Murray County Records

Murray County was created from Cherokee County on Dec. 3, 1832 by an Act of the General Assembly. Before that it was occupied by the Cherokee Nation of North Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and North Carolina and Chief Vann farmed in this county. The county was named for Hon. Thomas W. Murray.

The first grand jury was sworn in 1833, viz: Benjamin Clark, foreman, Asa May, Eli Bouling, Daniel Anderson, Samuel Jhnson, James McGhee, John R. Smedley, Samuel Miller, Roger Markins, John Gillian, Ambler Casey, John W. Cain, Thomas Bryant, Robert C. Cain, John B. Marstin, Wilson R. Young, Robert Smith, Benjamine Wheeler.