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Note: N357 (22) From Rootsweb.com. Worldconnect Project. Lists sources. 2010504.ged from Cheryl Harmon Bills <cherylb@ida.net> updated 3 Apr 2002. Married ca. 1767, Virginia.
Source of information: Missouri Historical Society Bulletin by Ashby T. Gibbons Jr.; History of Rev. William Murphy and His Descendents 1798-1918 St.Louis Missouri 1918 by Alice Murphy Sturgess. <http://www.pastracks.com/murphy/murphytoc.html#toc> I believe the first generation is about your ancestor and breaks off with your John. It appears to me that there is a generation missing in this book. Or else our records are wrong and need adjusted.
The Descendents of William Murphy states that William was born in the North of Ireland and came to America in the late 1602. (I personally think this is referring to the father of this William, but the book goes on to state that the above named William is the father of Joseph Murphy and John Murphy who md. Rachel Cooke. The dates, however, do not fit and another generation is needed.
This book is online at http://www.pastracks.com/murphy/murphy1.htm
So many things parallel the known information about your family. I would suggest a thorough study of this family. Your family followed much the same trail but did not stay in Tennessee long and your direct line did not go to Missouri as far as I know. I do not know about the discrepancy of Martha Hodges and Mary Fanquoy. See if you can come up with more information about your history from this book. It is nicely done. I will include Chapter One here:
HISTORY OF REV. WILLIAM MURPHY AND HIS DESCENDANTS 1798-1918
CHAPTER I FIRST SETTLERS
Rev. William Murphy, a Baptist minister, from whom all for whom this book is written are descended, was a native of Ireland, where he married, and then came to America with his family. He, with his two older brothers Joseph and Richard (who were also Baptist ministers), settled in Virginia near Richmond. This was early in the Eighteenth Century. [This is WHERE I think a generation is mission. I think that this should be the father of the man we are talking about who was born in Ireland; then came to VA. Was this son also born in Ireland? Did he marry prior to coming as this book claims? If so, your records need to be adjusted. cb]
At the commencement of the Revolutionary War the two older brothers remained loyal to the
Crown, while the younger was a Whig, and was a merchant and importer in the town of Richmond. During the war he donated his coarser goods to the soldiers, but thinking the war was a trivial
affair, and that it would be of short duration, packed the finer ones in boxes and buried them in his cellar. Here they remained until peace was established, but judge of his disgust when he found the boxes rotten and the goods too weak to hold their own weight.
After the close of the war Rev. William Murphy moved to eastern Tennessee, in the vicinity of Knoxville. He was accompanied by all his children, some of whom were married. He had for
neighbors and associates Capt. Menifee, Gov. Blunt, the first governor of Tennessee, and others. They were at one time appointed to treaty with the Indians, and the general government furnished
goods to be given to them, but there had been such bitter warfare between the whites and Indians in Kentucky and Tennessee that the goods were burned--the whites declaring that the only settlement or treaty had best be demanded at the muzzle of a rifle, and not by barter.
Rev. William Murphy first married in Ireland. He married Miss Mary Fanquoy. Children born to them: John Fanquoy Murphy, born 1750.
Mary Murphy, born 1752.
Keziah Murphy, born 1754.
William Murphy, born March 12, 1759.
Joseph Murphy, born 1761.
Rev. William Murphy's second marriage was to Miss Sarah Barton, a daughter of Baptist minister in Tennessee. They were married in 1768. Their children are as follows: David Murphy, born in Tennessee, 1769.
Sarah Murphy, born in Tennessee, 1771.
Dubart Murphy, born in Tennessee, 1773.
Richard Murphy, born in Tennessee, 1776.
Isaac Murphy.
Jessie Murphy.
Mr. S. S. Boyce, who gained his information from these settlers themselves, has given an interesting account of the early days of this settlement. This account was published in the
"Farmington News" in 1886, and I was enabled to make this copy through the courtesy of Mr. David Doty, of Farmington.
"I shall now in some measure try to state my information in regard to this matter which was obtained from the statements made by the settlers themselves, all of whom I remember well
with the exceptions of Mrs. Sarah Barton Murphy and Mr. Kephart, both of whom died before I was born. In after years I had many talks with Mr. David Murphy, or, rather, listened to
him whilst relating the trials and privations of himself and brothers and friends in the early settlement days. David Murphy was a man, remarkable in every way; remarkable for his
intelligence and retentive memory, and was one of the most entertaining talkers to whom I ever listened.
"Farmington was laid out in 1822 upon fifty-two acres of and donated by David Murphy for the county seat of St. Francois Co., Mo. The judges of the county court, James Austin, J. G.
