The Ordeal of Patrick McMaster: A Galloway Merchant in the American Revolution
Recent, Recent (Social), Genealogy, History
TDGNHAS Series III, 81 (2007), 99(2.95 MB)
Abstract
Patrick McMaster was born on March 19, 1741, at Currochtrie in Kirkmaiden parish. This article describes the various vissisitudes that befell him while in business in Colonial Boston at the time of the American War of Independence. The article aims to con