American Scottish History
Part 2

Continued from Part 1

• Memoir of Rev. Geo. W. Bethune, D. D.
  By Rev. A. R. Van Nest, D. D. (1867) (pdf)
• Memoir of George McClellan, M. D.
  By W. Darrach, M. D. (1847) (pdf)
• Monument to Memory of William Campbell
  April 22, 1908 (pdf)
• Scotch Plains
  The story of an old Community by Reignette Marsh (1936) (pdf)
• 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)
• The Life of Thomas Dickson
  A Memorial by Samuel C. Logan, D.D. (1888) (pdf)
• John Archibald Campbell
  Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court 1853-1861 by Henry G. Connor, LL.D. (1920) (pdf)
• William Dow
  Monifieth/St Louis/Miami
• The Watson Family
  A traditional music family
• 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.
• An American Tramp in Scotland
  By Weary Ben (Ben Goodkind) (1897) (pdf))
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Jacobite Past, Loyalist Present
  By Michael Newton, University of Richmond (2003) (pdf)
• Sunday Magazine of the Boston Sunday Post
  August 30, 1905 (pdf)
• Hugo Reid
  Hugo enjoyed the leisurely life of a gentleman rancher and literary dilettante
• 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)
• Pioneer History of Milwaukee
  By James Smith Buck (1890) in 4 volumes
• 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.
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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.
• Vain, hurtful, lying, worldly tales
  Creed, belief, and practice in the life of Argyll Highlanders, in Scotland and America by Michael Newton (2003) (pdf)
• 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)
• William Watt
  Representative Miner. A Tribute to his memory by Edward Curtis (1880) (pdf)
• The Pennsylvania Canals
  By James MacFarlane, Ph. D. (pdf)
• 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)
• History of Davidson County, Tennessee
  With Illustrative and Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men and Pioneers by Prof. W. W. Clayton (1880) (pdf)
• 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)
• Alexander Macfarlane
  by J. M. Colaw (1895) (pdf)
• From the Scientific American Magazine
  Scotch and American Yankees
• 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)
• Memoirs of Major Robert Stobo of the Virginia regiment
  By Robert Stobo and Neville Craig (1854) (pdf)
• 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
• 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.
• 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
• 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.
• 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)
• 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)
• Scotland and the Americas 1600 to 1800
• 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.
• Loyalties of Scots were divided in America’s revolution
• Scotland and the American Revolution
  A video of a talk given by Scottish historian Andrew Mackillop
• Annals of Tryon County
  Or, The Border Warfare of New York, during the Revolution by William W. Campbell (1831) (pdf)
• 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)
• Stories of the Cherokee Hills
  By Maurice Thompson (1898) (pdf)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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
• 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)
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• The Family Buie
  A detailed account of this family in America.
• Mini Bios of Virginia Scots
  A collection of interesting stories.
• 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.
• 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
• 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
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Northwest Scots Honor Guard
  Pride in Our Country and Our Heritage [external link]

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