I saw your pose on rootsweb and thought I would reply. I also have McMurrys in my family, and even Johns.My grandfather had a brother and uncle named John McMurry that both lived in Tennessee.I dont know if its the same family or not but feel like it probably is related.My email is PGDavis47@hotmail.com Where in Tennessee is that church you were talking about and what is the website? Patricia Davis >From: m1lm1@worldnet.att.net >Reply-To: MCMURRY-L@rootsweb.com >To: MCMURRY-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [McMurry] Re: John McMurr(a)y married Margaret Ewing >Date: 15 Jan 2003 23:47:16 -0700 > >This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > >Surnames: McMurray McMurry Bogle McTeer Watkins >Classification: Query > >Message Board URL: > >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0E0.2ACEB/68.1 > >Message Board Post: > >I am also trying to track down information - this John McMurray and >Margaret Ewing McMurray are my 6th great-grandparents, through their son >Samuel and his wife, Nancy Bogle. Samuel is listed on the Eusebia >Presbyterian Church website (go see on the website, it's fun to read!) as a >founder, as are the Bogles(also my ancestors..they married the McMurrays) >and another family, the McTeers. (The church is located in Tennessee where >the McMurrays, Bogles, McTeers, etc. had property during the colonial or >post-colonial period) They all keep surfacing together in my research, >along with the Reverend Archibald Cox, who evidentally was a Presbyterian >evangelist who founded several Presbyterian churches in the >Tenessee/Maryland/Pennsylvania area. (The borders of these states/colonies >changed several times in the 1700's and early 1800's, which makes it more >confusing.) It looks like these families might have known each other. >I am trying to figure out if John McMurray is the ancestor who immigrated >here from Europe, maybe even with some Bogle or McTeer friends??. I'm >hitting dead ends. Did he sail from Northern Ireland, or possibly even >from a ship that started its voyage from Holland?? In any event, it's >pretty fun to know that these ancestors were very early American colonists! > I'd love to find the real link to Europe. >Distant cousin Sherman Watkins - Hello! Does any of this ring a bell? _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8 is here: Try it free* for 2 months http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup