Solomon Murphree

• Ref: FindAGrave memorial.

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• Daughters of American Revolution Ancestor #: A083239
• Service: NORTH CAROLINA Rank(s): PRIVATE, PATRIOTIC SERVICE
• Birth: (CIRCA) 1757 NORTH CAROLINA
• Death: (ANTE) 2 Oct 1854 BENTON CO ALABAMA
• Service Source: NC GEN SOC JOURNAL, NC MILITIA PAROLED BY LORD CORNWALLIS IN 1781, VOL 4, #3, PP 147, 149; NC REV WAR PAY VOUCHERS, #2267, ROLL #S.115.113
• Service Description: 1) NC MILITIA; PRISONER OF WAR

Murphree's Valley, Alabama named after Solomon. He was in his old age when he moved to Blount County, Alabama.

"The Murphree Cabin was built by Daniel Murphree six miles north of Oneonta in Murphree’s Valley and was presented to the Blount County Historical Society in January 1973 by John Roderick Sanders, present owner of the land on which it was built. The cabin was dismantled and moved to Palisades Park where it has been reassembled and restored as a Pioneer Cabin, a part of Blount County’s Heritage."

• Source: http://www.blountcountypark.com/history-2/

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Revolutionary Service

A North Carolina Revolutionary record shows that both “Solomon Murphy” and “Moses Murphy” enlisted on 5 August 1779 in the 10th Regiment, Blount’s Company, Continental line, commanded by Colonel Abraham Shepherd, and barely three months later were listed as deserted in October 1779.1 State records list 15 men, including the Murphys, who enlisted on 5 August 1779 for the duration of the war and another 9 men who enlisted on 5 August for a period of nine months. Of the total of 24 men, three died in August or September and all the others are listed as deserters in September or October.

The regiment was actually the 5th, not the10th which had been disbanded more than a year earlier. The error was perpetuated by the published North Carolina State Records. 2 Col. Sheppard commanded the 5th Regiment in 1779 and Major Reading Blount was one of his company commanders. Though DAR applications and family genealogies have long claimed this record as the basis for Solomon Murphree’s Revolutionary service, proof that these men were the same persons as the sons of Daniel Murphree has never been offered.

The proof that this was our Solomon lies in the further records of Blount’s company. The same enlistment record shows that an officer, a sergeant, and at least 24 men joined Reading Blount’s company at the same time. The 24 men all joined Blount’s company on 5 August, and all were listed as deserted in October 1779 except for three who had died. The preceding day, on 4 August, Ensign John Hill and Sergeant Daniel McBane, both of whom were from Chatham County, joined Blount’s company.3 At least half of the 24 men can also be identified as being from Chatham County.4 Both Hill and McBane remained on the rolls well past October, suggesting that the wholesale “desertion” of the privates was perhaps actually a discharge. A Chatham County history mentions that on 30 July 1779 the county informed the Governor that 47 troops had been raised in Chatham County in response to a draft request.5 Thus it appears that Ensign Hill and Sergeant McBane and 24 men of Chatham County enrolled as a unit in Reading Blount’s company. Neither Solomon nor Moses received land warrants for their service, as North Carolina required a minimum of two year’s service for bounty warrants. The modern DAR Revolutionary marker on Solomon Murphree’s grave, as well as other references to his service, are all based on the above record, which we can now conclude does indeed apply to “our” Solomon Murphree.

• Residence: Benton, Benton, Iowa Territory, United States - 1850
  • Reference: FamilySearch Genealogy - SmartCopy: Mar 6 2017, 19:20:27 UTC

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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8501884/solomon-murphree

Son of Daniel Murphree and Sarah Dempsey; (some children also documented in Bible, see attached)

With unknown wife:

• Rebecca Elizabeth Murphree 1779-1843 [m. Rev. Asa Bynum]
• Daniel "Log Cabin" Murphree 1781-1851

With wife, ELIZABETH BETSEY GUNN, m. 29 - Oct - 1781 • Orange Co NC:

