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American
Scottish History
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Continued
from Part 1
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Memoir of Rev. Geo. W. Bethune, D. D.
By Rev. A. R. Van Nest, D. D. (1867) (pdf)
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Memoir of George McClellan,
M. D.
By W. Darrach, M. D. (1847) (pdf)
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Monument to Memory of William Campbell
April 22, 1908 (pdf)
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Scotch Plains
The story of an old Community by Reignette Marsh (1936) (pdf)
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Annual Sermon before the American Seamen's Friend Society
At its Seventy-Sixth Anniversary, Sunday, May 8, 1904, by the
Rev. Donald Sage MacKay, D.D. (1904) (pdf)
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The Life of Thomas Dickson
A Memorial by Samuel C. Logan, D.D. (1888) (pdf)
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John Archibald Campbell
Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court 1853-1861 by
Henry G. Connor, LL.D. (1920) (pdf)
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William Dow
Monifieth/St Louis/Miami
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The Watson
Family
A traditional music family
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Daughters of Scotia
A fraternal order which celebrated the 125th Anniversary of its
Grand Lodge this year. Membership is available to women who were
born in Scotland, are of Scottish descent, or are interested in
supporting Scottish culture.
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An American Tramp in Scotland
By Weary Ben (Ben Goodkind) (1897) (pdf))
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Scotch Grove Pioneers
The story of those hardy Scotchmen, who made an overland journey
from the Red River of the North to Jones County, Iowa, in 1837 and
formed the settlement now known as, Scotch Grove by Josephine
Sutherland (1937) (pdf)
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Cleland Cousins
A Genealogy and Biographical Album of Claland and the Allied
Families of Baker, Blair, Collins, Fisher, Gowdey, Haylett, Hume,
Moody, Oliver, Richards, Ross, Wells, etc. Being the Story of Samuel
and Jane (Martin) Cleland and their Descendants in America with the
Lineage of Samuel Cleland through 200 years in County Down, Ireland
and a review of his ancestors of Lanarkshire, Scotland to the 13th
century Compiled by Glenn and Rebekah (Deal) Oliver (1962) (pdf)
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A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander of Lanarkshire,
Scotland
And his wife, Margaret Glasson, who emigrated from County Armagh,
Ireland to Chester County, Pennsylvania A. D. 1736 by the Rev. John
E. Alexander (1878) (pdf)
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Jacobite Past, Loyalist
Present
By Michael Newton, University of Richmond (2003) (pdf)
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Sunday Magazine of the Boston Sunday Post
August 30, 1905 (pdf)
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Hugo Reid
Hugo enjoyed the leisurely life of a gentleman rancher and
literary dilettante
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Men and
Measures of Half a Century
Sketches and Comments by Hugh McCulloch, Secretary to the Treasury in the
Administrations of Presidents Lincoln, Johnson and Arthur (1889) (pdf)
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Pioneer
History of Milwaukee
By James Smith Buck (1890) in 4 volumes
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Dr. Peter Marshall
(May 27, 1902 – January 26, 1949) was a Scottish-American preacher, pastor
of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C., and was
appointed as Chaplain of the United States Senate.
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An Account of the
Remarkable Occurrences in the Life and Travels of Col. James Smith
During his captivity with the Indians, in the years 1755 to 1759 with an
Appendix of Illustrative Notes by Wm. M. Darlington, of Pittsburgh (1870) (pdf)
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Land o' The Leal
Home of Roosevelt's Ancestors in Bucks. The Story of a Sturdy People. Little
Colony of Ulster Scots who were Prominent for their Piety and Courage. Sketch of
the Home Life of a Self-Reliant Race. (pdf)
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Concerning the Forefathers
Being a Memoir, with Personal Narrative and Letters of Two Pioneers Col.
Robert Patterson and Col. John Johnston the paternal and maternal grandfathers
of John Henry Patterson of Dayton, Ohio, For whose children this book is written
by Charlotte Reeve Conover (1902) (pdf)
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William
Holmes McGuffey
College professor and president who is
best known for writing the McGuffey Readers, the first widely used series of
elementary school-level textbooks. More than 120 million copies of McGuffey
Readers were sold between 1836 and 1960, placing its sales in a category with
the Bible and Webster's Dictionary.
