Biography: Alexander McMurphy : Alexandria, Grafton Co, New Hampshire

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Submitted by: Vera Burnham vburnham@worldpath.net
Date: September 20, 2000
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From Gazetteer of Grafton County, NH 1709-1886 -Alexandria
Compiled & published by Hamilton Child 1886

Alexander McMurphy, one of the early settlers, came here from Londonderry,
N. H., and located as the first settler on the farm known as the "McMurphy
farm," on road 38. In the year 1777 he was given fifty acres of land to
induce him to settle in Alexandria. He was a pensioner of the Revolution,
and also served in the war of 1812. He married Mary Palmer, of Sutton,
N. H. His son Daniel married Betsey Huntington, of Bristol, N. H., and had
born to him eleven children, ten of whom, two sons and eight daughters,
grew to maturity. Of these, Daniel Jr., married Sarah E., daughter of
Silas and Rebecca (Haywood) Roades, and has two sons, Albertus N. and
Silas A. The latter married Emma Tilton, of Bristol, and has one child,
Lizzie I. Albertus N. married Jennie N. Tilton, of Bristol, and has one
daughter, Helen A. Daniel McMurphy and his two sons, Silas A. and Albertus
N., reside on the homestead, thus making four generations that have lived
there.