Scotland's Influence on Civilization

Scotland's Influence on Civilization, By Leroy Jones Halsey:

Reverend Samuel Doak

 

Always an eager and skillful questioner, Mrs. McCormick undoubtedly brought out the highlights of Tusculum's history: how the Rev. Samuel Doak, a Presbyterian clergyman and a Princeton scholar, had penetrated into this lovely valley in the last quarter of the eighteenth century, built a log cabin to house the modest beginnings of Martin Academy, which by 1795 had become Washington College; how after preaching and teaching the classics there for twenty-three years, he had come fourteen miles farther along the valley to set up another academy, which in time became Tusculum College. Again the combination church and school was a log cabin. 

The buildings stood on a hill commanding a beautiful mountain view and overlooking town, valley, two rivers — the Watauga and the Doe. 

Whoever wrote to Mrs. McCormick of this fair region always mentioned the historic sycamore near the fords of the Watauga, where the Reverend Samuel Doak had prayed for the doughty mountaineers who were to turn the tide of the Revolution at King's Mountain. [Source]

The Cree Language

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James Evans And The Cree Language

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Note: James Evans' Wikitree profile here.

George McLean (More) Moir At St. Bernard's

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Baptism of Peter Wilson McIntyre Moir was held at St. Bernard's Church, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.  Information in the record of *Peter Wilson Mcintyre Moir from Scotland Church Records and Kirk Session Records:

Name Peter Wilson Mcintyre Moir

Baptism 30 Nov 1900

Event Place (Original) St. Bernard's Church, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland

Father's Name George Mclean Moir  

Mother's Name Mary Mcintyre

*Note: Peter and I are second cousins twice removed

Newcomer Entered Canada

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11th--"To-day I entered Canada, crossed the Niagara river at Black Rock, and lodged with Jacob Miller, in Lincoln county." [Christian Newcomer of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania]

Andrew Ellicott's Inventiveness

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The problems he [Andrew Ellicott] was required to solve were many and difficult, and the record he has left behind him is one of hard work well and often brilliantly done. ...his father, Joseph Ellicott, was remarkable in his day for a variety of mechanical and scientific attainments, and that the whole Ellicott family as far back as 1600 had shown in each generation a marked inventiveness and a knowledge of mathematics above the ordinary.

Andrew Ellicott was born January 24, 1754, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and it is probable that he secured the rudiments of his education at the little Quaker school in the township of Solesbury.

Detroit In The Clergy Reserves Book

Detroit

"Except the settlement at Detroit, no part of Upper Canada was settled or cultivated till the year 1784."

Baptisms And The Beginnings Of Notre Dame

Entries in the book, Chicago's true founder, Thomas J. V. Owen... (text version here):

Father Badin doubtless showed Indian Agent Owen his entries made for Chicago baptisms in the famous record book, which was supposed to have been lost or destroyed for the past seventy-five years. It is now preserved in the archives of Notre Dame University. Permission was given by Very Rev. James A. Burns, C.S.C., Provincial of the Congregation of Holy Cross, to quote the following: 

"Father Badin was the first Catholic priest ordained in the United States. The ceremony was performed by Archbishop Carroll on May 23, 1793, at the Sulpician seminary in Baltimore. When Indian Agent Owen visited Governor Cass at Detroit in July, 1831, the priest had been just one year in the Chicago Indian agency. Enroute for home by way of Niles, Mr. Owen met Father Badin, and discussed with him, as the official director of the government Indian school, the educational affairs of his Indian charges. And at this visit a momentous enterprise was planned."

"...the founder of municipal Chicago with the first Catholic priest ordained in the United States germinated the idea of Notre Dame University — a Catholic college in the Chicago Indian agency."

Redstone And Union Town In Asbury's Journal

Journal of Rev. Francis Asbury: Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal ...:

11 August 1803

"I dined with the aforesaid Colonel Mason [Isaac Meason],
one of the great men of the west."

"I believe God will yet work in the Redstone settlement; he has already begun amongst the Presbyterians."

1792 Map Of Pennsylvania (Including Union Town) Held At The Library of Congress 

"Next day I came to Union Town...".

