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Interview with McLean, Donald

Macdonald, John. Interview with McLean, Donald; (1850). Experiencing the Neutral Ground of the American Revolution: The McDonald Interviews, WCHS item 1029. Transcription courtesy of the Westchester County Historical Society (No copyright - United States). Passage 2 of 2 311 words

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. Rogers. In the course of his sermon the Reverend preacher attack- -ed the Roman Catholics with great severity. Stuart was as a rigid Roman Catholic, but stood it in silence for some time. At last Dr. Rogers made some observations which were satirical and cutting to the last degree. On hearing his church assailed so bitterly Stuart at length lost patience and starting from

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his seat exclaimed aloud to Mc- -Intosh in Gaelic: "The Devil take the fellow! - Do you hear what he says?" When the Squatters rose against Robinson in Fredericksburgh, a few years before the Revolutionary war, they were led by an Irishman named Prengrast [X]. British troops went were sent from New York who put Robinson in possession. - Old Mr. Grey and some others had bought what they thought good and refused to co- -promise with Robinson."

[X] Prendergast?

his seat exclaimed aloud to Mc- -Intosh in Gaelic: "The Devil take the fellow! - Do you hear what he says?" When the Squatters rose against Robinson in Fredericksburgh, a few years before the Revolutionary war, they were led by an Irishman named Prengrast [X]. British troops went were sent from New York who put Robinson in possession. - Old Mr. Grey and some others had bought what they thought good and refused to co- -promise with Robinson." [X] Prendergast?

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