Abraham Creason

Abraham Creson was born in 1717 in Hunterdon, New Jersey and died in 1791 in Surry County, North Carolina - present day Huntsville, Yadkin county, NC.  He was "the storekeeper of the Yadkin," a  planter, land trader, and leader of "the Regulator's War.". 

• On June 5, 1771, he was brought to Bethabara as a prisoner and put in chains.  At times he "wept like child," but was released in March 1772.  DAR Ancestor #: A027751

Brief Biography

Abraham Creson was in Augusta County, VA in 1746 (See Lyman Chalkey's History of Augusta County, VA, Vol. 3, p 258) & in the Yadkin Valley by 1748 (See Ramsey's Carolina Cradle & Heritage of Yadkin County, NC). His earliest deed was recorded in 1748 in Anson County, although the land lay in what is now Yadkin County, 468-acres "at the mouth of Deep Creek." Here he established a store at the Shallow Ford, the crossing by which thousands of families used in their migration down the Great Philadelphia Wagon Road to western N.Carolina & into Georgia, & other states. Abraham Creson was one of the leaders in the Regulator's War. He was arrested & imprisoned at Bethabara (see Moravian Records, Vol.1, 1700-1771, p450) Rev. Solle, a Moravian minister, noted in his diary, that Abraham Creson was "a good-natured man, well-liked by his neighbors." (Moravian Records, 1762-1775, Vol.2,p788). See Robert Ramsey's CAROLINA CRADLE, p79 & Adelaide Fries, ed., THE MORAVIAN RECORDS, Vol.1,p462, 465 & 469.

Family

Abraham descended from "Pierre Cresson, The Huguenot of Staten Island."

• Parents:  Joshua Cresson ,2nd b: ABT 1689 & Catherine Browder b: ABT 1692

Married

1. possibly - a first wife, and daughter who died in 1771.  See http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/ENYART/1998-07/090001...
2. about 1750 in "of NC"   to a woman whose name is not known but may have been Mary; two children named in will.
3. on 13 Aug 1788 in Surry County, North Carolina to Mary WILLIAMS Furches Lewis, widow of Stephen Lewis, Surry County, NC.

Children:

1. Joshua was born between 1755 and 1760 in Rowan County, North Carolina. Married 1) Rachel Steelman 2) Rebecca Patterson.
2. Jane was born between 1755 and 1760.  Married 1) Samuel Cunningham 2) Charles Steelman.  Her father became the guardian of the children from her first marriage.  

On 1/31/1791, Abraham Creson wrote his will leaving his Menchen house and plantation of 60 acres plus the 10 acres of the river tract as well as one third of the grain and livestock to his wife Mary (Williams).  Upon her death, it would go to his son Joshua Creson.  Joshua received all his land on the Yadkin River on the north side of Deep Creek and an additional 250 acres on the north end of that land.  His daughter Jane received 250 acres on the Yadkin River below shallow ford on both sides of the road leading to Salisbury.  Son Joshua was to receive a mulatto named Jesse, while daughter Jane received a negro named Daniel.  Joshua Creson and Charles Steelman were appointed executors.  (Surry Co WB 3, p4).15

Sources

• 1981: The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, North Carolina 27055; Volume 1, page 331, "Abraham Creson and Descendants"

Links

• http://www.webjmd.com/ed5v4.html
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• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=sarrge&id...

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GEDCOM Note

DAR
CRESON, ABRAHAMAncestor #: A027751
Service: NORTH CAROLINA Rank(s): CIVIL SERVICE
Birth: ANTE 1725
Death: ANTE 8- -1791 SURRY CO NORTH CAROLINA
Service Source: ABSHER, SURRY CO NC COURT MIN, VOLS I & II, 1768-1789, P 17
Service Description: 1) JUROR, 1779

On June 5, 1771, Battle of Alamance, he was brought to Bethabara as a prisoner and put in chains. At times he "wept like child," but was released in March 1772 after recieving a pardon from William Tryon.

Appears to have owned at least 2 slaves per his will.

Storekeeper, planter, land trader and leader of the Regulator's War.

Abraham Creson was in Augusta County, VA in 1746 & in the Yadkin Valley by 1748 . His earliest deed was recorded in 1748 in Anson County, although the land lay in what is now Yadkin County, 468-acres "at the mouth of Deep Creek." Here he established a store at the Shallow Ford, the crossing by which thousands of families used in their migration down the Great Philadelphia Wagon Road to western N.Carolina & into Georgia, & other states. Abraham Creson was one of the leaders in the Regulator's War. In June 5, 1771 he was arrested & imprisoned at Bethabara. Rev. Solle, a Moravian minister, noted in his diary, that Abraham Creson was "a good-natured man, well-liked by his neighbors."

On 1/31/1791, Abraham Creson wrote his will leaving his Menchen house and plantation of 60 acres plus the 10 acres of the river tract as well as one third of the grain and livestock to his wife Mary. Upon her death, it would go to his son Joshua Creson. Joshua received all his land on the Yadkin River on the north side of Deep Creek and an additional 250 acres on the north end of that land. His daughter Jane received 250 acres on the Yadkin River below shallow ford on both sides of the road leading to Salisbury. Son Joshua was to receive a mulatto named Jesse, while daughter Jane received a negro named Daniel. Joshua Creson and Charles Steelman were appointed executors.

• *War of the Regulation or the Regulator Movement was an uprising in the British North America's Carolina colonies, lasting from about 1765 to 1771, in which citizens took up arms against colonial officials. Though the rebellion did not change the power structure, some historians consider it a catalyst to the American Revolutionary War.