Joseph Christopher McCurdy

I represent Joseph Christopher McCurdy, son of Elijah and 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. At the time of the 1820 census of the Escambia River District, I was a newborn. We lived on a small farm with a few cows and hogs.