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Vain, hurtful, lying,
worldly tales
Creed, belief, and practice in the life of Argyll Highlanders, in Scotland
and America by Michael Newton (2003) (pdf)
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To secure to themselves
and their countrymen an agreeable and happy retreat
The continuity of Scottish Highland Mercenary traditions and North America
outmigration. A Thesis Presented to The Graduate Faculty of The University of
Akron In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts
by Cameron Flint (2006) (pdf)
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William Watt
Representative Miner. A Tribute to his memory
by Edward Curtis (1880) (pdf)
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The Pennsylvania
Canals
By James MacFarlane, Ph. D. (pdf)
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Soldiers of our Army
By Ro. H. Armistead
(pdf)
- Robert
Currie
Commander of the Name and Arms of Currie. 2022 National Tartan
Day Recipient.
- Memoir of
Rev. Samuel B. McPheeters, D. D.
By Rev. John S. Grasty with an Introduction by Rev. Stuart
Robinson, D. D. (1871) (pdf)
- James Macfarlane
By J. P. Lesley (1885)
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History of Davidson
County, Tennessee
With Illustrative and Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men
and Pioneers by Prof. W. W. Clayton (1880) (pdf)
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An Historical Account of The
Scottish Communion Office
And of the Communion Office of the Protestant Episcopal Church of
the United States of America with Liturgical Notes to which is added
a reprint in reduced facsimilie of the edition of the Scottish
Office of 1764; and also reprints of the American Communion Office,
the Scottish Office of 1637, and the Nonjurors Office (1718) by John
Dowden, D.D. (1884)
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Alexander Macfarlane
by J. M. Colaw (1895) (pdf)
- From the Scientific American Magazine
Scotch and American Yankees
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Travels in the Interior
of America in the years 1809, 1810 and 1811
Including a Description of upper Louisiana, together with the States of
Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and Tennessee with the Illinois and Western
Territories and containing Remarks and Observations useful to persons
emigrating to those Countries by Bradbury, John (1817) (pdf)
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Memoirs of
Major Robert Stobo of the Virginia regiment
By Robert Stobo and Neville Craig (1854) (pdf)
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Southern
Presbyterian Leaders
By Henry Alexander White, A.M., PH.D., D.D., LL.D. (1911) (pdf)
- African-American History
A section exploring the history of African Americans
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The Historical Society of
Haddonifield
How memories of violence shaped colonial America's Scots-Irish and
Irish, a presentation by Dr. Judith Ridner (2006) (pdf)
- Scotch
Coast
Hawaii
- Frederick Douglass
An American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and
statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national
leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York,
becoming famous for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings.
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History and Rhymes of the Lost
Battalion
By Buck Private McCollum, Sketches by Franklin Sly (1922) (pdf)
- Random
sketches and wandering thoughts
Or, What I saw in camp, on the march, the bivouac, the battle field
and hospital, while with the Army in Virginia, North and South Carolina,
during the late rebellion: with a historical sketch of the Second Oswego
Regiment, Eighty-first New York State V.I., a record of all its
officers, and roster of its enlisted men, also, an appendix by De
Forest, B. S. (Bartholomew S.) (1866) (pdf)
- Gus R Noble
Scot of the Year 2021
- Asheville, NC
Sister City to Dunkeld-Birnam, Scotland
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Dr. David A. Renwick
Has been an ordained Presbyterian Minister
for 40 years, serving diverse congregations in Newfoundland, Canada; San
Antonio, Texas; Lexington, KY; and Spartanburg, South Carolina. Dr.
Renwick is a graduate of St. Andrew’s University in Scotland, where he
studied Applied Mathematics. He received his M.Div. from Gordon-Conwell
Theological Seminary, and his Ph.D. from Union Theological Seminary in
Virginia. David’s wife Currie is a Media Specialist in the DC Public
Schools. They have three adult children and five grandchildren.
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Memoirs with Special reference to
Secession and the Civil War
By John
H. Regan LL.D. Postmaster-General of the Cofederacy; sometime United
States Senator; Chairman of the Railroad Commission of Texas; President
of the Texas State Historical Association edited by Walter Flavius
McCaleb, Ph. D., with Introduction by George P. Garrison, Ph. D. (1906)
(pdf)
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Oration
Delivered in Corinthian Hall, Rochester, By Frederick Douglass, July
5th,1852. What, to the slave, is the Fourth of July?” In 1852 Frederick
Douglass asked a question that the entire United States was forced to
reckon with in the lead-up to the Civil War—and for generations after.