• Mary MURPHREE 1783–1857 [m. Easley] Edith "Eady" MURPHREE 1786–1859 [m. Stephens]
• Rhoda "Rody" Murphree 1788-1874 [m. John Wesley Bynum]
• Marian Miriam MURPHREE 1789–1831 [m. W. Easley]

With wife, Sarah Ward?, father of: Hannah MURPHREE 1791–1852 [m. J. Ellis] Elizabeth MURPHREE 1793–1850, unmarried Sarah MURPHREE 1796–1871 [m. Faust]

• Nancy (Ellis) MURPHREE 1798–1857 [m. B. Ellis], not in family bible but accepted in DAR records

Married Mary Elizabeth "Polly" Channing PRATOR 1795 – 1838 in 1823; parents of:

• Solomon L MURPHREE Jr 1825 – 1893 Dicy Murphree 1826 – 1838 Anne Murphree 1828 – ? [m. Burden/Burton] Emily Murphree 1830 – 1831, infant
• children documented in DAR records

VETERAN: Revolutionary War "Solomon Murphree enlisted as a soldier in the Revolution in NC, August 5, 1779 for the duration of the war. Private Solomon Murphree served in the 10th Regiment, Blount's Company under Colonel Abraham Shepherd and received pay for his service in the Salisburg District. For his service in the Revolutionary War, Solomon Murphree was granted 150 acres between Washington's and Horner's line on Sinking Creek." References: "Revolutionary Soldiers in Alabama"

"Murphrees' Valley" in Alabama is named for him

(From the YADKIN COUNTY and CASWELL COUNTY RootsWeb Page) "THE MURPHREE QUARTERLY", vol II, #6, p 90: "Old Solomon's Corner" by Paul Murphree: "Old Solomon Murphree was born probably in 1757 and died after 23 November 1852, near Anniston, AL, about 60 miles from our home. In 1817, Solomon with his daughter Rhoda and son-in-law John Bynum started for Alabama. Solomon and Rhoda and the children stopped in Tennessee for the winter while John and a Negro slave, Uncle Dick, came to Alabama. They stopped in what is now Murphree's Valley, built a cabin and cleared some farm land. The next spring, 1818, John went back to Tennessee for his wife and children and father-in-law Solomon. I have not been able to find out just what year Solomon went on to what is now Calhoun County, near Anniston, Alabama."

MURFREE, SOLOMON (Pvt.) DAR Ancestor record follows: Service: NORTH CAROLINA Rank(s): PRIVATE, PATRIOTIC SERVICE Birth: (CIRCA) 1757 NORTH CAROLINA Death: (ANTE) 10-2-1854 BENTON CO ALABAMA Service Source: NC GEN SOC JOURNAL, NC MILITIA PAROLED BY LORD CORNWALLIS IN 1781, VOL 4,#3, PP 147,149; NC REV WAR PAY VOUCHERS #2267, ROLL #S.115.113 Service Description: 1) NC MILITIA; POW Residence 1) County: ORANGE CO - State: NORTH CAROLINA Spouses 1) X X 2) ELIZABETH BETSEY GUNN 3) SARAH X 4) MARY POLLY PRATER X

Connected to William BYNUM ment'd 1797 Pendleton Co SC plat for Joseph Duncan Twelve Mile R WOLF Crk...Levi MURPHREE is ment'd as well; two of Solomon's daughters (Rebecca and Rhoda) married two grandsons of William Bynum's through son Isaac Newton Bynum

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GEDCOM Note

Baptist Preacher and farmer

Solomon's wagon was the the first of the MURPHEE's to arrive in alabama.

Pvt 1) NC Militia, Released POW. NCGen Soc Journal, NC Militia Paroled by Lord Cornwallis in 1781, Vol 4, #3, pages 147 & 149, Nc Rev War Pay Vouchers #2267, Roll #68.50.

1. 1 wife Sarah Ward
2. 2 wife Mary Elizabeth Chan

1850 Census
District 28, Benton, Alabama

Solomon Murphree 92 NC
S L Murphree 25 AL
Emily Murphree 20 AL
Mary Murphree 85 NC
G C Ellis 28 AL