The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-06-09

VI ac'es ana then devise one of
S S.u parts to my daughter. Mary j.
Crehshaw. ana tho other to my exocu )
Tor until Gilbert q. Congdon. son OF
my my uecensed daughter. Elizabeth A.
ConScon. shall have arrived at tho
ago OF twcnsy-one years"
After providing for his wife ana
9.hof children, he devises "the resi-
que OF my estate Of every kind, real.
personal and mixed. which may re-
main after satisfying nv debts ,.ga
cies and devises, to my SON. Johr
ever" Aot-
The primogenture prejudice wn.
strong In thlo breast OF Vtrrinians
frances frances T. Crcnshaw and Joseph i.
fieassh'5 signed tails document.
hheon Connection With the Crcn-
slinws.
inc connection between Tho crer-
saaws ana Nathaniel Bacon. the rebel,
mas becn source OF nerce contro
versy In genealogical circles. The Iats
Mrs' Roger y. Pryor claimed close
relationship, and most probably raa
fanny OF lard Bacon Is the same ar
that OF tho rebel
Nathaniel. the first Bacon in Vir-
GINA, a kinsman of the rebel was
po'h IN England, and became President
OF the Councii. He married Elizabeth
Slaughter aud heiress OF Richard
NihBsmeli. OF James City county. Ho
iett no children. and his large fortuna
Vent 10 MS niece. Abigail Smith. tho
wife OF Lewis Burwell
mere was William Bacon. OF
Northumberland. who patented land in
atsltia In 1860. Captain Edmund
i'acoh bought In 1887, 343 acres of land
in the upper part OF New Kent county.
Iohn bacon patented the Same land
was he Edmund's son?
'ohn married. first. Sarah Langs-
ton who died in 1909. Her children
are not known. Secondly he married
susanna Parke. Their children wero
Sohn' born I'LL: Sarah, born 1712:
Nhtnaniel Langsdon LyddaI, born
III; Edmund, born 1872; Ann, born
l1-'; Fanny. born 1874
Nathaniel Bacon was the SON a,
1ohn ana John son OF Edmund This
nathaniel had Lyddail Langston and
nathaniel By his wife. Susanna Parke.
nathaniel devised his land 10 gard
i,acoh' VINO died In 1916 aged seventy-S
siX' and devised his lands 10 john
Crenshaw
sarah. sister to lizard Bacon, mar
RED CHARLES (2) Crenshaw, and I'm
richmond Enquirer, February z, 1915
is recorded: "on % Tit. in the uppor
end of Hanover county. Mrs Sarah
CFenshaw, relict of Charles Crenshnw,
ana sister of Captain lizard Bacon, of
henrico, aged ~ years. Thus In tina
space of is days has death pur "a
period to the temporal existence Of
brother and sister, tho last that re-
mains OF n family
This may be true OF the trnned,a+.
FAMILY. but Lyddall Bacon left a lnrno
family.
Captain lizard Bacon boush. of tho
heirs of Colonel William Lewis. Caro-
a. and j. J.. Cooke. Stith II. Lewis,
John Randolph and Judith A., his wife.
all that lot or parcel OF land In Hen
rico county between tho lands of
Thomas Prosser and said Bacon" This
land was left to his nephew. John
Crenshaw, and later it was the birth
place of his Sreat-nephew. John
Bacon crenshaw. and was called
'Rccouncy."
Nathaniel 90 Bacon (Nathaniel 3,
John 2, Edmund - lived In Hen-ico
county. died In 1174. devisinG his lands
to his son, lizard (5l Bacon. He had
also Sarah (5). who married Charles
Crcnshaw.
lizard t5l Bacon. captain. etc. was
born 1910. lived at tho Brooke" in
Henr!co county, and died there IN
lSl6. (Sce obituary In ENQUIRER jan
uary I. 1850
Tho Brooke" consisted OF 1890
acres. and was patented under the
name OF Neppernum Brooke by Mrs
Frances lizard in 1851, and in Decem-
Der. 1725. Jonn Bacon, of New Kent
petitioned the Council for a new
grant OF land as having descended to
him from said Mrs Bacon
In the docket of the general court,
preserved In the Ludwell manuscripts
at the Virginia Historical Society.
there is the title of n suit: "WiInam
Clopton, the younger. and Joyce, his
Wife. VS.. John Bacon and John Turner
executors of Frances lizard, deceased"
Elm Grove" the land OF Edmund
b. Crenshaw. in Henrico county on the
Chickahominy. was purchased by him
In 1923 Fed Harris purchased 1t
from Richard Gregory. whose wife
got 1t from her father. Nathaniel
Wilkinson, who purchased 1t from tho
executors of Hampton Bacon. who got
1T by Will from Nathaniel Baccr In
1745. #. W. crenshaw left 1t to his
only child. Edmon!a. who married
Judge w. w. Newman. and II de-
seconded to her two sons William,
crensnaw and Walter Newman.
Hogc aud Nichols.
Isaac Hoge. of Loudoun county, the
maternal grandfather of Rachel. WHO
Of John Bacon Crenshaw. held large
estates in Loudoun COUNTY. and in
MS VIII makes many hIQuests.
"Thirteenthly, gives and bequeathes
the remaining two-Gfth parts OF my
estate. the last mentioned one-s,xth
part OF my personal estate to be an
piled to the moderate schoolinG of
children In Ioudoun county. whose
parents arc not able to educate them,
to be laid out at the discretion of my
executors so as to be productive OF
the most extensive benefit"
This viii is dated 1927.
Ttlkariah Crcnshaw married Mary,
daughter OF Anthony Winston.
In Book No, I at Henrico County
Courthouse we find this interesting
document:
ITO all 20 whom these presents
shall come. know We that !. David
Crenshaw. OF tho county of Hanover.
having Tor some time contemplated
and promised to emancipato and set
free n negro man slave of mine, COM
monty called and known by the name
of Lewis aged a hOut fortv-fve yaarz