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Donald McLean, of 34th Street between 7th & 8th Avenues, 2nd house from 8th Avenue in the row. "I knew Captain James Stuart well about the years 1794, 5, 6, & 7, when I first lived in New York. At that time he kept a grocery store at Whitehall. The way he obtained his com- -mission was this: He appeared before
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Congress (either Continental or State - I don't know which) in full highland costume, and holding a broad sword in his hand, addressed that body as follows: "This sword was carried by my father and grandfather against the House of Hanover. I will carry it against the same house as long as I live!" The sword in ques- -tion had engraved upon it the various battles in which it had been from in '15, to Culloden in '46. He always wore during the Revolutionary war the Highland dress. I saw him in Fredericksburgh during the war riding in full Gaelic costume on horseback towards Danbury. He was intimate with General and Governor Clinton who used to visit him and his grocery and sit and talk with him. Captain Stuart went once to Governor Clinton's to introduce some of his Scottish friends just over. Governor Clinton among other refreshments produced some whiskey
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or brandy which he poured out and was about to add some water when Stuart inter- -fered, saying "These, Governor, are all thorough going men; they like purity in all things, and do nothing by halves. Spirits they drink by itself, and water by itself. They and their friends were as great rebels in 1745 and you were in 1776." A Presbyterian friend named McIntosh once persuaded him to attend the Wall Street church for the purpose of hearing old Dr.