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		Fauquier co., Va. He served in Lord Dunmore's War (1774) and was a noted member of Daniel Morgan's riflemen during...
		A surveyor, he was interested in Western lands, served (1774) in Lord Dunmore's War (see Dunmore, John Murray, 4th earl of), and later went to what...
		...his family was massacred by white settlers (1774), his attacks against them helped bring on Dunmore's War.
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		A surveyor, he was interested in Western lands, served (1774) in Lord Dunmore's War (see Dunmore, John Murray, 4th earl of), and later went to what...
		Fauquier co., Va. He served in Lord Dunmore's War (1774) and was a noted member of Daniel Morgan's riflemen during...
		He fought in Lord Dunmore's War (1774) and helped expel the royal governor from Williamsburg in 1776....
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	Dunmore
		Dunmore's War Dunmore's War (or Lord Dunmore's War) was the result of several collisions that took place in the spring...
		Dunmore, Pennsylvania Dunmore is a borough located in 2000 census, the borough had a total population of 14,018.
		Dunmore County, Virginia Dunmore County was formed in Shenandoah County, Virginia.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/dunmore.html (261 words)

	Logan to Lord Dunmore by James Logan. America: I. (1761-1837). Vol. VIII. Bryan, William Jennings, ed. 1906. The World's Famous Orations
		Colonel Michael Cresap, after whom this war has sometimes been named, tho it is more often called Lord Dunmore’s War, was not responsible for the murder of Logan’s family.
		Lord Dunmore at this time was governor of Virginia.
		The war was brought to a close on October 10 by the Battle of Point Pleasant, in which Logan is said personally to have taken thirty scalps.
	www.bartleby.com /268/8/1.html (399 words)

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	John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (1730–February 25, 1809) was the British governor of the Province of New York from 1770 to 1771 and the Virginia Colony, from September 25, 1771 until just before the American Revolutionary War began in June 1775.
		During his term as Virginia's colonial governor, from 1771 to 1774, he directed a series of campaigns against the Indians known as Lord Dunmore's War.
		Dunmore County, Virginia, formed in 1772, was named in his honor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Murray,_4th_Earl_of_Dunmore (378 words)

	OTCDunmore.html
		The Shenandoah area was created Dunmore County in 1772 from Frederick County; and the occupying Shawnee Indians were defeated in Lord DunmoreÕs War in 1774, which opened the Ohio Valley for settlement.
		However, Lord Dunmore was in continual conflict with the Colonial Assembly and, as the last Royal Governor of Virginia, he was forced to flee to an offshore British warship when the American Revolution broke out in 1775.
		During the Revolutionary War, Michael Reader's Company (in which Reader was Captain and Major of the Militia of Dunmore County) lists William Tyree (he made 2nd Lt. 6-20-1781) and James Price (he made 1st Lt. 6-19-1780).
	members.aol.com /WFTPics/a/OTCDunmore.html (378 words)

	Revolution II
		John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (1730—February 25, 1809), known as Lord Dunmore, was the British governor of the Province of New York from 1770 to 1771 and the Virginia Colony, from September 25, 1771 until just before the American Revolutionary War began in June 1775.
		The title Earl of Dunmore was granted in 1686 to the Lord Charles Murray, son of John Murray, 1st Marquess of Atholl.
		Furthermore, the Earldom is associated with the title Baron Dunmore, created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1831 for the fifth Earl.
	www.donsmcclureconsultants.com /concept_222.htm (661 words)

	Colonel William Fleming in Dunmore's War, 1774
		Dunmore to county lieutenants, Williamsburg, June 10, 1774, Thwaites and Kellogg, Dunmore's War, pp.
		Dunmore to A. Lewis, Rosegill (home of Ralph Wormeley, a Councillor in Middlesex County), July 12, 1774, Thwaites and Kellogg, Dunmore's War, pp.
		Lord Dunmore had not at first intended to take an active part in the campaign against the Indians, but now decided to lead one wing of the invading army himself.
	www.wvculture.org /history/journal_wvh/wvh3-2.html (8096 words)

	AllRefer.com - Dunmore, John Murray, 4th earl of (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		When the news of Lexington and Concord reached Virginia, Dunmore, who twice before had dissolved the house of burgesses for its procolonist stand, removed the colony's gunpowder stores to a man-of-war.
		In 1774 he led the Virginians in a campaign against Native Americans usually known as Lord Dunmore's War.
		Dunmore, John Murray, 4th earl of 1732–1809, British colonial governor of Virginia, a Scottish peer.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/D/DunmoreJM.html (346 words)

	Rockingham Bibliography - Architecture
		During the Civil War battles of Cross Keys and Port Republic the house served as a hospital for both armies.
		Built in 1819 by John Dunmore the Dunmore-Worthington House is one of the oldest remaining in Port Republic.
		The article includes information on the Civil War battle.
	www.lib.jmu.edu /rockbib/bibs/rst.htm (346 words)