Douglass’ speech is widely regarded as a masterpiece of oration and a
crucial historical text. (pdf)
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Scotland and
the Americas 1600 to 1800
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Dr. Thomas Fetzer
Clark
The
lead artist for Cairn Studio, Ltd. Dr. Clark, the most well-known artist
in America today, is the most prolific and talented sculptor in the
figurine industry, with collectors in every county of every state, plus
Europe, Asia (especially Japan!), and Canada.
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Loyalties of Scots were divided in America’s revolution
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Scotland and the American Revolution
A video of a talk given by Scottish historian Andrew Mackillop
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Annals of Tryon County
Or, The Border Warfare of New York, during the Revolution by William
W. Campbell (1831) (pdf)
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The Travels of Peter Williamson
Among the different Nations and Tribes of savage Indians in America
with an account of their Principles religious, civil, and military;
their genius, strength, idea of a Deity, and notions of the Creation;
with ever things remarkable concerning their manners, customs,
employments, diversions, commerce, agriculture, &c. &c. (1768) (pdf)
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Stories of the Cherokee Hills
By Maurice Thompson (1898) (pdf)
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Pershing Edwin (P.E.) MacAllister
August 30, 1918 – October 23, 2019
- The Log
School-House on the Columbia
By Hezerkiah Butterworh (1890) (pdf)
- Deeds of
Heroism and Bravery
The Book of Heroes and Personal Daring, Introduction by Rupert
Hughes, Edited by Elwyn A. Barron (1920) (pdf)
- Pioneers of Menard and Mason Counties
Made up of personal reminiscenses of an early life in Menard county,
which we gathered in a Salem life from 1830 to 1840, and a Petersburg
life from 1840 to 1850; including personal reminiscences of Abraham
Lincoln and Peter Cartright by T. G. Onstot (1902) (pdf)
- The Scot
in America and the Ulster Scot
Being the substance of addresses before the Edinburgh Philosophical
institution 1st November 1911, and the Presbyterian Historical Society,
Belfast on 28th March 1912 by Whitelaw Reid (1912) (pdf)
- The
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
Volume 1 (pdf) (1877). Samuel Morton, the father of Robert Morton,
whose diary is here given as the first article, was a merchant of
Philadelphia, the son of James Morton, of Aberdeen, Scotland. Another
195 issues can be viewed on the
Internet Archive.
- Paisley
A Local Sketch from Valentine's Manual for 1863 (pdf)
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Abraham Lincoln
Robert Burns and Abraham Lincoln along with a 10 volumes publication
about Abraham Lincoln.
- John Hay
Author and Statesman by Lorenzo Sears (1914) (pdf)
- Nick of the
Woods
A Story of the early settlers in Kentucky by Robert Montgomery Bird
(1880) (pdf)
- Nick of the
Woods
By Alaska Blacklock (George Edward Lewis) (1916) (pdf)
- The
National Tribune
The premier Union veterans’ newspaper of the post-Civil War era.
Launched in 1877
- Memorials of
Peter Smith
Born, Brechin, Scotland, Sept. 21, 1802 Died, Andover, Mass., July 6,
1880 (1881) (pdf)
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The Border Settlers of North
Western Virginia
From 1768 to 1795 embracing the Life of Jesse Hughes and other noted
Scouts of the great woods of the Trans-Allegheny with notes and
iustrative anecdotes by Lucullus virgil McWhorter, Life Member of the
Wisconsin State Historical Society; Member of the Washington State
University Historical Society, Author of "The Crime Against the Yakimas.”
