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Owen McCravey / Cravey
1691 - 1760
Owen McCravey / Cravey was born about 1691 in Rescommon Co., Ireland and died about 1760 in Edgecombe Co., North Carolina. Dates for birth and death are estimated. He lived to be about 69 years old.

Occupation: Weaver. First marriage to (Unknown) Children with first wife: James (1725), Priscilla (1730), Anne (1730), and Honour (1735).
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61 1752 Great Britain adopts the Gregorian calendar on 9/14/1752.
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58 1749 Laws in GA prohibiting the importation of slaves are rescinded. Georgia planters were hiring SC slaves for life and even openly purchasing slaves at the dock in Savannah.
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13 1704 First town, Bath, is established in North Carolina by the arrival of the French Huguenots.
20 1711 The Tuscarora War begins between the local Indians and colonists. After two years of fighting, the Tuscarora Indians move west.
27 1718 Blackbeard, the pirate is killed off the North Carolina coast.
28 1719 By 1719, North Carolina and South Carolina have separated into two colonies.
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9 1700 By the early 1700's, Virginia and Maryland have established a strong economic and social structure. The planters of the tidewater region, with abundant slave labor, have large houses, an aristocratic way of life, and a desire to follow the art and culture of Europe. Less wealthy German and Scots-Irish immigrants settle inland, populating the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia as well as the Appalachian Mountains. Those on the frontier build small cabins and cultivate corn and wheat.
29 1720 The population of American colonists reaches 475,000. Boston (pop. 12,000) is the largest city, followed by Philadelphia (pop. 10,000) and New York (pop. 7000)
39 1730 Map of US Colonies
41 1732 James Oglethorpe establishes the Georgia Colony in the new world. The new settlers form friendships with the Creek Indian Nation towns in this area. Georgia is the thirteen English colony to be settled.
56 1747 The New York Bar Association is founded in New York City
59 1750 Charleston, SC, has become the most affluent and largest city in the South. It is the leading port and trading center for the southern colonies. The population in the Carolinas has exceeded 100,000 with many French Protestant Huguenots. The wealth plantation owners bring private tutors from Ireland and Scotland. Public education does not exist.
69 1760 The Cherokee War (1760-61) ends in a treaty that opens the Up County for settlement. The Bounty At of 1761 offers public land tax free for ten years, and settlers from other colonies begin pouring into the Carolina "Up Country".
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2 1693 National debt begins in England
7 1698 Tsar Peter the Great begins traveling Europe
10 1701 England's Act of Settlement created; War of Spanish Succession begins
16 1707 Scotland and England unite to form "Great Britain"
24 1715 War of Spanish Succession ends
47 1738 System of forced labor to build roads in France is devised by Jean Orry
52 1743 King George's War against North America and Caribbean begins
57 1748 King George's War against North America and Caribbean ends
65 1756 Seven Year's War begins
68 1759 Jesuits are forced out of France


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Sarah Brown
Born about 1720 and died about 1758.
They were married 12/27/1735.

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The Children of Owen McCravey / Cravey

Owen Brown Cravey Jr.
Born in Bertie Co., North Carolina about 1740 and died in Edgecombe Co., North Carolina about 1760. He was about 20 years old.

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