More Questions Than Answers on Patrick Cragun, I Think

I guess we have a lot of answers, really, when we inventory what we know about the history of The Cragun family from Patrick down.
Today was another family history library day, half day actually.

I was focused on Patrick and Sullivan County Tennessee. The history of this area in the times of Patrick is fascinating. Patrick is found here in 1780 as Cregan. Pg 226 Index to Oliver Taylors Historic Sullivan County, land transaction.

We have undocumented, as far as I know of his children being born in Sullivan County or Russell County Virginia. In an earlier post I downplayerd the Virginia factor. Perhaps I am wrong in this although it is about 43 miles from one the Tennessee location to the Virginia location. The children possibly born in Virginia are in the middle of those born in Tennessee.


I have a form that says, "I want to know", "I already know", and "I conclude that" Here is one of the questions in my "I want to know column". You are welcome to help.

Did he serve in the revolutionary war? Here are reasons I would love to have this answer: Patrick is about 35 years old when he shows up in Sullivan County, Tn. Sullivan County is named after the Revolutionary War hero General John Sullivan. General Sullivan ended his career with his battle against the Iriquos in that area of Tennessee. Patrick would have been about 22 when the Boston Tea Party. If he participated in that, where was he between that Boston event and age 35 in Tennessee? Is it possible that as Sullivan served part of the war in Boston that Patrick was one of his soldiers, and followed him to Tennessee?

If you want a good Cragun history task, work on this question with me.

The answer to that might help fill in a lot of unknown.

Researcing Patrick Cragun At The Family History Library

I had time Friday to go through every book in the Salt Lake City Family History Library on the topics of histories of Virginia and Indiana.

The only references in any of them that I could find that mentioned Patrick, one in Indiana, his death and a reference to his son, Elisha, who is my 3rd great grandfather. Elisha is clearly in Indiana. I do plan on studying Elisha more.

Patrick Cragun Living in Virginia, Doubtful

Yesterday I spent several hours looking for grandfather Patrick in Virginia. No results. In looking back in new family search where data suggests he had children in Virginia it has become my assumption they were born in Indiana or not his children.

For that reason I am removing articles I have published here referring to Patrick living in Virginia. I am also going to edit the references in new family search.

Kingdom of Great Britain

This article is about the historical kingdom, before the Acts of Union 1800 with Ireland. For the modern state, see United Kingdom. For the island, see Great Britain.

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1Cornish: Rywvaneth Breten Veur; Scots: Kinrick o Great Breetain; Scottish Gaelic: Rìoghachd na Breatainne Mòire; Welsh: Teyrnas Prydain Fawr. 2 The Royal motto used in Scotland was In My Defens God Me Defend. 3 England, Scotland, Wales.

The Kingdom of Great Britain, described occasionally as the United Kingdom of Great Britain,^[2][3][4] was a sovereign state in northwest Europe, that existed from 1707 to 1801. It came into being on 1 May 1707, with the political union of the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England (which included Wales). With the 1706 Treaty of Union (ratified by the Acts of Union 1707), it was agreed to create a single, united kingdom, encompassing the whole of the island of Great Britain and its minor outlying islands, excluding Ireland, which remained a separate realm under the newly created British crown. A single parliament and government, based at Westminster, controlled the new kingdom. The former kingdoms had already shared the same monarch since James VI, King of Scots became King of England in 1603 following the death of Queen Elizabeth I, bringing about a "Union of the Crowns".
On 1 January 1801, the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland united to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Most of Ireland left the union as the Irish Free State in 1922, leading to the remaining state being renamed as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 1927

Plantations in 16th and 17th century Ireland

Plantations in 16th and 17th century Ireland were the confiscation of land by the English crown and the colonisation of this land with settlers from England and the Scottish Lowlands.
They followed smaller-scale emigration to Ireland as far back as the 12th century, which had resulted in a distinct ethnicity in Ireland known as the Old English.
The 16th century plantations were established throughout the country by the confiscation of lands occupied by Gaelic clans and Hiberno-Norman dynasties, but principally in the provinces of Munster and Ulster. The lands were then granted by Crown authority to colonists ("planters") from England. This process began during the reign of Henry VIII and continued under Mary I and Elizabeth I. It was accelerated under James I, Charles I and Oliver Cromwell, and in their time the planters came also from Scotland.
The early plantations in the 16th century tended to be based on small "exemplary" colonies. The later plantations were based on mass confiscations of land from Irish landowners and the subsequent importation of large numbers of settlers from England and Wales, later also from Scotland.
The final official plantations took place under the English Commonwealth and Cromwell’s Protectorate during the 1650s, when thousands of Parliamentarian soldiers were settled in Ireland. Outside of the plantations, significant migration into Ireland continued well into the 18th century, from both Great Britain and continental Europe.
The plantations changed the demography of Ireland by creating large communities with a British and Protestant identity. These communities replaced the older Catholic ruling class, which shared with the general population a common Irish identity and set of political attitudes.^[1] The physical and economic nature of Irish society was also changed, as new concepts of ownership, trade and credit were introduced. These changes led to the creation of a Protestant ruling class, which secured the authority of Crown government in Ireland during the 17th century.

