Husband Maj. William Croghan 1
Born: Abt 1750 - Ireland
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Died: Sep 1822 - near Louisville, Jefferson Co, KY 2
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Wife [Unk] Clarke
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1 M Gen. George Croghan 3 4
Born: 15 Nov 1791 - Locust Grove, near Louisville, Jefferson Co, KY 4
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Died: 8 Jan 1849 - New Orleans, LA 4
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2 M William Croghan, Jr. 3 5
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Died: 22 Sep 1850 - near Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 5
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Spouse: Mary O'Hara ( -1827) 3 5 6
Marr: 1821 5
3 M Dr. Croghan 4
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General Notes: Husband - Maj. William Croghan
He was a native of Ireland and came to Virginia when quite young. When the Revolutionary War broke out, and the clash of arms was heard on the fields of Lexington and Concord, Virginia sprang to the contest. Among Virginia's soldiers was young William Croghan. In 1776 he was a captain in the 4th regiment of the Virginia line, under Col. John Neville. The lieutenant-colonel of the regiment was Presley Neville, the son of John Neville. William Croghan was promoted to be major of the regiment. These soldiers fought under the eye of Washington, being intimate friends of his. Amid the snows of Trenton and Princeton, and under the burning heat of Monmouth, they fought and were victorious. At Brandywine and Germantown they fought also, and, though defeated, retired in grim defiance with Washington to Valley Forge, to watch through that dismal winter the British army under Howe at Philadelphia, and to drive that army the following summer across the Delaware, through New Jersey to Sandy Hook, and across the bay to New York. In 1780 the regiment was ordered south to join the army under Gen. Lincoln. During the most of this year the military operations were confined to the Carolinas. A powerful British fleet transported Sir Henry Clinton and the bulk of his forces from New York, and anchored in Charleston harbor. After a month's siege, the most of the fortifications having been beaten down, Gen. Lincoln found himself obliged to surrender his troops, including Neville's regiment of Virginians; among them Cols. John and Presley Neville and Maj. William Croghan. Col. Presley Neville was fortunate enough to be exchanged, but Col. John Neville and Maj. Croghan, with the rest of the officers, were released only on their parole of honor. Before Maj. Croghan was exchanged, he was present at the siege of Yorktown and surrender of Cornwallis, but could only participate in the stirring scenes by his presence. Maj. Croghan came to Fort Pitt with Col. John Neville, and was there on the 6th of July, 1782. Under that date he wrote to the Virginia secretary of war, giving an account of the murdering of the Moravian Indians by a party of white men from Washington County, Pennsylvania. On the 24th of July, 1783, he was ordered by the secretary of war to discharge the men of the Virginia line at fort Pitt enlisted for the war, and give them three months' pay. He was one of the original members of the Society of the Cincinnati, the officers of the Virginia line having joined at a meeting held at Fredericksburg in the beginning of October, 1783.
In 1784 he visited Kentucky, and was so pleased with the country that he concluded to make it his home, and accordingly removed there, finally settling in Jefferson County, where he passed the remainder of his life at his beautiful place, Locust Grove, not far from Louisville, where he died.
After his removal to Kentucky he married the sister of Gen. George Rogers Clarke, who conquered the Northwest territory from the British during the revolutionary war.