Mary (Hester) Currin (abt. 1758 - 1818)

Born about 1758 in Granville, North Carolina

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Died 9 Nov 1818 at about age 60 in Granville, North Carolina, United States

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'Mary Hester (c1760? – aft1831) She married Hugh Currin 3 August 1777 and remained in Granville County. The 1800 through 1830 censuses suggest that she was born before 1774 and probably before 1770. (She and Hugh Currin were both aged 26-45 in both the 1800 and 1810 censuses. In 1820 they were presumably the male and female aged over 45 in the household of their son Lemuel Currin. In 1830 she is probably the Mary Currin enumerated as age 70-80 (surely a decade too old) with four adult females and a teenaged female in the household.) Hugh Currin left a will dated 9 November 1818 and proved in November 1823 which named his sons (but not his daughters), and appointed his son Larkin Currin and brother-in-law Benjamin Hester executors. (Granville County Will Book 9, p247. The will is dated 9 November 1818, with a codicil dated 21 January 1823) A different Benjamin Hester and Alfred Hester were witnesses. Benjamin Hester’s estate records list their children as John Currin (of Washington County, Virginia in 1832, Lemuel Currin, Wyatt Currin, James Currin, Larkin Currin, Benjamin Currin, Fannie Currin, Nancy Currin (wife of Lambert Huddleston), Elizabeth Currin, Keziah Currin, Susannah Currin (wife of Samuel Badgett), Mary Currin (wife of Risdom Knott), and Francis Currin, all of whom resided in Granville County at the time. Mary Hester Currin was still alive when Benjamin Hester’s widow filed her petition in 1831, for it states that Benjamin Hester “also left a sister Mary Curry (sic)”.

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