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Archibald MCMURPHY

Archibald MCMURPHY

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  • Name Archibald MCMURPHY 
    Born [1756-1774] 
    Gender Male 
    Birth [BEFORE 1765] 
    Birth [1761-1770] 
    Residence 1783  Passamaquoddy, St Andrews, Charlotte, NB Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Downeast Ancestry
      December 1983
      Volume 7 Number 4
      Penobscot Loyalists: A Bicentennial Tribute
      Robert C. Brooks

      Penobscot Inhabitants Certified Loyal 1783
      Archibald Murphy in need of clothing 2 over 10
    Residence 21 May 1785 
    • https://archives.gnb.ca/Search/RS686/Details.aspx?culture=en-CA&Key=3303
      Index to New Brunswick Land Grants, 1784 - 1997 (RS686)
      Name MURPHY, Archibald
      Volume NS-A
      Page 165
      Grant number 95
      Place Saint Andrews
      County Sunbury
      Date 1785-05-21
      Accompanying plan No
      Acres 0
      Microfilm F16302
      Comment Re-registered NS Grant of 1784/06/01: Town Lot
      Other names on this grant (354):
    Residence 21 May 1785 
    • https://archives.gnb.ca/Search/RS686/Details.aspx?culture=en-CA&Key=3796
      Index to New Brunswick Land Grants, 1784 - 1997 (RS686)
      Name MURPHY, Archibald
      Volume NS-A
      Page 176
      Grant number 96
      Place Passamaquoddy
      County Sunbury
      Date 1785-05-21
      Accompanying plan No
      Acres 100
      Microfilm F16302
      Comment Re-registered NS Grant of 1784/08/03: Penobscot Association
      Other names on this grant (188):
    Residence 1790  Woolwich, Lincoln, ME Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Archibald McMurphy
      in the 1790 United States Federal Census
      Name: Archibald McMurphy
      [Archibald Mc Murphy ]
      Home in 1790 (City, County, State): Woolwich, Lincoln, Maine
      Free White Persons - Males - Under 16: 3
      Free White Persons - Males - 16 and over: 1
      Free White Persons - Females: 2
      Number of Household Members: 6
      Year: 1790; Census Place: Woolwich, Lincoln, Maine; Series: M637; Roll: 2; Page: 266; Image: 154; Family History Library Film: 0568142
    Residence 1800  Woolwich, Lincoln, ME Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Archibald Murphey
      in the 1800 United States Federal Census
      Name: Archibald Murphey
      Home in 1800 (City, County, State): Woolwich, Lincoln, Maine
      Free White Persons - Males -10 thru 15: 2
      Free White Persons - Males - 26 thru 44: 1
      Free White Persons - Females - Under 10: 2
      Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 15: 1
      Free White Persons - Females - 26 thru 44: 1
      Number of Household Members Under 16: 5
      Number of Household Members Over 25: 2
      Number of Household Members: 7
      Year: 1800; Census Place: Woolwich, Lincoln, Maine; Series: M32; Roll: 6; Page: 413; Image: 394; Family History Library Film: 218676
    Residence 1810  Woolwich, Lincoln, ME Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Archabald McMurphy
      in the 1810 United States Federal Census
      Name: Archabald McMurphy
      Home in 1810 (City, County, State): Woodland, Lincoln, Maine
      Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25: 1
      Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1
      Free White Persons - Females - Under 10: 1
      Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 15: 1
      Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25: 2
      Free White Persons - Females - 45 and over : 1
      Number of Household Members Under 16: 2
      Number of Household Members Over 25: 2
      Number of Household Members: 7
      Year: 1810; Census Place: Woodland, Lincoln, Maine; Roll: 12; Page: 173; Image: 00178; Family History Library Film: 0218683
    Residence 1820  Woolwich, Lincoln, ME Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • 1820 United States Federal Census
      View1820 United States Federal Census
      Home in 1820 (City, County, State): Woolwich , Lincoln, Maine
      Enumeration Date: August 7, 1820
      Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1
      Number of Persons - Engaged in Manufactures: 1
      Free White Persons - Over 25: 1
      Total Free White Persons: 1
      Total All Persons - White, Slaves, Colored, Other: 1
      1820 U S Census; Census Place: Woolwich, Lincoln, Maine; Page: 102; NARA Roll: M33_36; Image: 66
    Residence 1830  Woolwich, Lincoln, ME Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Andrew McMurphy
      in the 1830 United States Federal Census
      Name: Andrew McMurphy
      Home in 1830 (City, County, State): Woolwich , Lincoln, Maine
      Free White Persons - Males - 60 thru 69: 1
      Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9: 1
      Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14: 2
      Free White Persons - Females - 60 thru 69: 1
      Free White Persons - Under 20: 3
      Total Free White Persons: 5
      Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 5
      1830; Census Place: Woolwich, Lincoln, Maine; Series: M19; Roll: 49; Page: 133; Family History Library Film: 0497945
    Residence 1840  Woolwich, Lincoln, ME Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Archebal Mcmurphy
      in the 1840 United States Federal Census
      Name: Archebal Mcmurphy
      [Archibal Mcmurphy ]
      Home in 1840 (City, County, State): Woolwich, Lincoln, Maine
      Free White Persons - Males - 70 thru 79: 1
      Free White Persons - Females - 15 thru 19: 1
      Free White Persons - Females - 30 thru 39: 1
      Free White Persons - Females - 80 thru 89: 1
      Free White Persons - Under 20: 1
      Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 1
      Total Free White Persons: 4
      Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 4
      Year: 1840; Census Place: Woolwich, Lincoln, Maine; Roll: 144; Page: 6; Family History Library Film: 0009705
    Military 74th 
    • Downeast Ancestry
      December 1983
      Volume 7 Number 4
      Penobscot Loyalists: A Bicentennial Tribute
      Robert C. Brooks

