The Croom Family assembled by Doris C. Outlaw

Daniel Croom of Virginia part 1 part 2 daniel_croom_VA_ The records of Henrico County show that on February 1, 1717, Michael Catipe, in consideration of five schillings current money; for the term of one year, leased to Daniel Croom 52 acres of land in Henrico County on the south bank of the James River.  This lease […]

Major Croom, Sr. Militia record

Major Croom, Militia Croom, Major Sr., Private, NC Milita Soldier drew three pay vouchers of about six pounds total.  He owned land in Duplin from 1764 to about 1790 but it appears he never lived in Duplin as did some of his sons.  His first wife was Olive Avery.  His known sons are 1- Joshua […]

North Carolina Baptists

1772, added the following churches . . . the church at Bear Creek in lenoir County, represented by Rev. Joshua Herring, Major Croom and Abraham Baker; During these first five years we find a considerable number of able ministers . . . Joshua Herring of Bear Creek church. North Carolina Baptists

William Standley (1720) and his Standley Descendants

Souce:  https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE2105660&from=fhd CHAPTER 1. FIRST GENERATION: WILLIAM STANDLEY (1720), HIS FAMILY, HIS ORIGINS WILLIAM1 STANDLEY was b. about 1720 [also variously estimated from 1715 to 1729], poss. in Va.; res. in Henry Co., Va.; d. 1784 in Henry Co. (now Franklin Co)., Va.; poss. bur. in Mullins Family Cem., located in Franklin Co. south of […]

Croom Family Genealogy – Jesse Croom

http://www.johncroom.com/croopag2.htm Jesse Croom was born between 1732 and November 1734 in Goochland County, VA to Daniel Croom and his second wife, Susannah. From records I have studied, I believe Jesse came to Johnston County, NC, with his step-father, Charles HOLMES, between 1738 and 1746. Jesse would have been a young lad. In 1757 Jesse sold […]

Croom Family Genealogy – Daniel Croom

http://www.johncroom.com/croopag2.htm Records in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries offer sufficient proof that Daniel CROOM lived near the James River in an area of Henrico County, Virginia, that later became Goochland County. These records also indicate that Daniel was the father of three sons who left Virginia and settled in eastern North Carolina as […]

James William Croom Thompson

p. 458 His mother, Temperance Coom, was a descendant of Daniel Croom, an irishman, who came into North Carolina in 1717 from new Kent County, Virginia . . .