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value $13,021.00, including 214 slaves and 73 oz.
plate, 1831. LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: 1,978
acres in Frederick, Prince George's, and Mont-
gomery counties (427 acres inherited from his fa-
ther). SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN LAND BETWEEN
FIRST ELECTION AND DEATH: patented 2,324
acres in Montgomery County, 1775-1788; owned
5,182 acres in Montgomery County in 1813;
owned 5,913 acres in Montgomery County in
1820. ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: gained substantial
wealth by investing in mortgages and bonds.
WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED: ca. 1831, in Montgom-
ery County. PERSONAL PROPERTY: TEV,
$68,140.86 current money (including 245 slaves on
5 plantations, china, and paintings); FB,
$50,474.43. LAND: 6,132 acres in Montgomery
County.
CRAUFURD (CRANFORD, CRAUFORD,
CRAWFORD), DAVID (ca. 1738-1801). BORN:
ca. 1738 in Prince George's County; only son. NA-
TIVE, at least second generation. RESIDED: in Up-
per Marlboro, Prince George's County. FAMILY
BACKGROUND. FATHER: David Crawford (?-1749),
of Upper Marlboro, Prince George's County, a
merchant. MOTHER: Mary (?-1794). SISTERS:
Mary, who married (first name unknown) Parker;
Martha (?-1778), who married first, William
Hamilton (?-1759), a merchant, who was killed by
an accidental discharge of a gun, second, Charles
Clark (?-1767), and third, Osborn Sprigg (ca.
1741-1815). NEPHEW: Thomas Clark (ca. 1760-
1796). MARRIED by 1764 Sarah (ca. 1749-1780),
daughter of Nathaniel Offutt; granddaughter of
William Offutt. CHILDREN. SONS: David; Nathaniel
(by 1764-?). DAUGHTERS: Mary (ca. 1768-1787),
who married Richard Alexander Contee (1753-?),
son of John Contee (1722-ca. 1796); Sarah (1771-
1832), who died in Washington, D.C., and who
married Richard Forrest (ca. 1768-1828), post-
master of Georgetown, D.C., in 1797, and one of
eight clerks of the Department of State appointed
by President Thomas Jefferson; Martha (1777-
1796), who married in 1794 George Walker. PRI-
VATE CAREER. EDUCATION literate. RELIGIOUS
AFFILIATION: Anglican. SOCIAL STATUS AND AC-
TIVITIES: Gent., by 1773; Esq., by 1787. ADDI-
TIONAL COMMENTS: Crauford gave £1,000 current
money and 21 hogsheads of tobacco to help fi-
nance the Continental Army, 1780. OCCUPA-
TIONAL PROFILE: clerk and bookkeeper for
Stephen West (1727-1790) between January 1757
and December 1758; a merchant, with a store in
Upper Marlboro, Prince George's County. After
the Revolution, Crauford, with John Read Ma-
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gruder and occasionally Gabriel Duvall (1752-
1844) held powers of attorney from various Lon-
don merchants, including John Stephenson and
William Dawes, for transactions involving their
properties and creditors in the United States. PUB-
LIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Conventions,
Prince George's County, 2nd-3rd, 1774, 4th,
1775, 5th, 1775; Lower House, Prince George's
County, 1777, 1779-1780 (Claims 1, 3), 1780-
1781 (Claims 1, 2; Elections 1, 2), 1787-1788
(Claims 1, 2), 1788. LOCAL OFFICES: justice,
Prince George's County, 1761-1789 (quorum, at
least by 1769-1789); St. Paul's Parish Vestry,
Prince George's County, in office 1767-1770,
1782-1785, 1789-1792, and 1795; Committee of
Correspondence, Prince George's County, elected
1774; Committee of Observation, Prince George's
County, elected 1775; justice, Orphans' Court,
Prince George's County, 1777-1790; subscription
officer, Continental Loan Office, Prince George's
County, appointed 1777 and 1779; commissioner
of tax, Prince George's County, 1786-at least
1798; associate justice, First District Court, Prince
George's County, appointed 1790-1791; Maryland
Senate elector, Prince George's County, elected
1791 and 1796. MILITARY SERVICE: captain, by
1776. WEALTH DURING LIFETIME. PERSONAL
PROPERTY: assessed value £1,210.0.0, including 28
slaves, Montgomery County, 1783; gave 25 slaves
to son Nathaniel, 1785; 50 slaves, Prince George's
County, 1790; assessed value £1,100.0.0, including
36 slaves, Montgomery County, 1798; assessed
value £1,592.7.6, including 40 slaves and 158 oz.
plate, Prince George's County, 1800; gave 4 slaves
to granddaughter Sarah Forrest, 1800. LAND AT
FIRST ELECTION: 2,891 acres in Prince George's
and Frederick counties, plus 2 lots each in Upper
Marlboro and Carrollsburg, Prince George's
County (688 acres in Prince George's County was
the remainder of 737 acres inherited from his fa-
ther; 1,940 acres in Prince George's and Frederick
counties acquired through his marriage; 263 acres
in Prince George's and Frederick counties plus 4
lots by purchase). SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN
LAND BETWEEN FIRST ELECTION AND DEATH
Crauford patented 691 acres of his wife's land in
Frederick County (later became Montgomery
County) with adjoining vacant land into a 900-
acre tract in 1775. He sold his 150 acres in Mont-
gomery County (formerly Frederick County) in
1777; and in the same year he and his wife formed
a trust giving their son Nathaniel the rest of her
inheritance, a 1,294-acre tract in Prince George's
County, but reserving a life estate in the property.
In 1785 Crauford deeded 800 acres of this tract,
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