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Macdonald, John. Interview with McLean, Donald; (1850). John M. McDonald Interviews, 1844-1851, WCHS item 1029. Westchester County Historical Society. Transcribed by history.croton.news April 2026.

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1007 133 98. [margin: LABELS 1850.] October 10th Called on Mr. Joseph Gattin, Senr. at 270 Greenwich Street who was too unwell to be seen. On the Revd. G. J. Van Pelt of 71 Hammond Street who was from home. His daughter, Miss Van Pelt, informed me that her father was a nephew of Dr. Wilson, and, as she believed, wrote the obituary article about which I had been enquiring, &c. I left my address wit…
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He was intimate with General and Governor Clinton who used to visit him at 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 [page break] 1009 137 [margin: LABELS] or brandy, which he poured out and was about to add some water when Stuart inter- -…
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On hearing his church assailed so bitterly Stuart at length lost patience and starting from [page break] 138 1010 [margin: LABELS] his seat exclaimed aloud 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 Prendergast. Brit…
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