Davy and Kizzy were listed about two-thirds of the way through the 1863 Inventory of Benjamin Lee’s estate. Davy, age 63, and Kizzy, age 58, were among the oldest listed in the inventory. Listed with them were several adults: Jack, age 36, Sam, age 24, Billy, age 21, and Nelly, age 33 and then what appears to be Nelly’s children, and likely Davy and Kizzy’s grandchildren.
In 1870, “Danl” Crawford and Kizzie Crawford were enumerated in Queen Anne District of Prince George’s County, living in the household of Delaney and Lucy Brown. They are living in close proximity to the white landowner Jeremiah Duckett, who lived outside the village of Woodmore, and near the estates of Northhampton (Sprigg) and Oak Hill (Lee). They do not appear to be living during the 1880 census.
Benjamin Lee, their enslaver prior to Lee’s death in 1863 and emancipation in 1864, was from Anne Arundel County, the son of Stephen Lee who owned land in and around South River. His father had remarried and the bulk of his father’s estate had gone to Lee’s half-siblings upon his father’s death in 1833. In the previous decade, Lee had married Eleanor Lansdale Belt, the daughter of Captain James Belt, a merchant in Prince George’s County, in 1824.
James Belt died in 1832, and Benjamin Lee and his brother-in-law, Marsham Waring served as administrators of the estate. On the 1832 Inventory of Belt’s estate, the name Kizzy, age 27, is listed along with John, Kizzy’s son, age 4. Davy Crawford does not appear on the inventory list with any variation of the name David, suggesting that Lee acquired the legal authority to enslave Davy from a different person than James Belt.
John, listed on the James Belt 1832 Inventory, is likely Jack of the Benjamin Lee 1863 Inventory. Young John, on the Belt Inventory, was 4 years old, allowing an estimated birth year of 1829. Jack, of the Lee Inventory was 36, giving him an estimated birth year of 1831, only two years later. Jack is a diminutive form of John.
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The death certificate of Mary Anna Stewart was located. Mary Anna Stewart, Robert Stewart’s wife died in 1903 and her death certificate was informed by her sister, Lucy Brown. Lucy reported their parents as David Crawford and Ida Jackson.
Both Anna and Lucy are listed in the 1863 Benjamin Lee Inventory below David (Davy) Crawford and Keziah (Kizzy). Anna was twenty and Lucy were 18. They were not immediately identified as children of David and Keziah as there were other children and grand-children listed between them and David. However, it also allows for the identification of other possible children.
It also shows the connection between the Crawfords and the 1870 household of Delaney Brown, whose wife was Lucy Brown.
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