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Forbes, John Murray

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John Murray Forbes was the brother of Robert Bennet Forbes, a ship's captain who commissioned a number of works from Lane. John Murray Forbes purchased land with his brother in Milton, Massachusetts and built a house for their mother there, known as the Robert Bennet Forbes house. According to the 1848 Boston Directory, John Murray Forbes had an office at 48 State Street. 

photo (historical)
John Murray Forbes
Edith Perkins Cunningham
1939
Book "Family Photographs" 1: 95.
Privately Printed; The Riverside Press
Courtesy of the Forbes House Museum.
letter
Journal "K" 1862–64 V.III
John Murray Forbes
Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston

$150 paid to Sylvanus Smith per order of Capt. John Smith (page 509)

$100 paid on 6/30/62 to John Smith to pay his rent (page 520)

photo (historical)
"Masconomo", Manchester, Massachusetts, The Robert Forbes House, 1856
Edith Perkins Cunningham
1939
Book "Family Photographs" 1:45
Privately Printed: The Riverside Press
Collection of the Forbes House Museum.

Also filed under: Forbes, Robert Bennet »   //  Manchester, Mass. »

artwork
Portrait of Margaret Perkins Forbes
Collection of the Forbes House Museum, Milton, Mass.

Also filed under: Forbes, Robert Bennet »

Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: "People." In Fitz Henry Lane Online. Gloucester, MA: Cape Ann Museum. www.fitzhenrylaneonline.org/historical_material/?section=Forbes%2C+John+Murray&type=People (accessed on July 31, 2025).