PENNSYLVANIA.  Andrew Hamilton, Governor (1701-03), was previously Governor of East and West Jersey.  Sir William Keith (1680-1751), born in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Deputy Governor from 1717 to 1726.  Patrick Gordon (1644-1736), Governor (1726-28).  James Logan (1674-1751), born in County Armagh, son of Patrick Logan, of Scottish parentage, was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania from 1731 to 1739, and President of the Council (1736-38).  He bequeathed his library of over two thousand volumes to Philadelphia, and they now form the “Loganian Library” in the Philadelphia Public Library.  James Hamilton (c. 1710-1783), son of Andrew Hamilton, champion of the liberty of the press, was elected Member of the Provincial Assembly when but twenty years of age, and was re-elected five times.  He was Deputy Governor 1748-54 and 1759-63.  Robert Hunter Morris, of the famous New Jersey family of that name, Deputy Governor (1745-56).  Joseph Reed, of Ulster Scot descent, Governor (1778-81).  John Dickinson was President from 1782 to 1785.

DELAWARE.  Dr. John McKinly (1721-96), first Governor of the state (1777), was of Ulster Scot birth. (All the above Governors of Pennsylvania except Reed also held the governorship of Delaware along with that of Pennsylvania.)

VIRGINIA.  Robert Hunter (1707). (See above under New York.) Alexander Spotswood, Lieutenant-Governor (1710-22), a scion of the Spotswood of that Ilk.  He was one of the ablest and most popular representatives of the crown authority in the Colonies and was the principal encourager of the growth of tobacco which laid the foundation of Virginia’s wealth.  Hugh Drysdale, Lieutenant-Governor (1722-26), was strongly opposed to the introduction of slavery into the colony.  Commissary James Blair (1655-1743), President of Council (1740-41), was born in Scotland.  Robert Dinwiddie, born in Glasgow in 1693, was Governor from 1751 to 1758.  He recommended the annexation of the Ohio Valley and so secured that great territory to the United States.  To him is also due the credit of calling George Washington to the service of his country.  Dinwiddie county is named after him.  John Campbell, Earl of Loudon (1705-82), Governor (1756-58), does not appear to have come to this colony.  John Blair, Governor (1768), son of Dr. Archibald Blair and nephew of Rev. James Blair, the Commissary.  Many of his descendants have distinguished themselves in the annals of Virginia.  John Murray, fourth Earl of Dunmore, Governor (1771-75), was previously Governor of New York.  Patrick Henry (1736-99), Governor (1776-79, 1784-86), was born in Hanover County, Virginia, of Scottish parentage, his father being a native of Aberdeen, his grandmother a cousin of William Robertson the historian.  He became a lawyer in 1760 and in 1763 found his opportunity, when having been employed to plead against an unpopular tax, his great eloquence seemed suddenly to develop itself.  This defence placed him at once in the