and in the hope of obtaining freedom of worship in the new world he proposed to emigrate “to the plantations.”  To encourage others to do the like he printed at Edinburgh (1685) a work, now very rare, called “The Model of the Government of the Province of East New Jersey, in America; and Encouragement for Such as Design to be concerned there.”  Scot received a grant of five hundred acres in recognition of his having written the work, and sailed in the Henry and Francis for America.  A malignant fever broke out among the passengers and nearly half on board perished including Scot and his wife.  A son and daughter survived and the proprietors a year after issued a confirmation of the grant to Scot’s daughter and her husband (John Johnstone), many of whose descendants are still living in New Jersey.

Walter Ker of Dalserf, Lanarkshire, banished in 1685, settled in Freehold, and was active in organizing the Presbyterian Church there, one of the oldest in New Jersey.  The Scots settlers who came over at this period occupied most of the northern counties of the state but many went south and southwest, mainly around Princeton, and, says Samuel Smith, the first historian of the province, “There were very soon four towns in the Province, viz., Elizabeth, Newark, Middletown and Shrewsbury; and these with the country round were in a few years plentifully inhabited by the accession of the Scotch, of whom there came a great many.”  These Scots, says Duncan Campbell, largely gave “character to this sturdy little state not the least of their achievements being the building up if not the nominal founding of Princeton College, which has contributed so largely to the scholarship of America.”

In 1682 another company of nobles and gentlemen in Scotland arranged for a settlement at Port Royal, South Carolina.  These colonists consisted mainly of Presbyterians banished for attending “Conventicles.”  The names of some of these immigrants, whose descendants exist in great numbers at the present day, included James McClintock, John Buchanan, William Inglis, Gavin Black, Adam Allan, John Gait, Thomas Marshall, William Smith, Robert Urie, Thomas Bryce, John Syme, John Alexander, John Marshall, Matthew Machen, John Paton, John Gibson, John Young, Arthur Cunningham, George Smith, and George Dowart.  The colony was further increased by a small remnant of the ill-fated expedition to Darien.  One of the vessels which left Darien to return to Scotland, the Rising Sun, was driven out of its course by a gale and took refuge in Charleston.  Among its passengers was the Rev. Archibald Stobo, who was asked by some people in Charleston to preach in the town while the ship was being refitted.  He accepted the invitation and left the ship with his wife and about a dozen others.  The following day, the Rising Sun, while lying off the bar, was overwhelmed in a hurricane and all on board were drowned.  This Rev. Archibald Stobo was the earliest