Richard Curd (1771)

Born 25 Feb 1771 in Goochland County, Virginia

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Biography

Richard was born in 1771. He is the son of Edmund Curd.

Sources

• Email to me on 6/23/2021 from Dan Curd who has done detailed research on the Curd family over the years (see below). Dan Curd's research does not agree in total with what is posted on Wikitree (e.g. Dan Curd lists Edmund Curd b-1742 as dying in 1814 and his parents as Richard Curd and Sarah Downer). Dan Curd notes Edmund Curd's wife as a Mary Curd (1742-1785, daughter of John Curd, Sr. and Elizabeth Ann Price).

Dan Curd feels this Richard Curd is the most likely candidate to have been the Richard Curd that in 1833 in Henrico Co., VA sues the administrators of Dabney Miller's estate (see my 6/22/2021 email to Dan Curd asking Dan Curd if he could identify this Richard Curd below.

DAN CURD'S RESPONSE TO MY EMAIL BELOW

There is another Richard Curd who lived in Goochland County, but little is known about him. He was born 25 Feb 1771 in Goochland County, the son of Edmund Curd (1742-1814, son of Richard Curd and Sarah Downer) and Mary Curd ( 1742-1785, daughter of John Curd, Sr., and Elizabeth Ann Price). His death date is unknown. As to the Richard Curd (1762-1827) who married Nancy Harrison and moved to Georgia, they had a son named Edward - their oldest, born in Virginia about 1795 and believed to have died in Georgia about 1850 who married Sarah Elizabeth Clopton (she was the daughter of David Clopton and Mary Ann Vanderwall). Attached is information from The Curd Family in American (1938), based on the work of genealogist, Frank Darwin Fuller. I don't know if I told you but I have published a revised edition, The Curd Family in America: Eight Generations. The reference to the will is in a genealogical book (copy of the page attached). There is one other Richard Curd who chronologically is possible but I think unlikely. Born in 1797 in Wytheville, Virginia, was probably the illegitimate son of Richard Curd (1771- ?, above, son of Edmund Curd and Mary Curd). This Richard Curd moved to Tennessee. Dan Curd

MY EMAIL TO DAN CURD

Dan,

I sure if you recall our email communications about a year and a half ago. I have done extensive research on the Miller’s in early Virginia over the past few years. See a portion of your email to me on 12/7/2019 below.

In the past few weeks I have been doing more detailed research on Dabney Miller and approximately 40 other men and women with the surname of Miller in Henrico County, VA including the city of Richmond, VA in the late 1700’s and early 1800’s. During this research I came across a 1833 Chancery case in Henrico Co., VA where a Richard Curd sues the administrators of Dabney Miller’s estate and a Samuel Paine. Other surnames mentioned in the case were Clopton and Dillon. This is all the information I have on this case from a Chancery Records brief.

The most logical person this Richard Curd could have been would be Sara (Curb) Miller’s brother, Richard Curd born circa 1762. However you noted to me that he married a Nancy Harrison and moved to Georgia and died in 1827 in Georgia. His death have been six years prior to the Richard Curd suit in Henrico Co., VA in 1833. Are you aware of another Richard Curd in or near Henrico Co., VA that would have been living in 1833?

I am not certain that the Dabney Miller estate referred to in this 1833 case is the Dabney Miller (b-1750) who married Sara Curd (sister of Richard Curd). There were a few other Dabney Miller’s (all related) in Virginia in this time frame; however Dabney Miller (b-1750) was the only one with a close connection to the Curd’s that I am aware. Also it is odd that this case was file at least 20 years after this Dabney Miller’s death. This Dabney Miller is thought to have died around 1804; however he may have died as late as 1810.

You note Dabney Miller’s will below. Per chance could I get a copy? In all my searches I have never found a copy of his will.

I cannot recall if I commented to you back in December, 2019 about a record noting Dabney Miller’s wife’s name was Sara. In the 1782 Richmond, Virginia Census, Dabney Miller and his family are listed by name and age living on lots 461 and 462. His wife was listed as Sarah Miller age 26 (so born circa 1756).

I recently found an old Virginia map that shows the lots in Virginia a few years after 1782. Dabney Miller & Sara Curd’s two lots are on the now western side of the Virginia State Capital grounds. These lots were only 3 or 4 blocks from what was called “The Basin” which is show on the old map of Richmond. “The Basin” was a merchant boat marina that was in the line of canals around the falls on the James River at Richmond. “The Basin” was where flat bottom boats coming down the James River from western portions of Virginia loaded with tobacco and other goods were moored prior to unloading onto larger seagoing ships going to far away markets. Dabney Miller (and the Curd family likely) were involved with the Virginia tobacco trade as well as other merchant business. Dabney Miller owned a number of properties including a tavern about 65 miles up the James River from Richmond, VA.

I can share with you more details on the Curd family in Henrico Co., VA if you would like.

Jim Miller