Mary Lindley Murray
BIRTH
1720
Pennsylvania
DEATH
January 5, 1783
New York City, New York
FAMILY
FATHER:
Lord Dunmore
(1730-1809)
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Murray, Mary Lindley
(1720-1783)
Mary Lindley Murray was a New York merchant’s wife remembered for entertaining British officers during the 1776 campaign. Later tradition holds that the delay gave Patriot troops additional time to escape after the Battle of Brooklyn.
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Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
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Mary Lindley Murray Marker | E 37th St, New York, NY 10016 | MARKER |
DIED:
New York City, New York
Jan 5, 1783
The exact date and place of Mary Lindley Murray’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Mary Lindley Murray with work or public activity as a hostess. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Mary Lindley Murray died on Jan 5, 1783 in New York City, New York. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.