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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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…
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
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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
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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…