Grand Masters of Scotland - Onondaga and Oswego Masonic ...

couple of hundred yards from where this road separates from Barracks Farm Road (north side of the road in a residential front yard).
The spot marks the location of several graves found when the land was developed for residential use.
Note: in spring of 2006, the marker was almost totally obscured by the twin boxwoods growing on either side.
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But Anburey was forced to admit that he and his countrymen did not come off too well in their numerous encounters with the
inhabitants who crowded around them to gawk wherever they stopped. The locals were particularly interested in the numerous
noblemen among the British officers. Four women practically forced their way into one house where young Lord Napier was
boarding for the night. “I hear you have got a lord among you, pray now which may he be?” one asked. Lord Napier said nothing; the
British troops had marched all day in driving rain, and he was covered with mud. But one of his friends, with an elaborate bow,
introduced him in the style of a herald at arms. “This is the Right Honourable Francis Lord Napier,” he intoned, and proceeded to list
“all his lordship’s titles with a whole catalogue of additions.”
The women stared, and finally one of them twanged, “Well, for my part, if that be a Lord, I never desire to see any other Lord but the
Lord Jehovah.”
Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789
MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1778
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General Heath, brought in a report, which was read; Whereupon,
Resolved, That the president write to General Heath, and inform him that it was by no means the intention of Congress that General
Burgoyne should be prevented from communicating to Lord Howe, or the commanding officer of the British ships in the harbour of
Newport, the intelligence of the act of Congress detaining the troops of the convention of Saratoga, until it shall be ratified by the
court of Great Britain:
That General Heath be directed to permit Lieutenant Colonel Anstruther, of the 62 British regiment, and Lord Napier, lieutenant of
the 31 regiment to go on his parole to Rhode Island, in order to negotiate an exchange for himself; provided, that if Colonel Ethan
Allen shall not have been exchanged for Lieutenant Colonel Campbell, no exchange but Colonel Ethan Allen shall be accepted for
Colonel Anstruther. 1
[Note 1: 1 This report, in the writing of Oliver Wolcott, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 19, III, folio 113.]
http://www.oldandnewedinburgh.co.uk/volume3/page169.html
Old and New Edinburgh, by James Grant, ca 1880’s, pages 157-158
No. 71 Queen Street in 1811 was the residence of Francis, Lord Napier, who served in the American was under General Burgoyne,
but left the army in 1789. He took a leading part in many local affairs, was Grand Master Mason of Scotland, Colonel of the
Hopetoun Fencibles in 1793, Commissioner to the General Assembly in 1802, and a member of the Board of Trustees fro the
Encouragement of Scottish Manufactures and Fisheries.
His prominently aquiline face and figure were long remarkable in Edinburgh; though at a
time when gentlemen usually wore gaudy colours, frequently a crimson or purple coat,
a green plush vest, black breeches and white stockings – when not in uniform, he
always dressed plainly, and with the nicest attention to propriety. An anecdote of his
finical taste is thus given in Lockhart’s “Life of Scott:”
“Lord and Lady Napier arrived at Castlemilk (in Lanarkshire), with the intention of
staying a week, but next morning it was announced that a circumstance had occurred
which rendered it indispensable for them to return without delay to their own seat in
Selkirkshire. It was impossible for Lady Stewart to extract any further information at the
moment, but it afterwards turned out that Lord Napier’s valet has committed the
grievous mistake of packing up a set of neckcloths which did correspond in point of date
with the shirts they accompanied.
Lord Napier died in 1823. His house, together with nos. 70 and 72 . . . became
afterwards one large private hotel, attached to the Hopetoun Rooms. . . . “
< The Hopetoun Rooms - 1824
http://www.falkirklocalhistorysociety.co.uk/home/index.php?id=84
He laid the foundation stone of the new buildings of the University of Edinburgh, 16 Nov
1789
38. George Douglas, 16th Earl of Morton 1790-92
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Douglas%2C_16th_Earl_of_Morton
George Douglas, 16th Earl of Morton KT (3 April 1761–17 July 1827) was the son of Sholto Douglas, 15th Earl of Morton [20th
GM Scotland, Sholto Charles Douglas, Lord Aberdour, afterwards 15th Earl of Morton 1755-57 (G.M. of England; 1757-61), see
above.]
On 13 August 1814, he married Susan Elizabeth Yarde-Butler and they had one child:
• Lady Ellen Susan Anne Douglas (d. 22 January 1914)
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