In  1762  Samuel  Crawley,  British  consul  at
Smyrna,  died,  leaving  a  considerable  estate  to
his  children.  He  was  brother  to  John  Crawley
of  Stockwood.
We  are  not  quite  clear  as  to  the  situation
of  a  hill  in  Luton  called  Berry  Hill,  but  the
description  suggests  the  neighbourhood  of  Stock-
wood.  In  1766  John  Crawley  purchased  of
Anthony  Sherlock's  widow  a  close  of  land  called
Berry  Hill  Close,  situate  on  Berry  Hill.  This
was  the  last  recorded  purchase  of  land  by  John
Crawley.  He  died  on  the  9th  of  September
1767,  and  his  will,  dated  the  nth  April  of  the
same  year,  was  proved  on  the  31st  of  December
1767.  He  left  the  whole  of  his  real  and  personal
estates,  subject  to  his  wife's  jointure  therein,  to


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his  son  John  and  his  issue  male,  and  failing
such  issue,  then  to  his  son  Samuel  and  his  issue
male.
Mr  John  Crawley  left  two  sons,  the  above-
mentioned  John  Crawley  and  Samuel  Crawley,
and  two  daughters,  named  Susanna  and  SaraL
Susanna  married  in  April  1798  John  Keet,
Clerk,  Rector  of  Hadley,  Herts.  She  was  born
17th  of  October  1744,  and  died  24th  of  July
1830  without  issue.  The  second  daughter,  Sarah.
married  Thomas  Halsey,  Esq.,  of  Great  Gaddes-
den,  Herts,  on  the  i8th  of  March  1784.
