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Here is the first-ever celebration of all thingsand all peopleof Scottish descent.
While relatively few in number, the Scots have certainly made their mark on the world:
More the seventy-five percent of all American presidents have had Scottish ancestors, although fewer than five percent of the American population is of Scottish descent.
Almost eleven percent of all the Nobel Prizes ever awarded have involved Scots and their descendantseven though fewer than one half percent of the people of the world can claim Scottish ancestry
At least five of the twelve astronauts who have walked on the moon were descended from Scots.
Today there are almost 28 million people of Scottish ancestry in the world, over 12 million of whom reside in the United States, about 4 million in Canada, and about 5 million in Scotland. Scottish accomplishments throughout history in every field of endeavorfrom science to the arts to politics and explorationrival those of even the largest ethnic groups:
Scots have been significant in most of the major inventions of the past three centuries, including the steam engine, the telegraph, the telephone, radio, television, the computer, transistor, and the motion picture
People as diverse as Sir Isaac Newton, Charles de Gaulle, Katharine Hepburn, Winston Churchill, Elizabeth Taylor, Immanuel Kant, Sir Laurence Olivier, Elvis Presley, Edvard Grieg, John D. Rockefeller, and Ty Cobb could claim Scottish ancestry
Warsaw, Madrid, La Paz, and Stockholm have all had mayors of Scottish Descent.
The Mark of the Scots contains thousands of facts and is fully annotated. It is a comprehensive and readable book that deserves a place on the shelve of every genealogist, Scottish-American, and history buff.

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Table of Contents Acknowledgements I would like to thank my wife Tamara - photo 1
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Acknowledgements
I would like to thank my wife, Tamara, and my daughters Jennifer and Elizabeth, for having put up with so much for so long so this book could happen. Special thanks to Lord Elgin for writing the foreword. And for their influence on me and this book, exceptional thanks to my parents, Archibald Duncan Bruce and Marian Colley Bruce, and to my three Scottish grandparents, Archibald Bruce, Mary MacTavish Bruce, and James Grant Colley.
Many others have been of help or have tried to be over the years. Among them I would like to mention the following people: Bernard Adnet, Alan L. Bain, Dave Black, Hillel Black, Robert M. Bowes, Jim Bruce, Donald J. Davidson, Bill Eakins, Ellen Gooch, Charles Haws, Deirdre Livingstone, Duncan MacDonald, William Naylor McDonald III, Charles MacLean, Martha Millard, Ian Ogilvy, Carol Swift, Jack Webster, and Nathaniel Weyl.
And thanks, also, to those who subscribed to the book and waited paitently for its arrival: Sarah Ford, Anne Robertson Kennedy, A. Ranald Mackenzie, Seumas MacNicol, James Harrison Monroe, J. Wallace Reid, and Marilyn Lucas Ross.
Appendix A
American Colonial and Revolutionary Governors of Scottish Birth or Descent
The following is a list of Scottish governors of the American colonies before and during the American Revolution, including their years of service. The sources for the information are noted on the right. The names of governors incumbent during the revolution (1775-1781) are italicized. It should be noted that the years of service cannot be precise, as the various authorities are in some disagreement with each other.
