Notes: Antioch Presbyterian Church minutes state that Randal Currie came to America in 1775 with his parents. It has been claimed that Randal and his sister Flora had brothers and sisters in North Carolina but no proof has been offered. A 1798 deed in Robeson Co. states Randal was his father's "sole heir", though Randal had a sister Flora (she married Angus Currie of Colonsay, Scotland, no relation). Randalsville was so named because Randal Currie was the local postmaster and his post office was on/near his homeplace; the name may have evolved to become his homeplace. He was also Justice of the Peace of Robeson County, until his resignation from that post in 1818.
     Lacy C. Buie claimed Nelly's father was Soloman Johnston who before the Revolution lived in the Philadelphus area near the headwaters of Bogie branch off Richland Swamp near or on the Goza property (southwest of the small airstrip there). There was a Soloman Johnston, Jr. and Soloman Johnston, Sr. in Bladen County (now Robeson) at that time. Soloman Jr. moved to Georgia after selling his lands to his father Soloman, Sr. I tend to doubt Soloman was Nelly's father, even though Bladen tax list show Solomon Johnston living in the very region Lacy Buie referred to. The tax list even shows both Soloman Senior and Junior to be "mulatto", a term used to designate anyone in the tax list who was not white; the two men may have taken Indian wives. Due to naming patterns amongst Randal and Nelly's children, it is more likely Nelly is the sister of Daniel Johnson (who married Isabella Brown) and the daughter of John Johnson, Sr. or his son John Johnson, Jr. of the Johns(t)son family who owned land on Pugh's Marsh in 1753 around Lumber Bridge in Robeson. I am still trying to prove which John Johns(t)on was the man called "Big John" Johns(t)on. Nelly's husband Randal Currie signed a quit claim deed in 1810 turning over any interest he (along with John Little and Patrick Kelly) had in the lands of John Johnson, Sr. This deed strongly indicates Randal Currie's wife had interest in this property and as her husband signed away those interests to younger, more vulnerable parties.