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	Africans in America/Part 2/Proclamation of Earl of Dunmore
		Africans in America/Part 2/Proclamation of Earl of Dunmore
		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.
		Word of Dunmore's plan was known as early as April, when a group of slaves presented themselves to him to volunteer their services.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aia/part2/2h42.html (533 words)

	JOHNMURRAY
		Scottish nobility, Dunmore became Governor of New York in 1769 and Governor of Murray, John [4th Earl of Dunmore](1730-1809) Governor of Virginia: A member of the Virginia in 1770.
		Dunmore dissolved the Virginia Assembly in 1773, after it appointed a committee of correspondence to coordinate action with other colonies against Britain, and in 1774, when it supported Boston in the matter of the Port Act.
		Dunmore presided over an assembly to consider the conciliatory proposals of the northern colonies, but rioting forced him to move the seat of government to a warship.
	www.multied.com /Bio/RevoltBIOS/MortonJohn.html (248 words)

	Genealogy of Northeast Pennsylvania
		Dunmore rejoices in the distinction of being the second most populous subdivision in the county.
		He had interested an English nobleman, Sir Charles Augustus Murray, son of the Earl of Dunmore, in his plan for developing the Lackawanna Valley, particularly building a railroad over the Moosics to the Delaware and was promised financial assistance for his projects by the titled Englishman.
		Dunmore cemetery, on North Blakely Street, was first used in 1828 when Levi Depuy set aside an acre of land for a burial ground.
	www.users.fast.net /~alkeis/resources/lackawanna/dunmore.html (2917 words)

	Revolution II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		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)

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		Yes, Virginia Murray Bacon’s paternal great-great grandfather, John Murray, was indeed the last of "His Majesty’s Lieutenant, Vice Admiral, and Governour-General of the Colony and Dominion of Virginia." An oil portrait of Lord Murray, Fourth Earl of Dunmore, hangs in the south drawing room at DACOR Bacon House.
		An oil portrait of John Murray, Fourth Earl of Dunmore, hangs in the south drawing room at DACOR Bacon House.
		In August, Dunmore’s militia from Frederick County, Virginia, under the command of Colonel Angus McDonald, attacked the Wapatomica towns on the Muskingum River.
	www.dacorbacon.org /DACOR/Earl_Dunmore.htm (1180 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.
		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.
		His wife, Elizabeth Dunmore, died at Southwood house, near Ramsgate, England, in 1818, was the daughter of the Earl of Galloway.
	www.famousamericans.net /johnmurraydunmore (659 words)

	3RD EARL OF SUSSEX - LoveToKnow Article on 3RD EARL OF SUSSEX (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The older title of earl of Sussex was revived in 1874 when it was conferred upon Prince Albert, the third son of Queen Victoria, who at the same time was created duke of Connaught and Strathearn.
		For the earls of the Radcliffe family see also John Strype, Memorials of Thomas Cranmer (London, 1694), Annals of the Reformation (London, 1725), and Ecclesiastical Memorials (3 vols., London, 1721); P. Tytler, England under the Reigns of Edward VI.
		For the 1st earl of the Savile line see S. Gardiner, Hist, of England, 1603-1642 (10 vols., London, 1883-1884), and Hist, of the Great Civil War (3 vols., London, 1886-1891); and John Rushworth, Historical Collections (8 vols., London, 1659-1701).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SU/SUSSEX_3RD_EARL_OF.htm (414 words)

	Mini Biographies of Scots and Scots Descendants - Dunmore, John Murray
		John Murray Dunmore, 4th Earl of Dunmore, (1732-1809), British Colonial Administrator was born in Scotland.
		After a riot at the June session of the colonial legislature, Dunmore transferred the seat of government to the British man-o-war, Fowey, anchored at Yorktown.
		Dunmore equipped a flotilla and used it to attack Ham.
	www.electricscotland.com /WEBCLANS/minibios/d/dunmore_john.htm (817 words)

