Patricks Son Caleb - Franklin County Indiana

Caleb Cragun, twin son of Patrick Cragun took up two tracts of land in twp 11, Range 13, in Franklin Co., Ind., in 1819; and another, a (40 a.) tract in 1835.

Birth:	1796 Sullivan County Tennessee, USA
Death:	unknown
Marrie: SARAH JAMES, 1820, Franklin County, Indiana Died: by 1838, " Killed in Mexican War - explosion breast works

Before his death, Caleb had sold two pieces of property, and then his admr. sold the remainder 9 Feb 1841 to Francis H. Schrader.

He appears in tax lists: Calip Cregin, Brookville twp, 1822; Caleb Cragen & Joshua Craigen, Brookville twp, 1828;
Caleb Cragan, Brookville twp 1831; Caleb Creggan & Caleb Creggans, 1837.

Caleb Cragun, his wife and two children (twins) are included in the 1820 census, for Franklin County, town of Brookville, Indiana; also in 1830 Franklin Co. Indiana Census.

Complete Write up on FindAGrave.com, click here

So Patrick Was Likely Scots-Irish

With the outbreak of the Revolution in 1775 the Scots-Irish, in interesting contrast to many of their Scottish cousins, were among the most determined adherents of the rebel cause.  Their frontier skills were particularly useful in destroying Burgoyne’s army in the Saratoga campaign; and George Washington was even moved to say that if the cause was lost everywhere else he would take a last stand among the Scots-Irish of his native Virginia.  Serving in the British Army, Captain Johann Henricks, one of the much despised ‘Hessians’, wrote in frustration ‘Call it not an American rebellion, it is nothing more than an Irish-Scotch Presbyterian Rebellion.’  It was their toughness, virility and sense of divine mission that was to help give shape to a new nation, supplying it with such diverse heroes as Davy Crocket and Andrew Jackson.  They were indeed God’s frontiersmen, the real historical embodiment of the lost tribe of Israel.

Patrick Was Likely From Ulster When He Ran Away

In the northern counties of Ulster, however, a different attitude (than very hesitant to leave family) held sway with a sizeable proportion of people.

Presbyterians, most of whom had Scottish ancestry, had also suffered discrimination in Ireland but they were not inhibited to the same degree by 'ancestral' connection with the soil. They sincerely believed they would find tolerance, freedom and happiness in North America.

They were also, to varying extents, more economically independent than their Catholic neighbours. Many were artisans, shopkeepers, or young professionals, and some worked in the Irish linen trade. These early waves of Irish emigration were often in response to economic peaks and troughs.

Up to 1720, when New England was the destination of choice for most, the flow was steady but numbers were not large. Numbers rose at the end of that decade and then dropped again.

A famine in the early 1740s saw renewed interest in Atlantic passage, and Irish emigration never really subsided afterwards. In 1771-1773, more than 100 ships left the Ulster ports of Newry, Derry, Belfast, Portrush and Larne, carrying some 32,000 Irish immigrants to America. Meanwhile, a similar number set sail from Dublin, Cork and Waterford alone. Some of these would certainly have been Catholics. By 1790, the USA's Irish immigrant population numbered 447,000 and two-thirds originated from Ulster.
Back in Ireland, the population had grown from only 2.3 million at mid-century to as much as 5 million by 1800. The vast majority lived in poverty.

Searching Through Books In the Sale Lake City Family History Libraries

The Salt Lake City Family History Library has from 10 to 30 historical books and reference books on the areas Patrick Cragun is believed to have lived: Boone County Indiana, Sullivan Tennessee, and Russell County Virginia.

It has been said he was arrested 4 times for civil disobedience in Virginia. Was it there? I see no records of his being there, as incomplete as the books coverages is.

Cass County was also referenced in those available books. I need to review them soon. I found a property even in Sullivan County using the name Patrick Craguner and a Patrick Cragon reference for both the purchase and sale of land in Sullivan County, a few miles from Booher Creek, near Booher Creek. The purchase was in 1784 and the sale in 1812, 164 acres. In 1806 he was exempt from taxes as Patrick Cragun due to age and infirmity, that was in Russell County, Virginia - 30 miles north of Indian Creek.

