Joseph Croshaw

Major Joseph Croshaw (1610-1667) was a substantial planter living near Williamsburg in the Colony of Virginia.
Early life.
Crowshaw was born in probably 1610-1612, the son of Captain Raleigh Croshaw. He became a substantial planter and lived just a few miles from present-day Williamsburg, Virginia. On December 10, 1651, he patented land which became the plantation known as Poplar Neck:
Poplar Neck subsequently came to Col. John West through West's marriage to Joseph Croshaw's daughter Unity.
Family.
Croshaw married five times and had eight children:
1. The name of the first Mrs. Croshaw is not known
2. Widow Finch 
3. Mrs. Anne Hodges (d.1663), widow of Augustine Hodges
4. Mrs. Margaret Tucker (d.1664), widow of Daniel Tucker 
5. Mrs. Mary Bromfield (d. bef. 28 May 1673), widow of Thomas Bromfield 
Croshaw died on April 10, 1667, the same day his will was written and recorded in York County, Virginia. The inventory of his estate included two pewter candlesticks, forty-two pewter dishes, four porringers, thirty-six spoons, one bedpan, and one still. It also listed a silver sack-cup; twenty-four silver spoons; and a silver tankard of the largest size, valued at four pounds sterling (£4, equal in purchasing power to about £330 today). 
The inventory of 1668 also listed the Croshaw estate as having 1000 bricks manufactured either by their own servants or by transient laborers.