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Start Over Collection Dunmore Family Papers (I) [in part photocopies] Date range 1649

Box 1: Correspondence Box 1

First three folders contain genealogical notes and correspondence between John Stewart Bryan and Jack E. Morpurgo, 1938-1942, concerning the acquisition of the Dunmore Family Papers. The earliest papers of the collection relate to the land in Brabant, Holland and Zealand which the Dunmore family inherited from Jacques Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby (1607-1672) and his wife Charlotte de la Tremoille. Letters to Amelia Sophia, Lady Marquess of Atholl (d. 1702/03), mother of Charles, 1st Earl of Dunmore, describing Europe during the early 1680's. Accounts for the household of James, Duke of York, until 1689 relative to 1st Earl's position as Master of the Horse for James' wife and daughter. After the triumph of William, Prince of Orange, the 1st Earl was called to Parliament. Letters, 1702-1709, between Charles and his older brother John, 1st Duke of Atholl (1659/60-1724) discussing jobs, the treachery of Simon Fraser, James, 2nd Duke of Queensberry (1672-1724), and the Glencoe Massacre. Letters to William Murray, 3rd Earl (1696-1756) from his niece Anne Chochrane concerning social news between 1720 and 1722. Financial matters of William Murray are also included in this box.

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