For those interested outside of Patrick there was a book, "The Cragun and Related Families in Boone County Indiana 1835 - 1988. The largest Cragun notation was to the local eduator and newspaper owner Strange Nathaniel Cragun, owner of The Cragun House.

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.

Patrick Cragun In America

Short Biography of Patrick Cragun and Family

On Rawlins.org

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.

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.

Mocavo Search for "Cragguner"

BIOGRAPHY: 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, val ue L100; four horses, value L510; three cattle, value L30; and ready money, four shillings; f or a total taxable estate of L640 and four shillings. While Negros were taxable property at that time, none were taxed to Patrick.
BIOGRAPHY: 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.
BIOGRAPHY: 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 f ound 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.
Web_Links: CRAGUN FAMILY Story. [From the Cragun Family Web site: http://home1/. gte.net/ben42/story.htm]

BIOGRAPHY: Prepared: December 16, 1996. Contents: Introduction Caleb Cragun Partick Cragun Elisha Cragun Hiram Cragun Strange N. Cragun Dwight B. Cragun Ben M. Cragun J. Patrick Cragun Rebecca M. Cragun Rachel A. Cragun A. Elisha Cragun Samuel F. M. Cragun

BIOGRAPHY: The origin of the spelling of the CRAGUN family name is something of a mystery. Members of the family have used different spellings over the years with one vowel substituting for another. For example, brothers have used different spellings, one choosing Cragun, another choosing Cragon and yet a third electing Cragan. The phonetic kryaghen is a transliteration from a Celtic (Gaelic) word meaning: a little rocky height, or a rocky wilderness. It is likely to have originally been a place name rather than a family name, but a place name from which family names were derived. Some of its anglicized usages include:

BIOGRAPHY: 1. Creggan. A town land in what once had been the Barony of Upper Fews, County Armagh, Ulster, Northern Ireland. It is here that proprietors settled Scottish and English prote stants on their estates to work the land. Through this area flows a small stream called Creeg an River. Creegan is also the name of a road in Derry, Londonderry County, Ulster. 2. Creagan. The name of a town land north of Oban, in Lorn, Argyll, Scotland. Here the name i s descriptive of the land: high and rocky. 3. 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. One notable of that name is Martin Cregan of C ounty Meath, 1788-1870. He was portrait painter to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Francis Jo hnson, and was at one time president of the Royal Hibernian Academy. 5. Craigen. In 1272 the Church of Cragyn (now Cragie) in Kyle, Scotland was confirmed to th e monks of Paisley by Thomas de Cragyn, who assumed his name from his land.

BIOGRAPHY: Family tradition holds that Caleb Cragun was born in England in 1700 and lived a t Huntingdon, Huntingtonshire until he relocated to Ireland perhaps as a part of the Plantation Movement to settle lands forfeited to the British Crown by deposed Irish nobility. This settlement effort was being made using English and Scottish workers at the same time that other settlements were being established in Colonial America.

BIOGRAPHY: 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 In dependence.'' 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. Otherwise the family is more closely identified with Sullivan County, Tennessee which borders Virginia and shares the city of Bristol.

BIOGRAPHY: The various spellings of his surname were characteristic of the times when clerk s and recorders often wrote what they thought they heard without knowing whether the name wa s being spelled correctly or not. Doubtless these records all refer to the same individual.

BIOGRAPHY: Patrick and Rose (Alley) Cragun had eleven children as follows: Isaac, b. 1785. Immigrated to Indiana and settled in Cass County. His line spells the name CRAGAN. Elisha, b. 1786. Immigrated to Fayette County, IN in 1814. His line spells the name CRAGUN. For further information, click on his name. John, b. 1787. Settled in Smith County, TN. His line uses the spelling CRAGON. Tyresha, b. 1789. No information. Lydia, b. 1791. Came to Franklin County, IN in 1819. Tabitha, b. 1793. No information. Hanna, b. 1795. No information. Joshua, b. 1796. Was in Franklin County, IN by 1822. Calib, b. 1796. Twin of Joshua. Was in Franklin County by 1819, then Howard County, IN by 1860. Elizabeth, 1799. Was at Nauvoo, IL in 1846. Syren, b. 1801. Was at Nauvoo, IL in 1846. Lucius, b 1803. No information. -

