[Provided by: Joe Murphy 4004 Cynthia Dr. Midland, TX 79705] [Original located in Georgia Archives] ********************************** MARK (MAURICE) MURPHY FAMILY RECORDS From BIBLE BELONGING ORIGINALLY TO MARK MURPHY, Union, South Carolina * * * * Inscription on Fly Leaf - Mark Murphy - His Book "God give me grace herein to look, Not only to look, but to understand, For learning is better than house or land." * * * * * * * This Bible was published in 1793 9MDCCXCIII) in Edinburgh, Scotland, by Mark and Charles Kerr, His Majesty's Printers. The Old and New Testaments were translated from the original tongues and with the former translations by His Majesty's Special Command. MARK MURPHY'S BIBLE RECORDS * * * MARK MURPHY, son of SIMON MURPHY II and SARAH DUKE MURPHY, was born March 8, 1753, in Union County, South Carolina, six miles from the City of Union, on Padgett's Creek. HOLLY DUKE MURPHY, wife of MARK MURPHY, was born February 27, 1769, in North Carolina. They were married March 19, 1786. CHILDREN OF MARK MURPHY AND HOLLY DUKE were: (1) Demaris Murphy born April 8, 1787 (2) Simon P. Murphy born June 1, 1790 (3) Miriam Murphy born October 20, 1792 (4) John M. Murphy born March 2, 1795 (5) Joseph D. Murphy born February 3, 1798 (6) William P. Murphy born November 26, 1800 (7) Sarah Murphy born January 31, 1803 (8) Jeremiah B. Murphy born March 3, 1805 (9) Elizabeth Murphy born June 1, 1807 (10) Emanuel Mather Murphy born September 15, 1809 (11) Lemuel Majors Murphy born October 4, 1812 (From Mark Murphy's Bible, dated 1793, now owned (1944) by Mrs. Geneva Murphy Tucker, 1108 Arlington Avenue, S. W., Atlanta, Georgia.) /s/ Helen Thompson Notary Public, Georgia, State at Large. My Commission expires August 15, 1947. RECORD OF SIMON P. MURPHY SIMON P. MURPHY (the 3rd) married REBECCA HARRIS, probably of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, (born 1792; died July 7, 1885). They were married September 26, 1811, in North Carolina. ISSUE: 14 children, as follows: (1) Nancy born September 20, 1812, married her cousin, Jeptha Murphy, of South Carolina. (2) Joseph Harris Murphy born January 25, 1814. (3) Mark Murphy II born May 13, 1815. (4) Unity Murphy born July 31, 1816, married Nathan Eason, near Jonesboro, Georgia. (5) John Pleasant Murphy born August 5, 1818 (6) Miles Jones Murphy born July 13, 1819, physician, served in Confederate Army, married Jewess, Maria Cohen, in Cartersville, Georgia. Died in 1882. Then Jacksonville, Florida. (7) Jenette Anne Perline Murphy born March 9, 1821, married John Mills, nickname (Polina). (8) Agnes Elmynah Murphy born October 21, 1822, married John Humphrey, Jonesboro, Georgia. (9) Thomas Ensal Murphy born November 15, 1824 (10) Charles Pinckney Murphy born December 18, 1826, died October 7, 1897, in Hapeville, (Hopeville ?) Georgia. Married Naomi Morris (daughter of Alonso Morris of Henry County Georgia) on April 22, 1860. Six children. (11) Jemina Luncinda Murphy born August 15, 1828, married Mordecai McKinney in Clayton or Henry County Georgia. (From Mark Murphy's Family Bible, now (1944) owned by Mrs. Geneva Murphy Tucker, 1108 Arlington Avenue, S. W., Atlanta, Ga.) MURPHY FAMILY (Handwritten Note: Genealogical - Murphy. Given to the Dept. by Mrs. Nora Hawkins, 553 Page Avenue, N.E., Atlanta, Ga.) The name MURPHY has its origin and ancestry quite remote. It is from as royal a line as any in this country. The Murphy's are direct descendants of Cathoire (Cahire-More), King of Leicester, Ireland, in the second century, who finally became King of all Ireland. Two of a large family of sons became very famous: Rossa Failge and Ficcha Baikemda became most distinguished. From the last named came the O'Murphys, or Murphys, and the Cavanaughs. The coat-of-arms is ancient and denotes authority and royalty. The family home is in the Valley of the Avon and the Avoca, which inspired Moore's beautiful poems. The first Murphy who settled in America, of whom we have record, was Richard Murphy, born in Ireland about 1670 or 1675. When he was seven years old, he was kidnapped in Ireland and brought to America with a group of colonists about 1677-1680. He was apprenticed to William Byrd I, on the James River, between Richmond and Jamestown. When Richard