Bio under construction with new historical documents found. March 2023
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(Image Attached) Shows Jesse's wife's name was Patsy / Patsey Murphy. 1820 & 1822 transcript of deed sales below in chronological order of Jesse's life story. His wife's maiden name unknown. Pasty can be a name as is, but more often was a nickname for Patricia, Patrice, or Patience, more popular than today's usage of "Patty" as diminutive; "Patsy" was less often short for Prudence with its own "Prude" and "Rudy"; surprisingly, in her era, "Patsey" was often a nickname for Martha, of all things. (All of those alternatives have been plugged in to attempt finding marriage, birth, or census records of she & husband Jesse Murphy, to no avail, yet.)
Discussion of 1822 Missouri Deed below in chronological order of Jesse's life story. (Image attached from book: "Genealogical Gems from Early Missouri Deeds 1815-1850" transcribed & compiled by Marsha Hoffman Rising, CG, FASG. Willow Bend Books 2004. Heritage Books, Inc. Westminster, Maryland." pg 283.)
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Jesse Murphy (1782- aftr 1824) was the youngest of 11 children born to father Rev William Murphy Sr (1730-1799) of Virginia.
His father William (1730-1799) was born in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, raised Anglican alongside at least two brothers (Joseph & Richard), by parents the elder William Murphy (1695-1745) and Eleanor née Echols Murphy (1700-1760). -- This younger William Murphy takes on the title "Rev William Murphy Sr" (1730-1799) & his son is likewise so entrenched as "Rev William Murphy Jr" (1759-1833) in historic documents including graves, that it is impractical to attempt relabeling three generations William Murphy I, II & III, even as it is so by beginning with initial immigrant to America, William Murphy (1695-1745). -- The first modern era William Murphy (1695-1745) immigrated to the Virginia Colony from Ireland of an originally Scottish family, where he married Eleanor Echols (1700-1760) who was born in King and Queen County, Virginia. Eleanor's parents were born in Caroline County, Virginia & England. From this traditional Anglican family of British subjects, Jesse's father, William Murphy (1730-1799) in Virginia finds the new movement Baptist faith as an adult and passes that on to his 11 children with two wives, including the feature of this memorial page his youngest child Jesse Murphy (1782- aftr 1824).
Jesse's father William Murphy (1730-1799) was first married (1750) to Martha Hodges (1724-1761), of a family several generations in Virginia originally from England, with whom he had four children. After her early death, William Murphy (1730-1799) married Sarah Barton (1748-1817) and had seven more children, of which Jesse was the youngest.
Jesse's mother Sarah Barton (1748-1817) was born in Frederick County, Maryland to Joshua Barton (1718-1779) & Jean/Jane duBart (1725-1760). Jean/Jane duBart was born in Germany & came with her parents to America. Joshua's parents (m.1705) Isaac Barton of County Clare (1680–1721) & Sarah Vesey of County Limerick (1685 – unknown) had come over (1714) from Ireland by transfer letter as Society of Friends (Quaker) from Killcomonbegg Meeting, County Tipperary to Chester Meeting, near Philadelphia, where Joshua was born (possibly as Josiah) in Oxford, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The couple had at least seven children (5 boys & 2 girls). In 1721, toddler Joshua's father Isaac died (1680-1721), and when his mother Sarah chose to marry a non-Quaker, Robert Jones (m.1722), she was forced to leave Chester Meeting with her children. Depopulation away from crowded Philadelphia along the east coast where Europeans landed was encouraged by the British Colonial governors to go further inland to help settle more frontier, occupy from the native populations. This was aided by a distinct wagon road cut through the heavily wooded interior called the "Philadelphia Road." Joshua's mother & stepfather took advantage of the opportunity to restart, and resettled 100 miles west in Frederick County, Maryland. There, Sarah née Vesey Barton Jones (1685-?) raised her remaining Barton children still at home, & one child by Jones, in the new Baptist faith. Her little son Joshua grew up (1718-1779) became a Baptist minister, and married Jean/Jane duBart (1725-1760) in Frederick County, Maryland (m.1740). They had seven children (4 boys & 3 girls), among them a daughter named Sarah Barton (1748-1817) in Frederick. And when her mother Jean/Jane died prematurely (1760) when Sarah Barton (1748-1817) was only 11-12, her father Joshua Barton (1718-1779) remarried and moved the family further along the "Philadelphia Road" that curved southwest down through Virginia's left side Piedmont where it meets the Shenandoah Valley in to the American Colony frontier. An agreement with the Native American tribes at the time kept European colonists from going over the Appalachians or Blue Ridge Mountains. So the Bartons found themselves all the way down the middle-left of Virginia on its southern border with North Carolina. Father Joshua Barton (b.1718) and two eldest sons David (b.1744) & Isaac (b.1746) are listed (1767) as holding farm land in newly created Pittsylvania County from Halifax County, Virginia. {Further discussion of the development of the area is on Jesse's elder half-siblings' mother Martha née Hodges Murphy's page.} At the time of the Pittsylvania County Tithables Table (image & discussion on Jesse's dad Rev William Murphy Sr's page) David & Isaac Barton's next sibling, sister Sarah Barton (b.1748) was 19-20yrs old. Her father & older brothers were Baptist ministers as well as farmers.
The scene was set for the parents of Jesse Murphy of this page to meet. Rev William Murphy Sr (1730-1799) was a neighbor farmer & Baptist minister under the same association, the families socializing, and Rev William Murphy Sr (1730-1799) marrying (m.1767) the young Sarah Barton (1748-1817) after the premature death of his first wife Martha Hodges (1724-1761).
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1750-1775 PRE-WAR FAMILY:
FARM & CHURCH
See Jesse's father Rev William Murphy Sr's (1730-1799) page for land grant documents & discussion of where the family farmed in Virginia. William's first wife Martha née Hodges Murphy's (1724-1761) page shows an area map & discussion.
Jesse's father Rev William Murphy Sr had first married in 1750 Halifax County, Virginia, in the Piedmont region as it meets with the Blue Ridge Mountains, along the border with North Carolina.
Circa 1757, in their twenties, William (b.1730) & his younger brother Joseph (b.1734) dissented from the Anglican Church of their upbringing, and embraced the Baptist Church. Joseph was baptized and it ordained first in 1760. William followed, baptized at Deep River by Rev Shubal Stearns, William was ordained in 1763 on the river at Staunton, Virginia. (See Rev Joseph Murphy Sr's (1734-1816) page for Baptist Church history images.)
Rev William Murphy Sr (1730-1799) was both a farmer to support his wife and children & a Baptist minister in the "New Light" way brought by Rev Shubal Stearns to Virginia & North Carolina from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
In this period before the Revolutionary War, Rev William Murphy Sr (1730-1799) had eight children. Four with Martha Hodges (1724-1761). And the first four of seven with Sarah Barton (1748-1817). Three more sons were born to Sarah & William during the Rev War, as William was often home.
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11 MURPHY CHILDREN @ PAGE BOTTOM
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR (1775-1783) ERA
Unlike a century later's US Civil War (1861-1865) the battles of the Revolutionary War (1775-1783) were less constant, the adversaries depending largely on troops coming from abroad for a series of skirmishes, not a constant siege or bombardment. So while Jesse Murphy's father did fight in the War for American Independence as a documented Corporal in Virginia's 13th Regiment, he was still able to work the family farm to support his wife and children & able to devote much of his time to starting and supporting church missions throughout the middle-south Piedmont of Virginia & over the border in to North Carolina (at that time, they didn't pay attention to provincial borders (pre-statehoods)). Rev William Murphy Sr (b.1730) was, by some accounts, the most influential Baptist preacher in Virginia of his generation, while the same was said of his younger brother Rev Joseph Murphy Sr (b.1734) for North Carolina. William's primary church was called the "Holston Staunton, Virginia", in the same Sandy Creek Association of Baptist churches of North Carolina (even though it was over the border in Virginia, again the provincial borders were less observed back then) under Rev Shubal Stearns. They were famously known as the "Murphy Brothers".
The Staunton River referenced as by William's church was not by the town of the same name, Staunton, several counties north in the Shenandoah Valley, unincorporated by the surrounding Augusta County, the separate Staunton River gets absorbed by the Roanoke River and then regains its own name, as it flows across the top borders of Halifax & Pittsylvania counties, where Rev William Murphy Sr (1730-1799) held up to 400 acres granted by the King of England (source documents cited on William's page, years (1756)(1758) (1767)) of farm land on either side of the Banister River across the middle of those two important counties to the Murphys, Halifax & Pittsylvania, Banister nearly parallels the Staunton. -- The "Holston" portion of William's church is taken from the Holston River that begins further west a few counties, still in Virginia, as South, Middle and North Forks, before it flows due southwest in to Tennessee at Kingsport on the border, terminating by Knoxville. But that plays more in the Murphys' story after the Rev War.
Of the "Murphy Brothers" Baptist ministers who actively began together in Virginia in the 1750s, they continued strong through the Rev War and afterward. William's brother Joseph had gone over the ignored border in to the province of North Carolina before the country of the USA formed, and called them states. Brother Joseph remained firmly settled at Surry County, North Carolina, on the "Shallow Fords" (his church mission taking its name from the geographic description) of the Atkins River near Newburn. Incidentally, the reverends William & Joseph's brother Richard Murphy settled next farm to Joseph in Surry County, North Carolina, as they appear one after the other on the census.
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POST-WAR / 1780s & '90s
MOVE TO EASTERN TENNESSEE
Rev William Murphy Sr was sent by the church conference, possibly (by one reference account) by his wife Sarah née Barton Murphy's father Rev Joshua Barton (b.1718) as an elder member, to establish Baptist missions beyond the eastern slope of the Blue Ridge after the war. The family, some adult children already married themselves in Virginia included, moved westward to the area around Knoxville in Knox County, Tennessee on the HolstonRiver. (Always on flowing creeks or rivers for central tenant baptism.) More children grew up in Tennessee & married. The eldest child of John was a full 30 years older than the youngest Jesse who was only born (b.1782) just as the Rev War ended in 1783. The eldest half-brother John Murphy (b.1752) had gone ahead with ministering the Baptist word from southern Virginia to eastern Tennessee ahead of the rest, and then went without the rest of the family up to the "Green river country" area of south-central Kentucky, Barren County near Bowling Green and eventually permanently adjacent Warren County. Jesse's eldest half-sister Keziah Murphy actually married Isaac Barton (b.1746), the brother of her step-mother Sarah (Jesse's mom), and they remained in eastern Tennessee, first Knox then Grainger County. Jesse's second eldest half-brother Rev William Murphy Jr (b.1759) we know went slightly ahead to Tennessee from Virginia than his father and step-mother Sarah who delivered Jesse sometime in 1782 still in Pittsylvania Co, Virginia, because William Jr was wed in Jan-1782 in Green Co, Tennessee. Jesse's eldest full-sister Tabitha Murphy went with the family to eastern Tennessee & married there, remaining Mrs. Gentry until her young death in Knox County. But the rest of Jesse's siblings, his elder half-brothers William (b.1759) & Joseph (b.1761), his older full-sister Sarah (b.1771) & his four elder full-brothers -- David (b.1770), Dubart (b.1773), Richard (b.1776), Isaac (b.1777) -- along with Jesse (b.1782), barely a teenager, moved on one more big adventure together to the other side of the new nation of the United States of America, crossing over to the Spanish/French held Louisiana Missouri Territory.
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JESSE'S 1802 ARRIVAL IN MISSOURI
[Thanks to his father William's efforts in 1795-1799 & his mum Sarah's 1802 resolve.]
