Alexander Murray (1755%E2%80%931821)
Commodore Alexander Murray was an officer who served in the Continental Navy, the Continental Army, and later the United States Navy, during the American Revolutionary War, the QuasiWar with France and the First Barbary War in North Africa.
Murrays grandfather had been exiled to Barbados from his home in Elginshire, Scotland, following the Jacobite Rising of 1715, and his father was born there, before moving to Chestertown, Maryland, to practice as a physician, marry, and have several children, of whom Alexander was the youngest. As a young man Murray went to sea, and such was his skill that by the age ofhe was the master of a merchant ship plying its trade between America and Europe.
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