The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-09

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the Cavaliers in Virginia, or even like
the settlements of the Quakers and
Germans in Pennsylvania. 1t hegar
too, under circumstances that made
the misfortunes of the Puritans and
Cavaliers seem almost enviable. The
first notable Scottish arrivals were
those shipped on the boat John and
Sara in 1852. They were prisoners of
war captured by Cromwell after the
Battle of Dunbar, and sentenced to be
transported to the American planta-
tons and sold into service Similar
shipments of prisoners of war and
then Cargoes of convicted criminals fol-
lowed. And yet so rapidly did eager
followers tread the steps of the in
voluntary immigrants that only third
OF century after the first shipload of
Scottish prisoners to be sold into SER
vice was landed at Boston, a Scottish
missionary, the Rev. James Blair, of
Edinburgh, was founding on of the old
est of American colleges-"William
and Mary" in Virginia. Among the
graduates Of that educational founda-
ton In the south was one who mad
given the whole world cause to remem-
Der him, and the stock that trained
him-Thomas Jefferson, author of the
Declaration of Independence. Gap
plause.) Shortly after the arrival of
the John and Sara prisoners other
Scottish fighting Presbyterians were
brought out in the same way, and be-
came founders of colonies on the Eliza
beth River in Virginia, and in Mary
land. Many inhabitants of Northwest
ern Scotland, especially the clans of
Macdonald and Macleod, were induced
to emigrate, and their reports drew
after them whole neighborhoods from
the isles of Raasay and Skye. In 1886
an emigrant company of Highlanders
started New Inverness in Darien, GeOr-
gia. In 1888 an Argyllshire man, Cap
tain Laughlin Campbell, took eighty
three families from his own neighbor-
hoor to be established in a grant of
$4,000 acres which he had obtained on
the borders of Lake George, New York.
Scottish Presbyterians were largely
settlers in Putnam County and Dutch
ess County, New York Members of
disbanded Highland regiments got
grants of land in the Carolinas and
Virginia.
Some Notable Scotsmen.
Robert Livingston, a scot from An
crum, became the founder of an inn
portant Revolutionary family, some
of the members of which attained to
high office. The eldest son was Chan
cellor Livingston, a member of the
Committee which framed the Declare
ton of independence. He administer
ed the oath of office to George Wash
ington as first President of the United
States. Another portentous Scot, born
in Kirkcudbright in 1747, and who
went to Virginia, when thirteen years
old, was Paul Jones, who held the first
Captains Commission of the American
Navy, and became Admiral. There
would be no difference of opinion as
to the services of another great Scot
man, born at Yester, East Lothian, viz.
John Witherspoon, who became Presi
dent of Princeton University, anC
brought it to a place among the fore
, most educational institutions Of the
land. A son of Ralph Erskine, thu
, PRESBYTERIAN seceder, became chief o.
engineers on the staff of George Wash
, ington. 1t was in isolated cases lik
these, and in scatter communities
! that the Scottish immigrants during
, the earlier part Of George Ills reign
. 1741-1776, had come to make them
selves felt even among the Puritan
and Cavaliers. They attained to al
, altogether disproportionate influence
+. through their education, their energy
y and their sturdy principles and also lie
r it not be forgotten, through natura