Ephraim Curry

M, b. 1755, d. 1806
FatherJohn Curry b. c 1705
MotherAnna (?)
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Birth*1755 Ephraim Curry was born in 1755 at Portarlington, County Laois, Leinster, Ireland. 
Immigration* He immigrated to Cooksburg, Albany County, New York. 
Residence*1785 He lived in 1785 at Lot 21, Con 11, Edwardsburgh Twp, Grenville County, Ontario; granted to him as U.E. 
Marriage*20 March 1787 He married Elsea Eleanor Boulton, daughter of George Boulton U.E. and Nancy Bickford, on 20 March 1787 at Ontario. 
Death*1806 Ephraim Curry died in 1806 at Elizabethtown, Leeds County, Ontario. 
Burial* He was buried at New Dublin #2, Elizabethtown, Leeds County, Ontario. 
Note* He
The Curry family came from Scotland, but as Covenanters they left and went to Ireland to avoid trouble, settling near Port Arlington in Co. Antrim. Ephraim was born in 1756. He and his brothers James and Robert, but not William, had been in the British Navy. Their father was murdered during religious strife.
Ephraim and James immigrated to Cooksburg, Albany Co., New York. When the American Revolutionary War broke out, he joined Jessup's Loyal Rangers as a sergeant. He and David Hunter were both in Capt. William Fraser's 6th Company. He was 5 ft., 7 in. tall. He was also with George Bolton at Ballstown.
As a United Empire Loyalist he was allotted Lot 21, Concession II, Edwardsburg Twp., where he settled by 1785 with his mother. He married Elsea (Alice) Bolton on March 20, 1787. In 1803 he was a captain in the Grenville Militia. The 1804 census described his farm as having 40 acres cultivated and 110 acres uncultivated. 

Family

Elsea Eleanor Boulton b. c 1764, d. 1862
Children

Citations

  1. [S705] Mary Curry, Birth Registration (1797).