NOTES: William Crabtree came to America in 1703. William was bonded to James Hogg from 1698-1703 as a Husbandman. Jame Holsted was bonded to James Hogg from 1698-1703. According to family tradition William Crabtree brought his wife Jane, and infant son to America and they settled along Deer Creek, which flows into the Susquehanna River near Port Deposit. The Crabtrees were members of the Church of England and attended the Anglican church in Old Joppatowne, MA. The Crabtree family grew and prospered in the New World. William increased his land holdings and was even able to purchase the services of an Irish indentured servant name Alexander Anderson. William had a second servant as referred to in his will plus a Negro who may have been an indentured servant or possibly a slave On October 12, 1716, William received a grant of land 'Patent FF #7' of l00 acres in Baltimore County, Maryland. This tract of land called "Labour" lay in Baltimore CO. in Wood Forest. The deed states "beginning at a bounded white oak Standing in a bottom branch of Deer Creek...."

Several years later on April 1725, he had l00 acres surveyed which he had purchased from Thomas Bond on the south side of Deer Creek. This land was located on a ridge between Winters Run and Deer Creek beginning at three chestnuts being the bounds of Abraham Whitacres land.

William Crabtree I died on or before September 10, 1756 in Baltimore County, MA. He had made his will almost 10 years before in 1747