Patrick Cragun In America

Short Biography of Patrick Cragun and Family

On Rawlins.org

Horrific Religious Bigotry In Action

The people of Northern Ireland have endured a bloody and brutal conflict for centuries caused by religious, cultural and political prejudices. The Troubles, as the conflict is known in Ireland, has heightened the division between two different peoples, Catholics and Protestants. So, how is compromise found with the blood of over 3500 dead staining the streets and hearts of Northern Ireland? Where is peace in a community so divided? Is there a solution in a land where bigotry and hate dominate the political landscape? The heartbreaking complexity of the Northern Irish conflict is summed up in this account by Seamus Heaney in a lecture when he received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1995:

“One of the most harrowing moments in the whole history of the harrowing of the heart in Northern Ireland came when a minibus full of workers being driven home one January evening in 1976 was held up by armed and masked men and the occupants of the van ordered at gunpoint to line up at the side of the road. Then one of the masked executioners said to them, “Any Catholics among you, step out here”. As it happened, this particular group, with one exception, were all Protestants, so the presumption must have been that the masked men were Protestant paramilitaries about to carry out a tit-for-tat sectarian killing of the Catholic as the odd man out, the one who would have been presumed to be in sympathy with the IRA and all its actions. It was a terrible moment for him, caught between dread and witness, but he did make a motion to step forward. Then, the story goes, in that split second of decision, and in the relative cover of the winter evening darkness, he felt the hand of the Protestant worker next to him take his hand and squeeze it in a signal that said no, don’t move, we’ll not betray you, nobody need know what faith or party you belong to. All in vain, however, for the man stepped out of the line; but instead of finding a gun at his temple, he was thrown backward and away as the gunmen opened fire on those remaining in the line, for these were not Protestant terrorists, but members, presumably, of the Provisional IRA.”

The historical context of the conflict in Northern Ireland must be understood to comprehend the scope of the tragedies and appreciate the hard won compromises of recent years. After the bloody military conquest of a Catholic Ireland by the Protestant British in the 1600′s, order needed to be established in the region. The British monarchy’s solution, The Plantation of Ulster, gave much of the most fertile farm land in the Northeast region of Ireland to Scottish and English Protestant plantation owners, and other British settlers, thus driving native Irish Catholics from their homes. Injustice, combined with close proximity, differing cultures, ideologies, political allegiances, and religious beliefs created fierce hostilities. Alienated Catholics reacted with spurts of violence against the new migrating Protestants, and these conflicts would continue, unresolved, into the 1900′s.

The full article can be found by clicking here: 

C Crigan and Alexander

Found on Family Search, British Census - C is Probably not our Caleb

England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," C. Crigan in entry for Alexander Crigan, 1780

I post this type of entry just to have it saved under Cragin... perhaps it will be of value later.

Elisha Cragun 1820 Census

His brother Caleb is there also.

Brookville, Franklin County, Indiana

Journals of Conrad Weiser (1748), George Croghan (1750–1765) Christian Frederick Post (1758),

http://memory.loc.gov/gc/lhbtn/th001/th001.sgm
... terms. Born in Ireland and educated at Dublin, Croghan emigrated ... Caleb Lamb, The Deputies of the Six Nations, Delawares, Shawoenes 0062 63 Owendatts, and Twightwees; Mr. Andrew Montour, Interpreter for the Province of Pennsylvania; Toanshiscoe, Interpreter for the Six Nations. George Croghan ... Conrad Weiser's plantation, we found Pisquetomen lying

Creggan

 Creggan. A town land in what once had been the Barony of Upper Fews, County Armagh, Ulster, Northern Ireland

Through this area flows a small stream called Creeg an River. Creegan is also the name of a road

Croghan. The name of a mountain (6,000 ft. high) west of the city of Arklow in County Wick low, Eire. The name is likely derived from the Gaelic word which is anglicized as croaghaun m eaning: a little pile of stones. 4. Cregan. A surname found throughout Ireland. ...

Journal of The Cork Historical and Archealogical Society

Creagh, Patrick, of Kilroan
Creagh, John, of Corke

Creagh Castle Cragun Castle?

Creagh Castle Gates

Duhallow Hunt. — There are yet other buttons of the Duhallow Hunt in the
family of Captain John Brazier Creagh, of Creagh Castle, and of Mr. Brazier Creagh,
of Stream Hill, Doneraile, which have an important bearing on the history of the club,
as they prove conclusively that the Duhallows existed as a hunt club before a.d. 1800.
The buttons are of silver, and are inscribed "Duhallow Hunt revived, 1800."

There Was Patrick Creagan In Boston in Oct 1883

Oct. 4, 1883, Patrick Creagan of Boston, Related?

Found using Mocavo which pulled up via Google Books this book, click here: History of the town of Hingham, Massachusetts"         

You do not have to read an entire on line document. You can search a document by control & f. That will pull up a search box for that document.

Cragin Relatives?

MIDDLESEX COUNTY.

1641

spent." He died March 28, 1837, aged seventy-two years.

