The Farmer- Crockett Connection
The original name was spelled Crocketaigne. Gabriel Gaston de Crocketaigne lived at Montauban in southern France. His son ANtoine de Sosure Crocketaigne, born in France in 1643, was an officer in the Household Guards of Louis XIV. He married a lady of the French nobility, Louise DeSaix, who was a cousin of Gen Lafayette's mother. Antoine, after his marriage, resigned his commissionand became an agent for Maury and Fontaine who had a monopoly of the wine trade in southern France. Antoine was converted to Protestantism by Mathew Maury and when the Huguenots were expelled from France in the Reign of Louis XIV, he and his wife fled to England and a short time later to Ireland. To escape persecution and lose his French identity, Antoine changed his name to Crockett.
Antoine Crockett and his wife Louise were the parents of Joseph Louis Crockett, born in Ireland about 1676. He married Mary Stewart in Donegal, Ireland, about 1700 and they migrated to America before 1709 and settle at New Rochelle, NY, a Huguenot settlement. They moved to Virginia before 1711. They had several sons. Three were born in Ireland, one in NY and two in Virginia. Our ancestor Anthony Crockett's son Granville Crockett, left a record saying that Anthony's father was William Crockett. It is probable therefore, that Anthony was the son of William, who was born 1709 at New Rochelle, NY, the fourth son of Joseph 1 and Louise DeSaix Crockett. However, it is possible that Anthony was the son of William Crockett, a grandson of Joseph Louis and Louise Crockett by their son John born in Ireland in 1707.
Anthony Crockett, our ancestor, was born in Prince Edward Co., Virginia, Nov 19, 1754. There is no record of his mother. His parents died when he was about ten years old, after which he lived with a relative, Samuel Crockett, in Botetourt Co., Va., until 1776. At the beginning of the Rev War, he enlisted in Capt. Posey's Co. of 7th Va. Reg which served from 1776 to 1778 in campaign in Va, Pa, NJ, and NY, and in the camaign which resultd in Gen Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga, NY. From 1778 to the end of the war he was a First Lt. in the Illinois Reg. of Va., Col George D Clarke, commanding, which participated in many skirmishes and campaigns in what is now Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky. He returned to Va. on leave of absence in 1780 and married Mary Robertson, probably of Botetourt Co. She was born Apr 11, 1760, and died Sept 1, 1818, in Franklin Co., Ky. His Va revolutionary pension is No. S 10,492. His pension's statement on file in Richmond gives af detailed stattement of his war service. The secretary Gen of the DAR is authority for this statement that sixteen members have been admitted who are descendants of Col. Anthony Crockett.
After the Rev War, he settled first in Mercer Co., Ky., from which he served in the Va. Legislature in 1790. He moved to Franklin Co., Ky, and represented that county in the Ky Leg. 1796 - 1799. In the War of 1812, he served as a Brigade Major.
He entertained Gen. Lafayette on his visit to Ky in 1824. He died Dec 5, 1838, in Frankfort, Ky. Davey Crockett, the hero of the Alamo in the Texas War for Independence, 1835, a native of Va., is undoubtedly a relative but the degree of relationship is not known. Col. Anthony Crockett and his wife had eleven children one of whom, Granville Smith Crockett, born 1784, was a member of Congress from TN for several years and was a prominent man in his day.
Their second child, Mary Crockett, was b. Feb 9, 1781, d. Mar 31, 1856, m. William B Hawkins of Franklin Co., Ky. Jan 15, 1802. William B and wife, Mary Crockett Hawkin's daughter, Katherine Spencer Hawkins, m 7 John G Farmer I of Farmdale, Franklin Col, Ky., Sept 17, 1835.
Anthony Crocket and his wife Mary Robertson were the parents of the following children:
The children of Anthony Crockett listed above are named in and copied from his will dated Apr 28, 1837, and recorded in Franklin Co., Ky will book 2, p. 101. See Crocket will.
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