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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.2 | The History Cooperative

The Murrays of Murray Hill. By Charles Monaghan. (Brooklyn: Urban History Press, 1998. x, 166 pp. $25.00, isbn 0-9662430-0-5.)

This is a well-written, charming book about the Murrays of Murray Hill, an eighteenth-century New York Quaker mercantile family. Robert Murray, the head of the clan, arrived in New York City in 1753 and quickly established himself as a prosperous merchant who eventually owned not only ships but a splendid mansion overlooking Kips Bay and a wharf strategically situated in the heart of the port of New York. His son Lindley became a lawyer but also participated in the family's mercantile businesses, especially during the American Revolution. In 1784, Lindley became a loyalist refugee, settled in York, England, and successfully embarked upon a career as an author of school textbooks. His books sold well not only in England but also in the United States, where, according to Charles Monaghan, he popularized the ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment. . . .

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