Mary Lindley Murray
(1720-1783)
BIRTH
1720
PLACE
Pennsylvania
NAME
Mary Lindley
DEATH
January 5, 1783
PLACE
New York City, New York
FAMILY
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
CHRISTIAN
QUAKER
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Mary Lindley Murray was a Quaker and wife of New York merchant Robert Murray. In 1776 she entertained General William Howe after the landing at Kip’s Bay. Tradition credits her hospitality with allowing Israel Putnam’s troops to escape, but historians dispute whether it changed Howe’s planned pause. The family’s Manhattan estate gave Murray Hill its name. She petitioned against her husband’s expulsion from New York. Her death is reported as late 1782 or early 1783.
EARLY LIFE
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.
CAREER
DEATH
Mary Lindley Murray was a Quaker and wife of New York merchant Robert Murray. Mary Lindley Murray is known in the American Revolution as the Quaker woman who in 1776 held up British General William Howe after the British victory against American forces at Kips Bay. In 1776 she entertained General William Howe after the landing at Kip’s Bay. Tradition credits her hospitality with allowing Israel Putnam’s troops to escape, but historians dispute whether it changed Howe’s planned pause. Her death is reported as late 1782 or early 1783. Mary Lindley Murray died on Jan 5, 1783 in New York City, New York. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
MARKER
Mary Lindley Murray Marker
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