He married (iirstj (^published December 19, 1793), January 19, 1794, Betsey Cragin, who
was born in 1777, and died October ij, 1807, aged thirty-eight years, daughter of Samuel
and Mercy (Chapin) Cragin, who were married September 23, 1769. Samuel Cragin, her
father, was born November 5, 1739, the son of Benjamin and Experience (Aldrichj Cra-
gin, who were married June 13, 1727. Benjamin Cragin, her grandfather, was born No-
vember 2y, 1702, the son of John and Deborah (Skelton) Cragin, who were married April
13, 1700. John Cragin was son of the immigrant ancestors, John and Sarah (Dawes)
Cragin, who were married November 4, 1661

Patrick Cragun Family

The home of Patrick Cragun was on Indian Creek, about 10 miles below Bristol, Va-Tenn, and near Bluff City, Tenn. He received a grant of 170 acres from the state of Tennessee on 10 Nov. 1784. He sold 164 acres lying on Indian Creek, Tenn., to CHARLES BARNETTE, 19 Feb. 1812. This Indenture shows his name as "PATRICK CREGGAN".

 As "PATRICK CREGAN" he helped in building a road in 1795, in old Sullivan County, Tenn. Sullivan county was created out of the northern part of Washington county, by the N.Car. legislature in October 1779. Most of the original records of Sullivan county were destroyed 22 Sept 1863 when a shell from a Federal Battery hit the Sullivan Courthouse at Blountsville, setting it afire and destroying County Court Minutes and Marriages from 1780, and also records of Wills.

The children of Patrick Cragun appear in Franklin County in 1814, where ELISHA CRAGUN entered land. It is not known for certain when Patrick Cragun, their father, came to Indiana. Patrick Cragun had ten (maybe 11) children all certain except the last one. ISAAC CRAIGAN (1785 Vir); ELISHA CRAGUN (1786); JOHN CRAGON (1787); TYRESHA CRAGUN (1789); LYDIA CRAGAN (1791); HANNAH CRAGUN (1795); CALEB CRAGAN (1796 TN); JOSHUA CRAGUN (1796 TN); ELIZABETH CRAGUN (b. 1 May 1799); SYREN CRAGUN(13 Aug 1801); and possibly another son LUCIUS CRAGUN (res. in New York).

Of these children, Isaac Craigan & his descs settled in Cass Co., Ind.

Elisha Cragun and family went west with the Mormons to Utah.

John Cragon family were found to have settled in Tenn., and

Caleb Cragun was in Franklin Co., Ind. in 1819, where he entered land. Joshua Cragun and his twin, Caleb Cragun, were tax payers of Brookville twp, Franklin Co., Ind., in 1828.

Joshua Cragun later removed to Cass Co., Ind., and was in Howard Co., Ind. by 1860.  

Elizabeth Cragun and her brother Syren Cragun went west to Utah, 21 Jan 1846.

Children:

Caleb Cragun Family, England Ireland America

CALEB CRAGUN (first gen.)

b.ca. 1700, Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England

d. (unkn)

He resided near the home of Oliver Cromwell. Caleb Cragun moved to Ireland where he married an "Irish lady". They had a son PATRICK CRAGUN.

PATRICK CRAGUN (second gen.)

b.ca. 1743/45, in Northern Ireland.

d. (date unkn), in Va. Tradition tells that some years later his remains were brought to Indiana, and reburied near Whitestown in Boone Co., in a field of a farm near ENOCH CRAGUN, Sr.'s old farm.

JOHNATHAN O. Q. CRAGUN wrote (date unkn) "Our great grandfather PATRICK CRAGUN is buried near Whitestown, Ind. I saw where he was buried some five years ago while I was in Indiana."

Some descendants of Enoch Cragun (son of ELISHA CRAGUN, 1786) stated that they had visited a cemetery at Whitestown, Indiana, and had seen the graves of Patrick Cragun & his son, Elisha Cragun. They said that the cemetery had no name and is in the church yard there.[1]

A trip was made to Whitestown, Ind., in Aug. 1964, by JEAN CRAGUN TOMBAUGH of Rochester, Ind., and a search of four graveyards was made. There were many Cragun graves, but none for our Patrick Cragun. Many were found that were impossible to read, and many that were broken off and the inscription missing. Only one cemetery had no name, and appeared to be very old indeed. It was just off the road enclosed with wire fence. I believe the twp is Eagle twp, and the cemetery is located about two miles south of Whitestown, on the left (east) side after crossing a small bridge. There was no church, although there might have been one originally.

From John Cragin, Scotland

Tradition in the family of Jean (Cragun) Tombaugh, tells that our ancestor was originally of Scotland and the name was McCRAGUN. Also, that Caleb Cragun moved from England to Ireland where he married and had children, one of whom was a son PATRICK, who came to America about the time of the Revolutionary War.[1],[2]. So, right or wrong, we will begin with the Craguns of Scotland.

I visited my cousin FRANCIS KIMBALL CRAGIN, who resides in Woburn, Mass., and there saw the result of his investigation, which was a very complete genealogy of his branch of the family from its founder, the original and only JOHN CRAGIN

With these exceptions all of the Cragins in this country are descendants of the John Cragin who settled in Woburn, Mass. about 200 years ago, and there lived and died.

To the Jean Tombaugh article in full:

CRAIGEN - Local. In 1272 the church of Cragyn (now Craigie) in Kyle was confirmed to the Monks of Paisley by THOMAS de CRAGYN son and heir of JOHN HOSE, who had assumed his surname from his lands (RMP., p.232).

He may be the THOMAS de CREGEYN del counte de ARC who rendered homage in 1296 (Bain 11, p.206). ADE CRAGYNE who held a tenement of Irvine 1477 (Irvine, 1, p.149) most probably derived his name from the same source.

A family of this name in New Pitsligo village were remarkable for their longevity.

