The William Ernest Hudson Family Homepage:Information about Joseph McMurtry,Jr.
Joseph McMurtry,Jr. (b. 1733, d. Aft. 1790)
Notes for Joseph McMurtry,Jr.:
NOTES:
The McMurtry brothers served as Sergeants in George Washington's Virginia
Regiment (Militia) during the French and Indian War of 1753-1763.Joseph Jr.
was a militia Captain during the revolutionary war.In the battle at Chilocothee,
Ohio, he was shot by Indians in his thumb and 1st finger - he also had a bullet
in his chest just under the skin.Story in book by ?Twattle and Kellogg - "A book
of Revolutionary War incidences - first hand accounts".He had a mill on Craig's
Creek in Virginia near Roanoke - a geo ---- triangle/quadrangle Keagley Virginia
(a surveyor) He received 176 acres on John's Creek in Botetourt County, Virginia.
In 1767 he was listed as the "viewer" of a road from McMurtry's mill through
McAfee's gap, along the Catawba River.Her reported that there was not enough
"tithables" to build a wagon road, so a horse trail was all that was practable at the
time.The family migrated to Green County, North Carolina (now Tennessee).In
1778 Joseph McMurtree received a land grant for 300 acres on both sides of Camp
Creek on the Nolichucky River near what is now Warrensburg, Tennessee.
A record of their marriage is found in Hinshaw, volume 6, and records William
Manley, surety.
In an email from: Gwendolyn_Erickson/[email protected] on Thu, 22 Apr 1999,
she states the following:The record of marriage you found for Joseph McMurtry
and Susannah Patton in Hinshaw Vol 6, is from the Bedford County Marriage Bonds
rather than a Quaker record.Quakers did not have marriage bonds, so those listed
in the county marriage bond records did not have Quaker weddings.
Gwen Gosney Erickson
Assistant Librarian/Archivist
Friends Historical Collection
Guilford College
5800 West Friendly Avenue
Greensboro, NC 27410
More About Joseph McMurtry,Jr. and Susannah Patton:
Marriage: August 27, 1759, Bedford County, Virginia.
Children of Joseph McMurtry,Jr. and Susannah Patton are:
- +Anna McMurtry, b. 1768, Botetourt (historical), Botetourt Co., VA, d. February 08, 1849, Chestnut Hill, Jefferson Co., TN.