Alexander Ross Currie

Name: Alexander Currie, Dr.

From "History of Chester County, Pennsylvania "speaking of his Father William Currie, Sr. and his children: "He was married to the eldest daughter of Mr. Ross, by which marriage he had five sons and one daughter, - John, James, William, Richard, Alexander Ross, and Elizabeth. His daughter Elizabeth was married to Dr. Demon, of Reading. John was educated to the legal profession, and married a wealthy lady named Crookshank; they lived and died near Bethlehem, Pa. James, William, and Alexander were physicians. Alexander went to one of the West India Islands, married and died there. William married and died in Philadelphia. Richard joined the First Militia, and went to Amboy; afterwards returned and died, leaving a widow and three children to the care of his father." ~• note: another son Ross was a Loyalist who left for New Brunswick, married, and drowned ~• MMvB vol curator

History of Chester County, Pennsylvania, with genealogical and biographical sketches. Futhey, John Smith and Gilbert Cope. Philadelphia : L. H. Everts, 1881. Internet Archive. Web. <https://archive.org/details/cu31924005813518/page/n707/mode/2up> p. 509.

MARRIAGE of a subsequent Alexander Currie TO MARGARET MACLEAN

~• FROM : https://www.vc.id.au/tb/bgcolonistsM.html MACLEAN, Margaret Ann

Married CURRIE, Alexander Esq.,: 28 JUL 1845, Guana Island, Tortola

Did Dr. Alexander Currie have a son, or grandson (this Alexander Esq. ) ?

See also: Guana Island research; https://scholarworks.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1327&contex...

Recommended Citation
Kostro, Mark, "On The Margins of Empire: An Archaeological and Historical Study of Guana Island, British
Virgin Islands" (2018). Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects. Paper 1530192807.
http://dx.doi.org/10.21220/s2-0wy4-3r12

"Henry Clinton MacLean, a customs official and cotton planter, is the last
known white planter to live on Guana. MacLean was first listed as a resident
on Guana in 1822, the same year he married Frances Sullivan Frett, the
stepdaughter of John Lettsom†† of Beef Island (Virgin Islands Slave Register
T71/372:514-515). Interestingly, the two previously described surface
middens (GN29 & GN30) of glass and ceramic fragments found in the vicinity
of the current hotel on Guana, both date to the period of MacLean’s
occupation of Guana. The close correspondence in their dating with
MacLean’s occupation is a possible indication that the supposed great house
ruin under the hotel manager’s office was MacLean’s residence. Presumably
he and his wife are among the “5 whites” listed on the 1823 statistical table.
In addition, MacLean owned a number of enslaved persons including 17
individuals in 1822 (VI Slave Register T71/372:514-515). The list grew to 21
people in 1825 (VI Slave Register T71/372:576), to 40 in 1828 (VI Slave
Register T71/373:227) and back down to 38 in 1831 (VI Slave Register
T71/374:209), up to 39 in 1834 (VI Slave Register T71/375:245)(Appendix C).
Upon emancipation, MacLean was awarded compensation for 40 enslaved
individuals on his Guana Island estate (Virgin Islands 37, Legacies of British
Slave-ownership database [accessed 16th February 2018]). MacLean and
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his family continued to live on Guana for at least the next decade. In 1845, a
newspaper announcement for MacLean’s daughter Margaret Ann’s marriage
to Alexander Currie indicated the wedding took place on Guana. H.C.
MacLean††† died a few years later, in 1849; and here is no record of anyone
else living on Guana, white or black, until the twentieth century.

††John Coakley Lettsom (1744 – 1 November 1815, also Lettsome) was an English physician and philanthropist born on Little Jost Van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands into an early Quaker settlement. The son of a West Indian planter and an Irish mother, he grew up to be an abolitionist.
Place of birth: British Virgin Islands
Date of death: 1 November 1815
Professions: physician, entomologist

John Coakley Lettsom - Wikipedia

††† for more on H.C. McLean see: https://loyalist.lib.unb.ca/sites/default/files/Document%20List%20-...
In particular: dated September 1824: Dated at Antigua. Encloses papers relative to special enquiry into
the case of Mr. Maclean and his female African apprentices as
directed.
"No. 4 – Copies of affidavits delivered in by H. C. Maclean after the
special enquiry held at Tortola in June 1824. Affidavits by John
Lettson, sr. of the Island of Beef Island one of the Virgin Islands,
Esq.; Henry Clinton Maclean of Guana Island one of the Virgin
Islands (husband of Miss Frett - stepdaughter of Mr. Lettsom and
carer of Lettsom’s apprentice, Kitty); Frances Sullivan Maclean
(responsible for care of female apprentices); Henry Wheatley
(house carpenter) residing in Island of Tortola one of the Virgin
Islands. (9 pp.)

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