(AEI., p.47) CHRISTAIN CRAIGANE was liferenter of Readfurd, 1630 (LIM., p.110)

PATRICK CRAIGEN in Burnebray of Gorthie, 1670 (Dunblane) and

ROBERT CRAIGIN in the Parish of Sumbennan, 1716 (SCM., IV, p.171).

WM CRAIGEN was a member of the Huntley Volunteers, 1798 (Well p.19) (a history of the volunteer movement in Strathbogie from 1798-1808) and

JOHN W. CRAIGEN from King Edward served in the first Great War (Turriff) of Craigie.[3]

......'After a thirty years war in Scotland the Irish took posession permitting any of the Scotch to remain that would join their party, and many, rather than desert their cattle and lands, remained and intermarried with the Irish nobility. The greater part fled to the mountains, and lived there until they were a powerful army, and then came down and retook their lands. The name was then a combination of Irish and Scotch, being McCRAGIN.'

JOHN CRAGIN (Craggen), from Scotland.

b. 1634, Scotland.

d. 27 Oct 1708, Woburn, Mass.

bur. prob. Woburn, Mass. (Woburn Record of Deaths 1640-1873)

From south of Scotland in the "John & Mary" 1652, to Charlestown, Mass., as a prisoner of Cromwell, and sold as a slave to Thomas Kimble.

The ancient surname CRAIG

Cragie Castle

For the full article click here:

The ancient surname CRAIG originated independently in numerous locations and is found in many variations, although its earliest beginnings lie with Scotland, and later, North Ireland. There are many forms and spellings of the name, among them, CRAIGH, CREAG, CRAIGHE, and CREIGH. In Scottish gaelic, "craig" means "rock"; throughout Scotland, many forts and defensible positions were built on the massive rock outcroppings on both the shoreline and the interior of the county. The surname CRAIG, by extension, was then applied to the people who occupied these rocky environs and fortifications.

EARLIEST HISTORY

The CRAIG surname is first found in the area of the Picts, in the eastern part of Scotland. The Picts, considered to be among the earliest settlers of Scotland, were granted settlement of the area on condition that their kings marry Irish princesses. There is evidence in early documents of the name Craig, or a derivative of, before the Norman Conquest of 1066. The name CRAIG emerged as a Clan in the original territories of Aberdeen, seated at Craigfintray Castle in Kildrumie in that Shire. This Northern Clan, frequently associated with the Gordons, first appears in the Ayershire and Lanarckshire areas, circa 1180. There were two other Clans, one associated with the Huntley's, and who were pledged to King Edward I of England during his conquest of Scotland. Fealty was sworn to Edward I by Johan de Cragyn of the county of Linlithgow in 1296. Johan Craig of the same shire and Agneys del Crage of Edinburghshire and Johan del Cragge of Lanarckshire also paid homage in 1296. By 1300, in Aberdeenshire, Bryce de Craig was Burgess of Aberdeen. The land of James del Crag, son of John del Craig, in Ayershire, is mentioned in 1323. Alexander de Cragy was forfeited in 1334, and then pardoned in 1335.

After the foundation of the Church of Scotland, political dissent occurred over the power of the King and civil authorities over the rights of the Church. This led to the beginning of the Presbyterian movement. Many of these religious dissenters fled to Northern Ireland and its freer religious environment. Religious and civil war soon reached North Ireland, bringing more Scots to live in the North. During the 1600's many Scots emigrated to North Ireland, called the "Plantation of Ulster"… our Craig's and Campbell's among them.Thomas' son, Sir James Craig of Craig Castle and Craigston of Aberdeen became one of theScottish undertakers of the Ulster Plantation. Sir James went to England in 1603, had grants of revision of the clerkship of the Wardrobe and of the Office of Assistant Clerk in the King's Great Wardrobe. In 1610 he was granted 1000 acres in County Armagh, which he later sold ......

It is assumed that if a person's CRAIG forefathers came to America from North Ireland, there is a good chance he was a descendent of James, especially if they emigrated between just after the Revolutionary War (U.S) and 1810

Family Creagh In Ireland

This family were established in county Cork from the 16th century and share a common ancestry with the Brasier Creaghs. In the mid 1740s Michael Creagh of Laurentinum, county Cork, sixth son of John Creagh of Killowen, married as his second wife Mary Gethin, sister and heiress of Captain Richard Gethin. Their son Arthur married Isabella Bagwell in 1770 and their second son the Reverend John Bagwell Creagh married Gertrude Miller of Toonagh, county Clare. At the time of Griffith's Valuation their son Arthur Gethin Creagh held land in the parish of Quin, county Limerick and in the parishes of Doneraile, barony of Fermoy and Ightermurragh, barony of Imokilly, county Cork and he and his brother John held land in the county Cork parishes of Clonfert, barony of Duhallow and Liscarroll, barony of Orrery and Kilmore

Found in Landed Estates Database

''Burke's Irish Family Records'' traces the descent of the Creaghs of Killowen, county Cork, from Christopher Creagh, Mayor of Cork in 1541. John Creagh medical doctor of Creagh Castle, Doneraile, county Cork, was the second son of John Creagh of Killowen who married in 1695 Elinor Barret. John Creagh MD married as his second wife Judith Shuldham of Dunmanway, county Cork and they had an only daughter Mary who married in 1779 Alderman Kilner Brooke Brasier of county Limerick. Their second son inherited Castle Creagh.

