It started as a trickle and became a flood; European settlement of America. The English “Adventurers” (investors) watched the Spanish plunder the New World, and so they dreamed of riches. Then there was just that short trip from America’s eastern seaboard, over the mountains, to the Pacific Ocean, on then to the south seas, and to the East Indies – the Spice Islands – with all that Nutmeg,1 and of course, even more riches. First came the Roanoke settlement in…
Transcribed by Jane Norton Powell in 2005 for the USGenWeb Archives. No copyright infringement is intended. Click here to view the original page. Note: The TNGenWeb Project does not endorse the use of culturally insensitive language. On this abstract, please note certain original words are included for context. Haywood County was created by an act of the General Assemble of the State of Tennessee, passed 3 November 1823 from portions of the Chickasaw Indian Cession. It was to be called…
Transcriber unidentified — likely Jane N. Powell; submitted to Haywood County TNGenWeb about December, 2001. Source: Haywood County,Tennessee-Miscellaneous Records – W.P.A. Records/Transcribed by Sallie Hayes The following information on the James Currie, Jr. Family was copied by Mary E. Timberlake of D. A. R. in 1939 James Currie, Jr. James Currie, Jr. was the son of James Currie, Sr., and Mary Catherine Armstrong Currie of Caswell Co., NC. He was born in Caswell Co., 26 April 1765. He served as…