Murphy was 21 years of age, he was released from his apprenticeship and, about 1696 or 1698, he married Mary Elisabeth Byrd, the youngest daughter of William Byrd of Virginia. While the author has no proof of the early history of Richard Murphy and his wife, Mary Byrd, the same story has come from five different sources and is the same in all details- that he married Mary Elisabeth, the youngest daughter of William Byrd I of Virginia. (1) RICHARD MURPHY There are proofs that Richard Murphy was in Virginia in 1738. He owned land in Henrioo, Halifax, and Frederick Counties Virginia. (See Hening's Statutes of Va., Vol. 7, p. 215). Richard Murphy owned ferry boats that crossed the James River and landed on property owned by William Byrd I. (See Hening's Statutes of Va., Vol. 8, p. 130) The children of Richard Murphy (b. About 1670, m. about 1696) and Mary Byrd were: (2) Richard Murphy, Jr. born about 1698 (3) Tillman Murphy born about 1700 (4) Arthur Murphy born 1701 (5) Simon Murphy born 1703 (6) William Murphy born 1705 (5) SIMON MURPHY I (Richard1) Simon Murphy I (son of Richard and Mary Elisabeth Byrd) married about 1723 to his first cousin, Elisabeth Byrd. They had 17 children (16 sons and 1 daughter). The only sons of whom we have a record are (7) Simon Murphy II (born about 1725); (8) Sion Murphy; and (9) Byrd Murphy. It is said that one daughter married a Mr. McGantz. (7) SIMON MURPHY II (Simon I2, Richard1) Simon Murphy II, born about 1725 (son of Simon Murphy I and Elizabeth Byrd Murphy), married (about 1750) Sarah Duke (b. 1733), daughter of William Duke, Orange Co., N.C. They had 7 daughters and 3 sons, including Sarah Murphy (b. 1752, m. Isaac Pearson), Miriam (m. Thomas Hill), Delilah (m. Ralph Jackson), Lydia (m. Angus Alexander). NOTE: This is Mark Murphy's father. SIMON MURPHY Simon Murphy I (the fourth son of Richard Murphy and Mary Byrd) moved to North Carolina, where he owned a large plantation and raised a family of 16 sons and 1 daughter. We have a record of only one son, SIMON MURPHY II, who married Sarah Duke, the daughter of William Duke, of Orange County, North Carolina. (See Record of Simon Murphy II in chapter on Murphy Family). WILLIAM BYRD I, of VIRGINIA "The first of three colorful figures in early history of Colonial Virginia, was William Byrd I, born in London, England, in 1652. At eighteen years of age (1670), at the urgent request of his Uncle Stagg, a man of great wealth and no family, William came to America upon the promise that he would become his uncle's sole heir. Although William hated the thought of leaving his beloved England and the jewelry, or goldsmith, business built there so successfully by his father, the memory of his mother, Grace Stagg, and an adventurous nature decided him to try his fortune in the New World. He sailed in the autumn of the year 1670 and after a long, perilous voyage, sailed up the James River and landed near the Falls. There, on the banks of the river, stood an imposing two-story stone house, gracing the foreground of an 1800 acre plantation. The next year the uncle died and the goldsmith's son came into his inheritance. His uncle left him this wise advise, which he, in turn, passed on to his own son: "Above all things, be mindful of your duty to heaven - and then, you may be assured God will bless you in all your undertakings." Before his death, William's Uncle Stagg had interested Governor Berkeley, of Virginia, in the boy. William was recognized as a promising young man, of wealth and influence, one in line later for the Receiver-Generalship and for a seat in the Council. Meanwhile, William busied himself with the tobacco plantation, his warehouses, and with enlarging the profitable Indian trade that Stagg had begun, and with strengthening his friendships and social position. In 1673, William I married Mary Horsemanden, who had been left a widow of 21 years of age, three years earlier. With this union, the Byrd line, which dated back to Hugo le Bird's arrival in England with William the Conqueror, in 1066. (From genealogy prepared by W. G. Standard and published by J. B. Bassett. Loaned by courtesy of William E. Byrd of New York.) Here the Byrd line joined up with one older and far more distinguished. For the