[Excerpt from "The genealogy of Peiter Heyl and his descendants, 1110-1936", Elizabeth Hoyle Rucker, c.1938.]
[excerpted 13 Jun 2006, Mark Murphy]

p. 400

	Hannah Eison was the dau. of Dr. Frederick Eison (Ison, Isom), b.
1771 and d. about 1840, and Hannah Hart, b. 1772 and d. 1861, the dau. of
Thomas Hart and Elizabeth Pearson, dau. of Isaac Pearson, b. about 1750,
and Sarah Murphy, dau. of Simon Murphy, Jr., and Sarah Duke, dau. of
William Duke, a young kinsman of Col. William Byrd of Westover, Va.
Simon Murphy, Jr. was b. about 1723 and d. 1798. Sarah Duke was b.
about 1733 and d. about 1818. Sarah Duke’s sister m. a Mr. Davis and was
the grandmother of Jefferson Davis. the beloved President of the Con-
federacy from 1860 to 1865, an educated, cultured, Christian gentleman,
who, before the south seceded, represented his state in the U. S. Senate,
and was the Governor of his state, Mississippi.
	Simon Murphy, Jr. was the son of Simon Murphy, Sr. who m. Elizabeth
Byrd, dau. of William Byrd II, dau. of his mother’s brother. Simon Murphy
had seventeen children, sixteen boys and one girl. Simon Murphy, Sr.
was the son of Richard Murphy, who m. Mary, the dau. of Col. William
Byrd I of Westover Va.
	Richard Murphy was stolen when a lad of eleven from the coast of
Ireland by an English Trading vessel and was brought to Virginia and sold
for one hundred fifty pounds of tobacco, the price of his passage. Col.
William Byrd bought the manly lad, who, of course, came under the head
of Redemptioner. The story goes that he was clever, good looking, and
capable. When grown, he m. Col. William Byrd’s dau. Col. Byrd disin-
herited his dau.; had her name stricken from the Family Bible record;
from the baptismal record of their chapel; forbade, on threat of disinheri-
tance, any one to mention her name ever; rewrote his will, and said: The
following are my children and named them, leaving out her name. She
was as if she had never existed. You will find no record of her anywhere
[note: probably because this is not true.  Richard Murphy may have married
the niece or cousin of WBI of Westover, a daughter of William Bird of the 
nearby Martins Brandon VA, who was an uncle of WBI.- note by Mark Murphy] 2006.
Nemesis: her oldest son m. her oldest brother’s daughter.
	This story was given me by an old gentleman, Mr. Hobo, of Union,
S. C, who, then about ninety years old, wrote a most beautiful letter which
I have still, and took an affidavit to the truthfulness of it. He said the story
was told and retold to him by his grandfather, Simon Murphy, Jr. who was
the great—grandson of this kidnapped “Richard,”
	Berry Willard Lee, my mother’s father, was the son of Michael Byrd
Lee, h. Oct. 7, 1787, in. 1813, Mary Willard, h. Jan. 21., 1798 and d. Mar. 31,
1888, dau. of “Barbry” Willard and Sarah hart, sister of the Hannah Hart
above mentioned, another dau. of Thomas Hart and Elizabeth Pearson.
This Thomas was the son of Aaron Hart.
	Michael Byrd Lee, b. between 1750-60, was the son of Thomas Lee,
who m. Hannah Murphy, sister of the Sarah Murphy who had m. Isaac
Pearson.  Hannah was also a dau. of Simon Murphy, Jr. who m. Sarah
Duke.  Every member of this Thomas Lee family has Byrd in his name, and
has had for five or six generations. [So, too, have many Murphys of this 
line, thus indicating some connection to the Bird/Byrd clan- mm 2006]