with Preface and additional noted by William Elsey Connelley and Sketch
of the author by By J. P. MacLean, Ph. D. (1915) (pdf)
- Hamlin
Garland
Hannibal Hamlin Garland (September 14, 1860 – March 4, 1940) was an
American novelist, poet, essayist, short story writer, Georgist, and
psychical researcher. He is best known for his fiction involving
hard-working Midwestern farmers
- \Chosen
Valley
The Story of a Pioneer Town by Margaret Snyder (1948) (pdf)
- The Selected
Works of Tom Paine
Edited by Howard Fast (1945)
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Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah
Comprising photographs, Genealogies, biographies. Pioneers are
those men and women who came to Utah by Wagon, hand cart, or afoot,
between July 24, 1847 and December 30, 1868 before the railroad By
Frank Esshow (1913) (pdf)
- Indoctrination of Personnel Arriving in the UK
Introducing American Troops to the UK in 1943 (pdf)
- Log
Cabin Song Book of 1840
Revised for the Campaign of 1888, with numerous New Songs to
Patriotic Airs edited by O. C. Hooper (1888) (pdf)
- Army Life
2 handbooks telling of Army Life in the American Army in 1944
and then updated in 1946.
- The Life of
Major-General Zackary Taylor
Whig Nominee for President of the United States, a brief
biographical sketch with a brief biographical sketch of the Hon.
Millard Fillmore, nominee for Vice-President by Arthur Sumpter,
U.S.A. (1848) (pdf)
- Patrick Joseph Healy
Founder of the House of Lyon & Healy, An Appreciation (1907) (pdf)
- Sergeant
York and His People
From a cabin back in the mountains of Tennessee, forty-eight
miles from the railroad, a young man went to the World War. An audio
story.
- The
Lincoln Fellowship
Proceedings at the First Annual Meeting and Dinner of the Lincoln
Fellowship, held at Delmonico's, New York City, Wednesday, February
12th, 1908. (pdf)
- Tributes to Abraham Lincoln
Excerpts from newspapers and other sources providing
testimonials lauding the 16 President of the United States Great
Britain and Canada from the files of the Lincoln Financial
Foundation Collection (pdf)
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The
Conquest of a Continent
Or The Expansion of Races in America by Madison Grant (1933) (pdf)
- Reminiscences of Senator William M. Stewart of Nevada
Edited by George Rothwell Brown (1908) (pdf)
- Life and Times
of Elder Reuben Ross
By his son, James Ross wit an introduction and notes by J. M.
Pendleton (1882) (pdf)
- 79th New York
Volunteer Infantry
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Life
and Various Vicissitudes of Fortune, of Peter Williamson
Who was carried off from Aberdeen and sold as a slave in
Pennsylvania (pdf)
- The Life and
Times of Senator James Ross
A Sketch by James I. Brownson (1910) (pdf)
- History of the
Early Life and Business Interests of the Village and Township of
Leslie
Ingham County, Michigan (1914) (pdf)
- Private Life
of John C. Calhoun
Addressed to her Brother, and Communicated to the International
Magazine by Miss M. Bat
- Our Nation and
Financial Future
Address of the Hon. Hugh McCulloch, Secretary of the Treasury at
Fort Wayne, Indiana, October 11, 1865 (pdf)
- The
Scouting Expeditions of McCulloch's Texas Rangers
Or the Summer and Fall Campaign of the Army of the United States
in Mexico - 1846; including Skirmishes with the Mexicans and an
Accurate Detail of the Storming of Monterey; also the Daring Scouts
at Buena Vista together with Anecdotes, Incidents, Descriptions of
Country, and Sketches of the Lives of the Celebrated Partisan
Chiefs, Hays, McCulloch and Walker by Samuel C. Reid, Jr. (1848)
(pdf)
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The Scots of Jefferson County,
Mississippi
By Don MM Simonton
- Memorial
of the Hon. TH. H. Baird
For the Enactment of Measures to Preserve the Constitution and
Union of the States presented to the House of Representatives,
February 7, 1863, and Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
(1864) (pdf)
- General
John McArthur
Became a Captain of a militia company (Chicago Highland Guards), and
would rise to the rank of Brevet Major General during the war.
- Scots
in the American Civil War
This is a very good site giving
lots of information on the Scots in the American Civil War.
- Stones
have a tale to tell
It is what is left of the United
Presbyterian Congregation of Dover and Yorkville, established by the
Scottish settlers who moved to the eastern part of Dover in the
mid-1800s. Here rest some of the areas first residents.
- Scotland
County, North Carolina
The earliest settlers in what is now Scotland County were composed
largely of Highland Scots. It is fairly well established by several
writers of Scottish history that there were Highlanders living in this
area as early as 1729, when North Carolina became a royal colony.
