A Collection in the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation`s John D.
Rockefeller, Jr. Library Manuscript Number MS 1931.20
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
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John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (1730 – February 25, 1809), was a British peer and
colonial governor. He was the son of William Murray, 3rd Earl of Dunmore, and his
wife Catherine (née Murray). Murray succeeded his father in the earldom in 1756 and
sat as a Scottish Representative Peer in the House of Lords from 1761 to 1774 and
from 1776 to 1790. He was the British governor of the Province of New York from 1770
to 1771 and the Virginia Colony, from September 25, 1771 until his departure to New
York on New Years Eve, 1776.