Daniel MacMurphy Daniel MacMurphy was born in County Antrim, Ireland in 1737. He came to Georgia in 1756 under the auspices of the celebrated Indian Agent, George Galphin. Daniel was associated in business with Galphin and their trade was very extensive, extending as far south as Mobile, Alabama and carried on both overland and from the sea with ships rounding the peninsula of Florida and skirting the coast to the mouth of the Savannah River and thence coming up the river to Fort Galphin a few miles below Augusta on the South Carolina side of the river. A trading post was established on the Eastern Boundary of Augusta near where the Kirkpatrick Plantation once stood.

On June 18th, 1776 Daniel MacMurphy qualified as Justice of the Peace for the Queensborough Distinct and on July 30th, 1776 MacMurphy was commissioned Lieutenant Colonel, Battalion of Foot Militia, Queensborough District of Georgia. He married Susannah Crossley, a niece of George Galphin, in 1778 and later that year was appointed Magistrate for Burke County.

He was a member of the Legislature that met in Augusta in 1780 and was elected to the Governor's Executive Council in January of that year. He was appointed to a commission to grant land to refugees from the coast whose lands and houses had been seized by the British, also to straighten the streets of Augusta, to lay out roads and to build a Court House and Jail. Additionally, the commission was to select desirable lots for a Church and an Academy and to direct the building of houses at a proper distance from the street and of a proper size.

The British seized Augusta later in 1780. The Governor, members of the Legislature, officers of the Continental Army and Militia, when they found it impossible to withstand the enemy, evacuated the city and journeyed North eventually joining the army of Nathaniel Greene on its way to relieve the South. Daniel accepted a commission as a Captain and fought his way South with Greene's army.

Susannah MacMurphy, with her sister, traveled on foot as far North as Fredericksburg, Virginia where her first child, George Galphin A. Y. MacMurphy was born. Susannah rejoined her husband with the army on its way South and tended the wounded at the battles of Guilford Court House and Eutaw Springs.

On returning to Augusta, Daniel continued to serve his nation and community. In January 1782 he was appointed Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the State of Georgia and was recommended to the U. S. Congress as a Commissioner of Indian Affairs by the General Assembly. On January 31, 1783 Daniel was elected Registrar of Probates for Burke County. He was returned to the General Assembly by Burke County in January of 1784 and served as a Commissioner at the Indian Treaty of 1786 at Shoulder Bone.

Daniel died on October 27, 1819 and was buried in Augusta with his beloved Susannah who had passed away some ten months earlier. In his obituary published in the Augusta Chronicle it was said that while he served in a number of elected and appointed offices, he would be most remembered for his services as a partisan officer during the hard fight for Independence.