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Note: N857 (1) Rootsweb databases <http://www.rootsweb.com>. Research by Connie Lenzen <clenzen@aorenet.org>
Birth and death dates from Peter Butler Bible, loose leaf records copied from Bible records in possession of the Misses Margaret and Alice Butler, Monmouth, Oregon, daughters of Ira F.M. Butler. Records submitted by Neva Welton Johnston (Mrs. William Butler Johnston), 1645 South Liberty Street, Salem, Oregon, Chemeketa Chapter DAR, to the Oregon State DAR Genealogical Records Committee and published January 1938. Copy located at the Oregon Historical Society Library, Portland, Oregon.
(22) From Rootsweb.com. Worldconnect Project. Lists sources. 3266115.ged by William Parke <wparke@gwu.edu> updated 01 Oct 2006 . Reverend. Married Pittsylvania Co., VA. 1798 - Mount Tabor Church, Barren Co., KY. 1801-First Clerk of Green River Association 1801-Licensed to preach 1808-Excluded from Mt. Tabor Church for opposing slavery. Residences: 1796-Franklin Co., KY. Dec 1780-Grant of 33 acres on Pigg River (NC). 1781-Western NC (sold 33 acres). 1799-Barren Co., KY. Will 1818, Warren Co., KY. 1. FGS. John Murphy, [Q:3].
(22) From Rootsweb.com. Worldconnect Project. Lists sources. 2010504.ged from Cheryl Harmon Bills <cherylb@ida.net> updated 3 Apr 2002. 1. History of Rev. William Murphy and His Descendants 1798-1918, Alice Murphy Sturgess, Nixon-Jones Printing Co., St. Louis, MO 1918 <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.
2. Info sent to me by Margarette Davis <MaggeD@aol.com> 11/2001. She sent copies of her with a William A. Norris who sent her a compilation by his "Aunt Helen" (Is this Helen Wallace?) and the source of information is some in-depth research by a Mrs. Crouch. No other identifying information.
3. Martha Haut <mfhaut@hotmail.com>. 1830 Redbud Dr., Joplin, MO 64801
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DAR Patriot Index Centennial Edition [1990]
This would qualify you to belong to the Daughters of the American Revolution or Sons of American Revolution through this line if you so desire:
Murphy, John b. 6/25/1750 VA; d. 8/13/1818 KY; m. Rachel Cook LT. NC
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Info from a Missouri Historical Society Bulletin by Ashby T. Gibbons, Jr.
Received info from Helen Wallace Rt. 1 Monmouth, Ill. in 1965 [age 73].
He was a Baptist Minister.
Following is a copy of a letter written by Rev. John Murphy, son of Rev. Wm. Murphy, in 1810, to his relatives and friends in the Louisiana Territory: http://www.pastracks.com/murphy/murphy2.htm
"Brothers, Friends and Acquaintances: "I have nothing uncommon to write, but wish to inform
you of our present state of affairs, which is about this: "As to bodily health I neither see nor hear of much complaints; as to religious matters there appears to be some division in the different places of this state. There is also considerable dissension among the Baptists and some among
other sects about slave holding. For my own part I prefer to stand opposed to that system, because I fully believe it to be contrary to the law of nature, contrary to sound reason, contrary
to good policy, contrary to justice contrary to republican principles, and, above all, because it is in direct opposition to the Scripture directions. Neither does it accord with the principles of humanity.
"Isaac Murphy called on us last spring and tarried about a week, and then went on his way to Holston. I suppose Joshua Barton and his family are in their usual state of health. I have very little expectation of ever seeing your part of the country on account of my age and infirmity of body. But if I never see any of you again, my heart's desire and prayer is that you may all be
saved in the day of Jesus Christ, when he shall come to gather his jewels in this world; that your names may be found written in the book of life. I would further exhort each one to be earnestly
engaged to seek the one thing needful which is the salvation of their precious and immortal souls, and not to let the things of time and sense have over much room in your minds, but try to
seek the love and favor of God while time and opportunity is with you, lest before you are aware it should be gone, finally and eternally gone.--John Murphy to the friends in the Louisiana
Territory, July 20, 1810."
From Margarrette Davis:
There is evidence that John had gone from Virginia to Washington Co., N.C. by 1782; was in Franklin Co., KY by 1796; in Barren Co, KY by 1798 and in Warren Co, KY by or before February 1818. He served in the Revolutionary War, enlisting in 1779 in Virginia, discharged in Washington co, N.C., which is now Green Co., TN; made application for Revolutionary claims in Green Co and was on the first tax list in Green co, TN. John was a farmer and Baptist preacher, was a member of the Mt. Tabor Baptist church. John H. Spencer's :History of Kentucky Baptists, 1769-1885" says, "he [John] was licensed to preach in 1801. The time of his ordination is not known. In 1808 he was excluded from Mt. Tabor church on account of his declaring non-fellowship with it, for tolerating slavery. He was the first minister south of Green River, says Caster Tarrant, who publically opposed slavery.
His will, dated 1818, lists 200 acres of land whereon he then lived, also 230 acres which he owned in Barren county. The family were in East Tennessee when John was in the Revolution. Rachel had to take the baby on horseback and a bag of corn and go many miles to a mill. The older children were left at home, were cautioned not to leave the house as Indians and panthers were their constant terror. They were often short of food and the first year after they left virginia, they did not raise any crops, so ate hickory roots and what they could gather from the land.
Three of the Murphy sons: Hosea, Isaac, and Joseph, married three Haley sisters. William and Hannah both married Fergusons, brother and sister.
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