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TIMOTHY MURPHY
FRONTIER RIFLEMAN
Little is known of Timothy Murphy’s early life. Born in 1751 near the
Delaware Water Gap to parents who had only recently immigrated from
County Donegal, Ireland, when he was eight his family moved to
Shamokin Flats (now Sunbury) in Pennsylvania. Some years after that
he was apprenticed to the Van Campen family, and with them relocated
to the Wyoming Valley frontier.
On 29 June 1775, Murphy and his brother John enlisted in Captain John Lowdon’s
Company of Northumberland County Riflemen, and subsequently served in the
Siege of Boston, the Battle of Long Island, and skirmishing in Westchester.
Later, he became a Sergeant in the 12th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Line
and served at Trenton, Princeton, and New Brunswick.
An expert marksman (able to hit a seven inch target at 250 yards), Murphy qualified
for Morgan’s Rifle Corps, and was transferred to that elite organization in July 1777,
shortly after its inception. In August of the same year, Murphy was one of 500
hand-picked riflemen sent north to reinforce the Continental forces opposing
General Sir John Burgoyne’s invasion of Northern New York.
It was at the Battle of Bemis Heights (Second Battle of Saratoga), 7 October 1777,
that Murphy is reputed to have fired the shots that killed Sir Francis Clerke
and General Simon Fraser, throwing the British command of the battle into disarray.
Read More about Timothy Murphy at:
Timothy Murphy: Frontier Rifleman
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