Robert McCurdy1

M, b. circa 1736, d. 16 May 1810
FatherJames McCurdy b. c 1706, d. b 2 May 1770
MotherMary Cooke d. b 1765
     Robert was born circa 1736 in Salisbury Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Robert married Ann Creighton on 31 May 1761 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, at St. James Church. Robert and Ann had children: Margaret [-5/12/1825] [m. George Shekley], William, Robert, Nancy [m. Mr. Paxton], Martha [m. Samuel Taggart], Mary & James. Robert was a lieutenant-colonel of the Fifth Battalion, Lancaster County Militia in the late 1770's. Robert departed this life on Wednesday, 16 May 1810 in York County, Pennsylvania.

Citations

  1. [S205] Rachel Hughey Larimer Mellon, The Larimer, McMasters and Allied Families
    , page 56 - Robert was my great-great-grandfather. He was an officer in the Revolutionary War. He married Ann Creighton, of Lancaster County, May thirty-first, 1761, and in 1781 moved to York (now Adams) County, where he bought a plantation, paying ten thousand pounds, Pennsylvania currency, and died there May sixteenth, 1810.