John Currie of Northampton County

may have spent time in Canada right after the war

Possibly a Loyalist, or at least a Non-Associator, like his brothers Alexander and Ross; We read: "John Curry, commission as justice of the peace, 1782;" This from among the documents microfilmed at the New Brunswick Museum (see documents)

His wife (née Crookshank) may be distantly related to the Loyalist Crookshank ( aka Cruickshank) family: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Crookshank-27 . These were Loyalist as well. However, John and his wife were soon in Bethlehem/Lower Saucon twp., PA: "John was educated to the legal profession, and married a wealthy lady named Crookshank; they lived and died near Bethlehem, Pa."
He is said to have come up from Reading PA... where his brother in law lived. see: https://tehistory.org/hqda/html/v42/v42n2p049.html#DAW

Towards the end of of life he seems to have become a widower and moved, a least for a while, to Luzerne County where he practiced the law in Plymouth township (see newspaper notice) His son William lived there as well.

tax and exoneration in Lower Saucon

1786: 1 horse, 1 cattle, no land
1789: 1 shilling for 1 horse, 1 cattle, no land but his brother-in-law, James Cruckshank (sic) ,was taxed for 180 acres and a ferry for which he paid £1, 16 shillings, 8 pence in tax that same year

"The Cruikshanks were a noted family in their day; they came from the Island of Montserrat, where they retained considerable property. The father of George was Rev. James Cruikshank, a Lutheran clergyman (incorrect) who died about 1725.

George Cruikshank (son of James and father of James) died in 1746. He had but two children a son, Dr. James
Cruikshank. And a daughter, who became the wife of John Currie, a lawyer,
from Reading. Currie soon retired from the bar†††, and took up his residence
on the Cruikshank lands, in what is now, Shimersville, 1 and occupied the
house where John Knecht†now lives. He had but few children. His daughter-
Frances was the wife of Freeman Thomas, who became all active coal operator
at Plymouth, Luzerne county as early as, 1811.

Dr. James Cruikshank, son of George, and brother of Mrs. Currie, died at
Bethlehem in 1805, leaving no issue, and the family name is now extinct.
His wife, Agnes, became an inmate of the Sisters House after his death.

He (Dr. Cruikshank), about the year 1784, sold three large farms to
Dr. Felix Lynn, for about $10,000. These farms laid near the intersection
of the Shimersvilie and Bethlehem roads, at Iron Hill. "

http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/northampton/history/local/davis/da...

note: "Currie soon retired from the bar†††" He did not retire from the bar for he was practicing law c. 1809 in Luzerne County where his son William lived. {MMvB vol. curator}

Currie's Ferry

† Shimersville and John Knecht (successor owner) : https://www.lowersaucontownship.org/shimersville.html

Curries Ferry (historical) was located in Northampton County, Pennsylvania

"Before the construction of a temporary wooden bridge at Freemansburg, the only way to travel across the Lehigh River was by Currie’s Ferry. Lawyer, John Currie, who lived in Shimersville, which was located across the river from Freemansburg, had erected the service. Henry Jarrett built the first temporary bridge in 1816. The bridge only lasted until 1825; when the unfortunate Daniel Schnable, with a four-horse team and loaded wagon, found the bridge could not support him. He and his horses crashed through the structure and fell into the Lehigh. Schnable and his horses survived the fall. Three more bridges followed; a covered bridge made of wood (1826), a bridge made of steel (1896) and finally the modern cement bridge (1990) we use today."
It was the 1802 bequest of Dr. James Cruickshank, John Currie's brother-in-law, that made John a ferry master. James owned the ferry prior to Currie's tenure. (See PA Tax and exoneration of 1789, where James held that property as a ferry.) {MMvB, vol. curator 2022}

Map of Northampton County in 1851 > (after John Currie's death)

Looking at modern maps, a (near) address of the bridge is 30 Main St., Freemansburg, Pennsylvania

other possible connection

https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?params=/context/a...
pages 9-12