Martha (Mattie) Bowen McCurdy

I represent Mattie Bowen McCurdy. I lived in the Escambia River District, specifically present day Santa Rosa County around Chumuckla. My household was part of an Anglo-American population that settled and farmed land in Spanish territory without permission of the Spanish government, but which was tolerated because it supplied Pensacola with produce. I came from South Carolina, and at the time of the 1820 census of the Escambia River District, I was 20 years old and married to Elijah McCurdy. We had one young son. We lived on a small farm with a few cows and hogs. Elijah was a veteran of the War of 1812 and settled here after his discharge din 1818. We married in 1819.