      Argyll Highlanders
      The 74th Regiment & Its Deserters
      ...
      The following men deserted between 1 July 1779 and 24 October 1782. Some of them may have deserted from one of the two companys serving at New York.
      ...
      Corp Archibald McMurphy 6 January 1781
    Person ID I59376  4 February 2018
    Last Modified 3 Dec 2019 

    Family Elizabeth HOLBROOK 
    _MARI 6 Apr 1782  Woolwich, Lincoln, ME Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 2 May 1782  Woolwich, Lincoln, ME Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Name: Archable McMurphy
      Event Type: Marriage
      Event Date: 2 May 1782
      Event Place: Maine, United States
      Event Place (Original): Maine, United States
      Spouse's Name: Elizabeth Holebrook
      Digital Folder Number: 008133037
      Image Number: 00881
      Citing this Record
      "Maine, Church Records, 1734-1907," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPH4-LMDM : 3 October 2019), Archable McMurphy and Elizabeth Holebrook, 2 May 1782; citing Marriage, Maine, United States, Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington D.C.; FHL microfilm 008133037.
      Archable McMurphy to Elizabeth Holebrook May 2 1782
      Woolwich Maine, Rev Josiah Winship's Church
    Family ID F19123  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Early NB Probate: Nil
      ECW: Archibald Murphy St Andrews
      Me Soldiers and Sailors Revolutionary: Archibal McMurphy PS r Woolwich p 63
      Loyalists to Canada: Grantee
      Petitions: Nil
      Return 1784: Men: Alexr Murphy
      Artificers: Nil
      Woolwich 1771: Nil


    • Volume A Page 193
      [196/485]
      4 April 1786
      John McMullen yeoman Charlotte County
      Archibald Murphy merchant Town of St Andrews
      60 pounds
      Lot 1 Block I Morriss's Division St Andrews [Not granted apparently]
      John McMillan
      Wit: Robert Sim, Peter Vallette
    • Lot 2 Block E Parr's Division granted to John Dowling

      Volume A Page 114
      [117/485]
      No 8
      John Dowling gentleman St Andrews
      John Bentley merchant Town of St Andrews
      50 pounds
      land with house Lot 2 Parr's Division fronting on Frederick Street & Queens Stsreet
      80 feet front
      160 feet back
      22 May 1786
      John Dowling
      Lettice Dowling
      Wit: Nathan Phillips, Archibald Murphy
      Lot 28 Digdeguash

      Volume A Page 118
      [121/485]
      No 12
      Received from John Bentley of this Town of St Andrews and County of Charlotte the sum of Five pounds lawful money of New Brunswick for my lot of land on the SE Side of the River Digideguash Known by Number Twenty eight...
      21 May 1786
      John Dowling
      Wit: Nathan Phillips, Archibald Murphy
      Water Lot 8 Block A Bulkley's Division
    • Charlotte County Registry Books

