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landing on the eastern shore of Maryland. One brother died; the other returned to his native land.

James was married and had one son, William. His wife died and the record of this marriage is lost. His second wife was Margaret Richardson, who was born in 1737. When he came to this country , James Current settled in north-western Virginia, trading a "gray" horse for thirteen hun- dred acres of land where the city of Grafton, W. Virginia, is now located. He lived to the age of ninety-two years on this farm, and died August 15, 1822. Margaret, his wife, died in 1830 at the same place, when ninety-three years old. Their bodies were buried on the Current farm in a cem- etery now called Bluemont Cemetery.

Their long lives prove that they were well suited to endure the hard toil and ever present dangers of pioneer life. One of Virginia's poets has written of them:

"Upon their dinted shields no crests;

No glittering orders on their breasts,

But IRON in their blood."

"More resolute, honest and upright people could not be found than were those sturdy daring