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It was on March 12, 1759 that William Murphy, son of the Rev William Murphy was born in Pittsylvania County, Virginia and at the beginning of the Revolutionary War he was a member of a company commanded by Capt. John Wilkinson. At that time he resided in Bedford County, in what was then Virginia. His Revolutionary record extends throughout that war and was granted a pension on May 7, 1833 after he took up residence in St. Francois County, which he only collected until his death on November 2, 1833. William Murphy's Revolutionary record is not his greatest claim to our attention in St. Francois County. With his father and brothers Joseph and David he came to upper Louisiana about 1798 and located claims in and near what is now Farmington. They all went back to Tennessee but the father died at the home of his son John in Kentucky. The father's claim was on the spot where Judge William Carter's spring was located. Joseph Murphy’s claim was one and a half miles from Farmington...
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