Samuel Muncy^{[1, 2]}

1712 - Bef 1786  (< 73 years)

• Name	Samuel Muncy  [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
  Birth	Aug 1712	Smithtown, Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, USA   [3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	tobacco plantation
  _UID	1F753F6E7CFE4336BAF895780531470575B9
  Death	Bef 1786	Montgomery County, Virginia, USA   [2, 3, 4, 9]
  Person ID	I2765	Francis Muncy Descendants
  Last Modified	10 Jan 2020

  
  

  Father	Francis Muncy,   b. Abt 1685, Brookhaven, Suffolk County, NY, USA d. 26 Oct 1738, Willow Grove, Murtherkill Hundred, Kent County, Delaware, USA (Age 53 years)
  Mother	Abigail Skidmore,   b. Abt 1679, Jamaica, Queens County, New York, USA d. 28 Jun 1744, Kent County, Delaware, USA (Age 65 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1707	Smithtown, Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, USA   [2]
  _UID	226D2D4C40074438A71499226E4CC50ACAF6
  Notes	Marriage Date: 1707 Place: Long Island, New York, USA, , [10, 11, 12]
  Family ID	F9	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Daugherty,   b. 1712, Kent County, Delaware, USA d. 1811, Montgomery County, Virginia, USA (Age 99 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1731	Kent County, Delaware, USA
  _UID	A89E4EE5EDFA4EE39D569995437761FECB7A
  Notes	Marriage Place: of DE Marriage Date: 1730 Place: prob Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, United States
  Children	1. Francis Muncy,   b. 1732, Kent County, Delaware, USA d. 2 Sep 1802, Augusta County, Virginia, USA (Age 70 years)   2. Nathaniel Muncy,   b. 1736, Kent County, Delaware, USA d. 1795, Montgomery County, Virginia, USA (Age 59 years) + 3. William Muncy,   b. Abt 1736, Kent County, Delaware, USA d. Abt 1804, Knox County, Kentucky, USA (Age 68 years) + 4. Skidmore Munsey,   b. Abt 1738, Kent County, Delaware, USA d. Bef 1 Jul 1797, Wythe County, Virginia, USA (Age < 59 years)   5. Obediah Muncy,   b. Abt 1740, Kent County, Delaware, USA d. Aft 13 Sep 1805, Tazewell County, Virginia, USA (Age > 65 years)   6. Sarah Muncy,   b. 1742, Delaware, USA   7. Samuel Muncy, Jr.,   b. 1745, Kent County, Delaware, USA d. Aft 9 Feb 1811, Kentucky, USA (Age > 66 years)   8. Thomas Muncy,   b. Abt 1747, Augusta County, Virginia, USA d. Abt 1800, Montgomery County, Virginia, USA (Age 53 years)   9. Holton Muncy,   b. Abt 1751, Augusta County, Virginia, USA d. 30 Mar 1830, Montgomery County, Virginia, USA (Age 79 years)
  Family ID	F8	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Mar 2019

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - Aug 1712 - Smithtown, Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, USA Marriage - Bef 1731 - Kent County, Delaware, USA Death - Bef 1786 - Montgomery County, Virginia, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Documents

  Deposition of Samuel Muncy 1733 deposition by Samuel Muncy in 1733 describing his abduction and incarceration in jail in Dorset Co., Maryland. The accompanying deposition by William Dougherty firmly establishes him as the son-in-law of Samuel and that Samuel's wife's maiden name was DAUGHERTY, not Skidmore as has been frequently published in the past.

  
  

• Notes

  In 1733 he was living in Kent Co., Delaware (Pennsylvania at that time) when he filed a desposition. His land was located partly in Maryland and the larger portion in Delaware. Will of his father in 1738 indicates he is still in Delaware. He was in Augusta County, VA by 1748 where he was active in Estate Sales….purchased 200 acres of land on July 200 1750. Will of Thomas Skidmore in Delaware (27 Jun 1744) names nephew Nathaniel Muncy, and Thomas Skidmore sister Abigail Muncy Augusta Co., VA land transaction 1765 and 1768 Samuel Muncy  served in the Revolutionary War.  He was a member of Captain Linkhorn’s Company of Militia from Augusta County, Virginia. He would have been pretty old (about 64) at the time, but it is possible. Samuel Muncy was twenty-one in 1733, when he first appeared on the Murtherkill Levy List with a 12, which probably indicated the amount of property he owned. He married before 1733 as verified in Court depositions. (ibid., Caley) By the early part of the 18th Century established law and order was beginning on the frontier, and the courts were organized to address wrongdoing. The goals or jails were programmed to provide punishment without much concern for human rights. Border disputes were common, and like today each taxing body guarded its revenue source carefully. A case in point involved Samuel Muncy. Samuel’s land was located partly in Maryland and the larger portion in Delaware. He paid taxes to Delaware as he was instructed to do. On August 31, 1733, Samuel Muncy made a deposition before the Delaware Court. This deposition and several other court proceedings are paraphrased as follows: On April 24, 1733, Samuel swore that he was approached by three men who said they were lost. They offered to give him a gun if he would lead them through the forest toward Maryland. When they neared their destination, the men violently seized him, and forced him to travel about eighty miles without food or water to Cambridge Goal in the County of Dorset in Maryland. He was put in irons there, and a week later transferred to a “goal” in Annapolis among the criminals with little food. They did not tell him why they incarcerated him, nor was he given a warrant of any kind. (First Pennsylvania Archives, Vol. 1, pp. 401, 402) On August 24, 1733 William Dougherty took a deposition before the Count in Dover, Delaware on behalf of his son-in-law, Samuel Muncy. He stated that he and his daughter, Muncy’s wife, went to Cambridge Goal to find out why he was confined. They found him handcuffed, and could not get the painful irons removed. (First Penn. Arch., Vol. 1, p. 440) About the same time there were additional cases concerning border disputes. The two court affidavits concerning Samuel Muncy must have closed his case. The proceedings depositions established his age, that he was married, and the name of his wife’s father. (ibid., Caley) Samuel Muncy first appeared on the Levy Tax List in 1733, which verifies his age to be twenty-one. [2]

  
  

• Sources

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