BIOGRAPHY: References Information on the history of the descendants of Patrick Cragun is found in the fo llowing four publications. Heiner, Eva L. Patrick Cragun Descendants in America 1744-1969. (J. Grant Stevenson, 230 Wes t 1230 North, Provo, UT 84601, 1969) 346pp. Tombaugh, Jean C. CRAGUN FAMILY ( Tombaugh House, 700 Pontiac Street, Rochester, I N 46975, 1990) 320pp. Cragun, Ben M., Col. (USA Ret.). The Cragun and Related Families in Boone County , Indiana 1835-1988. (112 Madison Court, Lebanon, IN 46052, 1988) 80pp. Cragon, Henry D.,Col. (AUS Ret.).Tennessee Cragons and Their Kinfolk. (217 Rockaway Road, Birmingham, AL 35209 1973) 102pp.

BIOGRAPHY: Do you have a comment? If you would like to make a comment or provide information about the CRAGUN family , please send it to: ben42@gte.net

SOURCES: Baptism, Confirmation and Endowment completed 26 Dec 1998 by Mayo Family at Los Angeles Temple

~Web_Links: CRAGUN FAMILY Story. [From the Cragun Family Web site: http://home1/. gte.net/ben42/story.htm]

BIOGRAPHY: Prepared: December 16, 1996. Contents: Introduction Caleb Cragun Partick Cragun Elisha Cragun Hiram Cragun Strange N. Cragun Dwight B. Cragun Ben M. Cragun J. Patrick Cragun Rebecca M. Cragun Rachel A. Cragun A. Elisha Cragun Samuel F. M. Cragun

BIOGRAPHY: The origin of the spelling of the CRAGUN family name is something of a mystery. Members of the family have used different spellings over the years with one vowel substituting for another. For example, brothers have used different spellings, one choosing Cragun, another choosing Cragon and yet a third electing Cragan. The phonetic kryaghen is a transliteration from a Celtic (Gaelic) word meaning: a little rocky height, or a rocky wilderness. It is likely to have originally been a place name rather than a family name, but a place name from which family names were derived. Some of its anglicized usages include:

BIOGRAPHY: 1. Creggan. A town land in what once had been the Barony of Upper Fews, County Armagh, Ulster, Northern Ireland. It is here that proprietors settled Scottish and English prote stants on their estates to work the land. Through this area flows a small stream called Creeg an River. Creegan is also the name of a road in Derry, Londonderry County, Ulster. 2. Creagan. The name of a town land north of Oban, in Lorn, Argyll, Scotland. Here the name i s descriptive of the land: high and rocky. 3. 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. One notable of that name is Martin Cregan of C ounty Meath, 1788-1870. He was portrait painter to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Francis Jo hnson, and was at one time president of the Royal Hibernian Academy. 5. Craigen. In 1272 the Church of Cragyn (now Cragie) in Kyle, Scotland was confirmed to th e monks of Paisley by Thomas de Cragyn, who assumed his name from his land.

BIOGRAPHY: Family tradition holds that Caleb Cragun was born in England in 1700 and lived a t Huntingdon, Huntingtonshire until he relocated to Ireland perhaps as a part of the Plantation Movement to settle lands forfeited to the British Crown by deposed Irish nobility. This settlement effort was being made using English and Scottish workers at the same time that other settlements were being established in Colonial America.

BIOGRAPHY: 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 In dependence.'' 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. Otherwise the family is more closely identified with Sullivan County, Tennessee which borders Virginia and shares the city of Bristol.

BIOGRAPHY: 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, val ue L100; four horses, value L510; three cattle, value L30; and ready money, four shillings; f or a total taxable estate of L640 and four shillings. While Negros were taxable property at that time, none were taxed to Patrick.

BIOGRAPHY: 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.

BIOGRAPHY: 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 f ound 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.

