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Christie, James, was a native of Aberdeen, Scotland, born March 13, 1800. During his youth he learned the trade
of rope and sail making, and at the age of thirteen he went on the sea as a cabin boy. Proving active, competent
and reliable, he gradually raised in rank until he became captain of a ship, and for forty eight years followed
the sea. He married, June 1, 1820, in Boston, Sarah Parsons; they have no children. Mrs. Christie died January
1, 1864. Leaving the sea in 1857, Captain Christie came to this county and settled in Barre, where he had a farm
of fifty acres. There he lived about twelve years and then came to Albion, where he died April 6, 1874. By a provision
in his will he left to the Baptist Missionary Union Society a bequest of $10,000. In April, 1864, Captain Christie
married Hannah Samantha Randall, and four years after his death his widow married William H. Ross, of Albion, who
died in September, 1881. Samuel Ross was born at Morristown, N. J., in 1785. He was a blacksmith by trade, and
spent twenty five years in Schenectady, coming to Shelby in 1832. He died in 1872, and his wife in 1847. Charles
C. Ross, of Albion. was one of the four children of Samuel. He is a coachmaker by trade, and worked in Medina about
fifteen years before coming to Albion in 1884. In 1839 he married Maria Finch in Schenectady. William Halsey Ross,
also son of Samuel, married second Hannah Samantha Christie, widow of Captain James Christie.
From:
Landmarks of Orleans County, New York
Edited by: Hon. Isaac C. Signor
Assisted by: H. P. Smith and others
D. Mason & Co., Publishers
Syracuse, N. Y. 1894
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