"In 1795 a quartet of Rev William Murphy Sr (1730-1709), sons Rev William Murphy Jr (1759-1833) and Joseph Murphy (1761-1834) and by then grown son Rev David Murphy Sr (1770-1843), and a friend, Silas George, traveled to Missouri, which did not come under the American flag until the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 and become a state until 18 years later. Led by an Indian (sic) guide, the Murphys and George reached the present site of Farmington, St Francois County, Missouri. Spain then owning Missouri, granted 640 acres of land to whomever cleared it. The Murphys claimed their clearing, by Royal Decree in 1798, which became known as Murphy's Settlement. The father was given the area around Carter's Spring. {See the 5th Principal Meridian plots recognized by the Supreme Court of the United States, images on Sarah née Barton Murphy's page, belonging to SBM, Joseph Murphy, David Murphy & William Murphy, Jr.} Going back to Tennessee to retrieve his wife and any other children, young or wanting to join them, to all settle permanently on that land in Missouri, Rev. Murphy fell ill and died in 1799 at the house of his eldest son John Murphy (1752-1818) in Barren County, Kentucky. From waiting at the Knox County, Tennessee family home for her husband who would never return, Sarah née Barton Murphy then "resolved to settle on the claim made in eastern Missouri to her deceased husband, Rev. William Murphy. To reach the pioneer community, she set out in a keel boat down the Holston River, accompanied by a crew of her three sons, Isaac, Jesse, and Dubart, her only (surviving) daughter, Sarah (née Murphy Evans), a grandson named William Evans, aged eight, a hired hand, a(n enslaved) woman and a(n enslaved) boy. They floated to the Tennessee River, and out into the Ohio to its mouth, and thence up the Mississippi with ropes and poles, to Ste. Genevieve, covering a distance of 1,000 miles or more. The country was then infested with Indians (sic), and much of the journey was made at night, while they hid in the underbrush during the day. From Ste. Genevieve they traveled over land twenty-eight miles west to their destination, which they reached on the 18th day of June, 1802... Sarah Barton Murphy became the leader in the community her husband and sons established. She is credited with organizing the first Protestant Sunday school west of the Mississippi River and donated an acre of the town for the site of a church built of logs. It was open to all Christians."
- edited for clarity & syntax 2/2023 by Sis; Published by THE LEAD BELT NEWS, Flat River, St. Francois Co. MO, Fri. March 27, 1936.
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MISSOURI TO ARKANSAS
We know by at least two deeds (below) in 1820 & 1822, that Jesse was married to a woman called Patsy/Patsey, but not her maiden name or when or where they wed, nor if they had issue. Those records are yet to be found. We do know the couple, whilst continuing to live amongst the majority of the surviving Murphy family in Murphy's Settlement, Ste Genevieve County, Missouri (today called Farmington, St Francois County, Missouri), first sold a small portion of the land Jesse inherited in 1817 from his mother Sarah née Barton Murphy's Will. Jesse was 37-38 yrs old at that time in 1820. Two years later, 1822, Jesse (b.1782) & Patsy/Patsey sold off the rest of his inherited land in Missouri to nearest elder brother Isaac Murphy (b.1777), as Jesse & Patsy/Patsey had opted to move north over the Missouri border in to Lawrence County, Arkansas. Their next brother Richard Murphy (b.1776) had relocated there about 1815, an attorney.
From there, the record grows cold after the latest mention of Jesse Murphy (b.1782) as alive in 1824. Jesse was 41-42 that year. Did he soon perish? All we can assume is that Jesse Murphy died after 1824. That has been given as his lifespan (1782-1824) on several trees, ignoring the "after" note.
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1820 JESSE & "PATSEY" MURPHY
SOLD SOME INHERITED MISSOURI PROPERTY to METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
TRANSCRIPT FROM
ORIGINAL SOURCE DOCUMENT
Below -- A land deed by which Jesse Murphy and his wife Patsey convey an acre of land to the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Murphy's Settlement in 1820. -- originally shared online by Patricia Minch 23-May-2013
Source: Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Records, Book C, p. 351, 1820:
"This indenture, made the third day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, by and between Jesse Murphy and Patsey Murphy, his wife, of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri Territory, of the first part, and William Evans, William Murphy, Jr., Richard Murphy, James Tallent and John Burnham, trustees, in trust for the use and purpose hereinafter mentioned, all of the county and territory, of the other part: Witnesseth that the said Jesse Murphy and Patsey, his wife, for and in consideration of the sum of fifteen dollars, to them paid by the aforesaid trustees before the signing and sealing of these presents, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, have this day bargained, sold, conveyed and assigned and by these presents the said Jesse and Patsey do bargain, sell and quitclaim unto the aforesaid trustees and their successors forever all their right, title, interest and claim of, in and to the following described tract or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the Territory of Missouri, Ste. Genevieve, in Murphy's Settlement, and being part of an eight hundred arpent tract confirmed to Sarah Murphy under William Murphy, deceased, containing one acre bounded as follows: beginning at a stone near the road, thence north ten poles plant a stone thence west sixteen poles plant a stone thence south ten poles plant a stone then east to the beginning, containing one acre of land, together with all the singular appurtenances, houses and privileges thereunto belonging or in anywise appurtaining, to have and to hold the above described lot of land unto them the aforesaid trustees and their successors in office forever in trust to repair or cause to be repaired the house of worshihp thereon built for the use of the members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and permit such members, ministers and preachers belonging to said church as shall from time to time be duly authorized by the conferences and discipline of the Methodist Episcopal church to expound and preach God's holy word therein, and in further trust and confidence that as often as any one or more of said trustees shall die or cease to be a member of our church according to the rules and discipline aforesaid other trustees shall be appointed to fill such vacancies in order to keep up five (or more if necessary) forever. And the said Jesse and Patsey Murphy doth by these presents warrant and forever defend all their right to the before mentioned piece of land with the appurtenances thereunto belonging unto them the said trustees and their successors chosen and appointed according to the rules of the Methodist discipline from us, our heirs and assigns forever, and if our title to the aforesaid land should prove defective we do bind ourselves and our heirs to refund the purchase money. In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands and affixed our seals this day and year above written.
Jesse Murphy {Seal}
Patsey Murphy {Seal}
Signed, sealed and delivered in presents of testators Joseph Piggot, Laken Walker.
Territory of Missouri, Ste. Genevieve County, St. Francis Township:
Before me the subscriber, one of the justices of the peace in and for the Territory, County and Township aforesaid, personally came and appeared Jesse Murphy and Patsey Murphy, his wife, who acnowledged the within instrument of writing to be their actual hands and seals for the purpose therein contained, and the said Patsey Murphy, being first separately and apart examined from her husband and by me made acquainted with the contents of the same, declare that she executed freely and voluntarily and without fear or constraint or undue influence from her husband. Given under my hand and seal this 5th day of June AD 1820.
Laken Walker, Justice of the Peace {Seal}
Received and recorded 30th August 1820. Tho. Oliver, Clk"
[Note: Assorted commas have been added by the transcriber, Patricia L. Minch, to facilitate the reading of the document.]
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1822 JESSE & "PATSY" MURPHY,
THEN OF ARKANSAS,
SOLD REMAINDER OF INHERITED
MISSOURI LAND TO
BROTHER ISAAC MURPHY
TRANSCRIPT FROM
ORIGINAL SOURCE DOCUMENT
Source: Marsha Hoffman Rising, CG, FASG, Genealogical Gems from Early Missouri Deeds 1815-1850 [Westminster, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 2004], p. 283:
"A:58 26 November 1822, Jesse and Patsy Murphy of the Territory of Arkansas sold to Isaac Murphy of St. Francois, for $700, 200 arpents. This land became vested in Jesse as heir of Sarah Murphy, deceased, now in suit in St. Francois Circuit Court. [Partition on pp. 88-89 granted one part to Jesse Murphy left in his possession at the death of Sarah Murphy; second allotment to Isaac Murphy; third allotment of 82 acres to David Murphy, heir of Sarah, deceased, which was in the possession of David Murphy, Sen. at the death of Sarah; allotment four to Richard Murphy; fifth allotment of 100 acres to Dubart Murphy; sixth allotment of 100 acres to William Gentry and Mary Gentry, now Mary Keith, lawful issue of Tabitha Gentry, heiress of Sarah Murphy, deceased; and seventh allotment to William Evans, only heir of Sarah Evans, deceased, and heir of Sarah Murphy, deceased. Partition reported on 1 December 1823. Appeal of heirs followed.]"
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Re: 200 arpents. "An arpent (French pronunciation: [aʁpɑ̃], sometimes called arpen) is a unit of length and a unit of area. It is a pre-metric French unit based on the Roman actus. It is used in Quebec, some areas of the United States that were part of French Louisiana, and in Mauritius and the Seychelles." -- When Tabitha's father, Rev William Murphy Sr, first scouted & then received the Royal Land Grant in 1798 of what would become the Murphy Family land referred to in the deed above (area of what we know as Farmington, St Francois County, Missouri, USA), it was pre-1820 Missouri Compromise admitting Missouri to the Union as a state in 1821, it was pre-1803 Louisiana Purchase by America from France, it was back in the final years of Spain and France volleying control of the region back and forth. Thus, the land was originally in arpents and then referred to in acres of allotments by the time the deed is being reallotted in 1822.
"French arpent land divisions are long narrow parcels of land, also called ribbon farms, usually found along the navigable streams of southern Louisiana, and also found along major waterways in other areas." (Such as the major tributary St. Francois River by Farmington that comes off the nearby mighty Mississippi River, not to mention plentiful good size streams throughout Farmington area.) "This system of land subdivision was begun by French settlers in the 18th century, according to typical French practice at the time and was continued by both the Spanish and by the American government after the acquisition of the Louisiana Purchase... This method of land division provided each land-owner with river frontage as well as land suitable for cultivation and habitation."
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JESSE MURPHY'S PARENTS & SIBLINGS
FATHER
Rev William Murphy Sr
b. 1730 Spotsylvania Co, VA
d. 1799 Barren Co, KY
By 1st WIFE (m.1750 VA)
& Jesse's elder half-siblings #1-4
Martha Hodges Murphy
b. 1724 Spotsylvania Co, VA
d. 1761 Halifax Co, VA
(Falls within 1767 created adjacent Pittsylvania Co, VA, but records call her death place as Halifax, so left so; the same goes for her four children.)
m. 1750
By 2nd WIFE (m. 1767 VA)
& Jesse amongst seven children #5-11
Sarah Barton Murphy
b. 1748 Frederick Co, MD
d. 1817 Farmington, St Francois Co, MO
(then as Murphy's Settlement, Ste Genevieve Co, MO; the record uses the modern day location, which is opposite of what records do on Martha's account)
(1) Rev John Murphy Sr
b. 1752 Culpeper Co, VA
d. 1818 Warren Co, KY
m. 1774 VA Rachel Cook(e)
(2) Keziah née Murphy Barton
b. 1754 Halifax Co, VA
d. 1845 Grainger Co, TN
m. 1772 VA Isaac Barton
(bro of her step-mother Sarah)
(3) William Murphy
b. 1759 Halifax Co, VA
d. 1833 Farmington, St Francois Co, MO
(then as Murphy's Settlement, Ste Genevieve Co, MO)
m. 1782 TN Rachel Henderson
(4) Joseph Murphy
b. 1761 Halifax Co, VA
d. 1834 Farmington, St Francois Co, MO
(then as Murphy's Settlement, Ste Genevieve Co, MO)
1m. Jane Barton -- possibly; no issue
2m. 1797 TN Sarah McDaniel
(5) Tabitha née Murphy Gentry
b. 1768 Pittsylvania Co, VA
d. unknown | abt 1788 Knox Co, TN
m. abt 1784 TN Jesse Gentry
(6) Rev David Murphy Sr
b. 1770 Pittsylvania Co, VA
d. 1843 Farmington, St Francois Co, MO
(then as Murphy's Settlement, Ste Genevieve Co, MO)
1m. abt 1790 TN Rachel Bacon(?)/Jones(?)
2m. 1827 MO Mrs Rachel Whittenburgh
(7) Sarah née Murphy Evans
b. 1771 Pittsylvania Co, VA
d. unknown | aftr 1802, bfr 1817
Farmington, St Francois Co, MO
(then as Murphy's Settlement, Ste Genevieve Co, MO)
m. 1792 Walter George Evans, used "George"
(8) Dubart Murphy
b. 1773 Pittsylvania Co, VA
d. 1836 Farmington, St Francois Co, MO
(then as Murphy's Settlement, Ste Genevieve Co, MO)
m. 1803 MO Sarah Bacon
(9) Richard Murphy
b. 1776 Pittsylvania Co, VA
d. 1823 Lawrence Co, AR
m. no record found of marrying
(10) Isaac Murphy
b. 1777 Pittsylvania Co, VA
d. 1821 St Johns Twnshp, Franklin Co, MO
m. 1814 MO Nancy Todd (later Hart)
(11) Jesse Murphy
b. 1782 Pittsylvania Co, VA
d. unknown | aftr 1824
m. 18?? Patsy/Patsey (?)
