What did lord dunmore do

John Murray is born probably at Taymount, the estate of his parents, William Murray and Catherine Nairne Murray, in Perthshire, Scotland.

John Murray serves as a page to Charles Edward Stuart (often called Bonnie Prince Charlie) during the Jacobite rising.

John Murray receives a commission as an officer in the 3rd Foot Guards, of which his loyal uncle, the second earl of Dunmore, served as a colonel.

William Murray, father of John Murray, becomes the third earl of Dunmore.

John Murray serves as a captain in raids on the coast of France during the Seven Years' War.

John Murray leaves active military service.

William Murray, third earl of Dunmore, dies, at which time his son John Murray becomes the fourth earl of Dunmore.

John Murray, fourth earl of Dunmore, marries Lady Charlotte Stewart, daughter of the six earl of Galloway. They will have five sons and at least five daughters.

John Murray, fourth earl of Dunmore, resigns his commission in the military.

John Murray, fourth earl of Dunmore, has a moderate voting record on American affairs while sitting in the House of Lords as a Scottish representative peer in the House of Lords.

Family connections have brought John Murray, fourth earl of Dunmore, into the political orbit of Granville Leveson-Gower, second earl of Gower, a leader of the group known as the Bedford Whigs, who take a hard line toward colonial protestors.

John Murray, fourth earl of Dunmore, seeks a royal appointment with a salary to alleviate his financial difficulties, which may have resulted from unwise investments.

John Murray, fourth earl of Dunmore, sits in the House of Lords as a Scottish representative peer.

John Murray, fourth earl of Dunmore, is appointed governor of New York.

Governor John Murray, fourth earl of Dunmore, takes office of governor of New York.

After three months as governor of New York, John Murray, fourth earl of Dunmore, reluctantly becomes governor of Virginia. He will unsuccessfully seek permission to remain in New York.

John Murray, fourth earl of Dunmore, reluctantly moves to Virginia and takes office as governor.

Governor John Murray, fourth earl of Dunmore, sends an agent, John Connolly, to occupy Fort Pitt, which he names Fort Dunmore.

The family of John Murray, fourth earl of Dunmore, arrive in Williamsburg where Murray is serving as governor of Virginia.

Governor John Murray, earl of Dunmore, dissolves the General Assembly. The House of Burgesses continues to meet on its own.

Virginians defeat Indians at Point Pleasant in a conflict later known as Dunmore's War.

After negotiating a treaty with Cornstalk, leader of the Shawnee Indians, following a conflict later known as Dunmore's War, Governor John Murray, fourth earl of Dunmore, returns to Williamsburg and receives a shower of congratulations.

Governor John Murray, fourth earl of Dunmore, names a daughter Virginia in an effort to identify himself with the colony.

As the crisis between the colonies and Great Britain grows more serious, Governor John Murray, fourth earl of Dunmore, is unable to prevent the second of the Revolutionary Conventions from electing delegates to the Second Continental Congress and from voting to put the colony in a posture of defense.

Governor John Murray, earl of Dunmore, dispatches a company of marines to seize the colony's munitions from the public magazine in Williamsburg.

Governor John Murray, fourth earl of Dunmore, flees Williamsburg and tries to gather Loyalist supporters in Hampton Roads, which will only bring a small force of British regulars.

Governor John Murray, Earl of Dunmore, issues a proclamation that declares martial law and promises freedom to all enslaved people and indentured servants belonging to Patriots willing to fight for the British.

Governor John Murray, fourth earl of Dunmore, orders a strike against a Virginia regiment at Great Bridge, near Norfolk. The strike will be unsuccessful.

John Murray, fourth earl of Dunmore, returns to Great Britain but remains Virginia's royal governor and drew his salary until the end of the war.

Following Governor John Murray, fourth earl of Dunmore's departure from Virginia, the General Assembly in 1776 divides Fincastle County into three counties and eliminates its name.

John Murray, fourth earl of Dunmore resumes his seat in the House of Lords where he staunchly supports the war.

John Murray, fourth earl of Dunmore, sits in the House of Lords as a Scottish representative peer.

British forces fire on Norfolk. Governor John Murray, fourth earl of Dunmore, orders his men to set fire to the warehouses on the wharves.

Governor John Murray, fourth earl of Dunmore, moves British forces from Norfolk to Gwynn's Island in what later will become Mathews County, where smallpox and other diseases ravage his forces and take a particularly heavy toll on the Ethiopian Regiment.

Governor John Murray, fourth earl of Dunmore, realizes he will not receive reinforcements and sails for New York, where he will briefly serve as a volunteer during military action on Long Island.

In a rare speech in the House of Lords, John Murray, fourth earl of Dunmore, defends using Indians to fight against the Americans.

The General Assembly renames Dunmore County as Shanado (later Shenandoah) County.

British forces return to Virginia. John Murray, fourth earl of Dunmore, and a contingent of Loyalist refugees from Virginia try to go back as well in hopes of restoring the royal government.

The British surrender at Yorktown diverts John Murray, fourth earl of Dunmore's expedition of loyalists to Charleston, South Carolina, where he unsuccessfully develops schemes for continuing the war with Loyalist volunteers and advocates raising more black troops.

In the House of Lords, John Murray, fourth earl of Dunmore, presses for further prosecution of the war and votes against peace preliminaries.

With John Randolph, John Murray, fourth earl of Dunmore, presses Virginians' claims before the American Loyalist Claims Commission, which oversees the reimbursement of Loyalists for their property losses. Murray himself files a claim for £35,723, £15,000 of which he already received from the government in 1776 for personal losses.

John Murray, fourth earl of Dunmore, serves as governor of the Bahamas.

John Murray, fourth earl of Dunmore, dies at his retirement home in Ramsgate, Kent, England, and is buried at the Church of Saint Laurence, Thanet, England.