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Introduction to the Nine Essays on Early Todd/Mcmurtry/Hutton Origins (Also a Todd/Mcquiddy/Mckee Connection) May 2003, July 2005; May 2006; March 2012; May 2019

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Introduction to the Nine Essays on Early Todd/Mcmurtry/Hutton Origins (Also a Todd/Mcquiddy/Mckee Connection) May 2003, July 2005; May 2006; March 2012; May 2019 Introduction to the Nine Essays on Early Todd/McMurtry/Hutton Origins (also a Todd/McQuiddy/McKee connection) May 2003, July 2005; May 2006; March 2012; May 2019 This series of nine essays was written in an effort to sort out fact from myth in the family traditions of the McMurtry family of New Jersey, Virginia and Kentucky, and its connection with the Todd and Hutton family with which the McMurtrys intermarried during their settlement in Virginia. There is also a brief discussion of the Todd/McQuiddy/McKee connections in Virginia and Kentucky. These essays summarize the traditions, the documentary evidence, and the correspondence associated with several of these family origin traditions. They attempt to discern how the traditions evolved and to determine what is the most accurate description of the early family relationships. This 2019 version seeks to correct the errors introduced in early versions of this essay. The essays deal primarily with five families: 1. William Todd of Philadelphia County prior to 1723 who came to Augusta County, VA ca 1750 2. Robert and Andrew Todd, brothers who settled in colonial Philadelphia and Chester County, Pennsylvania and whose descendants spread to Virginia and Kentucky. 3. John McMurtry, orphan of Alexander McMurtry, who was raised by his mother Sarah and his step-father James Young after 1751 in the Whistle Creek area of Augusta County, VA and went to Kentucky in 1780. 4. James McMurtry who came from New Jersey and settled in Bedford County, VA prior to 1754. His sons, Joseph and William McMurtry, went to Kentucky ca 1780 and settled next door to John McMurtry. James may have married Hannah Todd, daughter of William Todd, and some say he first married a Nancy Todd. 5. Robert, Andrew, James, John and William Todd who settled in Somerset County, New Jersey about 1735. 6. James and Samuel Hutton who settled in Augusta County. Samuel married Mary Todd, daughter of William Todd, and went to Kentucky ca 1780. Their daughter Mary married John McMurtry. James Hutton may have migrated to South Carolina. 7. Robert McQuiddy married Mary Gaines in 1752 in Stafford County, Virginia. Their son William McQuiddy in Kentucky married Alice McKee, daughter of Lydia Todd and James McKee of Rockbridge County, Virginia. The essays focus on (1) the confused traditions relating to the McMurtrys of Augusta and Bedford Counties, Virginia, (2) the confused traditions of the Todds of Augusta and Bedford Counties, Virginia, (3) the traditions concerning Todd-McMurtry-Hutton connections in Virginia, (4) the traditions and relationships concerning Todd families of Pennsylvania-Virginia and the Todds of Somerset County, New Jersey. There is also overview survey of the Todd family origins throughout America uncovered during the search for Virginia Todd origins. Lastly there are relevant excerpts from the Emilie Todd Helm Papers at the Kentucky Historical Society. The essays are: 1. Essays on Early Todd/McMurtry/Hutton Origins (introduction to the essay series) 2. The Family of William Todd of Pennsylvania and Augusta/Bedford County, VA 3. Correcting the Traditions of Samuel Todd of Augusta/Botetourt Counties, VA 1 4. The Making of the Todd Family History as reflected in the Emilie Todd Helm Papers 5. The Evolving Family Tradition of McMurtry-Todd-Hutton Connection in the Letters of Miss Myra McMurtry 6. The Nancy Todd-Hannah Todd-James McMurtry marriage tradition and the Letters of Dr. William McMurtry 7. The Identity of Mary Hutton’s father (John McMurtry’s father-in-law) 8. The Todds of New Jersey and Relationship to the Todds of PA-KY and the Todds of PA-VA 9. The Todd Family in America As background for the entire series, the family traditions and the relationships as we now know them are compared in the following tables. The end of this essay provides a thumbnail sketch of each of the eight essays. Family Traditions Compared With Family Relationships Below are four sets of family charts. Each set has one chart to show the family relationships as reflected in the tradition and one chart to show what we now understand to be the correct relationships. Dr. Simeon Seymour Todd made (or reported) an incorrect synthesis of documentary evidence and family traditions in describing the relationships between the McMurtrys who appeared in the public records . 