The History of MacMaster: McMaster Family

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State Company, 1926 - 142 Seiten
John Stevenson McMaster was born 20 December 1859 in Pocomoke, Maryland. His parents were John Thomas Baylor McMaster and Elizabeth Grace Stevenson. He married Louisa Jane Dennis 15 May 1894. They had two sons. He died in 1924. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Scotland, Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland,South Carolina, Iowa, Massachusetts, Canada and elsewhere.
 

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Seite 15 - From the middle of the thigh to the foot they have no covering for the leg, clothing themselves with a mantle instead of an upper garment, and a shirt dyed with saffron. They always carry a bow and arrows, a very broad sword with a small halbert, a large dagger, sharpened on one side only, but very sharp, under the belt. In time of war they cover their whole body with a shirt of mail of iron rings, and fight in that. The common people of the Highland...
Seite 116 - And lastly, I do hereby constitute and appoint my son William E. Peach to be sole Executor of this my last will and testament, revoking and annulling all former wills by me heretofore made ratifying and confirming this and none other to be my last Will and Testament.
Seite 44 - the first voice publicly raised in America to dissolve all connection with Great Britain came, not from the Puritans of New England, nor the Dutch of New York, nor the planters of Virginia, but from the Scotch-Irish Presbyterians.
Seite 116 - I give and recommend my soul to God who gave it and my body to the earth, to be buried in a...
Seite 31 - A web of tartan is 2 feet 2 inches wide, at least within half an inch, more or less, so that the size of the patterns make no difference in the scale. Commencing at the edge of the cloth, the depth of the colours is stated throughout a square, on which the scale must be reversed or gone through again to the commencement.
Seite 47 - Manners secured their Love. Firmly attached to his Sovereign and the British Constitution, he opposed, at the Hazard of his Life, the late Rebellion in North America; and for this faithful Discharge of his Duty to his King and Country, he was Proscribed, and his Estate, one of the largest in New York, was Confiscated, by the Usurped Legislature of that Province.
Seite 16 - ... and naming the place of rendezvous, if different from the usual place of meeting. The cross was delivered from hand to hand, and as each fresh bearer ran at full speed, the clan assembled with great celerity. General Stewart...
Seite 15 - This signal consisted of two pieces of wood placed in the form of a cross. One of the ends of the horizontal piece was either burnt or burning, and a piece of linen or white cloth stained with blood was suspended from the other end. Two men, each with a cross in his hand, were despatched by the chief in different directions, who kept running with great speed, shouting the...
Seite 46 - For the intrepidity with which he exposed himself to the fire of the enemy, in bringing in and attending to the wounded on the 25th of September, at Lucknow.
Seite 13 - Uaisle, or gentry of the clan. These constituted the only gradation subsisting between the chief and the actual body of the clan, forming a sort of link by which they were united. They were all cadets of the house of the chief, and could invariably trace their connexion step by step with his family.

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