Memoir of the late John Murray, Jun : read before the governors of the New-York Hospital, ninth month, fourteenth, 1819 / by Thomas Eddy ; published by order of the governors.

  • Eddy, Thomas, 1758-1827.
Date:
1819
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Credit: Memoir of the late John Murray, Jun : read before the governors of the New-York Hospital, ninth month, fourteenth, 1819 / by Thomas Eddy ; published by order of the governors. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ * ] us, when every part of the great business of life is over, for an admittance into that city, whose walls are salvation, and its gates praise. John Murray, Jun. was born in this city, on the 3d of the 8th month, in the year 1758. He was the son of Ro- bert Murray, the principal of the highly respectable commer- cial house of Murray, Sansom & Co. of London and New- York; and brother to Lindley Murray, of the city of York, in England, whose literary character is well known in Eu- rope and America. When about twelve years of age, he was a scholar with myself at Friends' Grammar School, in Philadelphia; the remainder of his education he received in England. In his youthful days he was remarked as being of an un- commonly active and lively disposition. Early in life he commenced business in this city with Mo- ses Rogers, was very successful in his commercial pursuits, and, altera few years, withdrew himself from this concern. His mind for sometime had received deep religious impres- sions, and under the power of the mild and humanizing principles of the Gospel, his natural feelings were controlled, and, in a good degree, subjected to the benign influence of divine grace. From this time he became zealously en- gaged to promote every measure, that Mould conduce to ameliorate the condition of mankind, without distinction of sect or colour. But, that he might be rightly qualified, under the guidance of the divine spirit of his Lord and Master, he considered, that a sense of religious duly should precede his actions for promoting benevolent purposes, and thus secure the divine blessing on all his undertakings. About this period his father proposed to him, to admit him as a partner in the house of Murray, Sansom 6c Co., which flattering offer he declined, from a sense of religious obliga- tion