When James Curry was born on January 29, 1752, in Belfast, Antrim, Northern Ireland, his father, James, was 24 and his mother, Rebecca, was 23. He married Mary Magdalene Burns on November 20, 1784, in Staunton, Virginia. They had nine children in 25 years. He died on July 5, 1834, in Paris, Ohio, having lived a long life of 82 years, and was buried in Marysville, Ohio.
James came to America with his parents on the ship "Good Return" at the age of 10 in 1762. The ship "Good Return" left Belfast for America (Philadelphia) in 1762. The trip normally took five weeks, but this voyage took fifteen weeks. On this voyage were several families with the name Curry. The James Curry family started out with seven members only to have three daughters and one son die enroute.
[Col.] JAMES CURRY, the subject of this biographic sketch, was born near Belfast, Ireland, January 29, 1752. He was the first born child of James Curry, a prosperous Irish farmer of County Antrim. His mother's maiden name was Warwick, showing an English origin on both sides of the family. Her relatives were prominent in England, during Cromwell's time, siding with the great commoner, and one of them, a Capt. Warwick, was among the number shot to death after the restoration. Very little is known, however, of the far-off lady, not even her given name. We only know that she was a Warwick; that she was of Protestant stock; that she was married to James Curry, near Belfast, about the year 1750; that before leaving Ireland she bore her husband five children, two sons and three daughters; that after reaching America and settling with her husband in Virginia, she bore him four additional children, three daughters and one son; that at the close of the Revolutionary war, she removed with her husband to the neighborhood of Paris, Ky., and there, some years after, died at the age of ninety-three.
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| Date of Birth | 29th Jan 1752 | |
| Date of Death | 5th Jul 1834 | |
| Father (First Name/s and Surname) | James Curry | |
| Mother (First Name/s and Maiden) | Rebecca | |
| Spouse (First Name/s and Maiden/Surname) | Mary Magdalene Burns | |
| Number of Children | nine children in 25 years | |