1a. The INCORRECT VERSION of the McMurtries of Augusta County and Bedford County per Dr. S.S. Todd Josep h McM __________|___________________________________ | | | | | Joseph McM James McM John McM Samuel M cM Sarah McM ______|____ | Md 1751 | | Capt John James Young McM Joseph William 1738-1790 =>KY => KY =>KY 1780 1b. The McMurtries of Augusta County and Bedford County as currently understood Joseph McM Sarah McM ______|____ Md 1) Alexander McMurtry | | 2) James Young 1751 Joseph McM James McM __________|____ Md 1759 Md ca 1750 | | Susannah D 1771 ___ Capt John McM Samuel McM Patton _____|___ 1738-1790 1744-1796 | | m Mary Hutton Md 1762 ca 1770 Jean Martin Joseph William =>KY 1780 =>SC 1765 => KY => KY As shown in chart 1a above, Dr. S.S. Todd claimed (1) that Joseph McMurtry of Philadelphia had five children: Joseph, James, John, Samuel and Sarah, (2) that James in Bedford County had two sons, William and Joseph who went to Kentucky, (3) that Samuel 2 McM was the father of Capt. John McMurtry who went to Kentucky, and (4) that Sarah McM md James Young in 1751. In reality, as shown in chart 1b, Joseph and James were brothers to each other, but not to the rest; Sarah McMurtry was the widow of Alexander McMurtry, not a McMurtry by birth; and Samuel McMurtry and Capt John McMurtry were brothers, not father and son. 2. The Todds of Augusta County and Bedford County Some family historians reported that William and Samuel Todd of Augusta County were brothers to Robert and Andrew Todd of Philadelphia and Chester County, Pennsylvania. 2a INCORRECT VERSION of William and Samuel Todd’s relationship to Robert and Andrew Todd of PA as reported by various Todd family historians John Todd __________|_______________________________________ | | | | | Robert Todd Andrew Todd James Todd Samuel Todd William Todd Remained in 1690-1754 =>Augusta Ireland m Ann Houston Co 1750 | =>Bedford | Co 1760 ______________________________________|______________ | | | | | Samuel Todd Sarah Todd Isabella Todd Esther Todd Nancy Todd md| md md md Md Jean Lowery John Taylor John Houston Patrick Young James McMurtry Of Bedford Co 2b Relationship between William and Robert/Andrew Todd as currently hypothesized Mr. Todd ____________________|____ ? __ | | | Robert Todd Andrew Todd William Todd (brother or cousin?) 1697-1775 D 1791 B ca 1700=>Philadelphia Co by 1723 =>Augusta Co 1750 =>Bedford Co 1760 ____________________________________|________________________________ | | | | | | | | | | | Low Eliz James Mary Sarah Hannah Alice Lydia Wm Samuel John 1723 1724/5 1726 1728 b 1729/30 1731/2 1734 1736 1738 1739 1746 1792 1789 md d-1795 md ? d 1811 1812 1829 md 1755? TN Sam’l md md John James James ca1761 md Hutton Eliz. Houston McMurtry McKee Jean or Samuel Lowery Davis 3 Origins In Ireland Emily Todd Helm thought that her ancestor John Todd father of Robert 1697-1775 was the John Todd who died in Co Down in 1704 and left children Robert, Andrew and James. However, these brothers did not leave Ireland and DNA from this family shows that they are not related to Mary Todd Lincolns forebears. Emily may have gotten this idea from her correspondence with a descendant of this County Down family that settled in Louisville in 1821. George Seilhamer, who published Emily Todd Helms manuscript in the Kittochtinny Magazine in 1905, reviewed a number of Irish wills and concluded that John Todd d 1704 could not be the father of Emily’s forebears but that a John Todd d 1718 in Tynan, Co Armagh, was the father. John d 1718 left a will that named sons James d 1757, Samuel, William, Robert and half brother Andrew. George seems to have based his conclusion on the Andrew being a half-brother and he dismissed the fact that John Todd d 1718 was an Anglican, not a Presbyterian. Seilhamer also noted that William Todd baptized children at the Abingdon Presbyterian Church 1736 and 1738 and wondered if he might be a brother to Robert and Andrew. He said nothing about the son Samuel. The fact that this family was Anglican is sufficient cause to doubt that John d 1718 was the father of Emily’s forebears. Also, the DNA pattern of the Todds matches the Todds of Co Antrim, suggesting that a Todd living in that area who left no will was the likely progenitor of Emily’s family. Arrival In America Arthur McFarland, a grandson of Robert Todd 1697-1775 writing to Dr. Andrew Todd in Kentucky in 1833 reported that Robert and Andrew Todd came to America in 1737 landing in New York with Robert coming directly to the portion of Philadelphia County that became Montgomery County and Andrew settling later in Chester County. We have found no record of these Todds in New York, but we do find a Robert Todd in the New Jersey Supreme Court records for Hunterdon County in the 1740s and 1750s. Robert’s son David married at the Abingdon Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia County in 1749 when Robert appears to be still in Hunterdon County. We also find Robert in the Chester County tax lists in 1755 and then in Philadelphia County by 1760 and we find Andrew arriving in Chester County by 1760. So the McFarland letter is basically correct except for a few details. McFarland makes no mention of William Todd nor John Todd.
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