- Walton
County
During the 1700's, Euchee Indians
moved into the area and lived around Bruce Creek & Choctawhatchee
Bay. Scottish settlers moved into the area soon after and befriended
the Euchees.
- Life
and Times of William Young
Tennessee Frontiersman, Utah
Pioneer.
- Reminiscences
of James David McNitt
A great story of the life of James McNitt from 1845 onwards.
- Creek
Indian Chief William McIntosh
William McIntosh, son of (Scottish) Captain William McIntosh and
Senoia Henneha of the Coweta-Cussitta Towns of the Lower Creeks, was
born about 1775 near Tuetumpla (now Alabama).
- Red
Eagle
Red Eagle had been born William Weatherford, the son of a Scottish
trader. Though only one-eighth Indian, he chose to cast his lot with
the Creeks.
- Westward
Migration
A wee story of Highland Scots and how they settled in America.
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Edinburgh's
Scottish-American Memorial
A tale of how Edinburgh's Scottish-American memorial came into being.
- Jesse
Chisholm
The man from
whom the Chisholm Trail derived its name.
- Phillip
Murray
An important American labor leader born in Blantyre, Scotland.
- James
Sinclair
Scottish American Coal Miner
- Scottish
Explorers and Fur Trappers
An account of their activities in the North American West, 1790 -
1917.
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US
Politicians who were born in Scotland
A list of 67 US Politicians.
- Scottish
Heritage Day in Pennsylvania
The resolution to make April 6th "Scottish Heritage Day" in
Pennsylvania
- The Great Philadelphia Wagon Road
The Great Philadelphia Wagon Road is the story of the Scots- Irish
settlement in America.
- America's
Founding Fathers
Some Scots are now more familiar with American history and icons than
with their own. Yet were they to probe the roots of that history they
would find that many of the key figures in the making of North America
were Scots.
- The Forgotten Monarchy of Greenbriar County, West Virginia
The tale of how America might have had a monarchy.
- John Stuart
An account from the "History of Greenbriar County" about their
most famous pioneer.
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The Family Buie
A detailed account of this family in America.
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Mini Bios of Virginia Scots
A collection of interesting stories.
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A Tale of Two Families
The McDonald Family and the
McDuffie Family were eventually joined in marriage in America.
- The Settlement of Darien, Georgia
An account of the Scottish connection.
- My Backyard
An account of a Highlander running a farm in America.
-
General Lachlan McIntosh
Who did much for the state of Georgia.
- Alexander Burr
Justice of the Supreme Court, 1926-1937
- Salt
is the Cry !!
Story of the Salt industry in Kansas and the place Scots played in
it.
- List of Scots prisoners sent to New
England
For the period around 1651.
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Bound for America
The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718-1775
- The Story of a Pioneer
By Anna Howard Shaw, D.D., M.D.
- Ohio
Tartan Day
Information on Tartan Day in the State of Ohio
- Capt. Alex. Murchison
One of the best known and most highly respected residents of this
community
- Elmira Centennial and Scottish Pioneers
1838 - 1938
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Patriot Joseph Nickell (1750-1829)
A brief biography
- Scotch-Irish in New England
By Rev. A. L. Perry, Professor of History and Politics, Williams
College, Williamstown, Mass.
- Atlas Dean Hall
President of the Clan Hall Scottish Society
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Presbyterian Banner
The January 4, 1900 issue.
- Scots in Michigan
A book by Alan T.
Forrester
- The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence May 20, 1775
And Lives of its signers by George. W. Graham, M.D. (1905) (pdf)
- The
History of Guilford County, North Carolina
By Sallis W. Stockard (1902) (pdf)
- Prarie
Traveller
A Hand-Book for overland expeditions, with maps, illustrations, and
itineraries of the principal routes between the Mississippi and the
Pacific by Randolph B. Marcy (1861) (pdf)
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Prairie and Rocky Mountain Adventures
Or Life in the West to which will be added a View of the States and
Territorial Regions of our Western Empire embracing History,
Statistics and Geography and Descriptions of the Chief Cities of the
West by John C. Van Tramp (1866) (pdf)
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Plans for
beautifying New York and for enlarging and improving the city of Boston
Being studies to illustrate the science of city building By Robert
Gourlay (1844) (pdf)
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Northwest
Scots Honor Guard
Pride in Our Country and Our Heritage [external link]
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