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Scotch-Irish immigrants who built their rough cabins on the banks of the Monongahela river."

The children of James and Margaret (Richard- son) Current were:

John, Martin, Molly, James and Enoch.

James and Margaret Johnson Current.

James, son of James and Margaret Richardson Current was born March 25. 1773, in Virginia and died in Henry County, Indiana, February 2, 1845 at the age of seventy-three years. He was mar- ried to Margaret Johnson, March 31, 1796. She was born in a blockhouse within a stockade, in Pennsylvania, August 1777, and died in Henry County, Indiana, January 23, 1875, at the age of ninety-eight years. A stockade was an inclosure for the protection of live stock, made of large posts pointed at the top and planted close togeth- er in a line surrounding a strong wooden fort called a blockhouse, where the pioneers in time of danger from Indians, assembled from their homes, taking their stock and valuables and re- maining until the danger was over. Strong men brave patient women and innocent children, in those days lived in constant dread of the savage yells of the cruel Indians. Those were times also