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John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore PC (1730 – 25 February 1809) was a British colonial administrator who served as the governor of Virginia from 1771 to 1775. [1] Dunmore was named governor of New York in 1770. He succeeded to the same position in the colony of Virginia the following year after the death of Norborne Berkeley, 4th Baron Botetourt.
Dunmore's Proclamation is a historical document signed on November 7, 1775, by John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, royal governor of the British colony of Virginia.The proclamation declared martial law [1] and promised freedom for indentured servants, "negroes" or others (Slavery in the colonial history of the United States), who joined the British Army (see also Black Loyalists).
Lord Dunmore's War, also known as Dunmore's War, was a brief conflict in fall 1774 between the British Colony of Virginia and the Shawnee and Mingo in the trans-Appalachian region of the colony south of the Ohio River. Broadly, the war included events between May and October 1774.
Alexander Murray, 8th Earl of Dunmore, VC, DSO, MVO, DL. Earl of Dunmore is a title in the Peerage of Scotland.. The title Earl of Dunmore was created in 1686 for Lord Charles Murray, son of John Murray, 1st Marquess of Atholl.
Porto Bello was a 2-story brick farmhouse owned by Lord Dunmore from 1773 to the late 1770s. It is located in central York County on a wooded hill north of Queen's Creek.. In a 1782 map, the building is shown to have five buildings, consisting of a residence, a kitchen, and three other much smaller outbuildings; however, it was written to have up to ten outbuildings while under the ownership ...
Lady Augusta De Ameland (born Murray; 27 January 1761 [1] – 4 March 1830) was a Scottish aristocrat and the first wife of Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, the sixth son of George III. They married on 4 April 1793 in Rome.
John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore; Malcolm Murray, 12th Earl of Dunmore This page was last edited on 30 December 2013, at 03:10 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
English: Signature of John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (1730–1809) from Narrative and Critical History of America, Volume VI, 1888, page 167. Date: 1 January 1888: