1. Lindley Murray spent the first half of the Revolutionary War in Islip, Long Island, living leisurely.
21 Facts About Lindley Murray
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In 1783, Lindley Murray retired, and one year later, he left America for England.
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Lindley Murray was born in 1745, in Harper Tavern, near Swatara Township, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, His father, Robert Murray, a Quaker, was one of the leading New York merchants.
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Lindley Murray received an education founded on values of the Age of Enlightenment.
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Against his wishes, at fourteen, he was sent to work at his father's accounting firm; Lindley Murray was mainly interested in science and literature.
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Lindley Murray left home to study at a Burlington, New Jersey boardingschool, and started to study French.
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Lindley Murray's parents brought him back to New York and hired a private tutor.
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In 1761, Lindley Murray studied law under Samuel Kissam, his father's attorney and John Jay's teacher.
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Lindley Murray passed the bar in 1765 and established his law practice in the Province of New York in 1767.
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Lindley Murray joined the Debating Club to exchange viewpoints, as did Jay and other sons of prominent families.
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Lindley Murray left his practice to live on Long Island for the first four years of the Revolutionary War.
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The Committee of Sixty grew to the Committee of One Hundred and Lindley Murray remained on the committee, although he continued to get pressure from Quakers to remove himself from the public committee.
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Lindley Murray dealt with the anger that some of the city's residents had about the Beulah affair.
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Lindley Murray left the city that was in turmoil at the beginning of the war.
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In 1779, Lindley Murray decided to work for his father, Robert Lindley Murray, as a merchant.
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Lindley Murray had developed a painful muscular problem, and had little success with treatments he received.
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Lindley Murray was a recorded minister of the York Monthly Meeting for eleven years until his voice failed.
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Lindley Murray's library became noted for its theological, philological, and historical treasures.
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Lindley Murray studied botany, and his garden was said to have more varieties of plants than the Royal Gardens at Kew.
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Lindley Murray's first published work, The Power of Religion on the Mind was originally published in 1787, and it was in its 20th edition in 1842.
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An 'Abridgment' of this version by Lindley Murray, issued two years later, went through more than 120 editions of 10,000 each.