CF 110
CF 110 is the family of Joseph, Thomas and Robert McMurtrie who came from Northern Ireland to Somerset County, New Jersey by 1735. Thomas remained in Somerset County, but Joseph and Robert moved west to Sussex County. They are thought to be brothers because the three of them along with one Robert Howie and James Hanna (thought to be brothers–in-law) bought a large 1250 acre tract of land on the Delaware River in Sussex County in 1750.
Joseph McMurtrie d 1762
Joseph died in Sussex County in 1762. Joseph’s sons John b 1738 and Abraham b 1741 stayed in Sussex County, but his older sons James and Joseph moved to Virginia. Before being identified as the sons of Joseph, James and Joseph were originally thought to be part of CF 111, another McMurtry family in Virginia.
Joseph's son John b 1738 had a son Joseph b 1771 who migrated to Luzerne County Pennsylvania.
Joseph's son Abraham b 1741 had descendants that stayed in New Jersey.
Joseph's son James who moved to Bedford Co Virginia by 1754 had sons Joseph and William who were raised in Bedford Co Virginia and moved to Kentucky in 1780 - Joseph remaining in Kentucky where he died in 1800, but William moving on to Alabama where he died in 1823. James' son Samuel moved to North Carolina and then on to Mississippi by 1804 and to Lousiana by 1812, settling in St Mary's Parish.
Joseph's son Joseph who was in Bedford Co in 1754, moved on to Augusta County, where he married in Augusta Co in 1759. He may have moved with his children when they moved about 1783 to the part of North Carolina that became Greene Co in eastern Tennessee. Joseph's son Joseph b 1759 went out in 1803 to what became Washington County in southeast Missouri when it was still French territory. Joseph's son James b 1765 remained in Greene County, but the family of his son John b 1786-1790 removed to central Missouri in the 1830s and the family of his son James had a son Henry Valentine McM that went to Newberry County, South Carolina. Joseph's sons Abraham and George moved to Randolph County Illinois by 1810.
Thomas McMurtry d 1788
Thomas died in Somerset County in 1788. Thomas’s son Robert b 1749 inherited his father’s land and remained in Somerset County. Thomas’ son Thomas served in the Revolution but disappeared into New York state with the sheriff on his trail due to some debts he incurred. Thomas’ son James died before his father and Thomas' 1785 will refers to "children of my eldest son James". The only one of these children we have identified is Joseph b 1764 whose descendants in Pennsylvania reported his birth to be in Pluckemin which lies in Somerset County. DNA of Joseph matches that of the descendants of Robert b 1749 son of Thomas d 1788, those corroborating this assumption. Joseph McMurtry 1764-1846 migrated to Crawford County, in northwest Pennsylvania between 1795 and 1800. (Since 1948, family historians have assumed that John McMurtry b 1752 who married in Somerset Co in 1781 and his brother James b 1769 were also sons of James; however DNA proves conclusively that these two were not close kin to the Somerset County McMurtrys at all, but rather are more likely immigrants from Ireland just before the Revolutionary War. John joined the Revolutionary army in Franklin County PA in 1775, but no earlier record of him or his parents have been found.)
Robert d 1777
Robert died in Hardwick Twp, Sussex County in 1777. His son George married Rachel Reeder in 1778 and disappeared after 1784 presumably into Pennsylvania. Robert's daughter Isabella married James Stinson who died in 1771 and she married Joseph Reeder and moved about 1798 to Luzerne Co PA where she died about 1799. Robert's son Robert Jr appears to have had sons Joseph, Simon, and James who, along with their mother, went to Ontario, Canada in 1799/1800. In the first decade of the 1800s, Joseph and Simon moved to Ohio where they were members of a Shaker religious community for a number of years. Before being identified as part of CF 110, Joseph was considered the progenitor of CF 101. The brother James seems to have moved to western New York state (Steuben County) about the time that his brothers went to Ohio. James' children were born there but seem to have returned to Toronto where assumed son James Stinson McMurtrie was naturalized (before coming back to Youngstown in western NY where he died as a young man in 1837), assumed son Courtland married in 1835 before moving to Illinois, assumed daughter Susan married in 1835, assumed son Robert W. b 1819/1828 came to Illinois with Courtland.
The following chart shows the inter-relationships between the various New Jersey origin families - CF 110, CF 111, CF 112 - and the associated families of CF 108, CF 101, CF 125, CF 133. New Jersey McMurtrie Chart
The following essay describes how the New Jersey McMurtries were erroneously concluded to have originated in Dalmellington. Dalmellington Origin Myth
More detailed overview of CF 110
Robert Howey, co-purchaser of Sussex County land 1750 with McMurtries
James Hanna, co-purchaser of Sussex County land 1750 with McMurtries