In an undated petition, orators and oratrices Robert Crow, Brooking Jeffries and Patsey his wife, and Henry Crow, Innis Crow and John Crow infants by Graves Burke their next friend and Martha Crow complained that Nancy Gordon late wife of John Gordon was Nancy Crow. Her father was John Crow. She died leaving brothers and sisters your orators and oratrices Robert, Patsey, Henry, Innis and John and one William Crow and Martha her mother. [Essex County, Virginia Box Chancery Item 35-D-15.]

On 17 January 1854, Henry C Boughan and Mary A his wife and John T Boughan and Sarah E his wife, all of the County of Buckingham and State of Virginia, sold to William R G Trible of the County of Essex and State of Virginia. For $173.19, they conveyed land in the County of Essex by survey 21-1/4 acres, more or less, bordering the land of Sam Greenwood and Moody Greenwood, it being the same land bought by Thomas Boughan of Brooking Jeffries which was allotted to the said Jeffries in right of his wife who was Patsy Crow, daughter of William Crow deceased. Signed Henry C Boughan, Mary A Boughan, John T Boughan, Sarah E Boughan. Ordered recorded 18 September 1854. [Essex County, Virginia, Deed Book 50, pages 606–608.]