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1. Antebellum and Civil War · 1800–1865

2. November 5, 1801
   Life event · Orange County, The Hermitage (now Alamance County) Archibald D. Murphey marries Jane Armistead Scott and settles at the Hermitage

   After leaving the University to read law in Hillsborough under William Duffy, Murphey married Jane Armistead Scott on November 5, 1801, and made his home at the Hermitage, her father's farm on Great Alamance Creek about eighteen miles west of Hillsborough, in the part of Orange County that is now Alamance. He built his law practice around the Hillsborough courthouse.

3. February 1, 1832
   Life event · Hillsborough, Hillsborough Presbyterian Church Archibald D. Murphey dies in Hillsborough

   Archibald D. Murphey died in Hillsborough, then his home, on February 1, 1832, after years of rheumatism and debt, and was buried in the town graveyard a few feet from the door of the Presbyterian church. No monument marked his grave when the memoir in his published papers was written.

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