	Chapter XXVII Titled and Untitled Aristocracy
		By Catherine, daughter of Robert Watts, Esquire, of the county of Hereford, the Earl of Dunmore had five sons, three of whom, James, John, and William, became successively his representatives in the peerage; and three daughters married, to Lord Kinnaird, the Earl of Dundonald, and John Lord Nairn.
		The Earl of Dunmore and male descendants are thus capable of contingently succeeding to the dukedom of Athole.
		On the death of the Earl of Derby, in 1735, without issue, while the estates and honours of Derby went to his male heir Sir Edward Stanley, the title of Lord Strange, and the lordship of Mann and the Isles came to the Duke of Athole, as heir of line and at law.
	www.electricscotland.com /HISTORY/stirlingshire/chap27.htm (5656 words)

	Lord Dunmore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Dunmore was born in 1732 in England, a distant but direct descendant of royalty.
		Murray inherited the title of Earl of Dunmore, and it was as Lord Dunmore that he became universally known.
		Dunmore was appointed Governor of New York in 1770, just as rebellion was spreading through all the colonies.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /blackloyalists/people/influential/dunmore.htm (405 words)

	Earls of Galloway
		Son of the third earl, he was born in January of 1660 and died, unmarried in 1694.
		She died on December of 1757 and was the daughter of Alexander Seton Montgomerie, 9th Earl of Eglinton.
		Alexander, the Fifth Earl of Galloway’s third son became the Sixth Earl of Galloway, because his two older brothers, James and George, did not survive their father.
	www.kentuckystewarts.com /Galloway/GallowayEarls.htm (2000 words)

	A SCOTTISH PINEAPPLE
		However, the use of the pineapple motif in architecture reached its climax in the colossal stone 'Pineapple' structure at Dunmore Park, near Airth in Stirlingshire which is probably one of the most fantastic buildings in Scotland.
		Constructed, by the fifth Earl of Dunmore as a garden folly, with a keystone dated 1761, the 'Pineapple' is built into the north wall of the walled garden, where it forms a focal point, standing 45 feet above ground level.
		Pineapples had been grown in Scotland from the early 18th century and were cultivated at Dunmore in hothouses against the walls of the garden.
	gillonj.tripod.com /ascottishpineapple (525 words)

	Africans in America/Part 2/Portrait-John Murray,Lrd. Dunmore
		John Murray, the fourth earl of Dunmore and royal governor of Virginia at the start of the American Revolution, was simultaneously one of the most hated and most revered men in the colonies.
		In 1787, Dunmore was appointed governor of the Bahamas, where thousands of fls had been transported after the war, most of them enslaved.
		Despite his effort to pose as the "Great Liberator," Dunmore's attempts to reconcile conflicts over property claims for runaway slaves resulted in the reenslavement of 29 of the 30 who brought their claim of freedom before his Negro Court.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aia/part2/2h47.html (332 words)

	American Freedom, Story Panel 3 of 7 - Background - Rebellion
		John Murray, the fourth earl of Dunmore and royal governor of Virginia at the start of the American Revolution.
		The champion of the British policy was John Murray, fourth earl of Dunmore.
		Dunmore acted out of strategic concerns, not altruism, and he was never able to muster more than 800 troops.
	www.johnhorse.com /trail/00/bg/21.htm (142 words)

	Dunmore, 4th Earl of Biography / Biography of Dunmore, 4th Earl of Biography Biography
		John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (1732-1809), was the British colonial governor of Virginia during the dramatic years preceding the American Revolution.
		Elected in 1761 as one of the 16 Scottish peers to sit in the British Parliament, he was reelected in 1768.
		Dunmore's American career is well covered in Thomas J. Wertenbaker, Give Me Liberty: The Struggle for Self-government in Virginia (1958), and Clifford Dowdey, The Golden Age: A Climate for Greatness--Virginia, 1732-1775 (1970).
	www.bookrags.com /biography-dunmore-4th-earl-of (572 words)