Creagan In Delaware in 1739 A Cragun Ancestor?

EXTRACTS FROM THE PROBATE RECORDS OF
NEWCASTLE COUNTY, DELAWARE.

Hugh Creagan of Mill Creek Hundred, dealer, by his will dated
October 17th, 1739, left his property to his "sister Catharine
Creagan (alias Divine) wife of Patrick Divine in Ireland."

The History of The Cragun Name

Ireland in the 1700's, Caleb and Patrick Cragun Era

Historical Summary
Ireland - Early 1700's
The century opens with the death of King William III of England and Scotland in 1702. His legacy in Ireland is a Protestant Nation where his supporters in the religious battles of the last decade are now in the ascendancy, and his Catholic opponents are the targets of marginalization and penalization. The Irish parliament is also under William's thumb, and they must disavow themselves of Catholic doctrines.

For their allegiance to Catholic King James II, the Irish Catholics were disarmed, their bishops banished. Penal laws were introduced to strengthened the position of the English Protestants in power, and reduce the Irish Catholics to impotent servants.

Historical Summary
Ireland - Middle 1700's
Economic hardships plague Ireland in the mid 1700's and the internalized harvest-dependant economy keeps Ireland on the brink of calamity. Low prices cause a bank failure in 1733 and famine strikes in 1740 causing bread riots in Dublin. The next year brings dysentery and 400,000 die in the year of the slaughter. The suggestion to cultivate the sturdier corn is met by calls of unfair competition from Britain, and famine returns in 1744 reducing the poor to eating grass. This is about the time Patrick was born.

Historical Summary
Ireland 1760's - The time we are told that Patrick left for America.

The growth of both political extremes: the agrarian secret societies and the parliamentary Patriots, show there is a common Irish desire for freedom from oppression. Their views on oppression are quite contrasting, however, as the religious British imposed inequalities  have created grave socio-economic and judicial disadvantages for Catholics.

The Heiner Patrick Cragun Story As Seen In Ancestry.com

Remembering the famine of 1845-1848 in Ireland

Note: I see a lot of similarities in the stories about Patrick Cragun, his birth, his father, and probable wifes name. However consistant they are they leave me to believe they may be incorrect. They at least are not to my knowledge documented. My hope is to find a documentable confirmation of the storiesa s we know them.

No documentation is provided anywhere that I find. I am yet to find, in that era, a Caleb or a family name spelled CRAGUN.

You will see if you study the previous articles that I have been trying to piece together a link to Patrick and his father in Ireland.

It is logical he left Ireland as the family stories to date suggest. I say that as In the 1740s, economic inequalities, when combined with an exceptionally cold winter and poor harvest, led directly to the famine of 1740-1741, which killed about 400,000 people. I assume it was a tremendous struggle for Patricks parents.

The best we have is stated below, note so little is here about Ireland or England:
Caleb had a son named Patrick who was born c1745 in Ireland, perhaps in County Armagh, Ulster.

However, Heiner reports that a book entitled, History of Cass County, Indiana found at the Indianapolis Library states on page 214 that, "the family of CRAGUN was founded in America by Patrick Cragun who came from Dublin, Ireland prior to the Revolutionary War and who took part in the struggles of the American Colonists that resulted in the winning of Independence.''

She also reports that a genealogical history of South West Virginia states that one Patrick Cragun had been arrested for the fourth time by the King's officers for his revolutionary tendencies.

The identity of his wife, Rose Alley (or Abby) or Hanna Elsy (perhaps a second marriage) is unclear as is the date (1780's) and place of marriage.

They are however, tied to Russell County, Virginia located in the extreme southwestern part of the state 20 miles north of Bristol, through the record of their eldest son Isaac as recorded in the Cass County history.

The family is more closely identified with Sullivan County, Tennessee which borders Virginia and shares the city of Bristol.

The first record of Patrick known to exist is his listing in 1779 as a taxable in Washington County, N.C. which became Sullivan County, TN after 1780. In this record he is entered as Patrick Craguner where he is shown to have been assessed on: 170 acres of land, value L100; four horses, value L510; three cattle, value L30; and ready money, four shillings; for a total taxable estate of L640 and four shillings. While Negros were taxable property at that time, none were taxed to Patrick.

A 1784 listing of 5,486 North Carolina land grants in the new state of Tennessee shows at page 47, grant #1274 to be a general purchase grant to Patrick Cragon for 170 acres on Indian Creek, Sullivan County, Tennessee, a tributary of the Holston River. This farmsted was located only a few miles from Booher Creek, a tributary of Indian creek and the likely location of members of the Booher family.

The Cragun and Booher families were later near neighbors in Boone County, Indiana. Patrick's greatgrandson, S. N. Cragun married Adelaide Booher at Worth Township, Boone County, in 1883, nearly one hundred years following their familiy's neighboring settlements in Tennessee.

The last known listing for Patrick was in 1812 showing that Patrick Creggon sold 164 acres on Indian Creek to Charles Barnette on Feb. 19, 1812. However, a bit earlier he is found as Patrick Cragun of record in Russel Co., VA in 1806, about 30 miles North of the Indian Creek farm, when he was exempt from County levies on account of age and bodily infirmity.

