. Delaware and married a Miss Manlove from Edinburgh, Scotland. They moved from Delaware to Scott Co. KY where their son James R. Curry was saved from Indians when a babe by being concealed by a slave Hannah, in a sack, along with her son Dover, and smuggled into Flourney’s Station. His father had died and he was staying with his grandparents who had gone to Lexington and left him in the care of Hannah.
He died 30 September 1790 at Harmer’s Defeat at Fort Wayne, Indiana, when his only son was less than a year old. Thus James R. Curry inherited, as the oldest son, $10,000 in money, slaves, and land. He became a surveyor and owned land in Kentucky, Southern Illinois, and Mississippi. Before his death James Curry, in partnership with the industrialist, land speculator, and slave merchant, David Ross, surveyed and bought tens of thousands of acres of land in what became KY. In KY land records he is listed as James Currie.
(There was another James Curry in Cynthiana Records, unrelated to James, the oldest son of Archibald.)
John Delaware Curry taught his brother’s son, James R. Curry, to read, because his stepfather was illiterate. He named James R. Curry the executor of his estate, but he lived out of town, next to Thomas Whitledge, had slaves, and land in Covington. Was this Covington KY, near where he married Nancy Clark Henderson, or Covington KY, where he might have speculated in lands, or inherited them from his brother, John H. Curly, who left his orphaned daughter, Malvina, to be raised by John Delaware Curry? Many handwritten poems of Robert Burns were destroyed, possibly in the home of Dr. James R. Curry, which burned to the ground.
Malvina was living with Mandeville Curry and her stepmother, Margaret, in 1860 Harrison Co. Census.
Child of JAMES CURRY and Miss MANLOVE is:
10. i. MAJOR JAMES ROLLAND3 CURRY, b. 1789, Bryant’s Station, Fayette Co. KY; d. Cynthiana, Harrison Co. KY.
4. JANE2 CURRY (DR. ARCHIBALD1) was born 1764. She married MOSES ARCHIBALD YELL in Talbot Co. MD, son of Pierce YELL and Anna HOAG. He was born January 18, 1746/47 in Essex Co. MA, and died September 1817 in Watrace, Bedford Co.TN.
Notes for MOSES ARCHIBALD YELL:
Moses was a farmer. He moved to Talbot Co. MD and then to Rockingham Co. NC. He next moved to Jefferson
Co. TN and then to Middle TN where he bought 750 acres of land near Shelbyville, Bedford Co. TN.
He had 5 slaves.
He and Jane Curry Yell had a son, A.H. Yell, the first governor of Arizona.
Child of JANE CURRY and MOSES YELL is:
i. GOV. ARCHIBALD3 YELL.
5. ALEXANDER2 CURRY (DR. ARCHIBALD1) was born October 14, 1770 in Baltimore MD, and died 1842 in Mt. Sterling, Brown Co. IL. He married ELIZABETH NUTTER 1799, daughter of Robert NUTTER and Sara BAGWELL. She was born August 26, 1776 in Dover, DE, and died August 28, 1846 in Mt. Sterling, Brown Co. IL.
Notes for ALEXANDER CURRY:
Alexander Curry was a founder of the town of Mt. Sterling IL. He first purchased a tract of land on the Lexington Pike. He lived there until 1830, when he moved to IL, accompanied by his wife and children. He made a settlement in Brown Co, which was then a part of Schuyler Co. As soon as the land came into market he entered 2,000 acres, including the present site of Mt. Sterling, where he erected a double log house on the lot now occupied by the Christian Church.
This log house was used as a dwelling, a justice’s room, and a meeting house.
Alexander did not keep a hotel, but he did entertain travelers free of charge. He was the first Justice of the Peace and the first postmaster.
SOURCE: BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW OF CASS, SCHULER AND BROWN COUNTIES, ILLINOIS- 1892. Chicago: Bio. Review Pub. Co.
Children of ALEXANDER CURRY and ELIZABETH NUTTER are:
i. DANIEL3 CURRY.
ii. ROBERT N CURRY.
iii. JOHN R. CURRY, b. October 19. 1803, Scott Co. KY.
iv. OLIVIA CURRY.
v. SARA CURRY.
vi. NANCY CURRY.
vii. LEAH CURRY.
viii. MARY CURRY.
ix. HARRIETT CURRY.
6. NANCY2 CURRY (DR. ARCHIBALD1) was born 1776 in Delaware. She married WILLIAM McHATTON January 07, 1796 in Harrison Co. KY, son of John McHATTON and Martha LYTLE.
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