Murphy, Isaac

Murphy married Nancy Haley in Barren County, Kentucky in November 1811. Murphy came to Warren County, Illinois, from Kentucky. In June 1837, Murphy presented certificates to the county commissioners that he had released eight African American women and girls, ranging from two to fifty years old, from slavery. He signed a bond that they would not become a burden to the county, and the four under the age of eighteen were indentured to him until they were eighteen. In 1840, Murphy lived in Warren County, with six other persons in his household, including a free African American female between ten and twenty-four years of age.

Kentucky, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1802-1850, 27 November 1811, Barren County (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, 1997); U.S. Census Office, Sixth Census of the United States (1840), Ward 1, Warren County, IL, 174; Newton Bateman and Paul Selby, eds., Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Warren County, ed. by Hugh R. Moffet and Thomas H. Rogers (Chicago: Munsell, 1903), 2:713.