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(Image Attached) Shows Jesse's wife's name was Patsy / Patsey Murphy. 1820 & 1822 transcript of deed sales below in chronological order of Jesse's life story. His wife's maiden name unknown. Pasty can be a name as is, but more often was a nickname for Patricia, Patrice, or Patience, more popular than today's usage of "Patty" as diminutive; "Patsy" was less often short for Prudence with its own "Prude" and "Rudy"; surprisingly, in her era, "Patsey" was often a nickname for Martha, of all things. (All of those alternatives have been plugged in to attempt finding marriage, birth, or census records of she & husband Jesse Murphy, to no avail, yet.)
Discussion of 1822 Missouri Deed below in chronological order of Jesse's life story. (Image attached from book: "Genealogical Gems from Early Missouri Deeds 1815-1850" transcribed & compiled by Marsha Hoffman Rising, CG, FASG. Willow Bend Books 2004. Heritage Books, Inc. Westminster, Maryland." pg 283.)
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Jesse Murphy (1782- aftr 1824) was the youngest of 11 children born to father Rev William Murphy Sr (1730-1799) of Virginia.
His father William (1730-1799) was born in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, raised Anglican alongside at least two brothers (Joseph & Richard), by parents the elder William Murphy (1695-1745) and Eleanor née Echols Murphy (1700-1760). -- This younger William Murphy takes on the title "Rev William Murphy Sr" (1730-1799) & his son is likewise so entrenched as "Rev William Murphy Jr" (1759-1833) in historic documents including graves, that it is impractical to attempt relabeling three generations William Murphy I, II & III, even as it is so by beginning with initial immigrant to America, William Murphy (1695-1745). -- The first modern era William Murphy (1695-1745) immigrated to the Virginia Colony from Ireland of an originally Scottish family, where he married Eleanor Echols (1700-1760) who was born in King and Queen County, Virginia. Eleanor's parents were born in Caroline County, Virginia & England. From this traditional Anglican family of British subjects, Jesse's father, William Murphy (1730-1799) in Virginia finds the new movement Baptist faith as an adult and passes that on to his 11 children with two wives, including the feature of this memorial page his youngest child Jesse Murphy (1782- aftr 1824).
Jesse's father William Murphy (1730-1799) was first married (1750) to Martha Hodges (1724-1761), of a family several generations in Virginia originally from England, with whom he had four children. After her early death, William Murphy (1730-1799) married Sarah Barton (1748-1817) and had seven more children, of which Jesse was the youngest.
Jesse's mother Sarah Barton (1748-1817) was born in Frederick County, Maryland to Joshua Barton (1718-1779) & Jean/Jane duBart (1725-1760). Jean/Jane duBart was born in Germany & came with her parents to America. Joshua's parents (m.1705) Isaac Barton of County Clare (1680–1721) & Sarah Vesey of County Limerick (1685 – unknown) had come over (1714) from Ireland by transfer letter as Society of Friends (Quaker) from Killcomonbegg Meeting, County Tipperary to Chester Meeting, near Philadelphia, where Joshua was born (possibly as Josiah) in Oxford, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The couple had at least seven children (5 boys & 2 girls). In 1721, toddler Joshua's father Isaac died (1680-1721), and when his mother Sarah chose to marry a non-Quaker, Robert Jones (m.1722), she was forced to leave Chester Meeting with her children. Depopulation away from crowded Philadelphia along the east coast where Europeans landed was encouraged by the British Colonial governors to go further inland to help settle more frontier, occupy from the native populations. This was aided by a distinct wagon road cut through the heavily wooded interior called the "Philadelphia Road." Joshua's mother & stepfather took advantage of the opportunity to restart, and resettled 100 miles west in Frederick County, Maryland. There, Sarah née Vesey Barton Jones (1685-?) raised her remaining Barton children still at home, & one child by Jones, in the new Baptist faith. Her little son Joshua grew up (1718-1779) became a Baptist minister, and married Jean/Jane duBart (1725-1760) in Frederick County, Maryland (m.1740). They had seven children (4 boys & 3 girls), among them a daughter named Sarah Barton (1748-1817) in Frederick. And when her mother Jean/Jane died prematurely (1760) when Sarah Barton (1748-1817) was only 11-12, her father Joshua Barton (1718-1779) remarried and moved the family further along the "Philadelphia Road" that curved southwest down through Virginia's left side Piedmont where it meets the Shenandoah Valley in to the American Colony frontier. An agreement with the Native American tribes at the time kept European colonists from going over the Appalachians or Blue Ridge Mountains. So the Bartons found themselves all the way down the middle-left of Virginia on its southern border with North Carolina. Father Joshua Barton (b.1718) and two eldest sons David (b.1744) & Isaac (b.1746) are listed (1767) as holding farm land in newly created Pittsylvania County from Halifax County, Virginia. {Further discussion of the development of the area is on Jesse's elder half-siblings' mother Martha née Hodges Murphy's page.} At the time of the Pittsylvania County Tithables Table (image & discussion on Jesse's dad Rev William Murphy Sr's page) David & Isaac Barton's next sibling, sister Sarah Barton (b.1748) was 19-20yrs old. Her father & older brothers were Baptist ministers as well as farmers.
The scene was set for the parents of Jesse Murphy of this page to meet. Rev William Murphy Sr (1730-1799) was a neighbor farmer & Baptist minister under the same association, the families socializing, and Rev William Murphy Sr (1730-1799) marrying (m.1767) the young Sarah Barton (1748-1817) after the premature death of his first wife Martha Hodges (1724-1761).
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1750-1775 PRE-WAR FAMILY:
FARM & CHURCH
See Jesse's father Rev William Murphy Sr's (1730-1799) page for land grant documents & discussion of where the family farmed in Virginia. William's first wife Martha née Hodges Murphy's (1724-1761) page shows an area map & discussion.
Jesse's father Rev William Murphy Sr had first married in 1750 Halifax County, Virginia, in the Piedmont region as it meets with the Blue Ridge Mountains, along the border with North Carolina.
Circa 1757, in their twenties, William (b.1730) & his younger brother Joseph (b.1734) dissented from the Anglican Church of their upbringing, and embraced the Baptist Church. Joseph was baptized and it ordained first in 1760. William followed, baptized at Deep River by Rev Shubal Stearns, William was ordained in 1763 on the river at Staunton, Virginia. (See Rev Joseph Murphy Sr's (1734-1816) page for Baptist Church history images.)
Rev William Murphy Sr (1730-1799) was both a farmer to support his wife and children & a Baptist minister in the "New Light" way brought by Rev Shubal Stearns to Virginia & North Carolina from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
In this period before the Revolutionary War, Rev William Murphy Sr (1730-1799) had eight children. Four with Martha Hodges (1724-1761). And the first four of seven with Sarah Barton (1748-1817). Three more sons were born to Sarah & William during the Rev War, as William was often home.
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR (1775-1783) ERA
Unlike a century later's US Civil War (1861-1865) the battles of the Revolutionary War (1775-1783) were less constant, the adversaries depending largely on troops coming from abroad for a series of skirmishes, not a constant siege or bombardment. So while Jesse Murphy's father did fight in the War for American Independence as a documented Corporal in Virginia's 13th Regiment, he was still able to work the family farm to support his wife and children & able to devote much of his time to starting and supporting church missions throughout the middle-south Piedmont of Virginia & over the border in to North Carolina (at that time, they didn't pay attention to provincial borders (pre-statehoods)). Rev William Murphy Sr (b.1730) was, by some accounts, the most influential Baptist preacher in Virginia of his generation, while the same was said of his younger brother Rev Joseph Murphy Sr (b.1734) for North Carolina. William's primary church was called the "Holston Staunton, Virginia", in the same Sandy Creek Association of Baptist churches of North Carolina (even though it was over the border in Virginia, again the provincial borders were less observed back then) under Rev Shubal Stearns. They were famously known as the "Murphy Brothers".
The Staunton River referenced as by William's church was not by the town of the same name, Staunton, several counties north in the Shenandoah Valley, unincorporated by the surrounding Augusta County, the separate Staunton River gets absorbed by the Roanoke River and then regains its own name, as it flows across the top borders of Halifax & Pittsylvania counties, where Rev William Murphy Sr (1730-1799) held up to 400 acres granted by the King of England (source documents cited on William's page, years (1756)(1758) (1767)) of farm land on either side of the Banister River across the middle of those two important counties to the Murphys, Halifax & Pittsylvania, Banister nearly parallels the Staunton. -- The "Holston" portion of William's church is taken from the Holston River that begins further west a few counties, still in Virginia, as South, Middle and North Forks, before it flows due southwest in to Tennessee at Kingsport on the border, terminating by Knoxville. But that plays more in the Murphys' story after the Rev War.
Of the "Murphy Brothers" Baptist ministers who actively began together in Virginia in the 1750s, they continued strong through the Rev War and afterward. William's brother Joseph had gone over the ignored border in to the province of North Carolina before the country of the USA formed, and called them states. Brother Joseph remained firmly settled at Surry County, North Carolina, on the "Shallow Fords" (his church mission taking its name from the geographic description) of the Atkins River near Newburn. Incidentally, the reverends William & Joseph's brother Richard Murphy settled next farm to Joseph in Surry County, North Carolina, as they appear one after the other on the census.
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POST-WAR / 1780s & '90s
MOVE TO EASTERN TENNESSEE
Rev William Murphy Sr was sent by the church conference, possibly (by one reference account) by his wife Sarah née Barton Murphy's father Rev Joshua Barton (b.1718) as an elder member, to establish Baptist missions beyond the eastern slope of the Blue Ridge after the war. The family, some adult children already married themselves in Virginia included, moved westward to the area around Knoxville in Knox County, Tennessee on the HolstonRiver. (Always on flowing creeks or rivers for central tenant baptism.) More children grew up in Tennessee & married. The eldest child of John was a full 30 years older than the youngest Jesse who was only born (b.1782) just as the Rev War ended in 1783. The eldest half-brother John Murphy (b.1752) had gone ahead with ministering the Baptist word from southern Virginia to eastern Tennessee ahead of the rest, and then went without the rest of the family up to the "Green river country" area of south-central Kentucky, Barren County near Bowling Green and eventually permanently adjacent Warren County. Jesse's eldest half-sister Keziah Murphy actually married Isaac Barton (b.1746), the brother of her step-mother Sarah (Jesse's mom), and they remained in eastern Tennessee, first Knox then Grainger County. Jesse's second eldest half-brother Rev William Murphy Jr (b.1759) we know went slightly ahead to Tennessee from Virginia than his father and step-mother Sarah who delivered Jesse sometime in 1782 still in Pittsylvania Co, Virginia, because William Jr was wed in Jan-1782 in Green Co, Tennessee. Jesse's eldest full-sister Tabitha Murphy went with the family to eastern Tennessee & married there, remaining Mrs. Gentry until her young death in Knox County. But the rest of Jesse's siblings, his elder half-brothers William (b.1759) & Joseph (b.1761), his older full-sister Sarah (b.1771) & his four elder full-brothers -- David (b.1770), Dubart (b.1773), Richard (b.1776), Isaac (b.1777) -- along with Jesse (b.1782), barely a teenager, moved on one more big adventure together to the other side of the new nation of the United States of America, crossing over to the Spanish/French held Louisiana Missouri Territory.
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JESSE'S 1802 ARRIVAL IN MISSOURI
[Thanks to his father William's efforts in 1795-1799 & his mum Sarah's 1802 resolve.]
