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Persoonlijke gegevens Earl John Murray IV of Dunmore 

• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1730.
• Hij is overleden op 25 februari 1809 in Ramsgate, Kent, England, hij was toen 79 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Earl William Murray III of Dunmore en Honorable Catherine Murray
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 5 april 2023.

Gezin van Earl John Murray IV of Dunmore

Hij is getrouwd met Lady Charlotte Stewart of Galloway.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 21 februari 1759, hij was toen 29 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Lady Augusta Murray of Dunmore  ????-1830
2. Lady Catherine Murray of Dunmore  
3. Lady Susan Murray of Dunmore  
4. Earl George Murray V of Dunmore  1762-1836
5. Lord Alexander Murray of Dunmore  1764-1842
6. Lord Leveson Murray of Dunmore  1770-????

Notities over Earl John Murray IV of Dunmore

Lord John Murray of Dunmore was born in Scotland in 1732. He camefrom a noble family and was descended from royalty. In 1761, at the youngage of twenty-nine years, he was elected to the House of Commons in theEnglish Parliament. He served for the remainder of the 1760s. In 1770,the Earl of Hillsborough selected him to be the royal governor of NewYork. Such an appointment was viewed as a great honor and would allow therecipient to garner wealth in England's New World colonies. Dunmoreaccepted the appointment and arrived in New York in October 1770.

In late 1771, Dunmore was promoted to governor of Virginia,England's largest and wealthiest colony in North America. He became aninstant celebrity and well-respected leader of the colony. The Virginiaelites, including George Washington, welcomed him and viewed him as acapable politician. The Virginians' view of Dunmore would turn for theworse in 1773. That year, the governor disbanded the Virginialegislature, the House of Burgesses, for supporting patriots against theMother Country. He would dissolve the legislature again in 1774.Opposition arose to the governor as he limited Virginians' ability togovern themselves.

Hoping to regain the support he once enjoyed, Dunmore sought to helpthe colonists against the Native American threats in the Ohio Country.Beginning in 1774, Mingo Indians and Shawnee Indians rose up againstwhite settlers-mainly from Virginia-who hoped to settle in the area.Dunmore also feared that Pennsylvania coveted the land that Virginiaclaimed. To prevent Pennsylvania's expansion into modern-day WestVirginia, southeastern Ohio, and Kentucky, Dunmore hoped to placeVirginia militiamen in these regions. He also hoped to open these landsto white settlement. In essence, he was a real estate speculator.

In August 1774, Pennsylvania and Virginia militia determined to endthe native threat. Pennsylvania soldiers entered the Ohio Country andquickly destroyed seven Mingo villages, which the Indians had abandonedas the soldiers approached. At the same time, Lord Dunmore sent onethousand men to the Little Kanawha River in modern-day West Virginia tobuild a fort and to attack the Shawnees. Chief Cornstalk dispatchednearly one thousand Shawnee warriors to drive Dunmore's army from theregion. The forces met on October 10, 1774, at what became known as theBattle of Point Pleasant. After several hours of intense fighting, theEnglish drove Cornstalk's followers north of the Ohio River. Dunmorequickly followed the Shawnees across the river into the Ohio Country.Upon nearing the Shawnee villages on the Pickaway Plains, Dunmore stoppedand requested that the Shawnees discuss a peace treaty with him. TheShawnees agreed, but while negotiations were under way, Colonel AndrewLewis and a detachment of Virginia militia that Dunmore had left behindat Point Pleasant crossed the Ohio River and destroyed several Shawneevillages. Fearing that Dunmore intended to destroy them, the Shawneesimmediately agreed to terms before more bloodshed could erupt. Thismilitary campaign became known as Lord Dunmore's War.

As a result of this war, the Shawnee Indians had to agree the termsof the Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1768). They had to relinquish all landseast and south of the Ohio River. This was the first time that nativeswho actually lived in the Ohio Country agreed to relinquish some of theirland. In addition, the Shawnees also promised to return all whitecaptives and to no longer attack English colonists travelling down theOhio River.

Dunmore returned to Virginia a hero, but he quickly alienated thecolonists once again by removing all of the gunpowder in the Williamsburgarsenal to a British warship. Dunmore feared that the colonists intendedto use the gunpowder to overthrow royal authority in the New World. ByJuly 1776, patriots had forced Dunmore to flee from Virginia. He spentthe remainder of the American Revolution in England, where he served inParliament. From 1787 to 1796, he served as the royal governor of theBahamas. He then retired to England and died in 1809.

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