McCrosky, Elizabeth Bowdoin, 1760-

Elizabeth Bowdoin was born about 1760 in Northampton County, Virginia to John Bowdoin and Grace Stringer. She married Reverend Samuel Smith McCroskey, the minister of Hungar’s Parish, Northampton County, Virginia from 1774 to 1803 and chairman of the Committee of Safety during the Revolutionary War, on November 24, 1780. They had no children.

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[Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle to her sister, Ann Upshur Eyre - April 25, 1800]

Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle to her sister at Ann Upshur Eyre, sharing family news from the family home of her Uncle Littleton Upshur's home Vaucluse on Hungars Creek. She discusses her engagement to Littleton Dennis Teackle, which is still a secret at this time, and mentions people such as Henrietta Teackle, Elizabeth Bowdoin McCroskey, her cousin Juliet Upshur, Betsy Snead, Uncle Littleton Upshur, John Teackle, and the home Eyreville.