The title Earl of Dunmore was granted in 1686 to the Lord Charles Murray, son of John Murray, 1st Marquess of Atholl. The earldom is in the Peerage of Scotland, as are two associated subsidiary titles, namely, Viscount of Fincastle and Lord Murray of Blair, Moulin and Tillimet. Furthermore, the Earldom is associated with the title Baron Dunmore, created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1831 for the fifth Earl.
Africans in America/Part 2/Proclamation of Earl of Dunmore
By November 14, 1775, when John Murray, Earl of Dunmore and royal governor of Virginia, issued his proclamation, his plan to offer freedom to slaves who would leave their patriot masters and join the royal forces was already well underway.
Word of Dunmore's plan was known as early as April, when a group of slaves presented themselves to him to volunteer their services.
Scottish nobility, Dunmore became Governor of New York in 1769 and Governor of Murray, John [4th Earl of Dunmore](1730-1809) Governor of Virginia: A member of the Virginia in 1770.
Dunmore dissolved the Virginia Assembly in 1773, after it appointed a committee of correspondence to coordinate action with other colonies against Britain, and in 1774, when it supported Boston in the matter of the Port Act.
Dunmore presided over an assembly to consider the conciliatory proposals of the northern colonies, but rioting forced him to move the seat of government to a warship.
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