Thomas Drayton "Crowfield Tom" (1759-1801)
Family Group Sheet
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1 Thomas Drayton d: ca. 1724 [4] |
| + Ann Unknown d: ca. 1742 [5] |
| 2 Mary Drayton b: ca. 1700-1704 [6] d: ca. 1751 [7] |
| 2 Thomas Drayton b: ca. 1710 [8] d: 11 Nov 1760 [9] |
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+ Elizabeth Bull b: 1713 [10] d: Nov 1751 [11] |
| 3 William Drayton b: 21 Mar 1732 [12] d: 18 May 1790 [13] |
| 3 Mary Drayton b: 21 Dec 1734 [14] d: 5 Feb 1806 [15] |
| 3 Stephen Drayton b: 21 Apr 1736 [16] d: 23 Nov 1810 [17] |
| 3 Henrietta Charlotta Drayton b: 28 Jul 1743 [18] |
| 3 John Drayton aka John Drayton The Younger b: 28 Aug 1745 [19] d: 27 Oct 1773 [20] |
| + Lady Mary MacKenzie [21] d: 21 Nov 1788 [22] |
| 3 Thomas Drayton b: 1 Oct 1759 [23] d: 22 May 1802 [24] |
| 2 Stephen Fox Drayton b: ca. 1713 [25] d: January 1733 [26] |
| 2 John Drayton b: before 1716 [27] d: 1779 [28] |
Biographical Information
Thomas Drayton was the youngest son of Thomas Drayton (d. 1760) and his second wife Lady Mary MacKenzie. He was only a year old when his father died. Little is known of his young life. At the age of seventeen John joined Colonel Francis Marion's cavalry and served in the Revolutionary War. His life after the war was difficult: sometime after 1784 he was beset by mental illness. By 1786 he was adjudged insane and declared incapable of managing his estate.
By 1788 the young man seemed to be back on his feet; his estate was returned to him and he assumed management of his affairs. He made his home at Crowfield Plantation, a 600 acre plantation near Beaufort. He never married and died intestate in May of 1801 at the age of forty-two [6].
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References Cited
[1] Taylor, Emily Drayton Heyward. "The Draytons of South Carolina and Philadelphia." Publications of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, VIII No. 1 (March, 1921), p. 5 [Hereafter Taylor 1921].
[2] Bull, Henry DeSaussure. 1961 The Family of Stephen Bull of Kingshurst Hall, County Warwick, England and Ashley Hall, South Carolina, 1600-1900. (Georgetown: The Winyah Press), p. 33, quoted in Griffin, Dorothy Gail. 1985 "The Eighteenth Century Draytons of Drayton Hall." (Ph.D. diss., Emory University).
[3] Taylor 1921, p. 7.
[4] Drayton, Thomas. Will, Charleston District, SC. Dated 12 June 1714, Codicil 5 June 1716, Proved 17 June 1724.
[5] Drayton, Ann. Will, Charleston District, SC. Dated 2 May 1741, Codicil 23 June 1741, Proved 30 Aug 1742.
[6] Griffin, Dorothy Gail. 1985 "The Eighteenth Century Draytons of Drayton Hall." (Ph.D. diss., Emory University), p. 14 [Hereafter Griffin 1985].
[7] Fuller, Mary Drayton. Will, Charleston District, SC. Dated 27 Feb 1749, Proved 3 May 1751.
[8] Griffin 1985, p. 14, cites Drayton, Thomas. Warrant to Divide Estate, Charleston SC, 1730.
[9] Griffin 1985, p. 27, cites (Charleston) South Carolina Gazette, Obituary, Thomas Drayton, 15 Nov 1760.
[10] Taylor 1921, p. 7.
[11] Webber, Mabel, ed. "Register of St. Andrews Parish, Berkeley County, South Carolina, 1719-1774." South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, XIII (July, 1912), p. 148.
[12] Taylor 1921, p. 7.
[13] Drayton Family. Family Bible of Thomas Fenwick Drayton. Copies at Georgia State Archives in Vertical Files: Family Files: Drayton [Hereafter Drayton Family Bible, Georgia State Archives].
[14] Drayton Family Bible, Georgia State Archives.
[15] Drayton Family Bible, Georgia State Archives.
[16] Drayton Family Bible, Georgia State Archives.
[17] Taylor 1921, p. 8.
[18] Drayton Family Bible, Georgia State Archives.
[19] Drayton Family Bible, Georgia State Archives.
[20] Griffin 1985, p. 33.
[21] Griffin 1985, p. 26.
[22] Taylor 1921, p. 8.
[23] Taylor 1921, p. 8.
[24] Drayton Family Bible, Georgia State Archives.
[25] Griffin 1985, p. 14.
[26] Drayton, Stephen Fox. Will, Charleston District, SC. Dated 22 Feb 1732, Proved 4 Jan 1734, Recorded 9 Jan 1734.
[27] Griffin 1985, p. 14.
[28] Griffin 1985, p. 14.
