I represent Ross Currie. I was a lieutenant in the Provincial Corps of Pennsylvania Loyalists. Raised in Philadelphia in 1777, the corps arrived in Pensacola at the very end of 1778 and remained until the surrender to the Spanish on May 10, 1781. I was living in Philadephia when I enlisted in the regiment as a lieutenant in Captain Francis Kearney’s company, and I am soon found on the muster rolls as Adjutant. I remained in Capt. Kearney’s company during the time the Pennsylvania and Maryland Loyalists regiments were merged (1779-1780), and when they separated again, I went to Captain Colden‘s company. After the surrender of Pensacola to the Spanish in May 1781, I was sent with the rest of the survivors to New Town, Long Island, as a prisoner of war. I continued to serve in the Regiment until the end of the Revolutionary War. Like many Loyalists, I went to Canada, seeking refuge and to start my life over. I ended up in New Brunswick, where I practiced law and married Mary Almira Clarke in 1788. Only two years later, in 1790, I drowned in Fredericton while canoing with friends.
Sources: 51, 126, 130, 131