Andrew McCord
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Andrew McCord (born about 1754; died 1808) was a United States Representative from New York. Born at what is now Stony Ford in Wallkill Township, Orange County, he attended the common schools and Newburgh Academy. He was a delegate to the convention at New Paltz on November 7, 1775 to choose deputies to the Second Provincial Congress, and was quartermaster in the Ulster County Militia (January 31, 1787). He served as captain of Ulster County Militia and resigned April 10, 1798; in 1795, 1796, 1798, 1800, 1802, and 1807 he was a member of the New York State Assembly, serving as speaker in 1807.
McCord was elected as a Republican to the Eighth Congress, holding office from March 4, 1803 to March 3, 1805, after which he engaged in agricultural pursuits. He died at Stony Ford in 1808; interment was in the family burying ground on his farm near Stony Ford.
