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. Randalsville was so named because Randal Currie was the local postmaster and his post office was on/near 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 (southwest of the small airstrip there on the Goza property). 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"; they 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. who owned land on Pugh's Marsh around Lumber Bridge and lived near Old John McPherson on the Raft Swamp.