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  During the revolutionary war James Hughson sided with the loyalists and spent 7 years in the Royal Service. In 1776, he left his estate, never to return, served under Major Thomas Ward at Bergen Point and was wounded in the battle of Germantown. In 1783 he and his family were forced to leave New york and came by boat along with thousands of other loyalists to New Brunswick where he remained until his death in 1890. 

  Abraham, the third son of James moved first to the Niagara area, served in the war of 1812, and was granted land in Amaranth township in return for military service. Abraham, believed to be the first white settler in Dufferin county, cleared the land where Orangeville now stands and sold it to Orange Lawrence, the founder of Orangeville.
  It is said that he was a good tailor and school teacher. He conducted the first school in the lower part of his barn which was later used as a church. 

  Just recently some gravestones were discovered in a field just west of Orangeville, a location designated to become a housing development. The stones belonged to members of the Hughson family. The township is planning to build a memorial with the stones honouring Amaranth's first settlers. 

The Hughson and Curry families lived literally within a stone's throw of each other (the lots in darker gray).   John Curry met and later went on to marry Susannah Hughson, the youngest of twelve children.   They were secretly wed owing to the custom of the day, which required her elder sisters to be availed of every opportunity to be married first.

Amaranth township from Historical Atlas of Waterloo and Wellington Counties 1881-1877.

  The three brothers William, John and Thomas Curry emigrated to America during the 1830's, first to New York state and then after a few years, to Amaranth township in Ontario. They were among the first settlers in the township and were instrumental in founding the first Presbyterian church in the area that is now the town of Orangeville.

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University of Toronto Press 2nd ed. 1963 

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Genealogical Pub. Co., 1968, 2v. 

Kelling, Elizabeth Anne. The Roots of Amaranth.
Boston Mills Press, 1981. 

Leitch, Adelaide. Into the High Country: the Story of Dufferin the Last 12,000 Years to 1974.
Corp. of the Country of Dufferin, 1975. 

Slater, Patrick. The Yellow Briar: the Story of the Irish on the Canadian Countryside.
Macmillan, 1970. 

Urquhart, Jane. Away: a Novel.
McClelland & Stewart, 1993. 

Wright, Esther Clark. The Loyalists of New Brunswick.
Sentinel Printing Ltd., reprinted 1985.