Transcript:Current, Annie E. Genealogy of the Current and Hobson Families/p005

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when the black people were held as slaves, and sold like animals, by their owners. But this was a custom which James Current and his descend- ants believed to be wrong and they never owned any slaves. His father divided his farm of thir- teen hundred acres among his children. He gave James three hundred acres and this son remained with his parents as long as they lived.

In the year 1835 James sold the land and fol- lowed his three sons, Peter, James and John, and two daughters, Nellie and Mary, to Henry County Indiana, they having settled there during the two preceding years. All of his children that were in Virginia, except the youngest daughter, came to Indiana with their parents.

One marked trait of the Currents was, and is, their respect for their ancestry. The command, "Honour thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee," includes a promise that was fulfilled to many of them. They were so bound by the ties of consanguinity they verified the old Scotch term "clannish" though liberal and friendly to others. Settling on adjoining farms they lived thus a number of years till the