	Declaration of Rights and Grievances, Loyalists, Lord Dunmore
		Lord Dunmore, the British royal governor of Virginia on the eve of Revolution, is most well known for offering in November 1775 to free any slaves or indentured servants who would leave their patriot masters to join the British army.
		Public sentiment in the United States against the Loyalists waned after the new Constitution of 1789, and the remaining state laws against them were repealed after the War of 1812.
		Taking refuge aboard an English warship, he soon declared martial law, made his famous offer of freedom for armed service, and proposed to Lord Dartmouth that Indians should be used against the rebels.
	www.owlnet.rice.edu /~mwfriedm/terms/le3.html (436 words)

	Re: Lord Dunmore 1700 or 1800
		I have ancestors who were supposed to have fought in Lord Dunmore's War and received bounty land in KY for doing so.
		Is this the one referred to when you hear of Lord Dunmore's War?
		In Reply to: Re: Lord Dunmore 1700 or 1800 by Shawn
	www.genforum.familytreemaker.com /ky/messages/2756.html (61 words)

	hist1006
		October 6, 1774: In what would be called Lord Dunmore's War, Virginia Governor, John Murray, the Earl of Dunmore, would authorize an army of Virginians to go into Shawnee territory, despite the Royal Proclamation of October 7, 1763, which prohibited European settlements west of the Appalachian Mountains.
		As a result of Dunmore's War, the Indians agreed to give up all of their white prisoners, restore all captured horses and other property, and not to hunt south of the Ohio River.
		In 1774, Lord Dunmore was the British governor of Virginia.
	nativenewsonline.org /history/hist1006.html (740 words)

	Lord Dunmore's Proclamation
		At least one early soldier in Dunmore's militia was an escaped slave from New Jersey who went on to later fame in the war.
		Dunmore had been forced to flee the capital of Williamsburg for the safety of the naval town of Norfolk.
		Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation was the first mass emancipation of slaves in American history, and as such it deserves to be remembered as an important moment in history.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /blackloyalists/story/revolution/dunmore.htm (291 words)

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		Little remembered, however, are the circumstances that in 1774 led to what history calls Dunmore’s War.
		In August, Dunmore’s militia from Frederick County, Virginia, under the command of Colonel Angus McDonald, attacked the Wapatomica towns on the Muskingum River.
		After negotiating a treaty of friendship with the defeated Indians, Dunmore returned to Williamsburg to continue his efforts to stem the tides of independence which were sweeping the colony.
	www.dacorbacon.org /DACOR/Earl_Dunmore.htm (1180 words)

	Lord Dunmore's War
		Meanwhile, Dunmore, in command of the Virginia forces, invaded territory guaranteed to the Indians by the royal proclamation of 1763 and recently (1774) added to the province of Quebec, a fact of which he was not aware, conducted a vigorous campaign, and fortified Camp Charlotte, near Old Chillocothe.
		The war, thus promulgated, we believe, at Dunmore's secret instigation and heralded by a series of ghastly atrocities, came on apace.
		Taking advantages of the alarming situation created by the conflict of the claims of Virginia and Pennsyvlania, Connolly, inspired by Dunmore without doubt, then issued an incendiary circular (April 21, 1774), declaring a state of war to exist.
	www.ls.net /~newriver/va/dunmorew.htm (1726 words)

	Summary of Dunmore's Proclamation
		Taken together, the proclamation and Dunmore's military actions had several important implications that contributed to the inevitability of war.
		For some, Dunmore's offer of freedom to the slaves was seen as one more attack on private property.
		This reminded Virginians that, since the king's standard had been raised, all persons capable of bearing arms were to come forward and swear their loyalty to the king.
	www.history.org /History/teaching/tchaadun.cfm (418 words)

	Africans in America/Part 2/Proclamation of Earl of Dunmore
		The Virginia Gazette warned slaves to "Be not then...tempted by the proclamation to ruin your selves" and urged them to "cling to their kind masters," citing the fact that Dunmore himself was a slave holder.
		Word of Dunmore's plan was known as early as April, when a group of slaves presented themselves to him to volunteer their services.
		By November 14, 1775, when John Murray, Earl of Dunmore and royal governor of Virginia, issued his proclamation, his plan to offer freedom to slaves who would leave their patriot masters and join the royal forces was already well underway.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aia/part2/2h42.html (533 words)

	About the Dunmore's War (1774) Collection
		Dunmore's War was a conflict between the Colony of Virginia and the Native Americans of the Ohio Valley.
		Smyth, Cecil B. Dunmore's War, 1774 : A Concise Narrative of the 1774 Campaign of the Virginia Frontiersmen Against the Indian Tribes of the Ohio Valley (Midlothian, VA, 1995).
		Documentary History of Dunmore's War, 1774 (Madison, WS, 1905).
	www.lva.lib.va.us /whatwehave/mil/aboutdunmorewar.htm (455 words)

