Land grant, 1773 June 15.

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Land grant, 1773 June 15.

Land grant by King George III to Pascal Greenhill, executed by John, Earl of Dunmore, governor of Virginia. Given at Williamsburg, Va.

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George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820

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George III was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. George's long life and reign were marked by a series of military conflicts involving his kingdoms, much of the rest of Europe, and places farther afield in Africa, the Americas and Asia. Early in his reign, Great Britain defeated France in the Seven Years' War, becoming the dominant European power in North America and India. However, many of Britain's American colonies were soon lost in the American War of Independence. Furt...

Greenhill, Pascal.

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Dunmore, John Murray, Earl of, 1732-1809

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Appointed governor of Virginia in 1771. From the description of Correspondence, 1771-1778. (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation). WorldCat record id: 26923951 Lord Dunmore was the British governor of the Virginia Colony, from September 25, 1771 until his departure to New York on New Years Eve, 1776. From the guide to the Land Grant to Ambrose Gatewood, 1773 June 15, (John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation) Governor of New York (1...

Virginia. Governor (1771-1775 : Dunmore)

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John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (1730 – February 25, 1809), was a British peer and colonial governor. 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. During his term as Virginia's colonial governor, he directed a...