Identifier: magazineofamericv26stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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n vast sums, and it was thought they divided the spoils among them-selves. There was presently an ominous movement toward resistance,Wodrow says : In the middle of November, 1666, occurred * the rising.But all was against the Presbyterians, who were undisciplined, theirhorses not trained ; the royal army was powerful and soon scattered therising forces; some were killed, many of the prisoners were executed, andthose of note who escaped were forfeited in life and fortune, in absence. Here we have a key to the thrilling story. Five MacKirdy (laterspelled McCurdy) brothers escaped in an open boat, and in the midst of ablinding snowstorm sailed across the turbulent sea to Ireland, leaving * Sir Bernard Burke said : The McKirdys formerly belonged to the Tribes who possessedthe Western Islands of Scotland, long under the crown of Sweden and the Lords of the Isles.The family were the principal possessors of the Isle of Bute at a very early period. 326 JUDGE CHARLES JOHNSON MCCURDY, 1797-189I
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JUDGE CHARLES JOHNSON MCCURDY, 1797-1891 327 their worldly possessions behind them. They landed at Ballintoy, which isbounded by the sea on the north and northeast, near the famous GiantsCauseway, and in this vicinity they settled. Twenty-three years later, inthe English revolution of 1689, the McCurdys of Antrim were in the siegeof Londonderry and in the crowning victory of the Boyne. John McCurdy is believed to have brought capital with him to thiscountry with which to commence business. To appreciate his mercantileability and energy one must recall somewhat the conditions of the time andcountry in which he lived. We can now but little understand the rude-ness of American civilization at that period, and the difficulties to beencountered on every side. He emigrated thirty-one years before theDeclaration of Independence. The chief mode of transportation was byboats. Taking the goods which he had brought with him, John McCurdyat first went up the Hudson through a region still less set

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