	Lord Dunmore's War (2)
		On the day of battle, Dunmore and a Col. O'Connelly were walking together, afterwards a noted tory.
		The northern division fifteen or eighteen hundred strong, under the immediate command of Lord Dunmore were expected to unite and co-operate with the southern.
		Governor Dunmore, a Scotchman, was the commander in-chief.
	www.ls.net /~newriver/va/dunmorec.htm (6256 words)

	Colonel William Fleming in Dunmore's War, 1774
		Thus it was that when the southern division came near Dunmore's camp, all ready to go on to crush the enemy for good, it was met with the astounding news that the war was over.
		It was only later that the charge of false dealing was brought into the open - after the Virginians had become enraged by Dunmore's actions on the coast and looked askance at all his past performances.
		There is, however, no reason to suppose that Lewis believed Dunmore guilty of treachery during the campaign.
	www.wvculture.org /history/journal_wvh/wvh3-2.html (8096 words)

	CULPEPER IN LORD DUNMORE'S WAR
		Some have suggested that Dunmore was disliked by most of the troops under lewis and that lewis and Dunmore had a particular hatred for one another.
		Dunmore sent another express telling lewis to halt and that Lewis and some of his officers might join him in his camp.
		Lewis's guide however, mistook the path and continued to march toward the village.
	www.liming.org /nwta/culdunmore.html (1862 words)

	Dunmore's War and the Battle of Point Pleasant
		As a result of Dunmore's War, the Indians agreed to give up all of their white prisoners, restore all captured horses and other property, and not to hunt south of the Ohio River.
		In 1774, Lord Dunmore was the British governor of Virginia.
		While camped at the Little Kanawha River, Dunmore was to meet with his officers who already had about 1,000 men camped about six miles away from Dunmore.
	www.angelfire.com /realm/shades/nativeamericans/dunmorewar.htm (344 words)

	Lord Dunmore’s War
		Dunmore’s decision to inject himself into frontier warfare has been the subject of considerable speculation.
		Find books on Lord Dunmore’s War at Amazon.com.
		Dunmore was a staunch supporter of the Crown and on three occasions closed down the Virginia legislature as a means to dampen patriot enthusiasm.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1035.html (511 words)

	Dunmore's Proclamation: A Time to Choose
		Dunmore's strategy was one that he had considered before.
		Dunmore wanted to put a quick end to the fighting and other activities he considered traitorous.
		Known as "Dunmore's Proclamation," the governor's announcement created a fervor among the populace and may have actually helped secure the alignment of many moderate or undecided white Virginians against the British government.
	www.history.org /almanack/people/african/aadunpro.cfm (817 words)

	Dunmore News
		Dunmore police said Lois Bambeck, 80, of Dunmore was hit by car Tuesday afternoon on South Blakely Street.
		A Dunmore man has been sentenced to seven to 40 years in state prison for smashing his three-month-old son's head on a concrete floor.
		Both Dunmore and the city of Scranton have lost a lawsuit involving sewers.
	www.topix.net /city/dunmore-pa (1042 words)

	The American Revolution
		Dunmore and the British were soon expelled from Virginia, but the prospect of armed former slaves fighting alongside the British must have struck fear into plantation masters across the South.
		The use of African Americans as soldiers, whether freemen or slaves, was avoided by Congress and General Washington early in the war.
		The British governor of Virginia, Lord Dunmore, quickly saw the vulnerability of the South's slaveholders.
	www.nps.gov /revwar/about_the_revolution/african_americans.html (1329 words)

	John Murray Dunmore
		Lady Dunmore was sent on board the "Fowey" man-of-war, and the governor issued a proclamation against "a certain Patrick Henry" and his "deluded followers," but upon the receipt of the news from Lexington he fled to Fort Johnston, sending his wife to New York.
		In 1776, when the British army arrived in New York, Lord Dunmore was joined by a few loyalists, and carried on a petty warfare, plundering the inhabitants on the James and York rivers, and carrying off their slaves.
		Lord Dunmore with his fleet of fugitives continued during a part of 1776 on the coasts and rivers of Virginia, but, after various distressing adventures, he burned the smaller vessels, and sent the remainder to the West Indies.
	www.famousamericans.net /johnmurraydunmore (659 words)

	CULPEPER IN LORD DUNMORE'S WAR
		Some have suggested that Dunmore was disliked by most of the troops under lewis and that lewis and Dunmore had a particular hatred for one another.
		Dunmore supposed that Lewis's intent was to attack the village in disregard to his orders.
		Lewis's son in later years would write that his father was obliged to double and triple the guard around his tent when the Governor was present to protect him from the wrath of the frontier soldiers who were incensed at being turned back when in sight of their prey.
	www.liming.org /nwta/culdunmore.html (1862 words)

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