The Murrays of Murray Hill
by Charles Monaghan
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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 show more the most important popularizer of Scottish Enlightenment ideas in America."--Jacket. show lessTags
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- 974.7 — History & geography History of North America Northeastern United States (New England and Middle Atlantic states) New York
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- F128.44 .M896 — Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin America United States local history New York
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