Connecticut
Jonathan Trumbull(1769-1784)Raimo
Delaware
John McKinley(1775-1777)Hanna, vol. 1; Black, Scotlands Mark on America (hereafter cited as Mark )
Georgia
Patrick Graham(1752-1754)
John Huston(1774; 1778)Hanna, vol. 1; Black, Mark
William Irwin(1775)Hanna, vol. 1
Archibald Bulloch(1776-1777)Hanna, vol. 1; Raimo
Florida
George Johnstone(1763)Hanna, vol. 1; Black, Mark, Encyclopaedia Brittanica (hereafter cited as EB)
New Hampshire
William Burnet(1728-1729)Raimo
Matthew Thornton(1775-1776)Raimo
New Jersey
Robert Barclay(1682)Hanna, vol. 1; Ross
Gawen Lawrie(1684)Raimo
John Skene(1685; 16881690)Hanna, vol. 1; Raimo
Lord Neil Campbell(16861687)Hanna, vol. 1; Raimo; Ross
Andrew Hamilton(16871688; 1691-1698; 1699-1700; 1703)Hanna, vol. 1; Raimo; Ross
John Hamilton(1701; 1736-1738; 17461747)Hanna, vol. 1; Raimo
Robert Hunter(1710-1719)Raimo
William Burnet(1720-1728)Raimo
John Montgomerie(17281731)Raimo; Black, Mark
John Anderson(1736)Raimo
William Livingston(1776-1790)Hanna, vol. 1; Raimo; Black, Mark
New York
Robert Hunter(1710-1719)Hanna, vol. 1; Raimo; Black, Mark; Ross
William Burnet(1720-1728)Hanna, vol. 1; Raimo; Black, Mark; Ross
John Montgomerie(17281731)Hanna, vol. 1; Raimo; Black, Mark; Ross
John Hamilton(1736)Hanna, vol. 1; Black, Mark
Cadwallader Colden(1760-1765; 17691770; 17741775)Hanna, vol. 1; Raimo; Black, Mark; Ross
John Murray, earl of Dunmore(17701771)Hanna, vol. 1; Raimo; Black, Mark; Haws
James Robertson(1780)Hanna, vol. 1; Black, Mark; Ross
Andrew Elliot(1781-1783)Raimo; Black, Mark
North Carolina
William Drummond(16631667)Hanna, vol. 1; Raimo, Black, Mark
Thomas Pollock(17121714; 1722)Raimo
Gabriel Johnston(1734-1752)Hanna, vol. 1; Raimo; Black, Mark; Ross
Matthew Rowan(1753-1754)Hanna, vol. 1; Raimo; Black, Mark
Arthur Dobbs(1754-1765)Raimo
Richard Caswell(1777-1780)Raimo
Alexander Martin(1781-1785)Hanna, vol. 1; Raimo; Black, Mark
Pennsylvania
Andrew Hamilton(1701-1703)Hanna, vol. 1; Raimo; Black, Mark
Sir William Keith(1717-1726)Hanna, vol. 1; Raimo; Black, Mark; Ross
Patrick Gordon(17261736)Hanna, vol. 1; Raimo; Black, Mark
James Logan(1736-1738)Hanna, vol. 1; Raimo
James Hamilton(1748-1754; 17591763; 1771; 1773)Hanna, vol. 1; Raimo; Black, Mark
Robert Hunter Morris(1754-1756)Raimo; Black, Mark; Taylor
Joseph Reed(1778-1781)Hanna, vol. 1; Black, Mark
Rhode Island
John Cranston(1678-1680)Raimo; Taylor
Samuel Cranston(1698-1727)Taylor
South Carolina
Joseph Morton(1682)Hanna, vol. 1
Richard Kirk(1684)Hanna, vol. 1; Black, Mark
James Moore(1719)Hanna, vol. 1
James Glen(1743-1756)Raimo; Black, Mark
Lord William Campbell(1775)Raimo; Ross
John Rutledge(1776-1782)Raimo; Black, Mark
Virginia
George Hamilton, earl of Orkney(1705)Haws
Robert Hunter(1707)Black, Mark; Ross; Haws
Alexander Spottswood(1710-1722)Hanna, vol. 1; Raimo; EB
Hugh Drysdale(17221726)
William Gooch(1727-1749)Hanna, vol. 1; EB
James Blair(1740-1741)Raimo; Haws
Robert Dinwiddie(1751-1758)Hanna, vol. 1; Raimo; EB; Haws
John Campbell, earl of Loudon(17561758)Hanna, vol. 1; Black, Mark; Haws
John Blair(1758-1768)Hanna, vol. 1; Raimo; Black, Mark; Haws
William Nelson(1770)Hanna, vol. 1
John Murray, earl of Dunmore(1771-1776)Hanna, vol. 1; Raimo; EB; Haws
Patrick Henry(1776-1779)Hanna, vol. 1; Raimo; Black, Mark
Thomas Jefferson(1779-1781)United States Information Service; EB
Thomas Nelson(1781)Hanna, vol. 1
William Fleming(1781)Raimo; Black, Mark
David Jameson(1781)
Appendix B
Signers of the Declaration of Independence
At least twenty-one of the fifty-six men who risked their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor in signing the Declaration of Independence were of Scottish ancestry, including two native Scots, John Witherspoon and James Wilson. This is a score of about 38 percent, versus the 6.7 percent representation of Scots in the general colonial population in 1790. The primary source for this information is William B. Scotts article in the Scottish Genealogist (vol. 20, no. 1), in which he uses two other sources. Signers Clark and Morris have been added to Scotts nineteen names on the respective authorities of Hanna (vol. 1, p. 31) and the St. Andrews Society (p. 16).
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