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From: Kevin <>
Subject: CURRY/CORRY SEAWRIGHT VA/NC/SC/TN
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 1997 10:37:54 -1000


Dear Mildred and Curry List Members:

The letter you sent me is so significant I just HAD to share it with
the rest of the list. I immediately called my Curry expert friend,
Fran, and she helped me verify it. I hope you don't mind my comments
to the whole list Mildred. You have some VERY provocative facts.
This stuff if just too good not to share with everyone.

Anyone who is a descendent of Barnabus, Samuel, any Seawright, or
for that matter from any Augusta Co., Rockingham Co. Curry will be
effected by this.

kevin curry
curry surname listowner
p.o. box 330606; kahului, hi 96733-0606
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At 12:15 PM 7/8/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Dear Kevin,
>
>This probably does not connect, but am sending it for your
evaluation. I am
>slow because we moved from Atlanta, GA to MD in June and we are not
completely
>settled yet.
>
>My Corry family (spelled mostly Curry in the earliest records)
immigrated
>into SC arriving 1767 from Belfast, Ire. The family consisted of
William
>Corry, his wife Margaret and children Alexander, Nicholas,
Margaret, Robert,
>Jane and William. There is evidence that the father William died
very soon
>after his arrival. There is lots of evidence of a relationship to
the Currys
>in Augusta Co., VA. We have proof that two of the sons, Nicholas
and Robert
>married daus of John and Sarah (Leeper) Seawright of Augusta Co. VA.

We know that the Nicolas that married the one of the Seawrights went
on to Kentucky from Augusta and Rockingham Co. VA.

>A tradition of 40 years ago one of my Corry descendants stated that a
>tradition in our family is that three Corry brothers m. three Seawright
>sisters. We have not known who the 3rd brother was.
>
>Mrs Marilyn Randall of Scotsville, NY has in her possession a
letter written
>by Dolly Parson Lawson, granddau of Samuel Curry stating the
tradition in
>their branch is that 3 Curry brothers married 3 Seawright sisters.
Samuel
>Curry m. in Augusta Co., VA Mary Seawright, dau of John & Sarah
(Leeper)
>Seawright. Samuel Curry and wife Polly Seawright left Augusta
Co., VA 1778
>with Samuel McPheeters who had married Margaret, dau of John &
Sarah (Leeper)
>Seawright for Hawkins Co., TN. Samuel died there leaving a will.
"Grandma"
>Curry believed to be Mary Seawright Curry, with other members of
her family,
>died during an epidenic there beween July 1 and 23 Oct 1830.

Somewhere I have the estate records of John Seawright. That happened
in 1742 or aound there. One hesitataion in accepting this Tennessee
information is that 1830 is a long way away from 1742, a period of
88 years. Even so, it's entirely possible. Do you have a death
record for Mary Seawright Curry?

We have a Samel Curry who left a will in Augusta Co. VA. He was
listed in the 1787 Tax Records and lived not far from the Seawrights
about 1782 when John the father of these Seawright girls died. This
is very curious. I had always assumed that THIS was the Samuel that
married Polly Seawright. Do you have a copy of Samuel's will
including Polly? The will I have for this Samuel Curry does not name
her, but names William, Samuel, Isaiah and a daughter Mary (who
married a Brown) in it.

Maybe OLD Isaiah who married a Leeper who left Rockingham County
just before 1787 moved to South Carolina had a child named Samuel.
This could be the Samuel that you are speaking of. It seems likely
that he would follow the Leepers and the Seawrights because his wife
was a Leeper. We don't really know anything about Isaiah's children.
We do know from the tax records that Isaiah had six kids. He was
married to a Leeper. Leeper, Seawright, Curry's and Irwins appeared
in Craven County SC tax records between 1750 and 1785 and we don't
know much more about them. Fran had always assumed that these people
were from the Shenandoah Valley. She has not had accesss to these
records so we don't know any more about them.

Nicholas Curry from Rockingham County was a witness for a case for a
Leeper in Augusta Co. for a who sold some land. Here's the quote:
"1772: Nicholas Leeper of Tryon Co. province of NC to son James
Leeper. Attorney to execute deed to Hugh Donaghough. testee: Ezekial
Polk and Nicholas Curry. proven by: Nicholas Curry." Source: The
Augusta County Records. Also: p. 524 of Chalkley's Vol. III Scotch
Irish Chronicles of Augusta Co.

>Nicholas Corry, son of William and Margaret Corry, b 1752 Co. Down,
Ireland
>(Rev. War Declaration), m Dec 1776 Sarah Seawright b 1753, Augusta
Co. VA, d
>1834 Union Dist SC.

We know exactly when Nicholas left Augusta Co. (late 1787 after his
father John died) and went to KY. I'd like more proof about your
Nicholas Corry please. We know there's a connection here. It is
mixed and we don't know what it is right now.
If you have a William coming from Ireland early, it is possible that
the names are so similar amongst the Curry/Corry's that there has
been a mixture of a couple of families here.....we definitely have
to look more here.

>Robert Corry, son of William and Margaret Corry, Rev. Sold. b 1 Aug
1756
>Ireland, d 10 Jan 1839 age 83 yrs in Heard Co., GA, m between May
and Nov.
>1782 in Augusta Co. VA Jane Seawright.

We just don't know. Robert Curry left Augusta Co. in 1792 and we
aren't sure who his wives were or where he went. Chalkleys' states
that one of Robert's wives was a McComb and had three children. But
I have no proof that he married a Seawright. Do you have a source on
this?

>I would very much like to hear from you to know more about your
Samuel Curry.
> I do not know if a book has ever come out on the Dr. Robert Curry
of Augusta
>Co., VA, but you might like to know there is a file of Curry
material at
>Chapel Hill, NC in the Wilson Library of the Univ. of NC. I have not
>detected any relationship of our Corrys to them. Probably there is a
>connection back in Ireland, but I do not know the Irish connection
of Dr.
>Robert Curry to an Irish family.

[Any volunteers from the Curry list near the Univ. of NC that can
check the CURRY folder out?? It would be great to know the
informatoin inside. Message me if you can!]

>Please let me hear from you again.
>
>Sincerely, Mildred Ezell [address deleted for privacy].

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