"In 1795 a quartet of Rev William Murphy Sr (1730-1709), sons Rev William Murphy Jr (1759-1833) and Joseph Murphy (1761-1834) and by then grown son Rev David Murphy Sr (1770-1843), and a friend, Silas George, traveled to Missouri, which did not come under the American flag until the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 and become a state until 18 years later. Led by an Indian (sic) guide, the Murphys and George reached the present site of Farmington, St Francois County, Missouri. Spain then owning Missouri, granted 640 acres of land to whomever cleared it. The Murphys claimed their clearing, by Royal Decree in 1798, which became known as Murphy's Settlement. The father was given the area around Carter's Spring. {See the 5th Principal Meridian plots recognized by the Supreme Court of the United States, images on Sarah née Barton Murphy's page, belonging to SBM, Joseph Murphy, David Murphy & William Murphy, Jr.} Going back to Tennessee to retrieve his wife and any other children, young or wanting to join them, to all settle permanently on that land in Missouri, Rev. Murphy fell ill and died in 1799 at the house of his eldest son John Murphy (1752-1818) in Barren County, Kentucky. From waiting at the Knox County, Tennessee family home for her husband who would never return, Sarah née Barton Murphy then "resolved to settle on the claim made in eastern Missouri to her deceased husband, Rev. William Murphy. To reach the pioneer community, she set out in a keel boat down the Holston River, accompanied by a crew of her three sons, Isaac, Jesse, and Dubart, her only (surviving) daughter, Sarah (née Murphy Evans), a grandson named William Evans, aged eight, a hired hand, a(n enslaved) woman and a(n enslaved) boy. They floated to the Tennessee River, and out into the Ohio to its mouth, and thence up the Mississippi with ropes and poles, to Ste. Genevieve, covering a distance of 1,000 miles or more. The country was then infested with Indians (sic), and much of the journey was made at night, while they hid in the underbrush during the day. From Ste. Genevieve they traveled over land twenty-eight miles west to their destination, which they reached on the 18th day of June, 1802... Sarah Barton Murphy became the leader in the community her husband and sons established. She is credited with organizing the first Protestant Sunday school west of the Mississippi River and donated an acre of the town for the site of a church built of logs. It was open to all Christians."
- edited for clarity & syntax 2/2023 by Sis; Published by THE LEAD BELT NEWS, Flat River, St. Francois Co. MO, Fri. March 27, 1936.
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MISSOURI TO ARKANSAS
We know by at least two deeds (below) in 1820 & 1822, that Jesse was married to a woman called Patsy/Patsey, but not her maiden name or when or where they wed, nor if they had issue. Those records are yet to be found. We do know the couple, whilst continuing to live amongst the majority of the surviving Murphy family in Murphy's Settlement, Ste Genevieve County, Missouri (today called Farmington, St Francois County, Missouri), first sold a small portion of the land Jesse inherited in 1817 from his mother Sarah née Barton Murphy's Will. Jesse was 37-38 yrs old at that time in 1820. Two years later, 1822, Jesse (b.1782) & Patsy/Patsey sold off the rest of his inherited land in Missouri to nearest elder brother Isaac Murphy (b.1777), as Jesse & Patsy/Patsey had opted to move north over the Missouri border in to Lawrence County, Arkansas. Their next brother Richard Murphy (b.1776) had relocated there about 1815, an attorney.
From there, the record grows cold after the latest mention of Jesse Murphy (b.1782) as alive in 1824. Jesse was 41-42 that year. Did he soon perish? All we can assume is that Jesse Murphy died after 1824. That has been given as his lifespan (1782-1824) on several trees, ignoring the "after" note.
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1820 JESSE & "PATSEY" MURPHY
SOLD SOME INHERITED MISSOURI PROPERTY to METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
TRANSCRIPT FROM
ORIGINAL SOURCE DOCUMENT
Below -- A land deed by which Jesse Murphy and his wife Patsey convey an acre of land to the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Murphy's Settlement in 1820. -- originally shared online by Patricia Minch 23-May-2013
Source: Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Records, Book C, p. 351, 1820:
"This indenture, made the third day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, by and between Jesse Murphy and Patsey Murphy, his wife, of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri Territory, of the first part, and William Evans, William Murphy, Jr., Richard Murphy, James Tallent and John Burnham, trustees, in trust for the use and purpose hereinafter mentioned, all of the county and territory, of the other part: Witnesseth that the said Jesse Murphy and Patsey, his wife, for and in consideration of the sum of fifteen dollars, to them paid by the aforesaid trustees before the signing and sealing of these presents, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, have this day bargained, sold, conveyed and assigned and by these presents the said Jesse and Patsey do bargain, sell and quitclaim unto the aforesaid trustees and their successors forever all their right, title, interest and claim of, in and to the following described tract or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the Territory of Missouri, Ste. Genevieve, in Murphy's Settlement, and being part of an eight hundred arpent tract confirmed to Sarah Murphy under William Murphy, deceased, containing one acre bounded as follows: beginning at a stone near the road, thence north ten poles plant a stone thence west sixteen poles plant a stone thence south ten poles plant a stone then east to the beginning, containing one acre of land, together with all the singular appurtenances, houses and privileges thereunto belonging or in anywise appurtaining, to have and to hold the above described lot of land unto them the aforesaid trustees and their successors in office forever in trust to repair or cause to be repaired the house of worshihp thereon built for the use of the members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and permit such members, ministers and preachers belonging to said church as shall from time to time be duly authorized by the conferences and discipline of the Methodist Episcopal church to expound and preach God's holy word therein, and in further trust and confidence that as often as any one or more of said trustees shall die or cease to be a member of our church according to the rules and discipline aforesaid other trustees shall be appointed to fill such vacancies in order to keep up five (or more if necessary) forever. And the said Jesse and Patsey Murphy doth by these presents warrant and forever defend all their right to the before mentioned piece of land with the appurtenances thereunto belonging unto them the said trustees and their successors chosen and appointed according to the rules of the Methodist discipline from us, our heirs and assigns forever, and if our title to the aforesaid land should prove defective we do bind ourselves and our heirs to refund the purchase money. In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands and affixed our seals this day and year above written.
Jesse Murphy {Seal}
Patsey Murphy {Seal}
Signed, sealed and delivered in presents of testators Joseph Piggot, Laken Walker.
Territory of Missouri, Ste. Genevieve County, St. Francis Township:
Before me the subscriber, one of the justices of the peace in and for the Territory, County and Township aforesaid, personally came and appeared Jesse Murphy and Patsey Murphy, his wife, who acnowledged the within instrument of writing to be their actual hands and seals for the purpose therein contained, and the said Patsey Murphy, being first separately and apart examined from her husband and by me made acquainted with the contents of the same, declare that she executed freely and voluntarily and without fear or constraint or undue influence from her husband. Given under my hand and seal this 5th day of June AD 1820.
Laken Walker, Justice of the Peace {Seal}
Received and recorded 30th August 1820. Tho. Oliver, Clk"
[Note: Assorted commas have been added by the transcriber, Patricia L. Minch, to facilitate the reading of the document.]
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1822 JESSE & "PATSY" MURPHY,
THEN OF ARKANSAS,
SOLD REMAINDER OF INHERITED
MISSOURI LAND TO
BROTHER ISAAC MURPHY
TRANSCRIPT FROM
ORIGINAL SOURCE DOCUMENT
Source: Marsha Hoffman Rising, CG, FASG, Genealogical Gems from Early Missouri Deeds 1815-1850 [Westminster, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 2004], p. 283:
"A:58 26 November 1822, Jesse and Patsy Murphy of the Territory of Arkansas sold to Isaac Murphy of St. Francois, for $700, 200 arpents. This land became vested in Jesse as heir of Sarah Murphy, deceased, now in suit in St. Francois Circuit Court. [Partition on pp. 88-89 granted one part to Jesse Murphy left in his possession at the death of Sarah Murphy; second allotment to Isaac Murphy; third allotment of 82 acres to David Murphy, heir of Sarah, deceased, which was in the possession of David Murphy, Sen. at the death of Sarah; allotment four to Richard Murphy; fifth allotment of 100 acres to Dubart Murphy; sixth allotment of 100 acres to William Gentry and Mary Gentry, now Mary Keith, lawful issue of Tabitha Gentry, heiress of Sarah Murphy, deceased; and seventh allotment to William Evans, only heir of Sarah Evans, deceased, and heir of Sarah Murphy, deceased. Partition reported on 1 December 1823. Appeal of heirs followed.]"
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Re: 200 arpents. "An arpent (French pronunciation: [aʁpɑ̃], sometimes called arpen) is a unit of length and a unit of area. It is a pre-metric French unit based on the Roman actus. It is used in Quebec, some areas of the United States that were part of French Louisiana, and in Mauritius and the Seychelles." -- When Tabitha's father, Rev William Murphy Sr, first scouted & then received the Royal Land Grant in 1798 of what would become the Murphy Family land referred to in the deed above (area of what we know as Farmington, St Francois County, Missouri, USA), it was pre-1820 Missouri Compromise admitting Missouri to the Union as a state in 1821, it was pre-1803 Louisiana Purchase by America from France, it was back in the final years of Spain and France volleying control of the region back and forth. Thus, the land was originally in arpents and then referred to in acres of allotments by the time the deed is being reallotted in 1822.
"French arpent land divisions are long narrow parcels of land, also called ribbon farms, usually found along the navigable streams of southern Louisiana, and also found along major waterways in other areas." (Such as the major tributary St. Francois River by Farmington that comes off the nearby mighty Mississippi River, not to mention plentiful good size streams throughout Farmington area.) "This system of land subdivision was begun by French settlers in the 18th century, according to typical French practice at the time and was continued by both the Spanish and by the American government after the acquisition of the Louisiana Purchase... This method of land division provided each land-owner with river frontage as well as land suitable for cultivation and habitation."
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JESSE MURPHY'S PARENTS & SIBLINGS
FATHER
Rev William Murphy Sr
b. 1730 Spotsylvania Co, VA
d. 1799 Barren Co, KY
By 1st WIFE (m.1750 VA)
& Jesse's elder half-siblings #1-4
Martha Hodges Murphy
b. 1724 Spotsylvania Co, VA
d. 1761 Halifax Co, VA
(Falls within 1767 created adjacent Pittsylvania Co, VA, but records call her death place as Halifax, so left so; the same goes for her four children.)
m. 1750
By 2nd WIFE (m. 1767 VA)
& Jesse amongst seven children #5-11
Sarah Barton Murphy
b. 1748 Frederick Co, MD
d. 1817 Farmington, St Francois Co, MO
(then as Murphy's Settlement, Ste Genevieve Co, MO; the record uses the modern day location, which is opposite of what records do on Martha's account)
(1) Rev John Murphy Sr
b. 1752 Culpeper Co, VA
d. 1818 Warren Co, KY
m. 1774 VA Rachel Cook(e)
(2) Keziah née Murphy Barton
b. 1754 Halifax Co, VA
d. 1845 Grainger Co, TN
m. 1772 VA Isaac Barton
(bro of her step-mother Sarah)
(3) William Murphy
b. 1759 Halifax Co, VA
d. 1833 Farmington, St Francois Co, MO
(then as Murphy's Settlement, Ste Genevieve Co, MO)
m. 1782 TN Rachel Henderson
(4) Joseph Murphy
b. 1761 Halifax Co, VA
d. 1834 Farmington, St Francois Co, MO
(then as Murphy's Settlement, Ste Genevieve Co, MO)
1m. Jane Barton -- possibly; no issue
2m. 1797 TN Sarah McDaniel
(5) Tabitha née Murphy Gentry
b. 1768 Pittsylvania Co, VA
d. unknown | abt 1788 Knox Co, TN
m. abt 1784 TN Jesse Gentry
(6) Rev David Murphy Sr
b. 1770 Pittsylvania Co, VA
d. 1843 Farmington, St Francois Co, MO
(then as Murphy's Settlement, Ste Genevieve Co, MO)
1m. abt 1790 TN Rachel Bacon(?)/Jones(?)
2m. 1827 MO Mrs Rachel Whittenburgh
(7) Sarah née Murphy Evans
b. 1771 Pittsylvania Co, VA
d. unknown | aftr 1802, bfr 1817
Farmington, St Francois Co, MO
(then as Murphy's Settlement, Ste Genevieve Co, MO)
m. 1792 Walter George Evans, used "George"
(8) Dubart Murphy
b. 1773 Pittsylvania Co, VA
d. 1836 Farmington, St Francois Co, MO
(then as Murphy's Settlement, Ste Genevieve Co, MO)
m. 1803 MO Sarah Bacon
(9) Richard Murphy
b. 1776 Pittsylvania Co, VA
d. 1823 Lawrence Co, AR
m. no record found of marrying
(10) Isaac Murphy
b. 1777 Pittsylvania Co, VA
d. 1821 St Johns Twnshp, Franklin Co, MO
m. 1814 MO Nancy Todd (later Hart)
(11) Jesse Murphy
b. 1782 Pittsylvania Co, VA
d. unknown | aftr 1824
m. 18?? Patsy/Patsey (?)
