James Kelly first married Susan Turner and then Elizabeth Kemp and had a plantation at Bluff.

Indeed historic records of Kelly descendants are found at Current, Harbour Island, Nassau, all in the Bahamas, and Key West, Florida.

[1] Louis Diston Powles visited Eleuthera, and in his book The Land of the Pearl (1888) referred to the Bluff settlement and its black residents, most notably John Neely, the tacitly accepted leader of the settlement.

At the National Archives in Nassau, Bahamas, there exists a will from one Christopher Neely, a white slaveholder (a British loyalist originally from South Carolina in the colonies).

The (Eleuthera) Bluff settlement sponsors an annual homecoming event the second weekend of July which generally coincides with the Independence Day celebrations taking place throughout the entire Bahamas.