John Curd

A Patriot of the American Revolution for VIRGINIA with the rank of PRIVATE. DAR Ancestor # A028691

Biography

Major John Curd was born on 1726 in Henrico County, Virginia, Colonial America. His parents were John Curd, I and Elizabeth Ann Oglesby (Price).

John married Lucy Curd (Brent) on April 7, 1758 in Lancaster, Lancaster, Virginia, United States, KY, United States. Together they had the following children:

1. James Price Curd;
2. Maj. John Brent Curd;
3. Elizabeth Morris (Curd);
4. Nancy Hord (Curd);
5. Catherine Curd;
6. Newton Curd;
7. Mary Pryor (Curd);
8. Price Curd;
9. Daniel Boone Curd;
10. Woodford Curd;
11. Merryman Brent Curd.

He died before December 6, 1797 in Fayette County, KY, United States.

(Note: --an additional son PRICE CURD is seen in genealogies of published material and accepted as correct by CURD family researchers. ~CHCurtis 30 Dec 2022)

There were three John Curds living in Goochland Co VA at the beginning of the Revolution.

1. This John who married Lucy Brent left Virginia during the Revolution and seems not to have served in the Continental Army before leaving for Kentucky.
2. A second John Curd in Goochland was a son of Edward Curd & Mary Morris - he was a Captain in the Militia, 1778-1881, and later Colonel of the Goochland Militia.
3. A third John Curd who created records in Goochland was a son of John and Lucy - he was a private in the Continental Army in 1776 and Major in the Goochland Militia in 1780. This young John was married to Ann "Nancy" Williams.

• Reference: FamilySearch Genealogy - SmartCopy: Dec 30 2022, 17:07:55 UTC

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Descendants of John 3 Curd

9. John 3 Curd (John 2 , Edward 1 ), son of John Curd and Elizabeth Price; m. in Lancaster Co., Va., April 7, 1758, Lucy Brent, dau. of James Brent and Catherine Newton (1678-1728), dau. of - Thomas Newton.
Their children were born in Goochland Co., Va., and registered hy the Rev. William Douglas in the register of the St. James Northam Parish Church of which John Curd was Vestryman. John Curd removed to Kentucky in 1780, settling on the south bank of the Kentucky river at the mouth of the Dix river in what was first Lincoln Co. but was later cut off to form Mercer Co. Here he established a public ferry authorized by law, being one of eight so authorized in Kentucky by the Virginia Assembly. This ferry became the gateway to the settlement at Harrodsburg, and at the present writing a ferry is still in operation at this point. The road from the ferry to Harrodsburg and on to Lexington was known as Curd’s road and so called until the Harrodsburg turnpike was built. Here John Curd and his associates also founded the town of New Market in 1786.t He took up large grants of land in Jefferson, Fayette, and Lincoln Cos., the first three counties to be formed out of the Co. of Kentucky.
All of his children and those of his brother Joseph (with one exception) eventually settled in central Kentucky and are the ancestors of a large part of the Kentuckians bearing the name Curd.

In 1784 with Clark and Durham he organized the first Methodist Church in Kentucky and assisted in erecting a meetinghouse at Danville. He was a member of the Lincoln County Militia and saw service under at least three different captains, was in the Company of Captain John Martin under command of Col. Stephen Trigg, April 21 to May 23, 1781; in Company of Capt. Samuel Scott under command of Col. Benjamin Logan, February 22 to March 22, 1782; and in the company of Capt. John Smith under command of Col. Benjamin Logan, October 22 to November 22, 1782. (Pay rolls on file Virginia State Library.) He was a member of Gen. George Rogers Clark’s expedition which invaded the Shawnee towns along the Miami in Ohio, November 1782, destroying same in retaliation for the massacre at Blue Licks in August. {War Dept. Records.) It is said that he was an intimate friend of both Daniel Boone and Governor Patrick Henry and that under the Governor’s direction he served many important missions in the Kentucky section of Virginia. He d. at his home in Mercer Co., 1801.

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|“Oct. 11, 17S6, John Jouett, Gabriel Madison, James Hord, Samuel Pryor, Gentlemen, were appointed trustees for the town of Newmarket in Virginia and land purchased from John Curd.”

Descendants of John Curd 3

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