Bio under construction with new historical documents found. March 2023
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(Image Attached) Shows Jesse's wife's name was Patsy / Patsey Murphy. 1820 & 1822 transcript of deed sales below in chronological order of Jesse's life story. His wife's maiden name unknown. Pasty can be a name as is, but more often was a nickname for Patricia, Patrice, or Patience, more popular than today's usage of "Patty" as diminutive; "Patsy" was less often short for Prudence with its own "Prude" and "Rudy"; surprisingly, in her era, "Patsey" was often a nickname for Martha, of all things. (All of those alternatives have been plugged in to attempt finding marriage, birth, or census records of she & husband Jesse Murphy, to no avail, yet.)
Discussion of 1822 Missouri Deed below in chronological order of Jesse's life story. (Image attached from book: "Genealogical Gems from Early Missouri Deeds 1815-1850" transcribed & compiled by Marsha Hoffman Rising, CG, FASG. Willow Bend Books 2004. Heritage Books, Inc. Westminster, Maryland." pg 283.)
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Jesse Murphy (1782- aftr 1824) was the youngest of 11 children born to father Rev William Murphy Sr (1730-1799) of Virginia.
His father William (1730-1799) was born in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, raised Anglican alongside at least two brothers (Joseph & Richard), by parents the elder William Murphy (1695-1745) and Eleanor née Echols Murphy (1700-1760). -- This younger William Murphy takes on the title "Rev William Murphy Sr" (1730-1799) & his son is likewise so entrenched as "Rev William Murphy Jr" (1759-1833) in historic documents including graves, that it is impractical to attempt relabeling three generations William Murphy I, II & III, even as it is so by beginning with initial immigrant to America, William Murphy (1695-1745). -- The first modern era William Murphy (1695-1745) immigrated to the Virginia Colony from Ireland of an originally Scottish family, where he married Eleanor Echols (1700-1760) who was born in King and Queen County, Virginia. Eleanor's parents were born in Caroline County, Virginia & England. From this traditional Anglican family of British subjects, Jesse's father, William Murphy (1730-1799) in Virginia finds the new movement Baptist faith as an adult and passes that on to his 11 children with two wives, including the feature of this memorial page his youngest child Jesse Murphy (1782- aftr 1824).
Jesse's father William Murphy (1730-1799) was first married (1750) to Martha Hodges (1724-1761), of a family several generations in Virginia originally from England, with whom he had four children. After her early death, William Murphy (1730-1799) married Sarah Barton (1748-1817) and had seven more children, of which Jesse was the youngest.
Jesse's mother Sarah Barton (1748-1817) was born in Frederick County, Maryland to Joshua Barton (1718-1779) & Jean/Jane duBart (1725-1760). Jean/Jane duBart was born in Germany & came with her parents to America. Joshua's parents (m.1705) Isaac Barton of County Clare (1680–1721) & Sarah Vesey of County Limerick (1685 – unknown) had come over (1714) from Ireland by transfer letter as Society of Friends (Quaker) from Killcomonbegg Meeting, County Tipperary to Chester Meeting, near Philadelphia, where Joshua was born (possibly as Josiah) in Oxford, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The couple had at least seven children (5 boys & 2 girls). In 1721, toddler Joshua's father Isaac died (1680-1721), and when his mother Sarah chose to marry a non-Quaker, Robert Jones (m.1722), she was forced to leave Chester Meeting with her children. Depopulation away from crowded Philadelphia along the east coast where Europeans landed was encouraged by the British Colonial governors to go further inland to help settle more frontier, occupy from the native populations. This was aided by a distinct wagon road cut through the heavily wooded interior called the "Philadelphia Road." Joshua's mother & stepfather took advantage of the opportunity to restart, and resettled 100 miles west in Frederick County, Maryland. There, Sarah née Vesey Barton Jones (1685-?) raised her remaining Barton children still at home, & one child by Jones, in the new Baptist faith. Her little son Joshua grew up (1718-1779) became a Baptist minister, and married Jean/Jane duBart (1725-1760) in Frederick County, Maryland (m.1740). They had seven children (4 boys & 3 girls), among them a daughter named Sarah Barton (1748-1817) in Frederick. And when her mother Jean/Jane died prematurely (1760) when Sarah Barton (1748-1817) was only 11-12, her father Joshua Barton (1718-1779) remarried and moved the family further along the "Philadelphia Road" that curved southwest down through Virginia's left side Piedmont where it meets the Shenandoah Valley in to the American Colony frontier. An agreement with the Native American tribes at the time kept European colonists from going over the Appalachians or Blue Ridge Mountains. So the Bartons found themselves all the way down the middle-left of Virginia on its southern border with North Carolina. Father Joshua Barton (b.1718) and two eldest sons David (b.1744) & Isaac (b.1746) are listed (1767) as holding farm land in newly created Pittsylvania County from Halifax County, Virginia. {Further discussion of the development of the area is on Jesse's elder half-siblings' mother Martha née Hodges Murphy's page.} At the time of the Pittsylvania County Tithables Table (image & discussion on Jesse's dad Rev William Murphy Sr's page) David & Isaac Barton's next sibling, sister Sarah Barton (b.1748) was 19-20yrs old. Her father & older brothers were Baptist ministers as well as farmers.
The scene was set for the parents of Jesse Murphy of this page to meet. Rev William Murphy Sr (1730-1799) was a neighbor farmer & Baptist minister under the same association, the families socializing, and Rev William Murphy Sr (1730-1799) marrying (m.1767) the young Sarah Barton (1748-1817) after the premature death of his first wife Martha Hodges (1724-1761).
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1750-1775 PRE-WAR FAMILY:
FARM & CHURCH
See Jesse's father Rev William Murphy Sr's (1730-1799) page for land grant documents & discussion of where the family farmed in Virginia. William's first wife Martha née Hodges Murphy's (1724-1761) page shows an area map & discussion.
Jesse's father Rev William Murphy Sr had first married in 1750 Halifax County, Virginia, in the Piedmont region as it meets with the Blue Ridge Mountains, along the border with North Carolina.
Circa 1757, in their twenties, William (b.1730) & his younger brother Joseph (b.1734) dissented from the Anglican Church of their upbringing, and embraced the Baptist Church. Joseph was baptized and it ordained first in 1760. William followed, baptized at Deep River by Rev Shubal Stearns, William was ordained in 1763 on the river at Staunton, Virginia. (See Rev Joseph Murphy Sr's (1734-1816) page for Baptist Church history images.)
Rev William Murphy Sr (1730-1799) was both a farmer to support his wife and children & a Baptist minister in the "New Light" way brought by Rev Shubal Stearns to Virginia & North Carolina from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
In this period before the Revolutionary War, Rev William Murphy Sr (1730-1799) had eight children. Four with Martha Hodges (1724-1761). And the first four of seven with Sarah Barton (1748-1817). Three more sons were born to Sarah & William during the Rev War, as William was often home.
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR (1775-1783) ERA
Unlike a century later's US Civil War (1861-1865) the battles of the Revolutionary War (1775-1783) were less constant, the adversaries depending largely on troops coming from abroad for a series of skirmishes, not a constant siege or bombardment. So while Jesse Murphy's father did fight in the War for American Independence as a documented Corporal in Virginia's 13th Regiment, he was still able to work the family farm to support his wife and children & able to devote much of his time to starting and supporting church missions throughout the middle-south Piedmont of Virginia & over the border in to North Carolina (at that time, they didn't pay attention to provincial borders (pre-statehoods)). Rev William Murphy Sr (b.1730) was, by some accounts, the most influential Baptist preacher in Virginia of his generation, while the same was said of his younger brother Rev Joseph Murphy Sr (b.1734) for North Carolina. William's primary church was called the "Holston Staunton, Virginia", in the same Sandy Creek Association of Baptist churches of North Carolina (even though it was over the border in Virginia, again the provincial borders were less observed back then) under Rev Shubal Stearns. They were famously known as the "Murphy Brothers".
The Staunton River referenced as by William's church was not by the town of the same name, Staunton, several counties north in the Shenandoah Valley, unincorporated by the surrounding Augusta County, the separate Staunton River gets absorbed by the Roanoke River and then regains its own name, as it flows across the top borders of Halifax & Pittsylvania counties, where Rev William Murphy Sr (1730-1799) held up to 400 acres granted by the King of England (source documents cited on William's page, years (1756)(1758) (1767)) of farm land on either side of the Banister River across the middle of those two important counties to the Murphys, Halifax & Pittsylvania, Banister nearly parallels the Staunton. -- The "Holston" portion of William's church is taken from the Holston River that begins further west a few counties, still in Virginia, as South, Middle and North Forks, before it flows due southwest in to Tennessee at Kingsport on the border, terminating by Knoxville. But that plays more in the Murphys' story after the Rev War.
Of the "Murphy Brothers" Baptist ministers who actively began together in Virginia in the 1750s, they continued strong through the Rev War and afterward. William's brother Joseph had gone over the ignored border in to the province of North Carolina before the country of the USA formed, and called them states. Brother Joseph remained firmly settled at Surry County, North Carolina, on the "Shallow Fords" (his church mission taking its name from the geographic description) of the Atkins River near Newburn. Incidentally, the reverends William & Joseph's brother Richard Murphy settled next farm to Joseph in Surry County, North Carolina, as they appear one after the other on the census.
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POST-WAR / 1780s & '90s
MOVE TO EASTERN TENNESSEE
Rev William Murphy Sr was sent by the church conference, possibly (by one reference account) by his wife Sarah née Barton Murphy's father Rev Joshua Barton (b.1718) as an elder member, to establish Baptist missions beyond the eastern slope of the Blue Ridge after the war. The family, some adult children already married themselves in Virginia included, moved westward to the area around Knoxville in Knox County, Tennessee on the HolstonRiver. (Always on flowing creeks or rivers for central tenant baptism.) More children grew up in Tennessee & married. The eldest child of John was a full 30 years older than the youngest Jesse who was only born (b.1782) just as the Rev War ended in 1783. The eldest half-brother John Murphy (b.1752) had gone ahead with ministering the Baptist word from southern Virginia to eastern Tennessee ahead of the rest, and then went without the rest of the family up to the "Green river country" area of south-central Kentucky, Barren County near Bowling Green and eventually permanently adjacent Warren County. Jesse's eldest half-sister Keziah Murphy actually married Isaac Barton (b.1746), the brother of her step-mother Sarah (Jesse's mom), and they remained in eastern Tennessee, first Knox then Grainger County. Jesse's second eldest half-brother Rev William Murphy Jr (b.1759) we know went slightly ahead to Tennessee from Virginia than his father and step-mother Sarah who delivered Jesse sometime in 1782 still in Pittsylvania Co, Virginia, because William Jr was wed in Jan-1782 in Green Co, Tennessee. Jesse's eldest full-sister Tabitha Murphy went with the family to eastern Tennessee & married there, remaining Mrs. Gentry until her young death in Knox County. But the rest of Jesse's siblings, his elder half-brothers William (b.1759) & Joseph (b.1761), his older full-sister Sarah (b.1771) & his four elder full-brothers -- David (b.1770), Dubart (b.1773), Richard (b.1776), Isaac (b.1777) -- along with Jesse (b.1782), barely a teenager, moved on one more big adventure together to the other side of the new nation of the United States of America, crossing over to the Spanish/French held Louisiana Missouri Territory.
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JESSE'S 1802 ARRIVAL IN MISSOURI
[Thanks to his father William's efforts in 1795-1799 & his mum Sarah's 1802 resolve.]
