This is a portrait of Col. Hardy Murfree who was the son of William Murfree the founder of Murfreesboro, NC. This picture was put online by the Tennessee Portrait Project by National Society of Colonial Dames of America in Tennessee. This portrait is part of the private collection of the Murfree family and has been placed online with the consent of the Murfree family.
Murfreesboro, North Carolina and the Founding of the American Republic 1608-1781 by 
Murfreesboro, North Carolina: 200 Years on the Meherrin River. by The Ancient Maritime Village of Murfreesborough, 1787-1825 by Hertford County: the First Two Hundred Years, 1584-1789. by The Colonial and State History of Hertford County, North Carolina by 
