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

References

• Roberts, Gary Boyd; Ancestors of American Presidents. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009.
• Gary Boyd Roberts, Notable Kin, Volume One. Carl Boyer, 3rd; Location: Santa Clarita, California; Date: 1998.
• http://www.thekingealogy.com/tng/getperson.php?personID=I64133&tree...