Janet Murdock

Janet Murdock

ID:	I351
Last:	Murdock
First:	Janet
Middle:
Birth:	1757 at County Antrim, Ireland ¹
Death:	18 Jul 1852 at Fairfield County, South Carolina ²
Burial:	New Hope Church Cemetery, Fairfield Co., South Carolina ³
Sex:	F

Mother:	UNKNOWN
Father:	UNKNOWN

Marriage 1	John Stevenson b: 1751 d: 1802
	Wedding: BEF 1790 County Antrim, Ireland ⁴

	Children:
	1 Samuel Hemphill Stevenson b: 4 Jan 1803

Sources:
1	Repository: --Name: South Carolina Department of Archives and History --Address: 1430 Senate St., P.O. Box 11,669, Columbia, SC 29211 --Phone: (803) 734-8577 Title: Robert Coleman Family: From Virginia to Texas 1652-1965 Author: Coleman, James P., with the assistance of many others Publication: Privately published by James P. Coleman, Ackerman, Mississippi, 1965; mfg. by Kingsport Press, Inc., Kingsport TN, 451 pp Note: Also available on internet through: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nansemondcolemans/ Page: p. 327

2	Repository: --Name: South Carolina Department of Archives and History --Address: 1430 Senate St., P.O. Box 11,669, Columbia, SC 29211 --Phone: (803) 734-8577 Title: Robert Coleman Family: From Virginia to Texas 1652-1965 Author: Coleman, James P., with the assistance of many others Publication: Privately published by James P. Coleman, Ackerman, Mississippi, 1965; mfg. by Kingsport Press, Inc., Kingsport TN, 451 pp Note: Also available on internet through: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nansemondcolemans/ Page: p. 327

3	Repository: --Name: South Carolina Department of Archives and History --Address: 1430 Senate St., P.O. Box 11,669, Columbia, SC 29211 --Phone: (803) 734-8577 Title: Robert Coleman Family: From Virginia to Texas 1652-1965 Author: Coleman, James P., with the assistance of many others Publication: Privately published by James P. Coleman, Ackerman, Mississippi, 1965; mfg. by Kingsport Press, Inc., Kingsport TN, 451 pp Note: Also available on internet through: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nansemondcolemans/ Page: p. 327

4	Repository: --Name: South Carolina Department of Archives and History --Address: 1430 Senate St., P.O. Box 11,669, Columbia, SC 29211 --Phone: (803) 734-8577 Title: Robert Coleman Family: From Virginia to Texas 1652-1965 Author: Coleman, James P., with the assistance of many others Publication: Privately published by James P. Coleman, Ackerman, Mississippi, 1965; mfg. by Kingsport Press, Inc., Kingsport TN, 451 pp Note: Also available on internet through: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nansemondcolemans/ Page: p. 327-328 Text: John Stevenson and his wife, Janet Murdock Stevenson, immigrated to America from Ireland about 1790. They then had three children: William, James and Mary, a baby, who sickened and died on the voyage across, and was buried at sea. lt took three months to come over, in a sail vessel. Janet Murdock's father was a dyer, and considered well-to-do. Above the poor young man, John Stevenson, who was forbidden to visit her. They were secretly married a year before her father knew it, and he never fully forgave her. Then I suppose they decided to come to America. Found life very hard here for some time. Bought land in the New Hope section of Fairfield County, where Eb Stevenson, their grandson, now lives. They built a rough log cabin without doors or floor. I guess they were frightened at everything in this new country, and wanted no doors. They went in under the sill at one end, which was some higher there. As they got able, they improved this, adding more rooms, bought a negro woman. More children came as the years went by, John, Hugh, Robin, Peggy, Andrew and Samuel Hemphill, born in 1803.