      Volume A Page 216
      [219/485]
      No 74
      9 February 1785
      Archibald Murphy merchant Town of St Andrews
      Peter Vallett baker Town of St Andrews
      1/2 Farm Lot 121 granted to Peter Vallett
      Archibald Murphy
      Wit: Jno Robinson, Nathan Phillips

      Volume A Page 236
      [239/485]
      10 January 1786
      Archibald Murphy merchant Town of St Andrews
      Alexander Gordon merchant Town of St Andrews
      100 pounds
      Morris Town Lot 1 Block I Jones Division [St Stephen]
      Archibald Murphy
      Wit: Robt Sellars, Peter Vallette

      Volume A Page 249
      [252/485]
      No 100
      12 August 1785
      Archibald Murphy merchant Charlotte County
      John Mackintosh merchant Charlotte County
      25 pounds
      Lot 3 Block E Bulkley's Division St Andrews [granted to Archibald Murphy]
      Archibald Murphy
      Wit: Jno Robinston, Nathan Phillips

      Volume A Page 284
      [287/485]
      No 130
      Archibald Murphy merchant St Andrews
      Silas Cumming smith and Edmund Dougherty yeoman St Andrews
      5 shillings
      and also in consideration of their becoming my appearance bail in an Action brought against me by Richard and William Judston for thirteen pounds eighteen shilllings and six pence
      Lot 7 Block I Parr's Division St Andrews purchased by me from Alexander Gordon
      27 April 1787
      Archibald Murphy
      Wit: James Bentley, Peter Vallette

      Volume A Page 333
      [336/485]
      No 170
      5 September 1787
      Archibal Murphy merchant St Andrews
      William Swain mercant St Andrews
      for and in consideration of a certain promissory note subscribed by John McMillan
      and 4 shillings
      50 acres on Scodiac River
      1/2 Farm Lot 121 purchased by Archibald Murphy from Peter Vallette to whom it was granted
      Archibald Murphy
      Wit: H B Brown, Robinson Crocker, Jno Fisher

      Volume A Page 426
      [429/485]
      No 245 Mortgage
      Peter Vallette r Town of St Andrews
      William Swain merchant Town of St Andrews
      30 17 4
      Lot 121, Lot 195 [granted to Archibald Murphy]
      24 January 1786
      Peter Vallette
      Wit: Peter McCallum, Robinson Crocker
    • According to "The History of Woolwich, Me" Archibald MacMurchie was a member of the British military during the Revolutionary War. He jumped overboard and swam to shore in Bagladuce(now Castine). He located the American troops, surrendered to them and joined them to fight the British.
    • https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/64990?availability=Family%20History%20Library
      Town and vital records, 1760-1891
      Authors: Woolwich (Maine). Town Clerk
      Family records listing births and deaths; intentions of marriage 1761-1801, 1828-1891; ear marks; marriage records 1828-1891.
      Family History Library
      United States & Canada Film
      12315
      7596941
      https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/007596941?cat=64990
      [25/619]
      p 37
      The Births of the Children Belonging to Archibald McMurphy and Elizabeth his Wife both of Woolwich
      Archibald McMurphy Junr was born in Woolwich June 8th 1782
      Silas McMurphy was born in Woolwich March 4th 1784
      Niell McMurphy was born in Woolwich March 13th 1787
      Elizabeth McMurphy was born in Woolwich Augt 19th 1789
      Barbary McMurphy was born in Woolwich Jany 19th 1792
      Cathrine McMurphy was born in Woolwich Decr 13th 1796
      Ann McMurphy was born in Woolwich June 11th 1803
    • Archibald McMurphy
      in the Maine, Federal Naturalization Records, 1787-1991
      Name: Archibald McMurphy
      Record Type: Petition
      Birth Place: Glaseo
      Petition Date: Sep 1790
      Petition Place: Cumberland, Maine , USA
      National Archives at Boston; Waltham, Massachusetts; Record Group Title: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787-2004; Record Group Number: RG 85; NAI Number: 4752894; NAI Title: Naturalization Records, Portland, Cumberland County, Maine, 1787-1906
      1 September 1790
      ...
      Archibamd McMurphy husbandman Woolwich
      born in Glasco
      but for those 10 years last past he has been an inhabitant of said Woolwich