[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 138 (Monday, September 30, 1996)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1837]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




     GEN. JEREMIAH CRABB: MARYLAND AMERICAN REVOLUTION PATRIOT AND 
                               LEGISLATOR

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                       HON. CONSTANCE A. MORELLA

                              of maryland

                    in the house of representatives

                      Saturday, September 28, 1996

  Mrs. MORELLA. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to Jeremiah 
Crabb, a Maryland patriot of the Revolutionary War and statesman, on 
the bicentennial of his resignation in 1796 as Montgomery County's 
first Member of Congress.
  General Crabb was born in 1760, the son of Henry Wright Crabb, former 
delegate to the Maryland Assembly and Justice of Frederick County 
during Colonial times. At the onset of the Revolution, Jeremiah Crabb 
entered the Continental Army as a second lieutenant with the 7th 
Company, 4th Battalion. He was later promoted to first lieutenant on 
December 15, 1777.
  During the winter of 1777-78, Lieutenant Crabb camped with his unit 
at Valley Forge. At this time, he endured great hardships, surviving 
hunger and the cold, and was forced to resign for health reasons. At 
the end of the war, Gen. George Washington recognized his service and 
recommended his promotion to General in the Maryland militia. As a 
result, in 1794, General Crabb was called to service to support Gen. 
Harry Lee and the Virginia militia in the suppression of the rebellion 
in Pennsylvania.
  The first legislature in the State of Maryland saw Jeremiah Crabb as 
a delegate in the Maryland Assembly from 1788 to 1792. In 1794, General 
Crabb was elected to the U.S. Congress, and served from 1795 to 1796. 
He resigned in 1796, and died in 1800 on his family's farm near 
Derwood, MD, located in my congressional district.
  Next month, on October 19th, the General William Smallwood Chapter of 
the Sons of the American Revolution will officially mark his grave site 
for posterity.
  Mr. Speaker, I salute this Maryland patriot and former Member of the 
House of Representatives.

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