[Excerpts on Nathaniel Murphy from The American Beacon and Commercial Diary, Norfolk, VA]
[excerpted 19 Jun 2008, Mark Murphy]

11 Sep 1816, p. 3
COMMUNICATED
Departed this life yesterday, after a severe illness, which he bore with the 
fortitude becoming a Christian, Mr. Nathaniel Murphy, Sen. in the 62d year of
his age.- Mr. Murphy has been many years a highly respectable and industrious
inhabitant of this Borough.  As a father and husband he was unusually affectionate
and indulgent, as a friend sincere and benevolent.  He has left an amiable wife
and three small children to lament an irreparable loss.-- His friends and 
acquaintances are particularly requested to attend his funeral, from his late
dwelling, this afternoon at 4 o'clock.

ibid, 18 Apr 1818, p. 1
LAST NOTICE
ALL persons indebted to the Estate of NATHANIEL MURPHY deceased, are requested
to make immediate payment; and those to whom the Estate is indebted, are likewise
requested to bring in their accounts, previous to the 1st day of June next, as 
this notice will be plead in bar against all who fail to do so.
JOHN MURPHY, Adm'r.
WHO HAS A SMALL HOUSE in Fen Church St. FOR RENT.  April 16		end7t

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