Individual Details

Capt. Raleigh Croshaw is believed to have been the father of Joseph. He is designated an "Ancient Planter" of Virginia.

Capt Raleigh Crowshaw was a member of The London Company and listed as an Adventurer in 1616 and 1620. He came to Jamestown in the "Second Supply" in September 1608. Said to have come of the "Mary and Margaret" along with Thomas Graves. In 1623/24 he was a Burgess in Elizabeth City Co. His wife came on the "Bona Nova" in 1620 but is not mentioned in the 1623/24 Census. Crowshaw was alive on 22 Nov 1624, but deceased by 27 December. He owned by Patent, 500 acres between Fox Hill and the Pamunkey River. He was born about 1570 in Lancashire, England.

Francis Wyatt, Governor of Virginia gave a Commission to Rawleigh Croshaw on 16 Mar 1623, as found in the records of The Virginia Company. Crowshaw was to set sail in the good ship "Elizabeth" into the Bay, any rivers or Creeks to trade with the savages for Corne or any other commodities. The commision states "it shall not be lawful for Capt Rawleight Croshaw nor any of his Company by force to compell the savages to tract nor to kill or offer them violence or injurie except in their owne defence".

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Child

Maj. Joseph Croshaw ( - )