Talk:Crawford expedition

Holy Cow
Just wow! What a job by Kevin. Yank sox 01:46, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much! —Kevin 19:48, 24 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Seconded, great work on this! Wickethewok 22:18, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

dagger/cross
What's with the cross by Crawford's name in the infobox? part of a key or religious symbol? bemused.
 * It's the symbol used by WP:MILHIST to indicate that the person was killed. Personally I think the meaning of the symbol should be indicated on the page somehow, because this is not the first time I've answered this question, but as far as I know the issue has not been discussed at the project. —Kevin 19:48, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Clicking on the dagger now takes you to killed in action. —Kevin 02:38, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Major Brinton
The cited C.W. Butterfield's An Historical Account of the Expedition Against Sandusky Under Col. William Crawford in 1782 says that Major Brinton's first name was not known to Butterfield's sources (p. 77), but that after the expedition Major Brinton returned to Washington County, Pennsylvania (p. 296). Crumrine's History of Washington County, Pennsylvania gives his name as Joseph Brinton of East Pike Run Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania (p. 115). This corresponds to the name of a member of the Washington County militia (Joseph Brenton/Brinton) from Fallowfield Township (the part where Joseph Brenton lived would later become East Pike Run when the township was formed), and the owner of property in Pike Run surveyed to him by William Crawford on a Virginia Certificate in 1780 and resurveyed by Pennsylvania in 1786. Therefore, the man on the Crawford expedition may be Joseph Brinton/Brenton, not James.

Sarah15203 (talk) 16:29, 24 October 2011 (UTC)


 * That is curious, but it turns out Butterfield continued his research and discovered the full name. In his 1872 study of the expedition, Butterfield said the major's name was spelled both "Brinton" and "Brenton", and that he had seen no record of his first name. But in the Washington-Irvine Correspondence in 1882, Butterfield published a letter Irvine wrote to Washington in which he listed the full names of the officers (https://www.google.com/books/edition/Washington_Irvine_Correspondence/eEgSAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=brenton p. 122) and does indeed name "James Brenton" as the fifth in command. When Crumrine published his history in 1882, he presumably didn't have that information and made an educated, if erroneous, guess. Kevin1776 (talk) 05:43, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Image in the info box is upside down!
I don't know how to fix it, but maybe someone else does. Cordially, BuzzWeiser196 (talk) 11:08, 25 May 2019 (UTC)