Raleigh Croshaw

Captain Raleigh Croshaw or Crashaw (c. 1584 – 1624) was an English merchant and early immigrant to the Colony and Dominion of Virginia who represented Elizabeth City County in the House of Burgesses in 1624. Virginia settler Although Croshaw is believed to be from the Crashaw family of Crawshawbooth, Lancashire, England; his parentage and date of birth are not known. Rev. William Crashaw was a member of the Virginia Company, as was his son the poet. In any event, Raleigh Crashaw arrived in Jamestown, Virginia on the Mary & Margrett, with the Second Supply in September 1608. He eventually received a head right for his wife, so she emigrated by 1620. However, she is not listed on the passenger rolls of the Bona Nova during any of its travels from London to Virginia. Since no reference to Captain Rawley Crashaw's wife exists in land deeds nor the 1623 Census, she presumably died before 1623. First listed as a member of the Virginia Company of London in 1609, Capt. Crashaw was still listed as an adventurer in the Company in both 1618 and 1620. He was one of the authors of the complimentary verses prefixed to The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles (1624) of John Smith of Jamestown. Family Croshaw and his wife had at least two sons, possibly three:, With his first wife he had Katherine Crowshaw (Graves), wife of Thomas Graves. Joseph Croshaw (1610–1667), married 1. Unknown; 2. Widow Elizabeth Finch (Yeardley) ; 3. Widow Anne Hodges; 4. Widow Margaret Tucker; 5. Widow Mary Bromfield (possibly) Noah Croshaw (1614–1665), married Elinor Richard Croshaw (1618–1667), married Elizabeth _