. The life and times of Thomas Smith, 1745-1809, a Pennsylvania member of the Continental congress . s an unusually active, vigorous and enterprisingrace of men. No region was known for greater successagainst equally great obstacles in the nature of the country,which was chiefly an agricultural and dairying one. Thisregion shared, with the rest of Scotland, after the battleof Culloden, in that marked economic reorganization whichcaused so much hardship for a long time and led to a greatdeal of emigration to England, America and other coun- ^ Mrs. Smiths family name is not known. ^ Through the
. The life and times of Thomas Smith, 1745-1809, a Pennsylvania member of the Continental congress . s an unusually active, vigorous and enterprisingrace of men. No region was known for greater successagainst equally great obstacles in the nature of the country,which was chiefly an agricultural and dairying one. Thisregion shared, with the rest of Scotland, after the battleof Culloden, in that marked economic reorganization whichcaused so much hardship for a long time and led to a greatdeal of emigration to England, America and other coun- ^ Mrs. Smiths family name is not known. ^ Through the kindness of Rev. George Jamieson, , of OldAberdeen, the registers of Aberdeen and neighboring parishes havebeen examined between 1736 and 1745, inchisive, and no record ofthe birth of Thomas Smith, Junior, appears there, the region wherehis half-brother WilHam was born. Rev. John Strachan, rector atCruden, says their registers previous to 1807 are lost. ^ For the accompanying view of Slains Castle the author is in-debted to Rev. J. Strachan, rector at Port Erroll [present spelling], eicrheisd ? , i^tll ^^ Z /K;v» Mesa 5 ^villlii--^ .« Mlllh/)/, ^^ 11 V>Bcddam C*b1lc Ruin TllftNIELlEF OR TuBNIELOVE Cruden and Vicinity, Aberdeenshire, Scotland after map in Lewis Topographical Dictionary, 1S43 {— X. -s. HIS SCOTTISH ORIGIN 5 tries. Udny parish, for example, which had a populationof 1322 in 1755, had lost nearly a sixth by the end of thecentury. Episcopalians were more numerous than Pres-byterians, and there were many Catholics. No regioaprized education more, and the parish schools, good then,became most excellent in later years, by virtue of twogreat bequests to them. The dialect of English spokenthere was much different from that of Burns and Ramsayin the South. A tradition comes down to us, too, thatthe Scottish Smiths of these parishes were not usually offair complexion, but were so swarthy that they receivedthe sobriquet of Black-Smiths. In these
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