Historical records matching John Duncan McCord
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About John Duncan McCord
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JOHN TOOK OVER THE CLAN CHIEFTAN AFTER THE DEATH OF HIS FATHER, JAMES MACKORDE, at the Battle of Killiercrankie in Scotland in 1689. EMIGRATED TO COUNTY TYRONE, ULSTER PROVINCE, IRELAND WITH HIS SEVEN SONS and the rest of the clan. They lived here until about 1740, when they can to America. JOHN FOUGHT IN MANY WARS BEFORE HIS OWN DEATH. THEY SEEMED TO CHANGE THE SPELLING OF MACKORDE TO MACCORDE AROUND 1705. ANOTHER VERSION COMES FROM AN OLD MCCORD NOTEBOOK WRITTEN BY a T. J. McCORD FROM SPLIT LOG, MO. (SOMETIME IN THE 1800s). IT STATES THAT JOHN DUNCAN DIED IN 1715 AND IT WAS THEN THAT HIS SEVEN SONS MOVED TO IRELAND AND DROPPED THE "A" FROM MacCORD AND CHANGED IT TO McCORD. Notes taken from McCord sites. 7/13/2010
Shortly after the Battle of Killiecrankie (1689), John McCord (MacCorda), son of James MacCorda of the Isle of Skye, and his wife Mary along with his infant brother James McCord, left Scotland, settling in Stewartstown, County Tyrone, Ireland, where, it is said, they had relatives.
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Profile picture is McCord's tartan Dundee's Rising in Scotland On 16 April 1689 John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee, raised James' standard on the hilltop of Dundee Law with fewer than 50 men in support. Although Presbyterian historians later labelled him "Bluidy Clavers" for his vicious persecution of Covenanters, he has also been called "Bonnie Dundee". This was from a song written by Sir Walter Scott in 1830. James had already arrived in Ireland and his letter was on the way promising Irish troops to assist the rising in Scotland. At first Viscount Dundee had difficulty in raising many supporters. The ineffectiveness of the Williamite commander Major-General Hugh Mackay of Scourie encouraged support. Two hundred Irish troops successfully landed at Kintyre to add to Dundee's forces. Dundee also received support in the western Scottish Highlands from both Roman Catholic and Church of Scotland clans. By July the Jacobites had eight battalions and two companies, almost all Highlanders. Dundee gained the confidence of the clans by cultivating the allegiance of each Highlander and respecting the precedence of the clans. He realized that to them, the cause of Jacobitism was secondary. At a time when infantry were trained to fight in formation, the Highlanders' method was more informal. They set aside their plaids and other encumbrances before the battle, and dropped to the ground to avoid enemy volleys. After quickly returning fire, they pursued their foes, screaming in the Highland charge. They used heavy broadswords and targe (shield), or whatever weapons they had, including pitchforks or Lochaber axes (a combined axe and spear on a long pole). Such a charge was devastating to troops struggling to reform their lines, or fix the recently introduced 'plug' bayonets. The Highland charge (and troop strength) defeated a larger lowland Scots force at the Battle of Killiecrankieon 27 July 1689. About one-third of the Highlanders were killed in the fighting, and Dundee died in the battle. At the street fighting of the Battle of Dunkeld on 21 August, the Jacobite Highlanders were decisively defeated by the Cameronians. Much of the North remained hostile to the English government. Expeditions to subdue the highlands were met with a series of skirmishes.
GEDCOM Note
John Duncan McCord, son of James Duncan McCord and his wife, Jean, was born in 1620. He died in 1716 in Stewartstown, County Tyrone, Ireland. He married Mary MacDougall and had seven children--six sons and a daughter. He fought in the battle of Killikrankie Pass in Scotland, became chieftain of the McCord Clan, and moved the clan to Northern Ireland.
John Duncan McCord's sons were John, David, William, Benjamin, Robert, Samuel and James, who, after the death of their father, went to Stewartstown, County Tyrone, Ireland. About 1720, John, David and William McCord emigrated to America and settled in Pennsylvania. David and William were killed by Native Americans and John moved to North Carolina.
McCord, also spelled MacCord. The last name as seen in the Book of Family Crests of Great Britain & Ireland is written as M’corda
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John Duncan McCord's Timeline
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1660
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Isle of Skye (now part of Highland), Scotland (United Kingdom)
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January 1680
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Argyle, Isle of Skye (now part of Highland), Scotland (United Kingdom)
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1684
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Isle of Skye, Argyle, United Kingdom
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1688
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Stewartstown, Tyrone, Ireland
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1688
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Stewartstown, Tyrone, Ireland
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1700
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Stewartstown, Tyrone, Ireland
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1700
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Stewartstown, County Tyrone, Ulster, Ireland (now Northern Ireland)
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1702
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Albemarle County, Virginia, United States
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1715
Age 55
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Stewartstown, County Tyrone, Ulster, Ireland
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