Letters of James Murray Loyalist Author:James Murray General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1901 Original Publisher: printed: not published Subjects: American loyalists American loyalists/ Correspondence History / General History / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) History / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) Literary Collecti... more »ons / Letters Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV A TOEY IN REVOLUTIONARY BOSTON 1765-1778 The political turmoil in the midst of which Mr. Murray had found himself upon his removal to Boston in 1765 filled him with surprise and dismay. The Stamp Act had just been passed, obnoxious duties were being enforced, trade and manufactures were suffering, and the town was in a ferment of wrath and opposition. He had hoped, on leaving North Carolina, that he was turning his back upon rebellion, but here he had alighted upon the very seat of disorder. For it was as disorder, first and foremost, that the movement presented itself to him. It has been said that Mr. Murray never became a thorough-going American. The strong family ties that bound him to the old country, in which he had himself grown to man's estate, must at best, even had he possessed a less conservative temper, have divided his allegiance. By force of circumstances as well as of inclination it was inevitable that in North Carolina, and afterwards in Massachusetts, his associates should have been those whose sympathies and prejudices were upon the English side. ELIZABETH Ml'RRAY (MRS. INMAX) The Boston of the patriots, of James Otis, John Hancock, and "the brace of Adamses," he never knew. Yet he was not incapable of taking a broader view than did many of those in whose company he found himself. As far back a...« less