McMurtrie McMurtry History

The following books have been published about various branches of the family:

The McMurtrie Family, by Roberts D. Royer, 1964, 32 pp. Family of David McMurtrie who came to Philadelphia in 1751 and later settled in Huntingdon, PA.

The Great McMurtry Clan of Tennessee, by Otis D. McMurtry. Descendants of John McMurtry (1752-1841) assumed grandson of Thomas McMurtry of Somerset County, New Jersey. JOhn came to Sumner County, Tennessee in 1794.

Ancestors and Descendants of Joseph McMurtry (1764-1846) of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, by Richard K. McMurtry, 1968, 53 pp. Joseph McMurtry is assumed to be the grandson of Thomas McMurtry, who settled in Somerset County, New Jersey by 1742 and died there in 1788. Joseph migrated to western Pennsylvania by 1800.

One McMurtrie Family, by Ira Smith Brown, 1968, 129 pp. Deals mainly with family of Joseph McMurtrie, who came to Sussex County, New Jersey around 1735 and died there in 1761.

The Family of William Jefferson and Louisa Frances Williams McMurtry, by E. Hoyse McMurtry, ca 1970. William J. McMurtry came to Texas about 1878. William was a descendant of Samuel McMurtry of Augusta County, Virginia and Abbeville County, South Carolina.

The McMurtry Family of Harrison County, Kentucky, by David C McMurtry, 1971, 109 pp. Focuses on James McMurtry of Bedford County, Virginia, his son Joseph who came to Kentucky in 1780, and his grandson James who came to Harrison County, Kentucky about 1797.

William McMurtry of Kentucky and Alabama, by Esther LeBaron, 1977, 142 pp. William was another son of James McMurtry of Bedford County, Virginia. William came to Kentucky in 1780 and died in Alabama in 1823.

McMurtrie History, by Audrey McMurtrie, 1977, 55 pp. Story of two Scottish McMurtries families whose histories interweave and who came to South Australia in the 1800s.

Joseph McMurtrey of East Tennessee and Missouri, His Ancestors and Descendants, by Maribelle and Bruce Wilder, 1979, 339 pp. Joseph is the son of Joseph McMurtrey who married in Augusta County, Virginia in 1759. The Augusta Co. Joseph is thought by some historians to be a son of the Joseph McMurtrie of Oxford Township, Sussex County, New Jersey who died in 1761.

John McMurtry and the American Indian: A Frontiersman in the Struggle for the Ohio Valley, by Richard K. McMurtry, 1981, 112 pp. John McMurtry (1748-1790), orphan son of Alexander McMurtry, was raised in Augusta Co., Virginia and came to Kentucky in 1780.

Capt. John McMurtry: Kentucky Pioneer and Soldier of the Revolution, David C. McMurtry, 1999

Ref: McMBooks.993 Sept 1993, March 2008