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1. Elizabeth Antoinette Murphy  ????-1820 

Notities over Patrick (Capt.) Murphy

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Captain Patrick Murphy, of the Continental Army, around whose parentage there clings a
little romance.

It seems that sometime during the latter half of the 17th century, a poor gentleman
became tutor in the family of an Irish nobleman, the father of a beautiful daughter. The
tutor fell in love with his charge, there was an elopement, a hasty marriage, and —
America.

During the Revolution the tutor became an officer in the Continental Army. After peace
was declared he moved to Pittsburg, in which city his wife died at the time of the birth of
her daughter. It was this daughter who became the wife of Antoine deBeelen.

Upon the death of his wife Captain Murphy sent to Carlisle, Pa., for a young woman
named Molly, who had left Ireland to come to America as maid to Mrs. Murphy,
marrying here and settling at Carlisle, shortly afterward becoming a widow. She
consented to take charge of the infant daughter, and subsequently Captain Murphy
married her. From this union there was no issue, but Mrs. Murphy survived the death of
the Captain many years. He left her comparatively well off and she became projector of
many business enterprises, being interested in the first gas works and one of the first
rolling mills ever started in Pittsburg. Through clear-headed business ability she acquired
considerable additional property, in later years extremely valuable.

Dying childless, this property was bequeathed to the descendants of her stepdaughter,
Elizabeth Antoinette.

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