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Barbara Murray (Bennet)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Ancrum, Rexburgh, Scotland
Death: 1760 (35-36)
North Carolina, British Colonial America
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Andrew Bennet and Dorothy Bennet
Wife of James Murray
Mother of Dorothy "Dolly" Forbes; Elizabeth Robbins and Catherine Murray

Notable Kin: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President
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About Barbara Murray

https://www.masshist.org/collection-guides/view/fa0343

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

James Murray (1713-1781) was the son of John Murray and Anne Bennet of Unthank, Scotland, and the brother of John Murray (1721-1781) of Norwich and Elizabeth Murray (1726-1785), later Campbell, Smith, and Inman. Murray emigrated to North Carolina in 1735, where he served as a member of the North Carolina General Assembly. A merchant, he moved to Boston, Mass. in 1765, also working in Milton, Mass. in the sugar business of his sister's husband James Smith. Murray was a Loyalist who fled from Boston to Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1776.

He married Barbara Bennet in 1761, and his daughter Elizabeth Murray (1756-1837) later married Edward Hutchinson Robbins.


James Murray and Barbara Bennet were first cousins. They are ancestors of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Residence

Residence: Place: North Carolina, USA Source: #S25

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Barbara Murray's Timeline

1724
November 29, 1724
Ancrum, Rexburgh, Scotland
1745
February 4, 1745
1745
Amwell, Hunterdon Co, NJ, USA
1756
March 14, 1756
North Carolina, United States
1760
1760
Age 35
North Carolina, British Colonial America