February 28 1358 William, 5^th Earl of Sutherland King David II granted him and his eldest son the barony and castle of Urquhart, in Inverness-shire, and later paid him £80 towards his expenses in England in addition to various sums from the Exchequer.

Urquhart Crest: Issuant from a crest coronet Or, a naked woman from the waist upwards Proper, brandishing in her Dexter hand a sword Azure, hilted and pommelled Gules, and holding in her sinister hand a palm sapling Vert. Motto: MEANE WEIL SPEAK WEIL AND DOE WEIL. 
Badge: wallflower, or gillyflower. Chief: Kenneth Trist Urquhart of Urquhart

1361 Lord of Abernethy, a Scottish title of nobility. Murdoch held title of Earl of Menteith (28 February 1361). As Lord Abernethy, it is subsidiary title of the Dukes of Hamilton and Brandon. The Mormaers and Earls of Fife had enjoyed the privilege of crowning new Kings of Scots. Following the failure of the main MacDuff line, and after the execution of the Stewart Murdoch, Earl of Fife in 1425, the privilege fell back to the second line of MacDuffs, those of Abernethy.

 MacDuff Crest: A demi-lion Gules holding in the dexter paw a broadsword erected in pale Proper, hilted and pommelled Or. Motto: DEUS JUVAT.
[from Latin: “God assists”].
Badge: boxwood or red whortleberry

Abernethy 1350 [Blair5.paf]

Alexander de Abernethy of that Ilk 1279 had

Maria de Abernethy^[1] 1295-1355 married 1324 Nov 28 David de Lindsay Knight of Crawford 1299-1357,   1320 signed letter to Pope asserting independence of Scotland had

Sir Alexander Lindsay married Catherine Stirling had

Sir David Lindsay 1365-14071^st Earl of Crawford married Catherine Jean Stewart had

Alexander Lindsay 2^nd Earl Crawford married Mariotta Dunbar had

David Lindsay 3^rd Earl Crawford married Marjory Ogilvie had

Alexander Lindsay 4^th Earl of Crawford, Lanarkshire, d 1454 married Marjory Elizabeth Dunbar had

Elizabeth Lindsay married John 1^st Baron Drummond d.1519 had

17Q Beatrix Drummond married 17K James 2^nd Baron Hamilton 1^st Earl of Arran, had

16W Margaret Hamilton married 16H Andrew Stewart, had

15H Andrew Stewart 1530-1593 2^nd   Lord of Ochiltree had

14W Anne Stewart married 14H Andrew Millar 1st^st had

13H Andrew Millar 2^nd married 13W Elizabeth Lockhart had

12H Andrew Millar 3^rd married 12W Gilles Hunter had –

11F Robert Miller 1^st married 5 December 1671 11M Grizel Cochrane, in Ochiltree, Ayr, as 2d wife had

10F Robert Miller 2^nd , (christened 28 Jun 1678-1732) of St Quivox Scotland, Presbyterian minister, married Helen Meldrum 10M had

9F Robert Miller 3^rd , (b.1730 Scotland) married Jane Pickens 9M had

8M Annie Miller (1762-1843) married Lt. Robert Simmons, 8F War of Independence, had

7F John Simmons married 1815 Naomi Jared 7M, had

6F Joseph Pickens Simmons married 6M Francis Virginia Mason

5M Mary Elizabeth Simmons married Austin Choate 5F, etc.

1371 – Robert II, King Scots crowned. (TG 17-246) (ODNBxviii1226,1230)

1406 – Sometime in February. James I escaped to the Bass Rock in the Firth of Forth accompanied by Henry Sinclair, Earl of Orkney.

1544 John Blair and Patrick his son, both at the horn, found security to underly the law for abiding from the queen’s armies at Ancrum, in Pitcairn’s Criminal Trials, 4^th yea of Queen Mary. Anderson v. 1, p.319

1599 never happened in Scotland. Dating its years from the birth of Jesus Christ, so that ‘’ every nation, kindred, every ear shall hear, every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess, Jesus Christ is Lord,’’ thru computer software applications and aviation, the Christian calendar has been adopted world wide for the Musselmen of Islam, the Buddhist, Confucian, Hindu, nativist, Jew, agnostic, or atheist (Isaiah 45:23, 1 Kings 19:18, Philippians 2:11, Romans 14:11, confirmed in modern times Mosiah 16:1, 27:31 Doctrine and Covenants 76:110, 88:104

An 1883 map of the world divided into colors representing “Christians, Buddhists, Hindoos, Mohammedans, Fetichists”.

