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- A recent letter (1886) from Mr. Patrick McCurdy of the Cairn, Ballintoy, co. Antrim says:
“My ancestors came from Buteshire in Scotland during the reign of Charles II. – the date of their leaving Scotland might be 1666. The story of their voyage to and arrival in Ireland (as handed down to us) is very affecting. . . They landed at Ballintoy, five brothers, four of whom settled in Co. Antrim.
Patrick, or (as the Scotch then pronounced it) Pethric, settled in the Cairn. He had four sons, named, respectively, David, William, John and Daniel.
Daniel was father to my grandfather, who was also named Daniel, and was born about 1750. My father's name was Patrick.
John McCurdy of Ahoghill must have been cousin to my grandfather's father, and of the same generation.
I am now working up to seventy years of age, so that I am amongst the eldest of the living McCurdys.
The same address as given above will find my brother Archy McCurdy, my cousin John McCurdy and myself. We are on the very ground on which our great forefathers trod.”
source: Salisbury, Edward Eldbridge and Evelyn McCurdy Salisbury. Family Histories and Genealogies: A Series of Genealogical and Biographical Monographs on the Families of MacCurdy, Mitchell, Lord, Lynde, Digby, Newdigate, Hoo, Willoughby, Griswold, Wolcott, Pitkin, Ogden, Johnson, Diodati, Lee and Marvin, and Notes on the Families of Buchanan, Parmelee, Boardman, Lay, Locke, Cole, DeWolf, Drake, Bond and Swayne, Dunbar and Clarke, and a Notice of Chief Justice Morrison Remick Waite, with Twenty-nine Pedigree-charts and Two Charts of Combined Descents, Volume 1. Privately printed, 1892.
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