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This website is devoted to disseminating information about my McQuaid/McQuade/McQuate ancestors and their descendants. The name was originally spelled MacUaid, but since that spelling is practically obsolete, I will go with the closest present-day spelling -- McQuaid -- to encompass all the spelling variations. I have been able to trace my ancestry back to Peter McQuaid (actually spelled that way -- sometimes) who arrived in Lancaster County, PA sometime before 1810. During most of the 19th century, the name was badly mangled by the predominately German speaking people until, by 1870, it was (almost) consistently spelled McQuate in Lancaster County.
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