By 1655, Crewes had acquired 541 acres and established a tobacco plantation in Henrico County on Turkey Island in the James River.
[3] Crews and trader William Byrd I (who sided with the governor during the rebellion) encouraged Bacon's military response to Native American raids.
[4] Crewes signed one of the rebellion's crucial documents, that of August 3, with approximately 69 co-signatories, and may have held the bible when new recruits swore allegiance.
He likely traveled to lower Norfolk county in southeastern Virginia in the fall, around the time of Bacon's death, and was one of the last of the rebellion's ringleaders to be caught.
[3] Captured by Governor Berkeley's forces, Crewes was among the 15 or 16 former rebel captives on the warship Young Prince which docked at the colony's capital on January 19.