Horsemanden line descended from the Holy Roman Emperor, Charlemagne (Genealogy of Mildred C. Whitaker). This imposing ancestry proceeds from Charlemagne through six kings of France, three emperors of the East, two rulers of Naples and one of Hungary, down to Edward III of England. Thence, John Duke, of Lancaster, is followed by four English lords. The name Horsemanden itself first appears in the person of Thomas Horsemanden, who was rector of the Church at Purleigh, Essex, from 1624 until his death eight years later. (From Va. Magazine of History and Bibliography, Vol. XXXV, p. 229) It was this rector's nephew, Col. Warham Horsemanden, who found the triumph of the Puritans so disagreeable that he came to Virginia to live. (From J. S. Bassett, p. xxi). Col. Horsemanden settled in Charles City County-a popular and typical cavalier of old Virginia. He was appointed to the Council. After several years of service in Virginia, he grew homesick for England and returned to Kent-later to the family seat at Purleigh, where he spent his remaining years as rector and as instructor for his grandchildren as they were sent over to him from Virginia. The children of William Byrd I and Mary Horsemanden were: (1) William Byrd II born March 28, 1674 (2) Ursula born about 1681, died October 1698, a young mother, less than 17 years of age. (3) Susan who married in London and settled there. (4) Warham another son, who died in early childhood. (5) Mary Elizabeth the youngest, born about 1680, m. 1698, who, according to genealogists, was living in 1700 when her father made his will, for she was left a small legacy. Mary Horsemanden, the mother, died in 1699. William Bryd I, born in London, 1652, died in Virginia, December 1704. WILLIAM BYRD II William Byrd II, born March 26, 1674, was sent to England at seven years to be educated. Trouble with the Indians in Virginia caused the elder Byrd to send both his wife and child to England. They returned in 1677, when Virginia was quite again. In all, young William had five trips to England. There he was given the fundamentals of a sound education, including an intensive study of the sciences, practical business management, and later, completed a course in the study of law and was admitted to the bar. In England young William not only received a thorough education, but was grounded in the graces of the older cultural life, not available in America at that period. Young William was in London when his father died and he returned immediately to the colonies, arriving in the spring of 1705. William Byrd II lived to be 70 years of age. He followed almost every profession except that of soldier and preacher. In his massive library at Westover, the Byrd mansion on the James River, he accumulated the largest library of its kind known in America to that date. Among its contents were 300 books on Divinity. He has scriptures written in Dutch, Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. He had, also, "Richard's Lives of the Popes," and sermons by Tillotson and Bishop Hall. The Rev. Peter Fontaine, his minister, was a friend and consellor, and accompaigned him into North Carolina when, at the King's command, William Byrd and a company of engineers surveyed and established in 1726 the boundary line between Virginia and North Carolina. William Byrd II was Councillor, Judge, lawyer, planter, and was constantly experimenting with seeds and plant-life. Besides, he was a merchant, a tobacco grower and broker, and an author of no mean ability. He seemed to have written more for his own pleasure and that of his personal friends than for the benefit of the public. His writing were not published until 1841, ninety-seven years after his death. His most outstanding works were: "The History of the Dividing Line" and "The Land of Eden," though countless letters, diaries, documents on Indian life, and other phases of early American history, came from his versatile pen. (From "William Byrd of Westover" by Richard Croom Beatty. William Byrd II inherited most of his father's large estate, which included stores, warehouses, and about 26,000 acres of Virginia land. Mary received only a small legacy because she had angered her father by marrying his apprentice and an Irishman, Richard Murphy.