ULSTER’S ANTHEM (UIRCHILL A CHREAGAIN

There’s not too much to Creggan.  About fifty houses, a small shop, an old church and a graveyard.  But it’s the last of these that guarantees it its place in the pantheon of Irish cultural history since resting there are some of the finest poets of the later stages of the Bardic period. Not only that, but the O’Neill vault is one of those places you need to visit before you die, though you’d have a better chance nowadays of getting an audience with the Pope than getting down there to view its contents.  A small underground room containing the mortal remains of the nobles of the great O’Neill clan who once ruled south Armagh from their castle in Glassdrumman.  It’s an eerie, cold but fascinating place and five minutes is enough for anyone in there amongst the bones and skulls and darkness. But it was here that one of the most famous poems in the Irish language was written by a half inebriated, destitute clip of a poet whose memory is possibly the literary equivalent of Van Goch; a flawed, slightly mad genius ahead of his era and too good for those who were judging him at the time.
As children born and reared in the village of Creggan, we lamented the fact that it was never on a map, or on a signpost or known to anyone outside of south Armagh.

By Jarlath Burns: son of Creggan

Names all over Scotland as Craigie and Craggan.

The derivatives creagach and creagdn give such
names all over Scotland as Craigie and Craggan.

The earldom of Carrick takes its name from some
crag, but which particular one in that very craggy-
province there is now no means of knowing. Perhaps
it was named from the big boulder on the march of
Ayrshire and Galloway, known as the " Taxing Stone,"
from the duties which used to be levied there upon
goods passing from one province to the other.

lomaire (emery) is an obsolete word signifying
a ridge or hill -back, surviving in the name Immer-
voulin, in Perthshire — iomair mhuileain, mill-ridge,
a name which is familiar in the Anglo-Saxon form
Milrig.

THE Irish in the colonial period

St. Botolph's town. Pro-English and Anti-Irish
feeling among the colonists.

Irish names that appear in Boston's colonial his-tory.

Causes of Irish emigration. Religious prejudice.

The authorities extend an invitation to the New-England colonists to settle in Ireland. The undesirableness of Ireland as a home at that time. The "Scotch-Irish." Visits of the Puritans to Ireland. American colonists of Irish descent. Declaration of the citizens of the town on the Catholic question. Extracts from the town records of Sept. 22, 1746. "Pope's night" in Boston. Burning the Pope in effigy. Gen. Washington appears on the scene. He reprimands the soldiers. The Abbe de la Poterie. Irish apostates. Difference in race between the " Scotch-Irish " and the Catholic-Irish. The Charitable Irish Society. " Of the Irish Nation." The Scots' Charitable Society. AJD. 1636. The Brecks of Dorchester. A numerous and distinguished family. An unrecorded deed. " Robert Breck of Galway, in Ireland, merchant." Florence Maccarty in Boston as early as 1686. Thaddeus Maccarty and family. Edward Mortimer, the mathematician and volunteer fireman.

Distinctively Irish names which appear in the register of births, marriages, and deaths, in Boston, from 1630-1700.

Under Cromwell's government many Irish people emigrate to New England. On their arrival they are sold as slaves. The reason why. In 1654 the ship " Goodfellow " arrives at Boston with a large number of Irish immigrants. What Cotton Mather says. The petition of Ann Glyn and Jane Hunter, spinsters, lately arrived from Dublin, Ireland. English criminals systematically sold to the colonists.

Daring pirates kidnap men and sell them to Americans. The brigantine " Bootle," Capt. Robert Boyd commanding, touches Boston in August, 1736. The selectmen order him not to let his passengers " Come on Shoar." II

Cragan Used By The Scottish In Ireland

The battle cry for the MacDonnell’s of Glengarry was “Cragan an Fhithich” which means “the Raven’s Rock.”  This produces an image in my mind of hundreds of MacDonnells, regimental in their kilts, careening “doon” the glen towards their enemy screeching Cragan an Fhithich.  And of course, with Galloglass and Red Shank warriors bringing up their flanks, waving their Sparths and Claymores, enough to stun their enemies before they hacked them into pieces.

Found in the article on line by clicking here.

An Interesting Site With Scottish Irish History

http://mccutcheonsfromdonaghadee.wordpress.com/about/cover-page-whats-in-a-name/galloglass-red-shank-or-farmer/

Is This A Relative? Did He Inspire Patrick Cragun?

George Croghan
Cragun?

George Croghan, Indian agent, was born in
Ireland early in the 18th century. He was educated
at Dublin, immigrated to America, and settled near
Harrisburg, in Pennsylvania, where he engaged as
a trader among the Indians as early as 1746. At
this period a number of traders, mostly from Penn-
sylvania, crossed the Alleghany Mountains once a
year, and descending the Ohio Valley with pack-
horses or in canoes, traded from one Indian village
to another.

Croghan gained great confidence among the In-
dians and acquired a good knowledge of their lan-
guages, which led to his employment as government
agent. He served in that capacity, with the rank of
captain of provincials, in General Braddock's expe-
dition of 1755, and in defense of the Northwest
frontier in 1756. In November of the latter yeai
he was made deputy-agent for the Pennsylvania and
Ohio Indians by Sir William Johnson, who in 1763
sent him to Kngland to confer with the government
relative to an Indian boundary line. During the
voyage he was shipwrecked on the coast of France.
In 1765, when on his way to pacify the Illinois
Indians, he was attacked, wounded, and taken pris-
oner to Vincennes, an old French fort on the Wa-
bash River. He was, however, speedily released
and succeeded in accomplishing his mission. In
May, 1766, he formed a settlement about four miles
from Fort Pitt (formerly Fort Duquesne) and con-
tinued to render valuable service in conciliating the
Indians until the breaking out of the revolutionary
war, when he retired to his farm at Passayunk, Pa.,

Ireland Church History

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Effective research in church records requires some understanding of your ancestor's religion and the events that led to the creation of church records. 

