Glenelg, Scotland
The Clearances?
Before that my Great ^6 and his brother left Beech Green, Scotland and ended up fighting for Cornwallis, AGAINST Washington.
After Yorktown, Cornwallis told the troops to ‘write if you find work’; and sailed home.
Thank God my G^6 was on that boat! (Cassius Marcellus Clay)
Glenelg, Scotland
The Clearances?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
No it was in 1836, when the New Brunswick Land Company was settling that Canadian province with people from Great Britian. They brought people from the Western Highlands of Scotland, none of whom spoke English , only Gaelic,promising them them land if they worked out their indentures.
These hardy Scots were located in a wilderness area without shelter or tools in October, having sailed out of Greenoch on the barque Royal Adelaide.They were given log shacks without sealed windows or doors, no tools and little food. Then they were left. The small group of Scots numbered 120 and half of them had died by Spring. My ancestor , Hugh Alexander MacDonald was one of the survivors.He broke his indenture and went rogue, leaving the land he was indentured to clear and farm, sought employment as a self proclaimed free man, having to keep one eye over his shoulder for fear that he would be arrested and jailed by the Crown. So he was self trained in arms, as were his whole family. As a result no one came after him, or leastwise, none survived to tell about it if they did come after him.
Ever since then our whole extended family has an abiding distrust of government and its agents, we want little or nothing to do with them. Our family rule: “The government that governs least , governs best.”
http://archives.gnb.ca/exhibits/plannedsettlements/TextViewer.aspx?culture=en-CA&t=Stanley&p=9of20