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Sources consulted for the biography of:John Murray fourth earl of Dunmore (ca. 1730–1809)
Primary Sources
- Dunmore Family Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
- Dunmore's correspondence in:
- William Petty, 1st Marquis of Lansdowne, 2nd Earl of Shelburne Papers, William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney Papers, William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Thomas Gage Papers, William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Haldimand Papers, Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
- Correspondence as governor in Public Records Office, Colonial Office Papers 5/1349–1353, National Archives, Kew, England (available on Virginia Colonial Records Project microfilm, Library of Virginia)
- Most correspondence summarized or printed in K. G. Davies, ed., Documents of the American Revolution, 1770–1783 (Colonial Office Series) (1972–1981)
- Appointment as governor in Patent Roll, 11 George III, Part III, Public Records Office C 66/3730, no. 29, National Archives, Kew, England (available on Virginia Colonial Records Project microfilm, Library of Virginia)
- Reuben Gold Thwaites and Louise Phelps Kellogg, eds., Documentary History of Dunmore's War (1905)
- Property claim in Public Records Office, Auditors Office Group 12/54, folios. 118–134, Auditors Office Group 12/109, pp. 124–125; 12/100, pp. 349–350; and 13/28, National Archives, Kew, England (available on Virginia Colonial Records Project microfilm, Library of Virginia)
- Death date of 25 Feb. 1809 at age seventy-eight on funerary monument and erroneous death date of Mar. 1809 on D'Este mausoleum in Charles Cotton, The History and Antiquities of the Church and Parish of St. Laurence, Thanet, in the County of Kent (1895), 78, 151
Secondary Sources
- Percy Burdelle Caley, "Dunmore, Colonial Governor of New York and Virginia, 1770–1782" (Ph.D. diss., University of Pittsburgh, 1939)
- James Corbett David, Dunmore's New World: The Extraordinary Life of a Royal Governor in Revolutionary America, with Jacobites, Counterfeiters, Land Schemes, Shipwrecks, Scalping, Indian Politics, Runaway Slaves, and Two Illegal Royal Weddings (2013)
- William C. Lowe, "The Parliamentary Career of Lord Dunmore, 1761–1774," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 96 (1988): 3–30
- W. Hugh Moomaw, "The British Leave Colonial Virginia," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 66 (1958): 147–160
- James Balfour Paul, ed., The Scots Peerage: Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland (1904–1914), 3:388–392 (birth year of 1730, death at age seventy-eight, and marriage date from family papers not open to research)
- John E. Selby, Dunmore (1977)
Obituaries
- Gentleman's Magazine 79 (1809): 587
- Scots Magazine, and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany 71 (1809): 239 (erroneous death date of March 5, 1809)
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