Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-09-25
HISTORY OF RYEGATr.
tr"' ais settlement ny the SCOTCH
inicrican Company of Farmers to
Present Time.

tiv Edward Miller and T. L WnllsD
IN this Volume OF COS pages, the history
Of a Scotch colony in Vermont is mar
rated. and its family records are given TO
the present time. II gives some account
of Ryegatc before its settlement. with ex-
tracts from the journals of visitors as
early as l7oi, the granting of its charter.
and its purchase, In part, by the Rev.
John Witherspoon d, D, president IL
the college Of New Jersey
1t relates the causes which lei to the
formation in l713 of the Scotch-American
company, in the shires of Lanark Rem
rev, Stirling and Dunbarton, and the
choice Of James Whitelaw and David
Allan as commissioners to select lands in
North America for settlement In Is
closely printed pages Is given the journal
|of Mr. Whitelaw on their voyage. and
thence through the middle and southern
colonies just before the Revolutionary
War and is one of the best accounts wa
have of the appearance of the country at
that time
The details Of the purchase and settle
ment of Ryegate are given, with much
of the correspondence between the conf
panY's managers in Scotland and their
agents here, with some description of the
places from which most Of the colonists
came.
Rresat" in the Revolutionary War IS
the subject If two chapters, in VIII! II
some particulars relating to the military
road from Newbur, to Canada not before
published are given, and some valuable
papers now in print for the first time, in
Guiding General Burgoynos letter of in
structons to Colonel Baum
The agricultural progress If the town.
It's dairying interests, IN, domesti, cn,-
Payments Of early days, changes which
time has wrought, and its later manufac-
lures of granite. brick and paper are do
tailed at some length
In its religious history the rise and
growth OF the PRESBYTERIAN Church in
Scotland is considered as Introductory to
the account of the fouy Presbyterian
churches of Ryegate
An inquiry into the school system Of
Scotland and New England Introduces the
history Of education in Ryegate. and a
particular account is given of early
schools ard teachers. Other topics are
considered, among them anti Mas onry in
Vermont. the Passumpsic Turnpike, early
stage and postal matters
In eos closely printed pages the records
OF RleCate families are presented, most
Cf whom are desc andants of the original
pioneers from Scotland. The family and
tioe raphc7. sketches contain many in
{ rcs'';g particulars ard will be found TO
include several persons o. national fame.
Especial attention has been given 20
trace the remarkable posterity Of the
Rev. William Gibson and the Rev. James
Mlligan, carly CoyeoAnting minister's Of
Ryegate
The work l. illustrated by Views a lts
scenery, churches farm buildings and
other editices and 10y por.raits of many
persons. most Of whom ara descendants
of its rnoccrs. -Four .ndc, 90 a'd In maxi
ing ~ contents accessible
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larger than was AT Arst expected TO
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