Lewis Craig was a Baptist preacher jailed in Fredericksburg, Virginia for preaching without a license from the established Anglican Church, in a case considered important for religious freedom.

[1] Toliver and his sons Lewis and Joseph Craig led 400-600 members of their congregation as "The Travelling Church" into Kentucky in 1781.

Elijah Craig, worked with James Madison on state guarantees for religious freedom after the Revolutionary War before following his kin to Kentucky, where he became a successful preacher, educator, and businessman.

According to traditional accounts and his own descendants, Taliaferro was the illegitimate son of Richard Taliaferro (aka Ricardo Tagliaferro), an Italian sea captain, and Jane Craig,[2] a young Scottish woman descended from reformer John Craig, who traveled with him to the Virginia colony.

[5] He is said to have bought in 1779 the David Bryan estate in what is now Raleigh County, WV, from pioneer Col. John (Johannes) Bowman.

Near the end of the Revolution, Craig and his family emigrated to Kentucky with the famous "Travelling Church," about 500 people led by his son Rev.

Arriving in April 1782, Craig lived briefly with his wife, many children, and grandchildren at Bryan's Station (near present-day Lexington).

When the fort was besieged on 15 August by a British Canadian and Shawnee raiding party under Captain William Caldwell and Simon Girty, Craig and his wife Polly, although both were elderly, were some of the more well-known defenders.

The 66-year-old Mary "Polly" Craig was reported to have led a group of women outside the fort to fetch water from a spring to quench burning arrows.