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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h carpenters, especially the paneled oak wainscots,fluted pilasters in the corners of the rooms, graceful arches about the fire-places, and the wood carving of the elegant corner cupboard or buffetin the south parlor, with shell-shaped top, built with the house—which isappropriately devoted to an exceedingly choice collection of specimens ofthe porcelain used by the American ancestors of Judge McCurdy. Avolume might be written from its shelves. The whole house is a museumof souvenirs of former generations of ancestral families. The articles offurniture are in most instances over a hundred years old, and each withan interesting history. Many of them are associated with the visit ofWashington on the 9th of April, 1776, when he spent a night under thisroof on his journey from Cambridge to New York. The house wason the old post road between Boston and New York, over which nearlyall the distinguished men of the Revolution passed at one time or 324 JUDGE CHARLES JOHNSON MCCURDY, 1797-189I
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JUDGE CHARLES JOHNSON MCCURDY, 1797-I89I 325 another during the period, many of whom were cordially welcomed andentertained by John McCurdy in this unique colonial homestead. Lafayette, in command of a detachment of troops, was the guest ofJohn McCurdy on the night of July 27, 1778, occupying the north chamberover the north parlor of the house. He was here again forty-six yearsafterward, in 1824, on his memorable journey to Boston as the guest of thenation, and was entertained by Richard McCurdy, the youngest son of JohnMcCurdy, and his family which included Charles Johnson McCurdy whohad then been married some two years. John McCurdy who was the first of the name in America as well as theoriginal purchaser of the McCurdy house emigrated from Antrim, Ireland,in 1745, at the age of twenty-one. He is recorded as early as 1747 a merchant in the city of New York. Extensive and painstaking re-searches recently made both in this country and in Scotland and Ire-land by Professor and Mrs. Edw

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