Martha Murphy

Martha was called Martha Murfy in the 1724 last Will of her father, Richard Bracewell, Sr.

http://braswellgenealogy.blogspot.com/2007/09/martha-braswell-brown...

Martha Braswell Browne Murphey

William Murphy of Chowan Precinct and Martha My wife to Barnaby MacKinne of Albemarle Co. .this __ July, 1720 ...L5 current money of England...640 acres more or less at the mouth of a Great Branch called the Cypress Gutt which cometh out of the River (Moratock) joining the plantation Arthur Davis did live on...being a parcel of land in Calledony Wood formerly granted to William Browne by patent 1 APR 1713 being the tract whereon the said Browne did live and is the land given by will of William Browne to his wife Martha and I, William Murphey married the relict of William Browne. Wit: William Lattimer, John Alston. Reg. Chowan Ct. the 3rd Tuesday in July, 1720.

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William Browne and Martha Brasswell/Bracewell are parents of Mary who married Gideon Gibson.

After William Browne died, Martha Brasswell Brown married WILLIAM MURPHY ancestor of the Pee Dee MURPHY family. So Maurice Murphy was related to Gideon Gibson somehow.

BROWN - http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=DESC&db=clinardj...

The English immigrant John Browne/Brown died 1726 in IOW VA. His son, William Brown (Gentleman of Albemarle) married Martha Braswell and moved the family to Chowan NC where he died in 1718. Their daughter Martha married the Lumbee Indian [??] William Strickland in NC. Their daughter Mary Anne Brown married Gideon Gibson ~1720 in NC. Recall that Gideon was a likely son of Hubbard Gibson. Gideon, along with his father, moved his family from VA to Halifax NC then Chowan NC and eventually to Craven SC where Gideon died in 1781. We follow the Brown family because there are both Gibson and Brown connections to Family Austin. The Brown connection is through Mary Austin daughter of Richard II. She first married the brother (or cousin) of Gentleman William Brown. As a widow Mary Austin Brown married the Quaker Thomas Vernon. The Thomas Vernon family settled in Cub Creek, Lunenburg VA where Mary died in 1777 at the Caldwell Settlement.

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Martha Braswell (Richard Braswell , Sr.3, Robert Braswell , Sr. & Rev.2, Richard Braswell1) was born ABT 1675 in IOW VA, and died 15 DEC 1745 [?] in NC. She married 2nd to William Murphey.

Family

From https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=clinardja&id=I59803

She married William Brown , Gentleman of Albemarle ABT 1699 in IOW VA, son of John Brown , Immigrant and Mary Haeward. He was born 1672 in IOW VA, and died 15 DEC 1718 in Chowan Co., NC.

Children of Martha Braswell and Thomas William Brown , Gentleman of Albemarle are:

1. 2 i. John Brown was born ABT 1700 in IOW VA.
2. 3 ii. Thomas Brown was born ABT 1701 in IOW VA.
3. + 4 iii. Mary Anne Brown , wife of Gideon Gibson was born ABT 1706 in IOW VA or Bertie Precinct, Chowan NC, and died 13 OCT 1754 in Edgecombe, Edgecombe, NC. [discrepancy]
4. 5 iv. Jacob Brown was born ABT 1704 in IOW VA.
5. 6 v. Ann Brown was born ABT 1706 in IOW VA, and died 1762.
6. + 7 vi. Martha Browne was born ABT 1710 in Bertie Precinct, Chowan NC.
7. 8 vii. Sarah Brown was born ABT 1712 in IOW VA

Another list of the children

Children of William Browne and Martha Braswell: [all under age 15 Dec 1718]

• 1. John Brown ca 1700 – bef 1750 represented Bertie in the Gen. Assem. at Newbern 5 Feb 1739/40; was a Justice 1745; Sheriff of Bertie Co 1747-48 married Mary Forster dau of Robert Foster will Bertie Co 12 Feb 1739/40 a. John Brown ca 1722 – called grandson by Robert Forster ? married Sarah Thomas dau of John Thomas b. Ann Brown called granddaughter by Robert Forster c. Mary Brown called granddaughter by Robert Forster in will d. William Brown e. Henry Brown
• 2. Thomas Brown
• 3. Ann Brown married John Branch
• 4. Mary Brown [married William Parrish married 2nd John McKinnie] [discrepancy]
• 5. Sarah Brown married Richard Jackson
• 6. Martha Brown married William Strickland
• 7. Jacob Brown