"In 1795 a quartet of Rev William Murphy Sr (1730-1709), sons Rev William Murphy Jr (1759-1833) and Joseph Murphy (1761-1834) and by then grown son Rev David Murphy Sr (1770-1843), and a friend, Silas George, traveled to Missouri, which did not come under the American flag until the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 and become a state until 18 years later. Led by an Indian (sic) guide, the Murphys and George reached the present site of Farmington, St Francois County, Missouri. Spain then owning Missouri, granted 640 acres of land to whomever cleared it. The Murphys claimed their clearing, by Royal Decree in 1798, which became known as Murphy's Settlement. The father was given the area around Carter's Spring. {See the 5th Principal Meridian plots recognized by the Supreme Court of the United States, images on Sarah née Barton Murphy's page, belonging to SBM, Joseph Murphy, David Murphy & William Murphy, Jr.} Going back to Tennessee to retrieve his wife and any other children, young or wanting to join them, to all settle permanently on that land in Missouri, Rev. Murphy fell ill and died in 1799 at the house of his eldest son John Murphy (1752-1818) in Barren County, Kentucky. From waiting at the Knox County, Tennessee family home for her husband who would never return, Sarah née Barton Murphy then "resolved to settle on the claim made in eastern Missouri to her deceased husband, Rev. William Murphy. To reach the pioneer community, she set out in a keel boat down the Holston River, accompanied by a crew of her three sons, Isaac, Jesse, and Dubart, her only (surviving) daughter, Sarah (née Murphy Evans), a grandson named William Evans, aged eight, a hired hand, a(n enslaved) woman and a(n enslaved) boy. They floated to the Tennessee River, and out into the Ohio to its mouth, and thence up the Mississippi with ropes and poles, to Ste. Genevieve, covering a distance of 1,000 miles or more. The country was then infested with Indians (sic), and much of the journey was made at night, while they hid in the underbrush during the day. From Ste. Genevieve they traveled over land twenty-eight miles west to their destination, which they reached on the 18th day of June, 1802... Sarah Barton Murphy became the leader in the community her husband and sons established. She is credited with organizing the first Protestant Sunday school west of the Mississippi River and donated an acre of the town for the site of a church built of logs. It was open to all Christians."
- edited for clarity & syntax 2/2023 by Sis; Published by THE LEAD BELT NEWS, Flat River, St. Francois Co. MO, Fri. March 27, 1936.
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MISSOURI TO ARKANSAS
We know by at least two deeds (below) in 1820 & 1822, that Jesse was married to a woman called Patsy/Patsey, but not her maiden name or when or where they wed, nor if they had issue. Those records are yet to be found. We do know the couple, whilst continuing to live amongst the majority of the surviving Murphy family in Murphy's Settlement, Ste Genevieve County, Missouri (today called Farmington, St Francois County, Missouri), first sold a small portion of the land Jesse inherited in 1817 from his mother Sarah née Barton Murphy's Will. Jesse was 37-38 yrs old at that time in 1820. Two years later, 1822, Jesse (b.1782) & Patsy/Patsey sold off the rest of his inherited land in Missouri to nearest elder brother Isaac Murphy (b.1777), as Jesse & Patsy/Patsey had opted to move north over the Missouri border in to Lawrence County, Arkansas. Their next brother Richard Murphy (b.1776) had relocated there about 1815, an attorney.
From there, the record grows cold after the latest mention of Jesse Murphy (b.1782) as alive in 1824. Jesse was 41-42 that year. Did he soon perish? All we can assume is that Jesse Murphy died after 1824. That has been given as his lifespan (1782-1824) on several trees, ignoring the "after" note.
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1820 JESSE & "PATSEY" MURPHY
SOLD SOME INHERITED MISSOURI PROPERTY to METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
TRANSCRIPT FROM
ORIGINAL SOURCE DOCUMENT
Below -- A land deed by which Jesse Murphy and his wife Patsey convey an acre of land to the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Murphy's Settlement in 1820. -- originally shared online by Patricia Minch 23-May-2013
Source: Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Records, Book C, p. 351, 1820:
"This indenture, made the third day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, by and between Jesse Murphy and Patsey Murphy, his wife, of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri Territory, of the first part, and William Evans, William Murphy, Jr., Richard Murphy, James Tallent and John Burnham, trustees, in trust for the use and purpose hereinafter mentioned, all of the county and territory, of the other part: Witnesseth that the said Jesse Murphy and Patsey, his wife, for and in consideration of the sum of fifteen dollars, to them paid by the aforesaid trustees before the signing and sealing of these presents, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, have this day bargained, sold, conveyed and assigned and by these presents the said Jesse and Patsey do bargain, sell and quitclaim unto the aforesaid trustees and their successors forever all their right, title, interest and claim of, in and to the following described tract or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the Territory of Missouri, Ste. Genevieve, in Murphy's Settlement, and being part of an eight hundred arpent tract confirmed to Sarah Murphy under William Murphy, deceased, containing one acre bounded as follows: beginning at a stone near the road, thence north ten poles plant a stone thence west sixteen poles plant a stone thence south ten poles plant a stone then east to the beginning, containing one acre of land, together with all the singular appurtenances, houses and privileges thereunto belonging or in anywise appurtaining, to have and to hold the above described lot of land unto them the aforesaid trustees and their successors in office forever in trust to repair or cause to be repaired the house of worshihp thereon built for the use of the members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and permit such members, ministers and preachers belonging to said church as shall from time to time be duly authorized by the conferences and discipline of the Methodist Episcopal church to expound and preach God's holy word therein, and in further trust and confidence that as often as any one or more of said trustees shall die or cease to be a member of our church according to the rules and discipline aforesaid other trustees shall be appointed to fill such vacancies in order to keep up five (or more if necessary) forever. And the said Jesse and Patsey Murphy doth by these presents warrant and forever defend all their right to the before mentioned piece of land with the appurtenances thereunto belonging unto them the said trustees and their successors chosen and appointed according to the rules of the Methodist discipline from us, our heirs and assigns forever, and if our title to the aforesaid land should prove defective we do bind ourselves and our heirs to refund the purchase money. In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands and affixed our seals this day and year above written.
Jesse Murphy {Seal}
Patsey Murphy {Seal}
Signed, sealed and delivered in presents of testators Joseph Piggot, Laken Walker.
Territory of Missouri, Ste. Genevieve County, St. Francis Township:
Before me the subscriber, one of the justices of the peace in and for the Territory, County and Township aforesaid, personally came and appeared Jesse Murphy and Patsey Murphy, his wife, who acnowledged the within instrument of writing to be their actual hands and seals for the purpose therein contained, and the said Patsey Murphy, being first separately and apart examined from her husband and by me made acquainted with the contents of the same, declare that she executed freely and voluntarily and without fear or constraint or undue influence from her husband. Given under my hand and seal this 5th day of June AD 1820.
Laken Walker, Justice of the Peace {Seal}
Received and recorded 30th August 1820. Tho. Oliver, Clk"
[Note: Assorted commas have been added by the transcriber, Patricia L. Minch, to facilitate the reading of the document.]
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1822 JESSE & "PATSY" MURPHY,
THEN OF ARKANSAS,
SOLD REMAINDER OF INHERITED
MISSOURI LAND TO
BROTHER ISAAC MURPHY
TRANSCRIPT FROM
ORIGINAL SOURCE DOCUMENT
Source: Marsha Hoffman Rising, CG, FASG, Genealogical Gems from Early Missouri Deeds 1815-1850 [Westminster, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 2004], p. 283:
"A:58 26 November 1822, Jesse and Patsy Murphy of the Territory of Arkansas sold to Isaac Murphy of St. Francois, for $700, 200 arpents. This land became vested in Jesse as heir of Sarah Murphy, deceased, now in suit in St. Francois Circuit Court. [Partition on pp. 88-89 granted one part to Jesse Murphy left in his possession at the death of Sarah Murphy; second allotment to Isaac Murphy; third allotment of 82 acres to David Murphy, heir of Sarah, deceased, which was in the possession of David Murphy, Sen. at the death of Sarah; allotment four to Richard Murphy; fifth allotment of 100 acres to Dubart Murphy; sixth allotment of 100 acres to William Gentry and Mary Gentry, now Mary Keith, lawful issue of Tabitha Gentry, heiress of Sarah Murphy, deceased; and seventh allotment to William Evans, only heir of Sarah Evans, deceased, and heir of Sarah Murphy, deceased. Partition reported on 1 December 1823. Appeal of heirs followed.]"
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Re: 200 arpents. "An arpent (French pronunciation: [aʁpɑ̃], sometimes called arpen) is a unit of length and a unit of area. It is a pre-metric French unit based on the Roman actus. It is used in Quebec, some areas of the United States that were part of French Louisiana, and in Mauritius and the Seychelles." -- When Tabitha's father, Rev William Murphy Sr, first scouted & then received the Royal Land Grant in 1798 of what would become the Murphy Family land referred to in the deed above (area of what we know as Farmington, St Francois County, Missouri, USA), it was pre-1820 Missouri Compromise admitting Missouri to the Union as a state in 1821, it was pre-1803 Louisiana Purchase by America from France, it was back in the final years of Spain and France volleying control of the region back and forth. Thus, the land was originally in arpents and then referred to in acres of allotments by the time the deed is being reallotted in 1822.
"French arpent land divisions are long narrow parcels of land, also called ribbon farms, usually found along the navigable streams of southern Louisiana, and also found along major waterways in other areas." (Such as the major tributary St. Francois River by Farmington that comes off the nearby mighty Mississippi River, not to mention plentiful good size streams throughout Farmington area.) "This system of land subdivision was begun by French settlers in the 18th century, according to typical French practice at the time and was continued by both the Spanish and by the American government after the acquisition of the Louisiana Purchase... This method of land division provided each land-owner with river frontage as well as land suitable for cultivation and habitation."
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JESSE MURPHY'S PARENTS & SIBLINGS
FATHER
Rev William Murphy Sr
b. 1730 Spotsylvania Co, VA
d. 1799 Barren Co, KY
By 1st WIFE (m.1750 VA)
& Jesse's elder half-siblings #1-4
Martha Hodges Murphy
b. 1724 Spotsylvania Co, VA
d. 1761 Halifax Co, VA
(Falls within 1767 created adjacent Pittsylvania Co, VA, but records call her death place as Halifax, so left so; the same goes for her four children.)
m. 1750
By 2nd WIFE (m. 1767 VA)
& Jesse amongst seven children #5-11
Sarah Barton Murphy
b. 1748 Frederick Co, MD
d. 1817 Farmington, St Francois Co, MO
(then as Murphy's Settlement, Ste Genevieve Co, MO; the record uses the modern day location, which is opposite of what records do on Martha's account)
(1) Rev John Murphy Sr
b. 1752 Culpeper Co, VA
d. 1818 Warren Co, KY
m. 1774 VA Rachel Cook(e)
(2) Keziah née Murphy Barton
b. 1754 Halifax Co, VA
d. 1845 Grainger Co, TN
m. 1772 VA Isaac Barton
(bro of her step-mother Sarah)
(3) William Murphy
b. 1759 Halifax Co, VA
d. 1833 Farmington, St Francois Co, MO
(then as Murphy's Settlement, Ste Genevieve Co, MO)
m. 1782 TN Rachel Henderson
(4) Joseph Murphy
b. 1761 Halifax Co, VA
d. 1834 Farmington, St Francois Co, MO
(then as Murphy's Settlement, Ste Genevieve Co, MO)
1m. Jane Barton -- possibly; no issue
2m. 1797 TN Sarah McDaniel
(5) Tabitha née Murphy Gentry
b. 1768 Pittsylvania Co, VA
d. unknown | abt 1788 Knox Co, TN
m. abt 1784 TN Jesse Gentry
(6) Rev David Murphy Sr
b. 1770 Pittsylvania Co, VA
d. 1843 Farmington, St Francois Co, MO
(then as Murphy's Settlement, Ste Genevieve Co, MO)
1m. abt 1790 TN Rachel Bacon(?)/Jones(?)
2m. 1827 MO Mrs Rachel Whittenburgh
(7) Sarah née Murphy Evans
b. 1771 Pittsylvania Co, VA
d. unknown | aftr 1802, bfr 1817
Farmington, St Francois Co, MO
(then as Murphy's Settlement, Ste Genevieve Co, MO)
m. 1792 Walter George Evans, used "George"
(8) Dubart Murphy
b. 1773 Pittsylvania Co, VA
d. 1836 Farmington, St Francois Co, MO
(then as Murphy's Settlement, Ste Genevieve Co, MO)
m. 1803 MO Sarah Bacon
(9) Richard Murphy
b. 1776 Pittsylvania Co, VA
d. 1823 Lawrence Co, AR
m. no record found of marrying
(10) Isaac Murphy
b. 1777 Pittsylvania Co, VA
d. 1821 St Johns Twnshp, Franklin Co, MO
m. 1814 MO Nancy Todd (later Hart)
(11) Jesse Murphy
b. 1782 Pittsylvania Co, VA
d. unknown | aftr 1824
m. 18?? Patsy/Patsey (?)
