Gen. Thomas Craig

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Husband Gen. Thomas Craig ^{1 2}

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           Born: Abt 1740
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           Died: 20 Jan 1832 - Allentown, Lehigh Co, PA 2
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         Father: Capt. William Craig (      -Bef 1772) 1 2
         Mother: Elizabeth Wilson (Abt 1721-      ) 1 2

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General Notes: Husband - Gen. Thomas Craig

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He was a captain in Colonel Arthur St. Clair's regiment in the Canadian campaign, 1776; colonel of the Third Pennsylvania Regiment, Continental Line, from August 1, 1776, until the close of the war; major general of the Provisional Army, 1798, and major general of Northampton County militia in 1812-14.

He served from the beginning to the close of the Revolution in 1775 as Second Lieutenant, promoted successively to the offices of Captain, Lieutenant Colonel and Colonel in 1776 and 1777, Brevetted Brigadier General 1783, and in 1807 become Major General of the 7th Division Pennsylvania Militia. He was engaged in northern New York and Canada, fought at Brandywine and Germantown, endured the terrible hardships at Valley Forge, took a distinguished part at Monmouth under General Wayne and with his Regiment (3rd Penna. Regt. in Continental Line), assisted in the repulse of the bayonet charge of the British Grenadiers under Monckton, the flower of the British army. When Arnold turned traitor, and no one knew whom to trust, Colonel Craig's regiment was one chosen to make West Point secure. It was through Col. Craig that Mrs. Lydia Darragh, of Philadelphia, conveyed to General Washington warning of the intended attack at White Marsh by the British, she having overheard General Howe communicating the plans of attack to his officers, in her house. This was December 2, 1777. General Thomas Craig died at Allentown, Pa., January 20, 1832, when upwards of 92 years of age, and his funeral took place with military honors. He had a son Thomas who had four sons :\emdash Col. John Craig, who served in the Civil War as Colonel of the 147th Penna. Regiment; the late Judge Allen Craig, of Mauch Chunk, Pa.; Mr. William Craig, of Blue Springs, Nebraska, and Col. Robert Craig, of Washington, D. C., of the regular army and a graduate of West Point.

1 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 742.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 113.