	Worldroots.com
		Granddaughter of William The Silent, Prince of Orange, Charlotte married the Earl of Derby, who was related to the English royal family, and found her a queen by his side in Lathom House, a massive and ancient fortress, considered 'the only Court' in the north.
		In 1643, with the Earl on the Isle of Man, the Countess was at Lathom House with two of her children, when it was besieged by Sir Thomas Fairfax, the Parliamentary General who wanted to have a bloodless surrender.
		In 1686 his father became Earl of Dunmore and, as the eldest son and heir, was styled Viscount Fincastle.
	worldroots.com /brigitte/royal/churchilll.htm (8945 words)

	Dunmore Pennsylvania Resource Guide, City or community of Dunmore, Pennsylvania Facts, Information, Relocation, Real ...
		The population of Dunmore is approximately 15,403 (1990).
		The distance from Dunmore to Washington DC is 189 miles.
		Dunmore is positioned 41.41 degrees north of the equator and 75.60 degrees west of the prime meridian.
	www.usacitiesonline.com /pacountydunmore.htm (369 words)

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		Dunmore's proclamation led Blacks to believe that the British were genuinely opposed to slavery.
		J.A. Rogers states that "5,000 joined Dunmore at Norfolk; 25,000 fled from their masters in South Carolina and nearly seven-eighths of the slaves in Georgia." Nearly 2,000 slaves joined the British forces under General Cornwallis including numerous slaves from George Washington's plantation.
		One half of Dunmore's troops that fought at Great Bridge on December 9, 1775 were runaway slaves.
	www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us /diversity/lordd.htm (723 words)

	AllRefer.com - Dunmore, John Murray, 4th earl of (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Dunmore, John Murray, 4th earl of 1732–1809, British colonial governor of Virginia, a Scottish peer.
		Lewis defeated the Native Americans at Point Pleasant, and Dunmore negotiated a final treaty with them in the Scioto valley.
		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.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/D/DunmoreJM.html (346 words)

	The Dunmore Ball - Norfolk Highlights - Chapter 19
		The event was the ball given for John Murray, Fourth Earl of Dunmore, Virginia's last royal governor, and his countess in Norfolk in 1774.
		The epilogue was the bombardment of the town by Dunmore on January 1, 1776.
		Dunmore had arrived in Virginia in the fall of 1771 and was joined early in 1774 by Lady Charlotte Dunmore and their children.
	www.norfolkhistorical.org /highlights/19.html (734 words)

	The Employment of Blacks in the British Army (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In November, 1775, the Governor of the Crown Colony of Virginia (John Murray, Earl of Dunmore) issued a proclamation that, in order to defeat "treasonable purposes", he was declaring that a state of martial law existed in Virginia, and those colonists that refused to "resort to His Majesty's standard" would be traitors.
		Here, Dunmore's force of 600 troops (nearly half ex-slaves, together with companies of the 14th Regiment of Foot) were repulsed with 61 casualties.
		As well as troops, fls were utilised by Dunmore as pilots on the Chesapeake, and its associated waterways, as foraging parties, and on garrison duties at Gwynn's Island.
	www.cvco.org /sigs/reg64/black.html (651 words)

	The Revolution's Black Soldiers
		Dunmore could argue that since the colonists were clamoring for English law, they could get a taste of it, Somersett and all.
		Dunmore invited only those slaves to his banner who were owned by rebels, and of those, only males could bear arms.
		Dunmore's proclamation had been driven as much by political as by military considerations, but his early attempt at using fls as soldiers never became general policy.
	www.americanrevolution.org /blk.html (5777 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.
		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.
		For some, Dunmore's offer of freedom to the slaves was seen as one more attack on private property.
	www.history.org /History/teaching/tchaadun.cfm (418 words)