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(Image Attached) Shows Jesse's wife's name was Patsy / Patsey Murphy. 1820 & 1822 transcript of deed sales below in chronological order of Jesse's life story. His wife's maiden name unknown. Pasty can be a name as is, but more often was a nickname for Patricia, Patrice, or Patience, more popular than today's usage of "Patty" as diminutive; "Patsy" was less often short for Prudence with its own "Prude" and "Rudy"; surprisingly, in her era, "Patsey" was often a nickname for Martha, of all things. (All of those alternatives have been plugged in to attempt finding marriage, birth, or census records of she & husband Jesse Murphy, to no avail, yet.)
Discussion of 1822 Missouri Deed below in chronological order of Jesse's life story. (Image attached from book: "Genealogical Gems from Early Missouri Deeds 1815-1850" transcribed & compiled by Marsha Hoffman Rising, CG, FASG. Willow Bend Books 2004. Heritage Books, Inc. Westminster, Maryland." pg 283.)
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Jesse Murphy (1782- aftr 1824) was the youngest of 11 children born to father Rev William Murphy Sr (1730-1799) of Virginia.
His father William (1730-1799) was born in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, raised Anglican alongside at least two brothers (Joseph & Richard), by parents the elder William Murphy (1695-1745) and Eleanor née Echols Murphy (1700-1760). -- This younger William Murphy takes on the title "Rev William Murphy Sr" (1730-1799) & his son is likewise so entrenched as "Rev William Murphy Jr" (1759-1833) in historic documents including graves, that it is impractical to attempt relabeling three generations William Murphy I, II & III, even as it is so by beginning with initial immigrant to America, William Murphy (1695-1745). -- The first modern era William Murphy (1695-1745) immigrated to the Virginia Colony from Ireland of an originally Scottish family, where he married Eleanor Echols (1700-1760) who was born in King and Queen County, Virginia. Eleanor's parents were born in Caroline County, Virginia & England. From this traditional Anglican family of British subjects, Jesse's father, William Murphy (1730-1799) in Virginia finds the new movement Baptist faith as an adult and passes that on to his 11 children with two wives, including the feature of this memorial page his youngest child Jesse Murphy (1782- aftr 1824).
Jesse's father William Murphy (1730-1799) was first married (1750) to Martha Hodges (1724-1761), of a family several generations in Virginia originally from England, with whom he had four children. After her early death, William Murphy (1730-1799) married Sarah Barton (1748-1817) and had seven more children, of which Jesse was the youngest.
Jesse's mother Sarah Barton (1748-1817) was born in Frederick County, Maryland to Joshua Barton (1718-1779) & Jean/Jane duBart (1725-1760). Jean/Jane duBart was born in Germany & came with her parents to America. Joshua's parents (m.1705) Isaac Barton of County Clare (1680–1721) & Sarah Vesey of County Limerick (1685 – unknown) had come over (1714) from Ireland by transfer letter as Society of Friends (Quaker) from Killcomonbegg Meeting, County Tipperary to Chester Meeting, near Philadelphia, where Joshua was born (possibly as Josiah) in Oxford, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The couple had at least seven children (5 boys & 2 girls). In 1721, toddler Joshua's father Isaac died (1680-1721), and when his mother Sarah chose to marry a non-Quaker, Robert Jones (m.1722), she was forced to leave Chester Meeting with her children. Depopulation away from crowded Philadelphia along the east coast where Europeans landed was encouraged by the British Colonial governors to go further inland to help settle more frontier, occupy from the native populations. This was aided by a distinct wagon road cut through the heavily wooded interior called the "Philadelphia Road." Joshua's mother & stepfather took advantage of the opportunity to restart, and resettled 100 miles west in Frederick County, Maryland. There, Sarah née Vesey Barton Jones (1685-?) raised her remaining Barton children still at home, & one child by Jones, in the new Baptist faith. Her little son Joshua grew up (1718-1779) became a Baptist minister, and married Jean/Jane duBart (1725-1760) in Frederick County, Maryland (m.1740). They had seven children (4 boys & 3 girls), among them a daughter named Sarah Barton (1748-1817) in Frederick. And when her mother Jean/Jane died prematurely (1760) when Sarah Barton (1748-1817) was only 11-12, her father Joshua Barton (1718-1779) remarried and moved the family further along the "Philadelphia Road" that curved southwest down through Virginia's left side Piedmont where it meets the Shenandoah Valley in to the American Colony frontier. An agreement with the Native American tribes at the time kept European colonists from going over the Appalachians or Blue Ridge Mountains. So the Bartons found themselves all the way down the middle-left of Virginia on its southern border with North Carolina. Father Joshua Barton (b.1718) and two eldest sons David (b.1744) & Isaac (b.1746) are listed (1767) as holding farm land in newly created Pittsylvania County from Halifax County, Virginia. {Further discussion of the development of the area is on Jesse's elder half-siblings' mother Martha née Hodges Murphy's page.} At the time of the Pittsylvania County Tithables Table (image & discussion on Jesse's dad Rev William Murphy Sr's page) David & Isaac Barton's next sibling, sister Sarah Barton (b.1748) was 19-20yrs old. Her father & older brothers were Baptist ministers as well as farmers.
The scene was set for the parents of Jesse Murphy of this page to meet. Rev William Murphy Sr (1730-1799) was a neighbor farmer & Baptist minister under the same association, the families socializing, and Rev William Murphy Sr (1730-1799) marrying (m.1767) the young Sarah Barton (1748-1817) after the premature death of his first wife Martha Hodges (1724-1761).
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1750-1775 PRE-WAR FAMILY:
FARM & CHURCH
See Jesse's father Rev William Murphy Sr's (1730-1799) page for land grant documents & discussion of where the family farmed in Virginia. William's first wife Martha née Hodges Murphy's (1724-1761) page shows an area map & discussion.
Jesse's father Rev William Murphy Sr had first married in 1750 Halifax County, Virginia, in the Piedmont region as it meets with the Blue Ridge Mountains, along the border with North Carolina.
Circa 1757, in their twenties, William (b.1730) & his younger brother Joseph (b.1734) dissented from the Anglican Church of their upbringing, and embraced the Baptist Church. Joseph was baptized and it ordained first in 1760. William followed, baptized at Deep River by Rev Shubal Stearns, William was ordained in 1763 on the river at Staunton, Virginia. (See Rev Joseph Murphy Sr's (1734-1816) page for Baptist Church history images.)
Rev William Murphy Sr (1730-1799) was both a farmer to support his wife and children & a Baptist minister in the "New Light" way brought by Rev Shubal Stearns to Virginia & North Carolina from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
In this period before the Revolutionary War, Rev William Murphy Sr (1730-1799) had eight children. Four with Martha Hodges (1724-1761). And the first four of seven with Sarah Barton (1748-1817). Three more sons were born to Sarah & William during the Rev War, as William was often home.
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11 MURPHY CHILDREN @ PAGE BOTTOM
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR (1775-1783) ERA
Unlike a century later's US Civil War (1861-1865) the battles of the Revolutionary War (1775-1783) were less constant, the adversaries depending largely on troops coming from abroad for a series of skirmishes, not a constant siege or bombardment. So while Jesse Murphy's father did fight in the War for American Independence as a documented Corporal in Virginia's 13th Regiment, he was still able to work the family farm to support his wife and children & able to devote much of his time to starting and supporting church missions throughout the middle-south Piedmont of Virginia & over the border in to North Carolina (at that time, they didn't pay attention to provincial borders (pre-statehoods)). Rev William Murphy Sr (b.1730) was, by some accounts, the most influential Baptist preacher in Virginia of his generation, while the same was said of his younger brother Rev Joseph Murphy Sr (b.1734) for North Carolina. William's primary church was called the "Holston Staunton, Virginia", in the same Sandy Creek Association of Baptist churches of North Carolina (even though it was over the border in Virginia, again the provincial borders were less observed back then) under Rev Shubal Stearns. They were famously known as the "Murphy Brothers".
The Staunton River referenced as by William's church was not by the town of the same name, Staunton, several counties north in the Shenandoah Valley, unincorporated by the surrounding Augusta County, the separate Staunton River gets absorbed by the Roanoke River and then regains its own name, as it flows across the top borders of Halifax & Pittsylvania counties, where Rev William Murphy Sr (1730-1799) held up to 400 acres granted by the King of England (source documents cited on William's page, years (1756)(1758) (1767)) of farm land on either side of the Banister River across the middle of those two important counties to the Murphys, Halifax & Pittsylvania, Banister nearly parallels the Staunton. -- The "Holston" portion of William's church is taken from the Holston River that begins further west a few counties, still in Virginia, as South, Middle and North Forks, before it flows due southwest in to Tennessee at Kingsport on the border, terminating by Knoxville. But that plays more in the Murphys' story after the Rev War.
Of the "Murphy Brothers" Baptist ministers who actively began together in Virginia in the 1750s, they continued strong through the Rev War and afterward. William's brother Joseph had gone over the ignored border in to the province of North Carolina before the country of the USA formed, and called them states. Brother Joseph remained firmly settled at Surry County, North Carolina, on the "Shallow Fords" (his church mission taking its name from the geographic description) of the Atkins River near Newburn. Incidentally, the reverends William & Joseph's brother Richard Murphy settled next farm to Joseph in Surry County, North Carolina, as they appear one after the other on the census.
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POST-WAR / 1780s & '90s
MOVE TO EASTERN TENNESSEE
Rev William Murphy Sr was sent by the church conference, possibly (by one reference account) by his wife Sarah née Barton Murphy's father Rev Joshua Barton (b.1718) as an elder member, to establish Baptist missions beyond the eastern slope of the Blue Ridge after the war. The family, some adult children already married themselves in Virginia included, moved westward to the area around Knoxville in Knox County, Tennessee on the HolstonRiver. (Always on flowing creeks or rivers for central tenant baptism.) More children grew up in Tennessee & married. The eldest child of John was a full 30 years older than the youngest Jesse who was only born (b.1782) just as the Rev War ended in 1783. The eldest half-brother John Murphy (b.1752) had gone ahead with ministering the Baptist word from southern Virginia to eastern Tennessee ahead of the rest, and then went without the rest of the family up to the "Green river country" area of south-central Kentucky, Barren County near Bowling Green and eventually permanently adjacent Warren County. Jesse's eldest half-sister Keziah Murphy actually married Isaac Barton (b.1746), the brother of her step-mother Sarah (Jesse's mom), and they remained in eastern Tennessee, first Knox then Grainger County. Jesse's second eldest half-brother Rev William Murphy Jr (b.1759) we know went slightly ahead to Tennessee from Virginia than his father and step-mother Sarah who delivered Jesse sometime in 1782 still in Pittsylvania Co, Virginia, because William Jr was wed in Jan-1782 in Green Co, Tennessee. Jesse's eldest full-sister Tabitha Murphy went with the family to eastern Tennessee & married there, remaining Mrs. Gentry until her young death in Knox County. But the rest of Jesse's siblings, his elder half-brothers William (b.1759) & Joseph (b.1761), his older full-sister Sarah (b.1771) & his four elder full-brothers -- David (b.1770), Dubart (b.1773), Richard (b.1776), Isaac (b.1777) -- along with Jesse (b.1782), barely a teenager, moved on one more big adventure together to the other side of the new nation of the United States of America, crossing over to the Spanish/French held Louisiana Missouri Territory.
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JESSE'S 1802 ARRIVAL IN MISSOURI
[Thanks to his father William's efforts in 1795-1799 & his mum Sarah's 1802 resolve.]
