John Murray (Massachusetts politician)
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Comment: @Robert McClenon: According to U. of New Brunswick Murray lived from 1722–1794. Snippet views in Google Books appear to confirm this. At any rate, he meets a liberal interpretation of WP:POLITICIAN. • Gene93k (talk) 01:53, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
- Comment: I would like the opinion of another reviewer. On the one hand, I think that anyone 250 years ago about whom there is reliable documentation is notable. On the other hand, is there a record of his death? Robert McClenon (talk) 18:30, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
John Murray was the Representative to the Great and General Court of the Province of Massachusetts Bay from 1751 to 1774 for Rutland, Rutland's Northwest District and later for Hubbardston and Oakham.[1] He was principal in the transactional and legislative founding of Barre, Oakham, Athol and Hubbardston. Often honored by the colonial government he was driven from his home in August of 1774 and forced to flee to Boston.[2]
Early life
Murray immigrated to New England in August of 1718 as a boy with the McClanathan, Shaw and Savage families.[3][4] They came on five ships from Northern Ireland, an arrangement brokered by Cotton Mather with the colonial government, originally settling in Worcester but moving onto Rutland after their Presbyterian church had been razed.[5][6] He married Elizabeth McClanathan in 1742 in Bondsville and Lucretia Chandler the daughter of John Chandler (sheriff) in 1761.[7]
Public service
Murray served in Rutland as a Selectman and then was elected to Town Clerk in 1742 and to Assessor in 1747.[2] During the French and Indian War he served as a Lieutenant Colonel. [8]
August 24, 1774
After the assault on the Timothy Paine House on Wednesday August 14, 1774 some marched to Rutland to force Murray to resign as Mandamus Councillor stoned his house breaking the windows.[2][9]
References
- ^ Journals of the House of Representatives. Massachusetts Historical Society. 1919.
- ^ a b c Murphy, Timothy (1928). History of Rutland. Rutland Historical Society.
- ^ Bolton, Charles Knowles (1910). Scotch Irish pioneers in Ulster and America. Bacon and Brown.
- ^ Reed, Jonas (1836). A history of Rutland : Worcester County, Massachusetts, from its earliest settlement, with a biography of its first settlers. Mirick & Bartlett.
- ^ Lincoln, William (1837). History of Worcester, Massachusetts, from its earliest settlement to September, 1836; with various notices relating to the history of Worcester County. M.D. Phillips and company.
- ^ Knowlton, John S. C. (1889). Carl's tour in Main Street. Sanford and Davis.
- ^ Sturgis, Mrs. E.O.P. (1903). A sketch of the Chandler family in Worcester, Massachusetts. Charles Hamilton.
- ^ [1]
- ^ "Oaks".