Ancestry of
John Kerry

68th U.S. Secretary of State

James Murray

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of John Kerry — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 194 
  • Father:
  • John Murray 
  • Mother:
  • Anne Bennet   
  • Birth Date:
  • 9 Aug 1713 
  • Birth Location:
  • Ewes, Dumfriesshire, Scotland 
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  • Death Date:
  • 1781 
  • Death Location:
  • Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Barbara Bennet
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1744 
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  Elizabeth Murray

  Dorothy Murray (Ahnentafel No:97 )

• Sources for James Murray

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1847, Vol. 1, p. 302.
  • ² Hallen, Rev. A.W. Cornelius, ed., The Scottish Antiquary, or , Northern Notes and Queries: Vol. 6, Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, Printers to Her Majesty at the University Press (1892), 141.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 93, 573.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 923.
  • ⁵ Tiffany, Nina Moore, ed. and Susan I. Lesley, asst., Letters of James Murray, Loyalist, Boston: "Printed: Not Published" (1901).