John McCurdy 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
     Birth Date: 5 Jul 1762 - Cumberland Co., Pa 2
    Christening: 
          Death: 1837 - Madison Co., Ga
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:
Parents 
         Father: David McCurdy (Abt 1728-Abt 1796)
         Mother: Agnes Weakley (Abt 1732-Bef 1795) 3
Spouses and Children 
1. *Elizabeth Groves (Abt 1765 - 1825) 4 
       Marriage: 
       Children:
                1. David McCurdy (Abt 1788-Abt 1788)
                2. Stephen McCurdy (1790-1847)
                3. James McCurdy (Abt 1793-1872)
                4. Isabella McCurdy (1795-1859)
                5. John McCurdy (1797-1871)
                6. Samuel McCurdy (Abt 1800-Abt 1863)
                7. Robert McCurdy (1804-1848)
                8. Agnes Weakley McCurdy (1807-Bef 1866)
                9. William A. McCurdy (Abt 1809-1870)
Notes
General:
CENSUS:

<pre>1790 Cumberland Co., Pennsylvania, Hopewell, Newton, Tyborn, and Westpensboro
John McCurdy 112
males >= 16 1
males < 16 1
females 2 </pre>

<pre>1820 Madison Co., Georgia
John McCurdy 020101 -- 01101
male female
<10
2 10-16 1
16-18 1
1 16-26
26-45 1
1 >45 </pre>

In 1830 John McCurdy is living in Madison Co., Georgia in the household of his son John McCurdy, Jr.

LAND in PENNSYLVANIA:

On page 22 of Julius McCurdy's book The McCurdys of Stone Mountain, Georgia is a surveyor's map of a tract of land in Newton Township containing 206 acres and 11 perches which was surveyed June 19, 1787 for John McCurdy in pursuance of a warrant issued May 11, 1787. It adjoins a larger tract surveyed the same day for his brother James.

MARRIAGE:

The McCurdys of Stone Mountain, Georgia, page 23:

"John McCurdy had evidently married Elizabeth Groves prior to the preparation of the list and she appears as Elizabeth McCurdy just below John's name. According to her age given, her year of birth would have been 1765. Elizabeth Groves was the daughter of Stephen Groves who was married to Isabelle Weakley, the sister of Agnes Weakly McCurdy. John had, therefore, married his first cousin, an occurrence not so unusual in those days."

For more about the list of members of the Big Spring Presbyterian Church, see notes under John's father David McCurdy.

GEORGIA:

Pages 81-86 in McCurdy Pioneers of North America by Clyde W. McCurdy (1990, Collegiate Press, Inc., Atlanta, Ga) are mostly about John McCurdy. Several portions are copied below.

"For sixteen years the pioneers from Pennsylvania all lived in close proximity to one another in Elbert, and Jackson County, Georgia. The children of the families, many of them closely related, grew up together. Most of them would have attended church and school at the New Hope Church. By 1805, the New Hope Church reported a membership of 250, which indicates the growth of the Paoli community, and the success of the first settlers."

"In 1806-1808, a large group of these settlers left Georgia and moved to the state of Tennessee. Tennessee was admitted to the union as a state in 1796, and new lands were opened to settlement. The Reverend Groves Cartledge wrote that Allen Leeper (and probably his father James Leeper) purchased a large tract of land in Middle Tennessee on the Duck River. The Leeper family offered this land to all of their neighbors who would accompany them to Tennessee, at the same price they paid for it. Therefore, this large group left Georgia for Tennessee on a pioneering move that would eventually take them and descendants west, across the entire United States."

"Some of the families in this move were William Appleby, his son-in-law David McCurdy Jr., William Hodge, James McCurdy, John Calvert, David Calvert, William Saye, Thomas Ewing and others. Within the next few years other families would join this first group. Two families who did not make the move were those of Stephen Groves and John McCurdy. The two brothers and three sisters of John McCurdy all moved, but John and his father-in-law Stephen Groves remained on their lands near Paoli for fifty years, until their death."

"John McCurdy was well liked in the community and held jobs and responsibilities of importance. He became a Justice of the Peace in Elbert County before 1802, and several marriages by him are on record in the first marriage book. When Madison County was formed in December, 1811, John served as a Justice of the Peace the first year, and after. His name appears on a list of Jurors in 1812, and in that year he was appointed Road Commissioner of the Brookline Militia District. John McCurdy was a farmer and if he had another occupation, it is not known."

"John McCurdy applied for a pension on March 11, 1833, and in his application, which is on file at the National Archives in Washington, he stated that he was born July 5, 1762 in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, and resided there until he moved to Elbert County, Georgia in 1790. He volunteered for service in September, 1777, as a private in the Company of Captain Thomas Campbell, under the command of General Israel Putnam, and served a tour of nine months and thirteen days. He stated that he joined the army under General Putnam at Trenton, New Jersey, after the engagement there by General George Washington. He served a second tour of three months and twenty-one days beginning in February, 1779. He served this whole tour in guarding a fort at Sunbury, Pennsylvania."

"John McCurdy was just over fifteen years old when he volunteered for service. He was allowed a pension on May 28, 1833, in the amount of $21.88 semi-annually. His father-in-law Stephen Groves appeared in court as the one witness to his actual service."

"On November 22, 1833, Stephen Groves applied for and was granted a pension. He was 93 years old at this time, and lived almost six more years. He died in March, 1839."

"John McCurdy's wife Elizabeth died in 1825 at the age of sixty-one."

"John McCurdy died in 1837, according to family records, at the age of seventy-five. It is likely that John and Elizabeth are buried in the New Hope Cemetery, however no gravestones were located for them."
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Sources

1 Clyde W. McCurdy, "McCurdy Pioneers of North America," 1990, pgs 82-86.

2 Julius Augustus McCurdy, "The McCurdy's of Stone Mountain, Georgia," 1979, pgs 23, 25.

3 Julius Augustus McCurdy, "The McCurdy's of Stone Mountain, Georgia," 1979, pg 23.

4 Clyde W. McCurdy, "McCurdy Pioneers of North America," 1990, pg 86.

5 Mac McCurdy, "http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com db: mactex."

6 Dorothy (Dee) Appleby Turner, Appleby Heritage Association, http://appleby.rootsweb.com.

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