1638 Greyfriar’s Kirk on February 28, 1638, when a concourse of nobles and barons subscribed to a document known as the National Covenant, which is signed in Edinburgh.

 An illegal conventicle (open-air service).

The National Covenant is drafted – 1638. In response to Charles’ religious reforms Archibald Johnston of Warriston and Alexander Henderson draft the National Covenant – a new Presbyterian agreement between God and the Scottish people. Within days thousands of common people have signed it. The Sword and the Cross: Covenant or King.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/history/covenanters/the_national_covenant_is_drafted/

The term covenant was preserved 2 centuries later, in the title of the book named The Doctrine and Covenants, compiled revelations from Joseph Smith, Junior, for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

1708 English fleet before Dunkirk and French squadron of Forbin TG 62-145.

1749 novel Tom Jones published. Author Henry Fielding, Publisher Andrew Millar VI.

Title page from the 1749 edition. London Printed for A. Millar over against Catharine street in the Strand. [Andrew Miller VI, 1705-1768, London publisher – Ayrshire Millars, clans Stewart, Hunter, Lockhart]

1751 did not occur in England, Ireland, British North America, and British colonies, as 1751 only had 282 days due to the Calendar Act of 1750. But 1751 did occur in Scotland, as 1751 had 365 days. The world’s oldest lunar “calendar” is in an Aberdeenshire field.

1830 Scots Roman Type, prepared in Glasgow Scotland, and shipped to a foundry in Albany New York, USA, then delivered to the E. B. Grandin Printing company in Palmyra New York, according to the Crandall Gutenberg Printing Museum in Provo Utah. The Scots Roman type is the font used to print the first edition of the Book of Mormon. The contract with E. B. Grandin’s print shop to print the book was signed on Tuesday 25 Aug 1829, and the completed book was on sale by Friday 26 March 1830. Typesetter John H. Gilbert selects type and inserts commas, periods, and other punctuation as Gilbert reads Oliver Cowdery’s hand written copy. One form signature of 16 pages, in quantities of 5,000 copies will be printed, 37 signatures, a form per 6 day, 11 hour per day week. Meridian Magazine (14 Apr 2005). http://www.johnpratt.com/items/docs/lds/meridian/2005/printing.html

30^th       form of 16 pages printed. Somewhere in 3 Nephi

1836 siege at The Alamo Mission San Antonio, Texas Republic (February 23 – March 6, 1836) ends at the Battle of the Alamo on March 6 with list of Scots defenders. Restored in 1847 by Colonel James Harvey Ralston. (clan Ralston)

CLELAND KINLOCH SIMMONS of Charleston South Carolina heard the appeal to aid of the hard pressed Texas Republic colonists. Mrs. Ernest W. King, a Simmons descendant, said his Simmons’ parents came to Charleston from Boston, and were forebears of prominent Charleston families Manigaults, Dan Hugers, Judge Henry A. Smith, Tom Lesesnes, The Middletons, Henry Cheves and Henry Williams.

 drmarkjardine.wordpress.com Jardin’s book of Martyrs. Cleland House Wallace cave. Cleland is a small village near Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, Scotland.

1943 Commandoes in Norway (the ‘heroes of Telemark’) destroy heavy water vital to the Nazi nuclear programme, thus winning   the war for the United Nations.

1972 Rory Cochrane, (born February 28, 1972) is an American actor, scots ancestry.

1975

 Pioneer Commemorative Issue of 1975.

1991 US President George Bush declares Kuwait liberated from Iraqi occupation after 43 days of conflict. Desert Storm. BBC. Bush Scots ancestors are Duncan I, King of Scotland; Malcolm III Canmore, King of Scotland;

[1] http://www.electricscotland.com/webclans/htol/lindsay2.html

Sir David Lindsay of Crawford acquired Glenesk in Angus by marriage with Maria Abernethy one of the heiresses of the Earldom of Angus and was hence created Earl of Crawford in 1398.

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