He was one of a small committee of that society to whom were entrusted in 1842 the editing of the Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

[4] Crawford's father Alexander started Free Church services in a granary in North Berwick on Forth Street.

This was the object set forth on the collecting cards circulated among his friends, which bore the picture of the Bass.

And it was to raise funds for this purpose that he persuaded his friends Thomas M'Crie the Historian, Anderson the Martyrologist, Hugh Miller the Geologist, and Professors Fleming and Balfour to unite together in writing the book known as “The Bass Rock.”[1] At the Disruption he was appointed Depute Clerk of the Free Church General Assembly, which office he continued to discharge till he died.

[6] In the religious poetry of the olden time Mr Crawford was much interested, and had a large and accurate acquaintanceship with the names and works of the old poets, from the Reformation downwards.