Seba Murphy

He went into the mercantile business in Schenectady, New York, and was there associated with the merchant house of DeGraff, Walton & Co..

He was rescued by a British picket guard, who took him as a prisoner of war to Kingston, Ontario where, his feet having frozen and become gangrenous, both were amputated.

He remained in British custody until Ben Jonson, a prominent Patriot known as "The Lake Pirate", rescued him with the help of members of the Masonic order of Bath, who concealed him in the bottom of a sleigh filled with bags of oats and drove him thus to Prescott, and then overnight across the river to Ogdensburg.

For many years he was the financial agent in Monroe of the Michigan Southern Railway Company.

[1][2] He married Margaret Davy, with whom he had one son, William Walton Murphy, and four daughters.