIC CA-
REER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Lower House, Mont-
gomery County, 1777, 1777-1778, 1778-1779
(Elections 3). WEALTH DURING LIFETIME. LAND
AT FIRST ELECTION: one-fourth interest in ca.
2,850 undivided acres in Montgomery County (de-
vised to him by his father). WEALTH AT DEATH.
DIED: in 1780 in Montgomery County. PERSONAL
PROPERTY. TEV, £1,034.18.6 current money (in-
cluding 15 slaves and books); FB, estate overpaid
£23.10.6. LAND: probably a one-fourth interest in
ca. 2,850 acres in Montgomery County.
CRABB, THOMAS (?-1719/20). IMMIGRATED:
by 1700 as a free adult. RESIDED: in Charles
County. FAMILY BACKGROUND. His origins are
ambiguous, but perhaps he was related to William
Crabb, who was a merchant of Bristol, England,
in 1683, and Ralph Crabb (?-1733/34). MARRIED
Elizabeth, who subsequently married Randolph
Morris. CHILDREN. DAUGHTERS: Elizabeth; Mar-
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garet; and Jane, who married Charles Somerset t
Smith. PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION: literate. RE-
LIGIOUS AFFILIATION: Anglican. OCCUPATIONAL
PROFILE: merchant. PUBLIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE
SERVICE: Lower House, Charles County, 1708B-
1711. LOCAL OFFICES: justice, Charles County,
1708-1719/20 (quorum, 1712/13-1719/20); All
Faiths Parish Vestry, St. Mary's County, 1709-
1711. MILITARY SERVICE: captain, 1708-1717;
major, 1717-1719; colonel, 1719-1719/20.
WEALTH DURING LIFETIME. LAND AT FIRST
ELECTION: 780 acres. WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED:
will probated on March 8, 1719/20. PERSONAL
PROPERTY TEV, £1,053.0.10 (including 12 slaves
and 3 servants); FB, £891.3.8. LAND: 1,210 acres.
CRADOCK, JOHN (ca. 1749-1794). BORN: on
January 25, ca. 1749, in St. Thomas Parish,
Baltimore County; second son. NATIVE: second
generation. RESIDED: at "Bloomsbury," Baltimore
County. FAMILY BACKGROUND. FATHER: Rev.
Thomas Cradock (1718-1770), born in Wolver-
hamp, Bedfordshire, England; educated at Oxford
University; immigrated in 1744 from England;
first rector of St. Thomas Parish, Baltimore
County in 1745; brother of John Cradock (ca.
1708-1778), archbishop of Dublin and chaplain to
John, fourth duke of Bedford (1710-1771).
MOTHER: Katherine (ca. 1728-1795), daughter of
John Risteau and wife Katherine. UNCLE George
Risteau (?-1792). BROTHERS: Arthur (1747-1769),
a minister; Thomas (1732-1821), a physician. SIS-
TER: Ann (1755-?), who married Charles Walker.
MARRIED in 1776 Ann (1760-1809), daughter of
John Worthington and wife Mary Todd. Her sis-
ters were Eleanor; Hannah; Elizabeth Mary, who
married Edward Carvil Tolley; and Margaret
(1767-?), who married William Laman, of Al-
legany County. CHILDREN. SON: Arthur (1782-
1821), a physician. DAUGHTERS: Mary (1778-?),
who married in 1797 Stephen Cromwell; Kathe-
rine (1779-?), who married in 1818 Dr. Thomas
Cradock Walker; Elizabeth (1784-?); and Ann
(1786-?), who married (first name unknown) Bos-
ley, of Kentucky. PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION:
attended his father's school for boys and later
studied medicine in Philadelphia. RELIGIOUS AF-
FILIATION. Anglican, St. Thomas Parish,
Baltimore County; a delegate to the diocesan con-
ventions in Maryland, 1784-1789. OCCUPATIONAL
PROFILE: physician; began his practice in
Baltimore County, 1768. PUBLIC CAREER. LEGIS-
LATIVE SERVICE: Convention, Baltimore County,
5th, 1775; Lower House, Baltimore County, 1782-
1783 (Elections 1). LOCAL OFFICES: Committee of
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