Roster of Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York, With Biographical Data, Vol. 1

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Excerpt from Roster of Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York, With Biographical Data, Vol. 1: From Its Organization to the End of the American Revolution, 1756-1783 Sketches of the several officers, of whom I have given only their official record, may yet be found in the many works on the period published in this country, and in the town and county histories of Scotland. Those members who have not been identified were prominent Scotsmen in the Colony of New York, merchants from other Ameri can Colonies or visiting Scotsmen from the West Indies, and it is hoped that some time in the future some data concerning them may be found. In the year 1823 the Society published a copy of its Constitution with a list of officers and members from the beginning to that date. This list was made up from the Records in the handwriting of the several secretaries, and owing to the difficulty of deciphering, errors crept into the printed record. Errors also have occurred through faulty spelling. No effort seemed to have been made to identify each member, and the errors have remained until this day. Where ever these errors have been noted, corrections have been made with great care and only after mature deliberation. The next period, from the Evacuation to the close of the first fifty years of the Society's existence, 1783 - 1806, will be a more difficult task, as sketches of the lives of plain merchant citizens are not easily attainable. The press is almost the only source of information and the advertisements therein practically the only reading matter, out side of foreign news. There was then no society column with its divulgence of intimate and indiscreet information, no obituaryvi introduction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.