Capt. James Murray and Rebecca McLean
Husband Capt. James Murray 1 2 3 4 5 6
Born: Abt 1729 - Scotland Christened: Died: 15 Feb or 15 Mar 1804 - Upper Paxtang Twp, Dauphin Co, PA 4 7 8 Buried: - Dauphin Cemetery, Dauphin, Dauphin Co, PA
Father: William Murray (1690-1773) 5 6 8 9 Mother: Isabella Lindley ( - ) 9
Marriage:
Wife Rebecca McLean 4 5 10 11
Born: - Scotland Christened: Died: 7 Aug 1795 4 10 Buried: - Dauphin Cemetery, Dauphin, Dauphin Co, PA
Children
1 F Margaret Murray 4 5 11 12 13 14
Born: 1756 - Paxtang Twp, Lancaster Co, PA 4 13 Christened: Died: 27 Apr 1826 - Huntingdon, Huntingdon Co, PA 13 14 Buried:Spouse: Capt. John Simpson (Abt 1744-1807) 3 4 5 12 15 Marr: 7 May 1776 4 12 16
2 M William Murray 17
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
3 F Annie Murray 17
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Samuel Davidson ( - ) 17
4 F Rebecca Murray 17
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Samel Brown ( - ) 17
5 F Isabella Murray 17
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Robert Chambers ( - ) 17
6 M John Murray 18
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Margaret Murray ( - ) 18
General Notes: Husband - Capt. James Murray
He was born in Scotland, and coming to America in 1730, while still very young, he resided in Paxton, now in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
He took part in the Revolutionary War, as captain of a Lancaster, Pennsylvania, company.
He resided on a farm adjoining the borough of Dauphin, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. For this farm he entered an application in the Land Office in 1768. In 1775 he was chosen to represent Upper Paxtang township in the Committee of Safety for Lancaster County and attended the meetings of the committee in Lancaster on the 8th, 9th and 10th of November. At this time he was a captain of a "company of foot in the Fourth battalion of associators in the county of Lancaster." On the fourth of July, 1776, at a military convention representing the fifty-three battalions of associators of Pennsylvania, he was present as captain. With John Rogers and John Harris, on the 8th of July, 1776, by appointment of the Provincial Conference, he superintended the election at Garber's Mill for the Sixth district of Lancaster County, to choose delegates to the convention that assembled on the 15th of the month, and which framed the first Constitution of the Commonwealth. During the remainder of that and the following year he was almost in constant active military service with his company. His company, a roll of which appears in Dr. Egle's Notes and Queries, First Series, p. 7, and in Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, vol. xiii., p. 310, went into the Continental service in July or early in August, 1776. In a return of the troops quartered in and near Philadelphia, made August 27, of that year, it is reported sixty strong. It participated in the battles of Trenton and Princeton. He commanded one of the companies of the Tenth battalion, Lancaster County militia and was with the expedition up the West Branch in 1779. The exposures to which Captain Murray was subjected during the Revolutionary struggle brought on an attack of rheumatism, from which for many years prior to his death he was a constant sufferer. [HWC 1906ii, 26]
1 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 522, 540.
2 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 174, 182.
3 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 20.
4 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 27.
5 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 109.
6 William Henry Egle, Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1894), Pg 425.
7 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 523.
8 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 174.
9 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 26.
10 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 175.
11 William Henry Egle, Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1894), Pg 426.
12 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 540.
13 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 182.
14 J. Simpson Africa, The History of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1883), Pg 440.
15 J. Simpson Africa, The History of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1883), Pg 439.
16 William Henry Egle, Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1894), Pg 163.
17 William Henry Egle, Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1894), Pg 427.
18
William Henry Egle, Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1894), Pg 362, 427.
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