The Murrays of Murray Hill

The Murrays of Murray Hill
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Download or read book The Murrays of Murray Hill written by Charles Monaghan and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles "the New York Quaker merchant family that gave its name to the Manhattan neighborhood of Murray Hill." Discuses several members of the family which established itself in New York in 1753, but focuses particularly on Lindley Murray, a successful lawyer who was exiled to Britain as a loyalist after the American Revolution. In Britain, Lindley wrote school textbooks, became "the largest-selling author in the world during the first four decades of the 19th century, ... [and] became the most important popularizer of Scottish Enlightenment ideas in America."--Jacket.


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