William Curry

William Curry was a native of Dauphin County, Pa., and was born in 1739. He learned the trade of gunsmith and cooper. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, after which he married, and in 1783 emigrated from Dauphin County with his wife to Washington County, and purchased two hundred and ninety-one acres of land of one Davis, who moved to Ryerson's Station, Greene County, where he was soon after killed and scalped by the Indians, together with all his family except one child, who escaped. The land at the time of purchase was not patented, and later Mr. Curry rode on horseback to Lancaster and secured the patent. He built the stone portion of the house in 1806 according to the date stone in the eve that was hidden by the brick addition later on. On this tract he lived until his death, in 1820, aged eighty-one years. This farm is on Lone Pine Rd at the intersection with Redd Run Rd and has 2 large white barns on it now. William & Margaret Curry are buried in the Vankirk Cemetery off Johnson Rd.

He left two sons, William and John, and two daughters, Margaret (Mrs. William Harbeson, of Lawrence County, Pa.) and Elizabeth (Mrs. John Carlisle, of Amwell township).

John, the youngest son, settled on the homestead, where he lived until his death, Aug. 6, 1880, eighty-five years of age. He left four sons and one daughter. Thomas B., the eldest, lives in West Bethlehem township. Milton B. resides in La Salle County, Ill. Hugh W. and Francis Marion Curry occupied the homestead, and added largely to its area, but had a falling out and eventually the farm was sold at sheriffs sale to M.F. Whitehill. Mary became the wife of Aaron Bane, also a descendant of one of the early settlers.