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This Caswell County, NC land document shows that Charles Murrie purchased a farm in Caswell County in 1814. The description of the property shows that it is the same farm that Charles Murrie sold to James Murrie in 1821. It is also the earliest document that I have found that shows the "ie" spelling of Murrie. The name is often spelled Murrey and Murray in early public documents. In fact, it wasn't until about 1900, that the Murrie last name is spelled consistently using the "ie" ending. Like most people of the day, most of our early ancestors could not read and write. Documents requiring a signature show that our ancestors used " a mark". That is, the individual marked the paper with an "X" and someone witnessed the mark. Whoever wrote the document, was free to spell our last name as Murrie, Murrey, Murray, or some other variation.
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