Reverend John Tevis

Science Hill Inn, Shelbyville, Kentucky

"Without my knowledge, I was appointed to take a list of the taxable property in one of the districts of Shelby County.*"

A church in Abingdon, Virginia (Not necessiarly Mr. Tevis's church)

Source - Sixty Years In A School-room

John and Julia Tevis enumerated with their family and students at the Science Hill School:

Census 1850

Shelby county, Shelby, Kentucky, United States

J Tevis M 58 Maryland [John]

J Tevis F 50 Kentucky [Julia]

B Tevis M 23 Kentucky

R Tevis M 21 Kentucky

J Tevis M 16 Kentucky

A Tevis F 14 Kentucky

B G Cyeryomios M 48 District Of Columbia

E Cyeryomios F 45 Kentucky

L Cyeryomios F 35 Virginia

H Martin M 35 Kentucky

A Martin F 36 Virginia

C A Martin F 4 Kentucky

A Martin F 2 Kentucky

A Bridgeford F 15 Kentucky

A Blood F 16

M Byers F 15 Kentucky

M Barber F 17 Kentucky

E Barber F 14 Kentucky

M C*D F 14 Kentucky

A Cook F 14 Kentucky

F Baker F 12 Kentucky

B Brush F 17 Kentucky

C Buchanan F 10 Kentucky

C Camaan F 14 Indiana

T Candy F 10 Kentucky

M Connelly F 12 Kentucky

M Davis F 13 Kentucky

A Daughtery F 12 Kentucky

T Cunningham F 15 Mississippi

M Elliot F 16 Kentucky

M Ellert F 16 Kentucky

E Delaney F 14 Kentucky

A Handy F 12 Louisiana

M Hutchinson F 14 Kentucky

E Jones F 17 Kentucky

F Johnson F 17 Kentucky

F Johnson F 15 Tennessee

F Johns F 12 Louisiana

H Jenkins F 12 Kentucky

A Jenkins F 12 Kentucky

M Lessute F 17 Mississippi

M C Lessute F 15 Mississippi

M Lacewell F 13 Kentucky

J Lindsay F 17 Kentucky

M Lindsey F 14 Kentucky

S Lampton F 16 Kentucky

A Lambert F 15 Kentucky

E Morgan F 17 Kentucky

M Morgan F 15 Kentucky

E Mills F 17 Tennessee

E Middleton F 14 Kentucky

M Moore F 16 Kentucky

E Moore F 16 Kentucky

L Moore F 14 Kentucky

T Miller F 15 Kentucky

M Miller F 13 Kentucky

E Miller F 16 Kentucky

E Mckay F 17 Missouri

E Putnam F 13 Kentucky

M Payton F 16 Kentucky

E Payne F 15 Kentucky

E Perry F 14 Kentucky

E Street F 14 Iowa

V Staples F 15 Kentucky

N Smith F 16 Kentucky

H Sidde F 15 Louisiana

H Surgent F 14 Kentucky

M Mckee F 17 Maine

M Thompson F 17 Missouri

V Williams F 16 Kentucky

L Wheeler F 15 Missouri

D White F 16 Kentucky

J White F 19 Kentucky

F Whitaker F 17 Mississippi

F Nielsen F 16 Louisiana

C Niven F 14 Kentucky

M Hidney F 14 Kentucky

E Hidney F 13 Kentucky

S Healecty F 16 Kentucky

M Wright F 14 Kentucky

E White F 16 Kentucky

E Adams F 12 Louisiana

M Carr F 12 Kentucky

J Wicklippe F 15 Kentucky

B Carr F 20 Kentucky

E Cammack F 15 Kentucky

H Marion Thor F 15 Kentucky

M Oren F 84 Maryland

C M Thorpe F 27 Kentucky

John Tevis's memorial at FindAGrave.

See portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Tevis here (in the book, Lessons in Likeness: Portrait Painters in Kentucky and the Ohio River Valley ..., By Estill Pennington, published in 2011).