Major Historical Events

The following major events affected Irish church history and records:
1537 King Henry VIII declared himself supreme head of a new church, the Church of England (Anglican).
1541 Henry VIII became King of Ireland.
1560 The Anglican church (Church of Ireland) became the state church of Ireland under Elizabeth I.
1605-09 The plantation of Ulster was started. Many Presbyterians from Scotland were sent to Ulster to displace Irish Catholics and to strengthen English rule.
1619 The earliest known Church of Ireland parish register (St. John, Dublin) was begun.
1634 A law was passed requiring that Church of Ireland registers be kept.
1637 Presbyterian worship was suppressed by the Church of Ireland.
Mid-1600s The Quaker, Congregationalist, and Baptist movements began. The Huguenot migrations to Ireland also began.
1674 The oldest known Presbyterian register (Antrim, County Antrim) was begun.
1695-1728 The Penal Laws against Catholics were in force. Catholic clergy were banished. The Catholic church was forbidden to keep parish registers and Catholics were deprived of the rights to own property, hold office, and vote.
1719 The Toleration Act was passed, protecting Protestant dissenters.
1726 Nonconforming Presbyterians separated from the main Presbyterian body to form the presbytery of Antrim.
1747 The Methodist movement began.

150+ Year History Of War

Irish Rebellion of 1641

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Irish Rebellion of 1641 Part of the Eleven Years War Date 23 October 1641 – March 1642[under discussion] Location Ireland Result founding of the Irish Catholic Confederation and beginning of the Confederate War Belligerents Irish Catholics [under discussion] English army Scottish Army Protestant colonists Commanders and leaders Sir Phelim O'Neill, Sir Roger Moore, Donough MacCarty, Connor Maguire and others William St Leger, James Butler, Charles Coote, and others Strength ? ? Casualties and losses ? ?

[show] v t e Irish Confederate Wars or Eleven Years War Timeline 1641–1642 Julianstown – Portadown – 1st Drogheda – Kilrush 1642–1649 Glenmaquin – Liscarroll – 1st Limerick – 1st Galway – New Ross – Duncannon – Benburb – Dungan's Hill – Cashel – Knocknanuss – Rathmines 1649–1653 2nd Drogheda – Wexford –Waterford – Arklow – Lisnagarvey – Clonmel – Macroom – Tecroghan – Scarrifholis – 2nd Limerick – Charlemont – Meelick Island – Knocknaclashy – 2nd Galway

The Irish Rebellion of 1641 (Irish: Éirí Amach 1641) began as an attempted coup d'état by Irish Catholic gentry, who tried to seize control of the English administration in Ireland to force concessions for the Catholics living under English rule. However, the coup failed and the rebellion developed into an ethnic conflict between native Irish Catholics on one side, and English and Scottish Protestant settlers on the other. This began a conflict known as the Irish Confederate Wars.
The rising was sparked by Catholic fears of an impending invasion of Ireland by anti-Catholic forces of the English Long Parliament and the Scottish Covenanters, who were defying the authority of the King Charles I. In turn, the rebels' suspected association with the King of England, Scotland and Ireland, Charles I, helped to spark the outbreak of the English Civil War. The English and Scottish Parliaments refused to raise an army to put down the rebellion unless it was under their command rather than the King's.
The Irish rebellion broke out in October 1641 and was followed by several months of violent chaos before the Irish Catholic upper classes and clergy formed the Catholic Confederation in the summer of 1642. The Confederation became a de facto government of most of Ireland, free from the control of the English administration and loosely aligned with the Royalist side in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. The subsequent war continued in Ireland until the 1650s, when Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army decisively defeated the Irish Catholics and Royalists, and re-conquered the country.

The act was passed on 12 August 1652 by the Rump Parliament of England, who had taken power after the Second English Civil War and had agreed to the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. The conquest was deemed necessary as Royalist supporters of Charles II of England had allied themselves with the Confederation of Kilkenny (the confederation formed by Irish Catholics during the Irish Confederate Wars) and so was a threat to the newly formed English Commonwealth. The Rump Parliament had a large independent Dissenter membership who strongly empathised with the plight of the Protestant settler community in Ireland, who had suffered greatly at the start of the Irish Rebellion of 1641 and whose suffering had been exaggerated by Protestant propaganda, so the act was also a retribution against Irish Catholics who had participated in the initial stages of the war.
Also money to pay for the wars had been raised under the 1642 Adventurers Act, which paid creditors with land forfeited by the 1641 rebels. These and other creditors had mostly resold their property interests to local landowners who wanted these recent property transfers reconfirmed by an overriding Act, for the avoidance of doubt.

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Whereas the Parliament of England, after the expense of much blood and treasure for suppression of the horrid rebellion in Ireland, have by the good hand of God upon their undertakings, brought that affair to such an issue, as that a total reducement and settlement of that nation may, with God's blessing, be speedily effected...

—Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652 Preamble ^[1]

Ten named leaders of the Royalist forces in Ireland, together with anyone^{[nb 1]} who had participated in the Irish Rebellion’s early stages and who had killed an Englishman other than in battle, lost their lives and estates. ^{[nb 2]}
The Act made a distinction between the rebels of 1641 – who were deemed unlawful combatants – as against those who had fought in the regular armies of Confederate Ireland, who were treated as legitimate combatants provided that they had surrendered before the end of 1652. The 1641 rebels and the above mentioned Royalist leaders were not included in the pardon given to soldiers who had surrendered: they were to be executed when captured. Roman Catholic clergy were also excluded from the pardon, as the Cromwellians held them responsible by fomenting the 1641 Rebellion.^[2]
The remaining leaders of the Irish army lost two-thirds of their estates. To have been merely a bystander was itself a crime, and anyone who had resided in Ireland any time from 1 October 1649, to 1 March 1650 and had not "manifested their constant good affection to the interest of the Commonwealth of England" lost one-third of their land. The Commissioners in Ireland had power to give them, in lieu thereof, other (poorer) lands in Connacht or Clare in proportion of value and were authorised "to transplant such persons from the respective places of their usual habitation or residence, into such other places within that nation, as shall be judged most consistent with public safety." ^[3]
This was interpreted by the English Parliamentarian authorities in Ireland who ordered all Irish land owners to leave for those lands before 1 May 1654 or be executed. However, in practice, most Catholic landowners stayed on their land as tenants and the numbers of those either transplanted or executed was small.^[4]

To Hell or Connaught

Pretty ugly behavior.

The Act of Settlement contained a list of the condemned whose land would be forfeit.  Irish soldiers were given a choice of death or exile.  The reputation of Irish troops as fierce fighting men made them desirable recruits for armies in continental Europe .  France , Poland , Italy and Spain were some of the nations which sent recruiters to Ireland to bring back Irish young men for their armies.  Between 1651 and 1655, 40,000 young Irish men left their homeland never to return.  Their lands were forfeited. 

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Settling Debts Owed By Seizing Irish Land

Below lists possible counties:

The debt claimed by the Adventurers amounted to £336,000, to be paid in lands the position of which was to be determined by lot. Ten counties of the richest part of Ireland�Limerick, Tipperary, King's and Queen's Counties, Meath and Westmeath, Down, Antrim, Armagh, and Waterford�some of them planted with English and Scottish during the last century, were now to be handed over to the newcomers, halved between the army and the Adventurers. Louth was reserved as additional security to the purchasers, and several counties, mostly in the North and in Leinster, with Kerry, were put aside as additional security to the soldiers for arrears of pay due to them. The counties of Dublin, Kildare, Carlow, and Cork, with all Church lands, were held back for bestowal on notable regicides and other favoured persons. It was eventually found that even these vast forfeitures, which included the whole of Ireland except Connacht and Clare, the two districts reserved for the uprooted inhabitants, were not sufficient to pay off the long-standing arrears of pay, and portions of Sligo and Mayo, intended for the dispossessed landowners, were eventually added to them.

Update On The Plantation Movement Regarding Patrick Craguns Father Caleb Cragun

In studying Wikipedia - and analyzing the times that Patrick Cragun was born, it appears the Counties below in this article are more likely where Caleb Cragun settled  his family than Ulser.

The conditions which motivated the settlements were religous persecution in England and a chance to move up from being poor. It appears these platation movement participants came about 150 years or so after the plantation movement began. If Patrick were indentured out to a bootmaker, the family might have been poor. 

Reading the below from Wikipedia would suggest that Counties Sligo, land in Wicklow and planned a full scale Plantation of Connacht, and County Roscommon were more likely locateion. Next, Wentworth surveyed the major Catholic landowners in Leinster

In England, Catholics were greatly outnumbered by Protestants and lived under constant fear of betrayal by their fellows. In Ireland however they could blend in with the local majority Catholic population in a way that was not possible in England. English Catholic planters were most common in County Kilkenny, where they may have made up half of all the English and Scottish planters to arrive in this region.^[29] Given this it is no surprise that the sons and grandsons of English planters played a major part in the politics of the Confederation of Kilkenny in the 1640s, most notably James Tuchet, 3rd Earl of Castlehaven.

Plantations stayed off the political agenda until the accession of Thomas Wentworth, a close advisor of Charles I, to the position of Lord Deputy of Ireland in 1632. Wentworth’s job was to raise revenue for Charles and to cement Royal control over Ireland — which meant, among other things, more plantations, both to raise money and to break the political power of the Irish Catholic gentry. Wentworth confiscated land in Wicklow and planned a full scale Plantation of Connacht — where all Catholic landowners would lose between a half and a quarter of their estates. The local juries were intimidated into accepting Wentworth’s settlement and when a group of Connacht landowners complained to Charles I, Wentworth had them imprisoned. However, settlement only went ahead in County Sligo and County Roscommon. Next, Wentworth surveyed the major Catholic landowners in Leinster for similar treatment, including members of the powerful Butler dynasty. Wentworth’s plans were interrupted by the outbreak of the Bishops Wars in Scotland, which eventually led to Wentworth’s execution by the English Parliament and to civil war in England and Ireland. His constant questioning of Catholic land titles was one of the major causes of the 1641 Rebellion and the principal reason why it was joined by Ireland’s wealthiest and most powerful Catholic families.^[30]