McGahan and James Smith, held their first meeting on February 25, 1822, at the house of Jesse Murphy, and, after electing J. Peers, clerk, adjourned to meet on same day at the house of
David Murphy.
"There has been some difference of opinion as to the exact year of the first settlement, some contending that it was made in 1801, but my recollection of facts obtained from the
above stated source, places the event at 1798.
"William Murphy, a Baptist Minister, living on the Holston River in eastern Tennessee, together with his three sons, Joseph, William and David, [NOTICE HERE IS WHERE YOUR ANCESTOR, JOHN IS NO LONGER WITH HIS FAMILY! cb] and one Silas George, reached upper Louisiana and located claims in the neighborhood of the present town of Farmington.
"On arriving at Ste. Genevieve, they were hospitably treated, but could find no person with whom they could converse. Not a single individual in that town could speak a word of English, all being French. However, some one sent out for a Mr. Madden, who lived some three miles out in the country, and upon his arrival, he took them out to his house, and I have heard David Murphy say that he never felt so much at home as he did that night in all his life. Mr. Madden entertained them that night and informed them of the various bodies of good land in the country and particularly advised them to see this place. The next morning he sent an Indian with them, who conducted them to the spring now owned by Mr. J. H. Waide on the north side of Farmington, where David Murphy located his claim.
"Rev. William Murphy took the claim that is now Judge William Carter's Springs. Joseph Murphy located the place now owned by J. W. Smith, one and one-half miles from Farmington on the Potosi road. William Murphy, the son, settled at the place now owned and occupied by Louis Hopkins, two miles south of Farmington, Mo.
"They started back to Tennessee for their families, but Rev. Murphy and Silas George died before reaching home. Rev. Murphy died at the home of his son, John, who was a Baptist minister and lived in Kentucky. [THIS JOHN IS YOUR ANCESTOR! cb]
"William, Joseph and David Murphy proceeded home, and in 1800, returned to Missouri with their families, bringing a younger brother, Richard, who was to prepare a place for their widowed mother, Sarah Barton Murphy."
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Query Board from RootsWeb:
Pat Bounds Date: 26 Apr 1999 12:00 PM GMT
Surnames: MURPHY, HODGES, HODGE, FANQUOY
Looking for burial place of WILLIAM MURPHY b. 1730 in Ireland d.19 Nov 1799
in WARREN CO. KY. Married to MARY (MARTHA) HODGES (or HODGE) or
FANQUOY, also born in Ireland. Looking for death date on MARY.
Confused about MARY'S last surname..is it HODGES, HODGE or FANQUOY??
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Received later from _________________: William A. Norris, descendant of Patrick Murphy: A notation: "A source given to Grandmother Mary May Murphy Norris states that William Murphy, father of John, was born in the north of Ireland. Mrs. Crouch research appears more authentic, so is quoted here. She also states that William was probably the son of William and Eleanor, and no mention is made of Ireland. They claim that William died in 1799 near Jonesboro, Tenn and that his will was probated Nov. 19, 1799. and that he married (1) Martha Hodges abt 1750 in Lunenberg Co., VA. Children: John, Kesiah, William, Joseph, and Mary.
William md. (2) Sarah Barton Williams and they had children:
Tabitha, David, Sarah, Dubert, Richard, Isaac, Jesse. Also says that:
William was a pioneer Baptist preacher of Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee. According to material sent by a Mrs. Crouch, he was early in Lunenberg and Halifax counties, Virginia, in Orange Co., N.C. 1756, returned to Halifax Co., VA in 1759. He was ordained 1763 at Staunton, VA and was in Pittsylvania Co., VA 1766, in Bedford Co., VA early years of the Revolution, got land in Washington Co., N.C. in 1781, lived and preached in N.C. in what became East Tennessee. He resolved to obtain land and move to Louisana Territory (the area which is now Missouri) and evidently got permission to settle there. He went with sons, William, Joseph, and David, probably in the summer of 1799 to establish land claims and on the trip home he died.
Sarah resolved to take her husband's land claims in the Louisana Territory and some of her sons settled there. She organized and taught the first Sunday School west of the Mississippi River. She died in St. Genevieve, MO and is buried on the lot she donated to the Methodist Church.
References to William are in the "Bulletin of Missouri Historical Society" St. Louis, MO, April 1957 and an article by Ashby T. Gibbons, Jr. "The Reverend William Murphy". Also "History of Rev. William Murphy and His Descendants, 1798-1918" by Alice Murphy Sturgess, 1918.
Mr. William Norris also states: William Murphy (born 1730) was the father of John (b. 6/12/1752) who was one of the first southern ministers to oppose slavery. (His Aunt Helen compiled the information he sent to Margarette Davis in 1994 and she emailed it to me in 2001. cb)
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