Jonathan Curtis

was born February 19, 1689/90 in Wiltshire, England, and died 1757 in Berkely County, West VA..

Notes for Jonathan Curtis:

Son: Job Curtis, b. 1717, England; d. 1804, Dry Run, Berkeley, W. Va.

When Jonathan Curtis migrated to this country is unknown. In 1735 he received a land patent for 713 acres in Frederick County Virginia. A few years later, land patent and survey records indicate, Jonathan Curtis and his son Job owned adjacent plots of land.

At the May 1744 term of the Frederick County Court, one of the actions of the Grand Jury was to indict Jonathan Curtis for plowing on Sunday. The next month, at the June term of court, Jonathan Curtis was indicted for writing and publishing several articles against the Established Church. It will be recognized that at this time there was not the measure of freedom of religion which later became part of American fundamental law. A writer referring to this incident refers to Jonathan Curtis as a Quaker, but the evidence for this is unknown.

As no other Jonathan Curtis appears in the records of Frederick Co., Virginia, during that period, Jonathan Curtis, father of Job Curtis, is likely the same one men tioned above who ran afoul of the authorities.

Source: Michelle Henry

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