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The James McCord (Mac Korda?) descendants - grandsons. |
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James McCord (Mac Korda?), born in 1620, traditional Scottish Clan Chieftain had several grandsons who came by way of Northern Ireland to America in 1720-1738. These grandsons settled in Pennsylvania, Virginia, New York and South Carolina. Each of these grandsons appear related to the son of James McCord (MacKorda?), John McCord (MacCorde?), born in 1660 and who was married to Mary MacDougall. |
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Grandsons of James McCord (Mac Korda?) who may have come and settled in different areas of America are: |
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William, David, James, and John - Went to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. |
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Andrew and Johannes - Went to Augusta and Albemarle County, Virginia. |
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John and James - Went to lower Hudson River Valley in New York. |
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Bernard - Went to Charleston, South Carolina. |
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See Additional Notes on info related to early McCords. Much of the following information is from an article in "The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine" of October, 1933. |
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"John McCord, of Antrim, near Armagh, North Ireland, left home early in life and was in South Carolina before 1748". In letter of D.J. McCord the date is given as circa 1730-40. |
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According to David James McCord of Columbia, South Carolina, "My Irish friends about Columbia always said that they knew my family well in Ireland, and that I looked like them, and that they were the devil for a row at the Armagh races." |
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Another statement from an unknown source states:"It is believed that John W. McCord (the "Catawba Trader") was the grandson of David McCord of Armagh, Ireland, and John came to the South Carolina area about 1740." |
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From a Foot Note in above mentioned magazine article it states: "Mr. D.J. McCord says, From the earlist period in my youth I have heard the family speak of some brother or near relation of my grandfather who settled somewhere North". |
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Dr. Russell McCord in Brazil after the Civil War with Masonic Group:
People involved in Masonic settlement-
Dom Pedro II, last Emperor of Brazil
William Hutchinson Norris, Colonel in the Mexican War, Alabama State Senator, and Grand Master
Charles Nathan, British merchant in Rio
Tavares Bastos, adviser to the Emperor of Brazil
Joachim Maria Saldaña Mariño, Grand Master of the Emperor Dom Pedro's branch of Freemasonry
Dr. Russell McCord, whose certificates prove the Masonic-Brazilian partnership
Dr. and Mrs Russell McCord were early settlers. The Dr., wife and three children resided north of Rio, Brazil. He was Medical Officer for a very large plantation owned by a close relative of the Emperor. The family returned to America due to his failing health. Have no idea when he died but Mrs. McCord died at Selma, Ala in June 1930, at 96.
Dr. McCord's Masonic documents are historic in another way. A second signer was the eminent José Maria da Silva Paraños, best known as the Visconde do Rio Branco. He was Grand Master of the Grande Oriente do Brasil, and he was the author of the first emancipation legislation that led, 17 years later, to abolition of slavery in his nation.
What was life like for former Southerners in Portuguese-speaking Brazil? In fact, half the Confederate North Americans quit and went home within ten years. But the rest stuck it out nobly and left a heritage that lives today, albeit as a small minority among the 170,000 citizens of Americana.
....Patrick Fields of Charlotte, North Carolina, has ancestors who fought in both the Revolution and Confederacy. His father and grandfather were Freemasons. He taught several weeks in the Sao Paulo region last summer and made it his business to investigate Americana. There he found a burgeoning metropolis populated mostly by people of Italian heritage spilling over from South America's largest city, Sao Paulo. He noted, "The people in Americana are like those all over Brazil: all colors, all religions, all occupations, all heritages."
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McCord, David J. (1840)
FROM:
The Statutes at Large of South Carolina; Edited, under authority of the Legislature, by David J. Mccord. Volume Eighth, Containing the Acts Relating to Corporations and the Militia. Columbia, SC: A. S. Johnston. pp. 156-157. [Horn's Creek Incorporation]
David James McCord
McCORD, David James, lawyer, born in Fort Metre, South Carolina, in Jalmary, 1797; died in Columbia, South Carolina, 12 May, 1855. He was graduated at South Carolina college in 1816, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1818. From 1825 till 1827 he was state reporter, and in 1825 he was made intendant, or mayor, of Columbia, South Carolina Between 1828 and 1830 he travelled in Europe, and witnessed the revolution in Paris. He returned to Carolina during the nullification exciteinent, entered the legislature, and was active as an advocate of extreme state rights. For many years Mr. McCord was chairman of the important committee on Federal relations, and exerted hilnself efficiently for the improvement of the judiciary system. As a trustee of South Carolina college, he became intimate with Dr. Thomas Cooper, of whom he left interesting reminiscences. In 1836 he retired from the bar, became president of the state bank in Columbia, and aided in establishing the " South Carolina Law Journal," which was not long continued. In 183***!) he was appointed compiler and editor of the "Statutes at Large of South Carolina," a work which had been begun by Dr. Thomas Cooper. After 1840 he devoted himself to agriculture as a cotton-planter, and contributed many papers. Upon political economy to the " Southern Review" and to "De Bow's Review." He published "Reports of Cases determined in the Constitutional Convention of South Carolina" (4 vols., 1821-'8), and "Chancery Cases in the Court of Appeals of South Carolina" (2 vols., Philadelphia, 1827-'9).
--His wife, Louisa Susannah, poet, born in Columbia, South Carolina, 3 December, 1810; died in Charleston, South Carolina, 27 November, 1880, was the daughter of Langdon Cheves, and was educated in Philadelphia. In 1840 she married Mr. McCord, and settled on "Langsyne" plantation at Fort Motte, on Congaree river. She conducted the hospital on her plantation, attending to the negroes, and once set a fractured arm. Her publications are "Sophisms of the Protective Policy," a translation from the French of F. Bastiat (New York, 1848); a volume of poems entitled " My Dreams" (Philadelphia, 1848) ; "Caius Gracchus," a tragedy (New York, 1851); and numerous contributions to current literature.
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Edited Appletons Encyclopedia, Copyright © 2001 VirtualologyTM
Bernard McCord was in Charleston, South Carolina by 1720.
Other McCords were in South Carolina including John McCord, trader to the Indians in 1750.
Trader McCord as Captain John McCord headed a Frontier Ranger Company in South Carolina at the time of the French and Indian War of the 1750's.
South Carolina was the scene of some bitter fighting during the American Revolution and there was fighting at McCord's Ferry, named after the Captain John McCord just mentioned.
There was a Captain John McCord who served with General Thomas ( "The Gamecock') Sumter of South Carolina in May 1781. A British writer, Levi Smith writing in the Royal Gazette of April 13, 1782, reprinted in the Political Magazine, London, June 1782, wrote,
"When Thomas Sumter invested Orangeburg in May 1781 and got possession of a very strong post, a great quantity of provisions and other stores which were found in it. Of the prisoners taken, 29 Tories were then placed in charge of Captain John McCord and marched in irons for the prison camp at headquarters."
The Battle at McCord's Ferry, South Carolina
In a letter from D.J. McCord to J.S. McCord dated March 1846, he wrote, "it was about this time that British Troops under Tarleton when crossing the river, burned Mrs. McCord's house and everything in it."
"On September 3, 1785 John McCord's name is on a list of creditors of the State for militia services, supplies to the State and horses lost in public service," according to an account audited by the Historical Commission of South Carolina. He had died before the end of July. David McCord, executor, sold his effects etc. at McCord's Ferry. His mother, Sophinisba McCord died on September 25, 1784, according to a newspaper notice by Langdon Cheves.
"David McCord married Mary Howell, grand-daughter of Thomas Howell and his wife Grace...he is said to have done military service under his uncle Colonel William Thomson who commanded the 3rd Regiment.
He (David) lived in Richland County near McCords Ferry. He became a Colonel of the militia and served as a member of the state legislature. He died circa 1801 and is buried in the family burying ground near McCord's Ferry. His will is dated May 17, 1801 and is witnessed by Joseph McCord."
"It is believed that Joseph McCord who married Martha Turquand went to Alabama where he is buried at Benton, the home of his nephew, Russell Paul McCord."
The Battle at McCord's Ferry, South Carolina
In a letter from D.J. McCord to J.S. McCord dated March 1846, he wrote, "it was about this time that British Troops under Tarleton when crossing the river, burned Mrs. McCord's house and everything in it."
"On September 3, 1785 John McCord's name is on a list of creditors of the State for militia services, supplies to the State and horses lost in public service," according to an account audited by the Historical Commission of South Carolina. He had died before the end of July. David McCord, executor, sold his effects etc. at McCord's Ferry. His mother, Sophinisba McCord died on September 25, 1784, according to a newspaper notice by Langdon Cheves.
"David McCord married Mary Howell, grand-daughter of Thomas Howell and his wife Grace...he is said to have done military service under his uncle Colonel William Thomson who commanded the 3rd Regiment.
He (David) lived in Richland County near McCords Ferry. He became a Colonel of the militia and served as a member of the state legislature. He died circa 1801 and is buried in the family burying ground near McCord's Ferry. His will is dated May 17, 1801 and is witnessed by Joseph McCord."
"It is believed that Joseph McCord who married Martha Turquand went to Alabama where he is buried at Benton, the home of his nephew, Russell Paul McCord."
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The Bible Pages in the Document Section is from the Family Bible of David James McCord and Emmeline Wagner. David was the son of Russell McCord, son of John McCord (The "Catawba Trader" of the area then known as "McCord's Ferry" in South Carolina) and wife Sophianisba Russell. This is McCord Family I and it is believed that John McCord (the trader) was the grandson of David McCord of Armagh, Ireland, and John came to the South Carolina area about 1740. David James was born January 13, 1797.
These Bible pages were contributed to the McCord Family Association web site by Stephen McCord Brown who is one of our research experts on the McCords of South Carolina. He sent me these pages a few years ago and I was reminded of them when Henrique Mac Cord of Brazil contacted me to contribute. Henrique is a descendant of Russell Paul McCord who was a son of David James. Russell Paul took his family and migrated to Brazil at the end of the American Civil War.
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