Scotland's Mark on America eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 150 pages of information about Scotland's Mark on America.

Scotland's Mark on America eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 150 pages of information about Scotland's Mark on America.
Bacon’s Rebellion (1676) was a Scot.  Henry Barclay (1712-64), Rector of Trinity Church, New York, Trustee of the New York Society Library, and a Governor of Columbia University, was the son of John Barclay, a Scot, Surveyor General of East New Jersey.  Robert Sandeman (1718-71), born in Perth, and died in Danbury, Connecticut, was principal founder of the Sandemanians or Glassites.  John Mason, a native of Linlithgow, “one of the most accomplished preachers and pastors of his day,” was appointed Minister of the Scotch Presbyterian Church, New York, in 1761.  James Caldwell (1734-81), soldier parson of the Revolution, was of Scots parentage or descent.  Finding the Revolutionary soldiers short of wadding he distributed the church hymn books among them, with the exhortation, “Now, boys, put Watts into them.”  His son, John E. Caldwell, was one of the founders of the American Bible Society.  Alexander McWhorter (1734-1807), of Scottish parentage, took an active part in Revolutionary matters and was a Trustee of Princeton College.  McWhorter Street in Newark, New Jersey, is named in his honor.  James Waddell (1739-1805), famous in Virginia as “The Blind Preacher,” was probably a grandson or great-grandson of William Waddell of Monkland parish, Scotland, one of the prisoners captured at Bothwell Brig in 1679.  Samuel McClintock (1732-1804), minister of Greenland, New Hampshire, of Scottish origin, was present at Bunker Hill and appears in Trumbull’s painting of the battle.  Four of his sons served in the Revolutionary war.  Alexander McLeod (1774-1833), born in the island of Mull, died in New York as Pastor of the First Reformed Church.  Described as “a powerful preacher, a man of learning and wisdom, and a devout Christian.”  George Buist (1770-1808), born in Fifeshire, Scotland, educated in Edinburgh, “one of the most eloquent and distinguished divines of his day,” was Pastor of the Scots Church in Charleston and President of the College of Charleston.  Alexander Campbell (1786-1866), founder of the Campbellites, was born in Antrim of Scots ancestry.  Walter Scott, another of the founders, was born in Moffat, Dumfriesshire.  John Dempster (1794-1843), founder of Boston Theological Seminary, which afterwards became the Theological School of Boston University, was of Scots parentage.  Peter Douglas Gorrie (1813-84), clergyman, and historian of the Methodist Church in the United States, was born in Glasgow.  John McClintock (1814-70), of Drew Theological Seminary and leading editor of McClintock and Strong’s “Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature,” was of Scottish descent.  Robert Stuart MacArthur, born in Canada, in 1841, of Scots parentage, Minister of Calvary Baptist Church, New York, has published many volumes of sermons, essays, and narratives of travel.  Robert Mackenzie (b. 1845), President of San Francisco Theological Seminary, was born in Cromarty.  Robert McIntyre (b. 1851), Methodist Episcopal Bishop of California, was born in Selkirk.  Joseph Plumb Cochran, Medical Missionary to Persia, the “Hakim Sahib” of the natives, was grandson of a Scot.  John Alexander Dowie (1848-1907), founder of the so-called “Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion,” was born in Edinburgh.  Mary M. Baker Glover Eddy (1821-1910), claimed partly Scots descent (from MacNeils of Barra).

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