	SparkNotes: Thomas Jefferson: Political Tensions 1770-1775
		Due to what he found to be inflammatory language, the royal governor, the Earl of Dunmore, dissolved the House of Burgesses once more, a mere fourteen months after their previous dissolution.
		Meanwhile, in the face of this abstract theorizing, the Earl of Dunmore was intent on strengthening the British hold on Virginia rather than loosening or losing it.
		Jefferson was joined in the enterprise by both the Earl of Dunmore and a noted Virginia planter, George Washington.
	www.sparknotes.com /biography/jefferson/section4.rhtml (1256 words)

	"Manufactured History": Re-Fighting the Battle of Point Pleasant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		This was done, as stated by Colonel Haymond, the officers of his division, when on their return, assembled at the mouth of Hockhocking river, and in a ringing resolution fully endorsed the conduct of their commander-in-chief, in the war.
		The Panel's unanimous decision was that, while the Dunmore campaign was a significant episode in the nation's Westward expansion, it was not essentially related to the ideals and events of the American Revolution, nor sufficiently of national impact to warrant inclusions in the National Bicentennial program.
		Dunmore County was created in 1772 and renamed Shenandoah County in 1778.
	www.wvculture.org /history/journal_wvh/wvh56-5.html (3736 words)

	Mariners' Museum - Waters of Despair, Waters of Hope
		The hope of a new nation may have led some to believe that their lives would be different as well.
		The Earl of Dunmore was Virginia's last royal governor.
		In November 1775, operating from the HMS William in the Elizabeth River, Dunmore published a proclamation that called for slaves to join him in return for their freedom.
	www.mariner.org /waters/war/war01.htm (283 words)

	An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera: Titles: 16
		John Earl of Dunmore, his Majesty's Lieutenant and Governor General of the Colony and Dominion of Virginia, and Vice admiral of the same: A proclamation.
		By his Excellency the Right Honourable John Earl of Dunmore, his Majesty's Lieutenant and Governor General of the Colony and Dominion of Virginia, and Vice Admiral of the same.
		By his Excellency the Right Honourable John Earl of Dunmore, his Majesty's Lieutenant and Governour-General of the Colony and Dominion of Virginia, and Vice-admiral of the same.
	international.loc.gov /ammem/rbpehtml/rbpebibTitles16.html (5499 words)

	The Pineapple (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In 1761 the twenty-nine year old John Murray, fourth Earl of Dunmore, had been married two years.
		There are two entrances: a classical loggia to the south and a Gothick doorway to the north on the upper level, leading into the second storey.
		The keystone above the south entrance carries the date 1761, and above this is a carved heart and the inscription "FIDELIS IN ADVERSIS", commemorating the marriage of George Murray, the fifth Earl of Dunmore, to the daughter of the Duke of Hamilton in 1803.
	www.heritage.co.uk /follies/ffyce01.html (499 words)

	Dunmore, 4th Earl of Biography / Biography of Dunmore, 4th Earl of Biography Biography
		Dunmore, 4th Earl of Biography / Biography of Dunmore, 4th Earl of Biography Biography
		In 1768 he married Lady Charlotte Stewart, daughter of the Earl of Galloway.
		Lord Dunmore was appointed governor of New York in 1770 by Lord Hillsborough, British secretary of state for the Colonies.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-dunmore-4th-earl-of/index.html (572 words)

	Norfolk Public Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In 1775, as America struggled against British rule, John Murray, Earl of Dunmore and Virginia's last Royal Governor, had to raise troops quickly to subdue the unruly colonists, and issued a proclamation promising freedom to all indentured servants and slaves who would fight for His Majesty.
		By the end of 1775, Dunmore had abandoned the Williamsburg capital and, with his troops and local Tories, taken refuge on ships in the Norfolk harbor.
		Dunmore left Virginia in 1776, and soldiers from the regiment sailed with him to New York to join other units, and to move to Nova Scotia, where the British had promised land as payment for service.
	www.npl.lib.va.us /history/history73.html (237 words)

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