"George [Crockett]’s brother William, a Gallatin tanner, was also sufficiently affluent to own slaves. However, the two brothers’ children had very different careers, illustrating how the boom-and-bust capitalism of the late Jacksonian era, punctuated by the Panic of 1837, could disperse family members and differentiate their achievements. George’s oldest son and namesake became the partner and legal adviser of Colonel A. J. Wynne (N. 50) who flourished in hotel, slave-trading, wholesaling, horse-raising, and merchandising businesses in the Gallatin area; George’s daughters Catherine and Eliza also married into these prosperous connections.'
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N. 50 "Alfred Royal Wynne (1800-1893): born in Wilson Co., Tenn.; son-in-law of James Winchester (see n. 46) whose business and political connections helped Wynne prosper in slave-trading and other enterprises, despite Wynne’s notoriously careless habits."
Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan:
Letters and Memoirs from Colonial and Revolutionary America, 1675-1815, Page 118, by Miller, Kerby A. , Schrier, Arnold ( Joint Author ), Boling, Bruce D. ( Joint Author ) Publisher : Oxford University Press. Published : 03/01/2003. Format : Paperback , pages 816. ISBN-10 : 0195154894. ISBN-13 : 9780195154894
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