BIOGRAPHY: References Information on the history of the descendants of Patrick Cragun is found in the fo llowing four publications. Heiner, Eva L. Patrick Cragun Descendants in America 1744-1969. (J. Grant Stevenson, 230 Wes t 1230 North, Provo, UT 84601, 1969) 346pp. Tombaugh, Jean C. CRAGUN FAMILY ( Tombaugh House, 700 Pontiac Street, Rochester, I N 46975, 1990) 320pp. Cragun, Ben M., Col. (USA Ret.). The Cragun and Related Families in Boone County , Indiana 1835-1988. (112 Madison Court, Lebanon, IN 46052, 1988) 80pp. Cragon, Henry D.,Col. (AUS Ret.).Tennessee Cragons and Their Kinfolk. (217 Rockaway Road, Birmingham, AL 35209 1973) 102pp.

Notes from: Rawlins History and Genealogy

Patrick Cragunhttp://rawlinshistory.org/browsenotes.php?notesearch=&offset=1100&tree=&page=23
... 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, val ue L100; four horses, value L510; three cattle, value L30; and ready money, four shillings; f ... 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, val ue L100; four horses, value L510; three cattle, value L30; and ready money, four shillings; f ...

My Latest Research On Patrick Cragun

Find a Grave: No new info to the stories. No documentation.
Ellis Island.com Nothing with C R A G U N
1790 Census, Sullivan County TN. There is a Patrick Creagan, Probably him.
1797 record of Patrick Creagon
Sent email to the Boone County Historical Society asking if they had anything on Patrick Cragun

To Do: Check name variations.

To Do: Ck out 4 arrests story

To Do: Study Indiana

Patrick Cragun Ancestry dotcom Collaborate

Searched Ancestry.com > Collaborate > Surnames > Cragun = nothing of value

Patrick Cragun Info - Found on Mocavo.com - Genforum

Patrick Cragun b 1748 Ireland, d aft 1812 IN, md 17?? Hannah Elsy. They lived on Indian Creek in Sullivan County, TN from about 1775-1812 and raised 11 children there...Joshua, Caleb, Elisha, John, Tyresha, Lydia, Tabitha, Hannah, Isaac, Elizabeth, Syren/Simeon. I am looking for info on my 4th gr grandparents Patrick and Hannah. Thank you.

All other Mocavo search results regarding the search "Patrick Cragun" was quoting Eva Heiners Book.

Patrick Cragun: Find A Grave

The Following is on Find A Grave. The provider of this monument is Bart Fowers Cragun. I tried to reach him by email about a week ago and haven't heard back from him yet. Bart seems to be quite prolific in Find A Grave, which is noble of him.

I will post here only a portion of what Bart has posted and then a link to the memorial and full text. Below is the other links of family members of Patrick, also on Find A Grave.

Birth:  1745, Ireland Death:  unknown Whitestown Boone County Indiana, USA Versions of Patrick Cragun's migration to America vary. The first one, by Homer McCarty, was forwarded by letter 25 July 1962, by LUCY C. FOULGER (Mrs. WALTON E. FOULGER), to JEAN (CRAGUN) TOMBAUGH of Rochester, Ind.: "In Ireland Patrick Cragun's parents bound him out to a saddler for a number of years to learn the trade. Hearing much of that wonderful America to which so many people were going, Pat became obsessed with the desire to go there too. Without saying anything to his parents or his boss, he left the work bench and made his way to the sea. Fortunately a ship ready to sail for America lay anchored in the harbor.

Click this for the memorial of and full article about Patrick Cragun

Family links:
 Parents:
  Caleb Cragun

 Spouses:
  Rose Mary Abbey Cragun
  Hannah Elsy Cragun (1752 - ____)

 Children:
  Isaac Craigan (1785 - ____)*
  Elisha Cragun (1786 - 1847)*
  John Cragon (1787 - ____)*
  Tyresha Cragun (1789 - ____)*
  Lydia Cragun (1791 - ____)*
  Tabitha Cragun (1793 - ____)*
  Hannah Cragun (1795 - ____)*
  Caleb Cragun (1796 - ____)*
  Joshua Cragun (1796 - 1874)*
  Elizabeth Cragun (1799 - ____)*
  Syren Cragun (1801 - ____)*