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Notes

That Martha Braswell was William Brown(e)’s wife is proven by the following records:

• 1703 Oct 9: " William Browne and wife Martha of L.P. [Lower Parish, Isle of Wight] sell to Richard Braswell, Jr., pat. of 156 acres granted to Wm. Browne, 20
• Oct., 1702, on Main Blackwater (sells 35 acres only); wits: Thomas Mandue, Wm. Braswell." [Boddie, John B., Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight, 1973, Vol. 2, p. 651,link
• Will of William Brown 15 Dec 1718 - recorded 21 July 1719 [SS 341 p 84 NC wills] In the name of God Amen, this 15th day of December in the year of our Lord God 1718 - I William Brown in ye county of Albemarle [Chowan Co] in ye province of North Carolina, am sick and week. . . I bequeath to my Lawful wife my bed and furniture and my horse Tobe and a horse Cate. . . The remaining part of ye land I leave holy and truly to my sonnes disposing. My hold desire is for my wife to have ye remaining part of my estate to be equally divided between her and my seven children excepting one hundred acres of land to William Boon a brother. I do make and desire choice of Thomas Manders and my wife as executors. All children under age. Wits: Thomas Manders, Thomas Smith, Martha Brown.
• 10/17/1719 Chowan Co NC Record Chowan Co NC Deeds:Martha Brown of Albemarle [Chowan] Co, Widow and Extr. of William Brown decd. to Thomas Boone of the Province of NC. 17 Oct 1719 for 30 bbls of Pitch. 380 A. on the N side of Meherrin River part of 640 A granted to my husband William Brown 29 Nov 1716, the sd. land now in possession of Thomas Boon who was seized and possessed of the same by my husband in his lifetime. Wit: James Bate, Thomas Boon. signed Martha Brown, Thomas Mandew who is with me in my decd. husband's will signed by John Dew attorney.
• 1720 July: Barnaby McKinnie “of Albemarle County” [NC] purchased 640 acres in Caledonia Woods from William and Martha Murphey, land patented by William Browne 1 April 1713, and given by will to wife Martha Browne, who since remarried to William Murfey.
• Married before 7/1720 in Chowan Co NC to William Murphy b. c. 1680 Chowan Co NC Deeds: William Murphey of Chowan Prect. and Martha my wife to Barnaby MacKinney of Albemarle Co. this -- July 1720 5 pds current money of England 640 A more or less at the mouth of a Great Branch called the Cypress Gutt which cometh out of the river [Moratock] joining the plantation Arthur Davis did live on, being a parcel of land in Calledony wood formerly granted to William Browne by Patent 1 April 1713 being the tract whereon the sd. Browne did live and is the land given by the will of William Browne to his wife Martha and I, William Murphey married the relict of William Browne. Wit: William Lattimer, John Alston Reg. Chowan Ct the 3rd Tuesday in July 1720. Thomas Henman CC
• 1724 Jul 28: Richard Braswell names "my daughter Martha Murfy" in his will.
• 1728 Oct 22: Gideon Gibson and his wife, Mary, sold 150 acres "bounded according to the Will of William Brown Gentl decd..." [Bertie DB C:36]

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7/28/1724 Isle of Wight Co VA Record

Isle of Wight Co, VA Record #2, The Great Book, p. 174:

Will of Richard Braswell of Isle of Wight Co VA.

6thly I Give unto my Daughter Martha Murfy Ten Shillings worth and no more at present.

1724 - July 28, Richard Bracewell of Isle of Wight names son Richard Braswell, son Robert Braswell, son Valentine Braswell, son Jacob Braswell, son John Braswell, DAUGHTER MARTHA MURFY, daughter Ann Strickland, daughter Jane Williams, granddaughter Susannah Braswell, wife and executrix Sarah Braswell, and wit: Edward Powers Sr. and Edward Powers. (IOW CO VA GB-174)

References

1. -http://lewis-genealogy.org/genealogy/Campbell/Braswell-2z.htm#6
2. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Braswell-1170