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Ransom Curtis

Male 1803 - 1876  (72 years)


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  • Name Ransom Curtis 
    Born 20 Aug 1803  Peru, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 16 Apr 1876  Sugar Grove, Warren, Pennsylvania, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Cherry Hill Cemetery, Sugar Grove, Warren, Pennsylvania, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I2976  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family Elizabeth Wells,   b. Jun 1804, Cambridge, Washington, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Feb 1852, Ashville, Chautauqua, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 47 years) 
    Married Bef 1829  , , New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F1593  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. TAG 46:180-183: "The Wells (Welles) Family of Hebron, CT. and Cambridge, N.Y.," by John G. Hunt:
      "...Edmund Henry4 Wells, born about 1771, died at Cambridge, N.Y., "of the spotted fever" in 1813; by his wife, who was also his kinswoman, Hepzibah (daughter of that Ichabod Buell named at p. 131 of cited Bradford Genealogy), he left these Wells Children...
      v. Elizabeth, m. Ransom Curtis of Busti; had issue..."

      2. Website "1800s Antislavery Activist" http://ugrr.orbitist.com/content/curtis accessed 5 Nov 2016 (includes photo of farm in Busti):
      "One source says that Ransom B. Curtis was born on 20 August 1803 in Genesee NY, and another says Peru MA. His parents were Comfort and Priscilla A. (Whitney) Curtis. Comfort Curtis is listed in the 1800 Census of Peru but in Warsaw, Genesee County NY in the 1810 Census, where he remained until his death in 1831. Ransom Curtis married Elizabeth (Betsey) Wells. According to Young's History of Chautauqua County, p.228, Ransom Curtis contracted for or bought on Lot 39 in Busti in September 1822. Their son Sidney was born there in April 1829. Ransom Curtis' role as a conductor on the UGRR was described in a talk given by Eleazar Green at the Busti NY Centennial celebration on 18 August 1923. The talk was reprinted Emma by Gourdey, et al, in the Busti Centennial Booklet, 1923. Green described what he saw as a very young child when his father, also Eleazar Green, and their neighbor, Ransom Curtis, hid runaway slaves and then transported them on to the next station. The censuses for 1850 and 1855 show the Ransom Curtis and Eleazar Green families as close neighbors in Busti. The 1854 wall map locates R. Curtis on Lot 39 on the east side of a road with "Green & Co." across the road. Ransom Curtis died in Sugar Grove PA on 16 April 1876."