David McCurdy 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
     Birth Date: Abt 1709 - County Antrim, Ireland
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Parents 
         Father: James McCurdy (1668-      )
         Mother: Jerusha Murray (      -      )
Notes
General:
The following is on page 36 in Chapter IX "The Sons of Petheric, 'the Refugee'" of The Ancestral McCurdys Their Origin and Remote History by H. Percy Blanchard (Covenant Publishing Company, London, 1930). A facsimile copy of the book can be seen at

https://ia800905.us.archive.org/27/items/ancestralmccurdy00blan/ancestralmccurdy00blan.pdf

"David, the eighth and youngest child of James and Jerusha McCurdy, was born in Cavan Parish, in 1709. When a young man he came to America, and settled in Westmoreland County, Pa., where he married Susan Madden. They had five sons: John, David, William, Robert, and Samuel. He and his five sons fought in the Revolutionary War, and he himself was frequently with Washington. His son John married Mary Fox, and they had twelve children: Elijah, who went to the South; Ebenezer; Rev. Elisha, born in 1763, "A Presbyterian minister, and his memory still lives"; John, born 1770; James, an Elder for over fifty years; David, lived in Ohio; Dr. Allen Fox; Lucinda; Lucy; Mary; Rebecca; and Nancy.

"David, the Old Veteran, died in 1833, at the extreme age of 124 years."

The claim that David was 124 when he died in highly dubious. That there was a David McCurdy married to Susan Madden in Pennsylvania is also dubious. Chapter IX of Clyde W. McCurdy's book McCurdy Pioneers of North America is devoted to the family of John McCurdy and Mary Fox. On page 142 the author states

"In the past fifteen years, a lot of research has been done in Pennsylvania to find records of a David McCurdy married to Susan Madden, without success. At least five professional genealogists in Pennsylvania have been engaged in research on the McCurdy family, and we are informed that Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania was not formed until 1773, which makes it impossible for David McCurdy and Susan Madden to have settled there first, as stated."
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