Colonel David Crawford (c.1625[1] – 1710) was a member of the House of Burgesses and an early plantation owner in Virginia.
[3] Crawford amassed many acres of land and owned a large plantation that eventually became the site of Richmond, Virginia.
On April 2, 1692, he was elected to the House of Burgesses as one of two representatives from New Kent County, Virginia, for two years.
Four years later he gave his grandson David Meriwether 200 acres of land in St. Paul's Parish.
[4] As an elderly man, he was killed by Pamunkey Indians at Assaquin Plantation, New Kent, Virginia in 1710.