Curry, Thomas
John M. McDonald interview — 1847-10-21
Thomas Currie Jr. is likely Thomas Curry (1773-1862), a resident of the Town of Cortlandt. He shares what he has heard regarding Loyalist officer Mansfield Bearmore. Curry also notes that Bearmore’s widow felt that her husband would have recovered from the mortal wound that he received during a skirmish in Mount Pleasant in November 1780 had he not gotten “wet in some river…when in a fair way of recovery.”
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Transcription
- Hufeland Index Page 557 -
Oct. 21. Thomas Currie, junr.: “I have always heard Major Mansfield Barmore well spoken of as a good and gallant officer, and as a person that was much dreaded by the whigs in the Revolutionary war.
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- Hufeland Index Page 558 -
They called him, “That old bitch Bearmore,” and feared him as though he were a tiger. I have heard old Mrs. Bearmore say that he would have got well of the wound he received but for the imprudence of getting wet in some river when in a fair way of recovery, &c. – I will correspond with you and endeavor to collect particulars of Major Bearmore from my mother, the Williams family and others, &c. – Address me at Peekskill Post Office.