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9 de dic. de 2021 · A PROCLAMATION. (1775) John Murray, 4th Earl Dunmore, Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia. related portals: American Revolution, Slavery in the United States. This proclamation was issued by the Colony of Virginia's last royal governor, James Murray, Earl Dunmore. It declared martial law, and offered slaves of rebels their freedom if they ...
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John Murray was born in Tymouth, Scotland in 1730, and he joined the British Army, despite his earlier participation in the Jacobite uprising of 1745. In 1756, he became Earl of Dunmore, and he briefly served as Governor of New York from 1770 to 1771 before serving in his most notable colonial role, as Governor of Virginia from 1771 to 1775.
Lord Dunmore's Proclamation, 1775 | In April 1775, John Murray, the Earl of Dunmore and Virginia’s royal governor, threatened to free slaves and reduce the capital, Williamsburg, to ashes if the colonists rebelled against British authority. In the months that followed, Dunmore’s position became increasingly desperate.
In early 1774 the Virginia militia seized Fort Pitt and renamed it Fort Dunmore for their royal governor, John Murray, 4th earl of Dunmore. Securing frontiersmen behind colonial forts, Lord Dunmore joined Colonel Andrew Lewis in carrying the aggression against the Indians, who they felt threatened white settlers.
1 de dic. de 2019 · John [Murray], 4th Earl of Dunmore. born. 1730. mar. 21 Feb 1759 his cousin Lady Charlotte Stewart (d. 11 Nov 1818), 5th dau. of Alexander [Stewart], 6th Earl of Galloway, by his second wife Lady Catherine Cochrane, 3rd dau. by his first wife of John [Cochrane], 4th Earl of Dundonald. children. 1. Hon George Murray, later 5th Earl of Dunmore. 2.
