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Descendants of James McCURDY & Nancy McKINNEY |
 | | McCURDY, James, a two-story wood dwelling house, 20' X 24', containing 2 windows with 12 lights each, 1 window with 9 lights, and 1 window with 4 lights; situated on 2 acres. |
 | | He and his wife spent the balance of their days on this place, grandmother dying many years before him with a fever brought to the valley while the canal was being made in 1829, and of which their oldest son, Robert, also died, leaving a family of seven children, part of them small. |
 | | His hearing had failed and he sat by the pulpit on one of two chairs James Donaldson had made and placed there, and when the old log church was taken away and the new brick church dedicated chairs were presented his two sons, Revs. |
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