Peter Jones At Upper Muncey

Source - Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada, Map

"...possessed 9,000 acres in Caradoc. At Upper Muncey or Colborne, at Old Munceytown, and at Bear Creek, on the north line of the reservation, were their settlements." [Source]

Below is an excerpt from the Life And Journals of Keh-ke-wa-guo-na-ba (Rev. Peter Jones), Published In 1860:

"When our council and meeting was over we travelled on to George Turkey's. We suffered much from hunger this day, having eaten nothing but a bowl of corn soup which Widow Dolson, at Lower Muncey, gave us, and we were very thankful to get even this coarse meal. Spent the night at George Turkey's, with whom we conversed on the things of religion; who informed us that he was willing to become a Christian. He and Chief Westbrook agreed to allow us to commence a school amongst them at Upper Muncey; so we concluded to leave our young friend *John Carey, and at once begin a school." [1825] [Source]

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George Turkey [born and raised at Chenango, New York c.1757; fl. 1776-1828], Munsee/Delaware chief; moved to Upper Canada in 1776; fought for the British in the War of 1812; lived at Upper Muncey on the Thames River, May 26, 1825...[Source]

Who? Scotch Irish Pioneers In Maryland

Owls At The Salisbury Zoo In Wicomico County, Maryland

Scotch Irish Pioneers in Ulster and America,  By Charles Knowles Bolton

"Before 1690 there were three and perhaps four congregations in Somerset County which then included Worcester County, Maryland with their meetinghouses at Snow Hill (1684 ), Manokin, Wicomico and Rehoboth. These places lie south of the present southern boundary of Delaware."

Early Records In Niagara

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Is my Mary (maiden name unknown) Howard who was born in Canada circa 1791, hiding in plain sight in these records?  

Cardinal Thomas Wolsey

Thomas Wolsey: legate and reformer,  By Ethelred Luke Taunton:

Old Notre Dame Church On Place d'Armes

Montreal and Vicinity ...,  By N. M. Hinshelwood:

Study God's Word In The Morning

"My practice was this: I devoted the forenoon of every day, except Monday, to the preparation of my discourses. My motto was: 'Study God's Word in the morning, and door-plates in the afternoon.' I found the physical exercise in itself a benefit, and the spiritual benefits were ten-fold more." 

 Recollections of a Long Life  An Autobiography, by Theodore Ledyard Cuyler.

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"Washington Irving has somewhere said that it is a happy thing to have been born near some noble mountain or attractive river or lake, which should be a landmark through all the journey of life, and to which we could tether our memory. I have always been thankful that the place of my nativity was the beautiful village of Aurora, on the shores of the Cayuga Lake in Western New York. My great-grandfather, General Benjamin Ledyard, was one of its first settlers, and came there in 1794."

"During the summer of 1840, when I was a college student at Princeton, I went with a friend to the office of the Log Cabin, a Whig campaign newspaper then published in Nassau Street, New York. It was during the famous Tippecanoe campaign, which resulted in the election of General Harrison. I was introduced to a singular looking man in rustic dress. Horace Greeley, for it was he, who sat before me, has been often described as a man with the 'face of an angel, and the walk of a clod-hopper."'

One of the number [of young ladies in church] happened to be a young lady from Ohio who had just graduated from the Granville College, in that State, and had come East to visit her relatives in Philadelphia. The young lady just mentioned was Miss Annie E. Mathiot... .  My courtship was rather "at long range;" for Newark, Ohio, was several hundred miles away, and I have always found that a man who would build up a strong church must be constantly at it, trowel in hand.

Benjamin Franklin And The Constitution

A Portion Of The Scene At The Signing Of The Constitution

An excerpt of The New Nation Grows, Volume Two, included the following "[from a speech at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 written by Benjamin Franklin (read by Mr. Wilson)]:... ."

"I confess that there are several parts of this Constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them. For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is therefore that, the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others."

California: An Intimate History

California: An Intimate History,  By Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton:

For more recent, and detailed, history, older editions of California newspapers are online.

Elizabeth's Life Among The Mormons

A Child of the Sea: And Life Among the Mormons, by Elizabeth Whitney Williams (see her memorial at FindAGrave).

THE STORY MRS. H. TOLD ME

I was born and raised in a dear little nook in York state.

There were four girls in our family, my oldest sister [Sally Hicox Minard] being deaf and dumb. My deaf sister was married to a deaf and dumb man He had a high temper and did not treat sister Nellie very kindly. After awhile Nellie came home to live with our parents, bringing her little twin babies with her. We all helped to care for them and then John, her husband, seemed more kind. Five years rolled around when one day three Mormon elders came to our village... . They visited us My mother being in she seemed greatly taken with their talk. 

Brief biographies concerning the Mormons of Beaver Island can be found on the Clarke Historical Library at Central Michigan University website here (the "H" page).