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Hetty and Eben Murray's children

Handwritten genealogical notes listing the children of Hetty and Eben Murray, a freed African-American couple living as farmers in Pennsylvania who were the grandparents of Orville Mumford's wife Mary Murray Wilson. The notes are written on the verso of a Shopbell, Gamble and Company Dry Goods of Williamsport, Pennsylvania trade card. The list reads:

Hetty and Eben Murray's children

Delmar Pennsylvania
a suburb of Wellesbough
Orville Mumford
1952 [this section bordered in a box and written in a different hand]

Sophy was born 4th May 1804.
Betsey born Dec. 1805 and died Jan. 1806 - one month old.
Kenny was born at Delmar Oct. 16, 1809.
Mary born at Delmar Oct. 13 1811.
Tabitha born at Delmar 1813.
Betsey born " " March 1816.
Peter was born 16th March 1807.
Copied from an old Bible used by John Dagworthy of Delaware
Later by Wm. Wells now in possession of Anne Morris Lowry
Feb. 14, 1885

A handwritten note on the recto of the card record's Orville's address, "O. Mumford, 664 Canfield, Detroit, Mich."