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Hi Barbara,
Thanks for your follow-up post! I also am a great-great-grandchild of James and Jane, so you and I are 3rd cousins. You are the first Purdy family cousin I've made contact with - something I have been trying to do for years! I am descended from James' and Jane's daughter Martha Virginia Purdy, who married McKie Massenburg Trotter, Sr., son of William Augustus Trotter, Sr. and Agnes Cocke (Massenburg) Trotter. My father was McKie Massenburg Trotter III (he passed away in 1999) - he was the son of McKie Massenburg Trotter, Jr. and Lillian Tudor (Perry) Trotter.
The Purdy family information I have comes from only a few sources. Most comes from the article chronicling their 68th anniversary (in my original post I incorrectly wrote 58th) done by Lawrenceville newspaper around May 7, 1915. I validated their coming from Northern Ireland in the Famine Immigrants, vol. 2 (July 1847 to June 1848). James, Jane and Ann are listed on pg. 42 as having sailed on the ship Venice from Belfast. I will have to go look up that record again to see if Mary Wells is recorded - I was previously unaware of any of James' or Jane's parent's names. The only other source of information I have on this family is James' Confederate service records.
About the City Point/New Hope/Hopewell info, I appreciate the clarification. When I read the article article on the Purdy's anniversary, it mentioned their stop at City Point, but I could not find City Point on a modern map, so I looked at a map from the mid 1800s and found it. I then made the assumption that it had been renamed Hopewell or New Hope as seen on the modern map in the same location.
If you like I can mail copies of what I have. I haven't scanned the article to my computer yet.
I'd love to see any info you have on our Purdy family.
Thanks again,
Todd
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