Virginians in central and eastern Virginia have been celebrating the 1775 campaign of the colony’s last royal governor, John Murray, the 4th Earl of Dunmore. Here's a book that tells you more.

click image for close-up Click here for the text of this historical document. By November 14, 1775, when John Murray, Earl of Dunmore and royal governor of Virginia, issued his proclamation, his ...

Doncastle’s Ordinary played an important role in the aftermath of orders from British royal governor John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, to steal the gunpowder from the public magazine in ...