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James Curtis was born in Virginia in 1754. James was in the Revolutionary War and served as a drummer and fifer in the11th Regiment under General Daniel Morgan. Maria Elizabeth Coffinberry married James before 1775 in Martinsburg, Berkeley County, Virginia. Maria was born October 25, 1753 in Pennsylvania. Around 1780, James went to the upper Ohio River valley to claim some land in what is now known as Ohio County. In a short time, he was driven from this claim, and he returned to his home in Virginia. In 1786, he moved back to West Virginia and took his family with him and in 1787, made his home on the land that was still in the hands of descendants as late as 1890. James and Maria had ten children, nine of whom lived to be over eighty. James died in 1845 in Ohio County, Virginia/WV. He was preceded in death by his wife Maria who died in 1813 in Virginia /WV.
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