"In 1795 a quartet of Rev William Murphy Sr (1730-1709), sons Rev William Murphy Jr (1759-1833) and Joseph Murphy (1761-1834) and by then grown son Rev David Murphy Sr (1770-1843), and a friend, Silas George, traveled to Missouri, which did not come under the American flag until the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 and become a state until 18 years later. Led by an Indian (sic) guide, the Murphys and George reached the present site of Farmington, St Francois County, Missouri. Spain then owning Missouri, granted 640 acres of land to whomever cleared it. The Murphys claimed their clearing, by Royal Decree in 1798, which became known as Murphy's Settlement. The father was given the area around Carter's Spring. {See the 5th Principal Meridian plots recognized by the Supreme Court of the United States, images on Sarah née Barton Murphy's page, belonging to SBM, Joseph Murphy, David Murphy & William Murphy, Jr.} Going back to Tennessee to retrieve his wife and any other children, young or wanting to join them, to all settle permanently on that land in Missouri, Rev. Murphy fell ill and died in 1799 at the house of his eldest son John Murphy (1752-1818) in Barren County, Kentucky. From waiting at the Knox County, Tennessee family home for her husband who would never return, Sarah née Barton Murphy then "resolved to settle on the claim made in eastern Missouri to her deceased husband, Rev. William Murphy. To reach the pioneer community, she set out in a keel boat down the Holston River, accompanied by a crew of her three sons, Isaac, Jesse, and Dubart, her only (surviving) daughter, Sarah (née Murphy Evans), a grandson named William Evans, aged eight, a hired hand, a(n enslaved) woman and a(n enslaved) boy. They floated to the Tennessee River, and out into the Ohio to its mouth, and thence up the Mississippi with ropes and poles, to Ste. Genevieve, covering a distance of 1,000 miles or more. The country was then infested with Indians (sic), and much of the journey was made at night, while they hid in the underbrush during the day. From Ste. Genevieve they traveled over land twenty-eight miles west to their destination, which they reached on the 18th day of June, 1802... Sarah Barton Murphy became the leader in the community her husband and sons established. She is credited with organizing the first Protestant Sunday school west of the Mississippi River and donated an acre of the town for the site of a church built of logs. It was open to all Christians."
- edited for clarity & syntax 2/2023 by Sis; Published by THE LEAD BELT NEWS, Flat River, St. Francois Co. MO, Fri. March 27, 1936.
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MISSOURI TO ARKANSAS
We know by at least two deeds (below) in 1820 & 1822, that Jesse was married to a woman called Patsy/Patsey, but not her maiden name or when or where they wed, nor if they had issue. Those records are yet to be found. We do know the couple, whilst continuing to live amongst the majority of the surviving Murphy family in Murphy's Settlement, Ste Genevieve County, Missouri (today called Farmington, St Francois County, Missouri), first sold a small portion of the land Jesse inherited in 1817 from his mother Sarah née Barton Murphy's Will. Jesse was 37-38 yrs old at that time in 1820. Two years later, 1822, Jesse (b.1782) & Patsy/Patsey sold off the rest of his inherited land in Missouri to nearest elder brother Isaac Murphy (b.1777), as Jesse & Patsy/Patsey had opted to move north over the Missouri border in to Lawrence County, Arkansas. Their next brother Richard Murphy (b.1776) had relocated there about 1815, an attorney.
From there, the record grows cold after the latest mention of Jesse Murphy (b.1782) as alive in 1824. Jesse was 41-42 that year. Did he soon perish? All we can assume is that Jesse Murphy died after 1824. That has been given as his lifespan (1782-1824) on several trees, ignoring the "after" note.
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1820 JESSE & "PATSEY" MURPHY
SOLD SOME INHERITED MISSOURI PROPERTY to METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
TRANSCRIPT FROM
ORIGINAL SOURCE DOCUMENT
Below -- A land deed by which Jesse Murphy and his wife Patsey convey an acre of land to the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Murphy's Settlement in 1820. -- originally shared online by Patricia Minch 23-May-2013
Source: Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Records, Book C, p. 351, 1820:
"This indenture, made the third day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, by and between Jesse Murphy and Patsey Murphy, his wife, of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri Territory, of the first part, and William Evans, William Murphy, Jr., Richard Murphy, James Tallent and John Burnham, trustees, in trust for the use and purpose hereinafter mentioned, all of the county and territory, of the other part: Witnesseth that the said Jesse Murphy and Patsey, his wife, for and in consideration of the sum of fifteen dollars, to them paid by the aforesaid trustees before the signing and sealing of these presents, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, have this day bargained, sold, conveyed and assigned and by these presents the said Jesse and Patsey do bargain, sell and quitclaim unto the aforesaid trustees and their successors forever all their right, title, interest and claim of, in and to the following described tract or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the Territory of Missouri, Ste. Genevieve, in Murphy's Settlement, and being part of an eight hundred arpent tract confirmed to Sarah Murphy under William Murphy, deceased, containing one acre bounded as follows: beginning at a stone near the road, thence north ten poles plant a stone thence west sixteen poles plant a stone thence south ten poles plant a stone then east to the beginning, containing one acre of land, together with all the singular appurtenances, houses and privileges thereunto belonging or in anywise appurtaining, to have and to hold the above described lot of land unto them the aforesaid trustees and their successors in office forever in trust to repair or cause to be repaired the house of worshihp thereon built for the use of the members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and permit such members, ministers and preachers belonging to said church as shall from time to time be duly authorized by the conferences and discipline of the Methodist Episcopal church to expound and preach God's holy word therein, and in further trust and confidence that as often as any one or more of said trustees shall die or cease to be a member of our church according to the rules and discipline aforesaid other trustees shall be appointed to fill such vacancies in order to keep up five (or more if necessary) forever. And the said Jesse and Patsey Murphy doth by these presents warrant and forever defend all their right to the before mentioned piece of land with the appurtenances thereunto belonging unto them the said trustees and their successors chosen and appointed according to the rules of the Methodist discipline from us, our heirs and assigns forever, and if our title to the aforesaid land should prove defective we do bind ourselves and our heirs to refund the purchase money. In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands and affixed our seals this day and year above written.
Jesse Murphy {Seal}
Patsey Murphy {Seal}
Signed, sealed and delivered in presents of testators Joseph Piggot, Laken Walker.
Territory of Missouri, Ste. Genevieve County, St. Francis Township:
Before me the subscriber, one of the justices of the peace in and for the Territory, County and Township aforesaid, personally came and appeared Jesse Murphy and Patsey Murphy, his wife, who acnowledged the within instrument of writing to be their actual hands and seals for the purpose therein contained, and the said Patsey Murphy, being first separately and apart examined from her husband and by me made acquainted with the contents of the same, declare that she executed freely and voluntarily and without fear or constraint or undue influence from her husband. Given under my hand and seal this 5th day of June AD 1820.
Laken Walker, Justice of the Peace {Seal}
Received and recorded 30th August 1820. Tho. Oliver, Clk"
[Note: Assorted commas have been added by the transcriber, Patricia L. Minch, to facilitate the reading of the document.]
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1822 JESSE & "PATSY" MURPHY,
THEN OF ARKANSAS,
SOLD REMAINDER OF INHERITED
MISSOURI LAND TO
BROTHER ISAAC MURPHY
TRANSCRIPT FROM
ORIGINAL SOURCE DOCUMENT
Source: Marsha Hoffman Rising, CG, FASG, Genealogical Gems from Early Missouri Deeds 1815-1850 [Westminster, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 2004], p. 283:
"A:58 26 November 1822, Jesse and Patsy Murphy of the Territory of Arkansas sold to Isaac Murphy of St. Francois, for $700, 200 arpents. This land became vested in Jesse as heir of Sarah Murphy, deceased, now in suit in St. Francois Circuit Court. [Partition on pp. 88-89 granted one part to Jesse Murphy left in his possession at the death of Sarah Murphy; second allotment to Isaac Murphy; third allotment of 82 acres to David Murphy, heir of Sarah, deceased, which was in the possession of David Murphy, Sen. at the death of Sarah; allotment four to Richard Murphy; fifth allotment of 100 acres to Dubart Murphy; sixth allotment of 100 acres to William Gentry and Mary Gentry, now Mary Keith, lawful issue of Tabitha Gentry, heiress of Sarah Murphy, deceased; and seventh allotment to William Evans, only heir of Sarah Evans, deceased, and heir of Sarah Murphy, deceased. Partition reported on 1 December 1823. Appeal of heirs followed.]"
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Re: 200 arpents. "An arpent (French pronunciation: [aʁpɑ̃], sometimes called arpen) is a unit of length and a unit of area. It is a pre-metric French unit based on the Roman actus. It is used in Quebec, some areas of the United States that were part of French Louisiana, and in Mauritius and the Seychelles." -- When Tabitha's father, Rev William Murphy Sr, first scouted & then received the Royal Land Grant in 1798 of what would become the Murphy Family land referred to in the deed above (area of what we know as Farmington, St Francois County, Missouri, USA), it was pre-1820 Missouri Compromise admitting Missouri to the Union as a state in 1821, it was pre-1803 Louisiana Purchase by America from France, it was back in the final years of Spain and France volleying control of the region back and forth. Thus, the land was originally in arpents and then referred to in acres of allotments by the time the deed is being reallotted in 1822.
"French arpent land divisions are long narrow parcels of land, also called ribbon farms, usually found along the navigable streams of southern Louisiana, and also found along major waterways in other areas." (Such as the major tributary St. Francois River by Farmington that comes off the nearby mighty Mississippi River, not to mention plentiful good size streams throughout Farmington area.) "This system of land subdivision was begun by French settlers in the 18th century, according to typical French practice at the time and was continued by both the Spanish and by the American government after the acquisition of the Louisiana Purchase... This method of land division provided each land-owner with river frontage as well as land suitable for cultivation and habitation."
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JESSE MURPHY'S PARENTS & SIBLINGS
FATHER
Rev William Murphy Sr
b. 1730 Spotsylvania Co, VA
d. 1799 Barren Co, KY
By 1st WIFE (m.1750 VA)
& Jesse's elder half-siblings #1-4
Martha Hodges Murphy
b. 1724 Spotsylvania Co, VA
d. 1761 Halifax Co, VA
(Falls within 1767 created adjacent Pittsylvania Co, VA, but records call her death place as Halifax, so left so; the same goes for her four children.)
m. 1750
By 2nd WIFE (m. 1767 VA)
& Jesse amongst seven children #5-11
Sarah Barton Murphy
b. 1748 Frederick Co, MD
d. 1817 Farmington, St Francois Co, MO
(then as Murphy's Settlement, Ste Genevieve Co, MO; the record uses the modern day location, which is opposite of what records do on Martha's account)
(1) Rev John Murphy Sr
b. 1752 Culpeper Co, VA
d. 1818 Warren Co, KY
m. 1774 VA Rachel Cook(e)
(2) Keziah née Murphy Barton
b. 1754 Halifax Co, VA
d. 1845 Grainger Co, TN
m. 1772 VA Isaac Barton
(bro of her step-mother Sarah)
(3) William Murphy
b. 1759 Halifax Co, VA
d. 1833 Farmington, St Francois Co, MO
(then as Murphy's Settlement, Ste Genevieve Co, MO)
m. 1782 TN Rachel Henderson
(4) Joseph Murphy
b. 1761 Halifax Co, VA
d. 1834 Farmington, St Francois Co, MO
(then as Murphy's Settlement, Ste Genevieve Co, MO)
1m. Jane Barton -- possibly; no issue
2m. 1797 TN Sarah McDaniel
(5) Tabitha née Murphy Gentry
b. 1768 Pittsylvania Co, VA
d. unknown | abt 1788 Knox Co, TN
m. abt 1784 TN Jesse Gentry
(6) Rev David Murphy Sr
b. 1770 Pittsylvania Co, VA
d. 1843 Farmington, St Francois Co, MO
(then as Murphy's Settlement, Ste Genevieve Co, MO)
1m. abt 1790 TN Rachel Bacon(?)/Jones(?)
2m. 1827 MO Mrs Rachel Whittenburgh
(7) Sarah née Murphy Evans
b. 1771 Pittsylvania Co, VA
d. unknown | aftr 1802, bfr 1817
Farmington, St Francois Co, MO
(then as Murphy's Settlement, Ste Genevieve Co, MO)
m. 1792 Walter George Evans, used "George"
(8) Dubart Murphy
b. 1773 Pittsylvania Co, VA
d. 1836 Farmington, St Francois Co, MO
(then as Murphy's Settlement, Ste Genevieve Co, MO)
m. 1803 MO Sarah Bacon
(9) Richard Murphy
b. 1776 Pittsylvania Co, VA
d. 1823 Lawrence Co, AR
m. no record found of marrying
(10) Isaac Murphy
b. 1777 Pittsylvania Co, VA
d. 1821 St Johns Twnshp, Franklin Co, MO
m. 1814 MO Nancy Todd (later Hart)
(11) Jesse Murphy
b. 1782 Pittsylvania Co, VA
d. unknown | aftr 1824
m. 18?? Patsy/Patsey (?)
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