MARCH 6 1457 An Act of the Scottish Parliament prohibits the playing of golf and football. 2 national sports! King James II decreed in an Act of Parliament that there should be regular target practice and military parades and that (‘futbawe and ye golf be utterly cryt done’ were banned (“football and the golf be utterly cried down”.). This was the first time that the games had been recorded in Scottish document., but they were obviously significant enough already, to rise to the attention of parliament.

 This 1457 ban was repeated in 1471 when Parliament thought it ‘expedient [th]at…ye futbal and golf be abusit.’ In an act of 1491 football, golf and other with unrofittable sports (‘fut bawis gouff or uthir sic unproffitable sports’) were outlawed altogether. In contrast, archery was endorsed as a worthwhile sport which might also be put to good use in defending the country. The law was apparently widely ignored. Within a decade Golf was subsequently permitted from 1502.

 1994 Great Britain postage stamp commemorating Carnoustie’s 15th hole “Lucky Slap”. 30p. Scottish Golf Course Series

1492 – Patrick Hepburn, 3rd Lord Hailes, 1st Earl of Bothwell had a charter of the lands and lordship of Liddesdale, with Hermitage Castle, etc., upon the resignation of the same by Archibald Douglas, Earl of Angus, the latter getting the lordship of Bothwell [but not the Earldom] which Patrick in turn resigned.

1599 never happened in Scotland.   March went from the 1st   month in 1598 to none in 1599 to the 3rd month in 1600.

1653 John Mack born 6 mar 1653 Inverness Scotland, descended from a line of clergymen. John emigrated to Salisbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony, in 1669, and then to Lyme, New London, Connecticut. John married in 1681 in Salisbury to Sarah Bagley. John’s son Ebenezer married Hannah Huntley (clan Huntley), had a son Solomon, 1732-1820, who married Lydia Gates in 1759, and had Lucy Mack, 1775-1856. Lucy Mack married Joseph Smith Senior, and had Hyrum and Joseph (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints prophets) and nine other children.

 Grave of Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith (clans Mack and Hamilton), Nauvoo Illinois.

1679 the Habeas Corpus Parliament begins to define and strengthen the ancient prerogative writ of habeas corpus, whereby persons unlawfully detained must be presented  before a court of law.

1725 Henry Benedict Stewart Duke of York Cardinal, born, son of Princess Clementina Sobieski and Chevalier de St. George. (TG75-59)

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 Scotland’s 1751 had 365 days. The world’s oldest lunar “calendar” is in an Aberdeenshire field. Crathes Castle and its estate is in the care of the National Trust for Scotland (NTS). From 2004 to 2006, trust staff and Murray Archaeological Services excavated the site.

1820 The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe (clan Munro). The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, but leaves the rest of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free. Monroe’s paternal great-grandfather emigrated to America from Scotland in the mid-17th century. In 1650 Andrew Monroe patented a large tract of land in Washington Parish, Westmoreland County, Virginia. This ‘Compromise’ will unravel within 30 years, by allowing ‘self-determination slave or free’ for Kansas Nebraska, resulting in the great Civil War.

1829 Joseph Smith the Prophet (clans Hamilton and Mack) at Harmony, Pennsylvania. (Clan Mack of Inverness, Malcolm King of Scots). Doctrine and Covenants 5. Sometime in March. ‘And behold, whosoever believeth on my words, them will I visit with the manifestation of my Spirit; and they shall be born of me, even of water and of the Spirit.’

1830 Scots Roman Type, prepared in Glasgow Scotland, and shipped to a foundry in Albany New York, 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

33rd form of 16 pages printed. Somewhere in the Book of Ether.

1836 The Alamo Mission, Republic of Texas, end of the Battle of the Alamo on March 6. Restored in 1847 by Colonel James Harvey Ralston (clan Ralston) United States Army.

Ralston clan. Nicolaus de Ralston is witness to a donation to the monks of Paisley in 1272. In the Ragman Roll is the name of Hew de Ralstoun of this family. Jacobus Ralston of Ralston is witness in an instrument upon electing an abbot of the monastery of Paisley, whose surname was John Ralston of that ilk In the reign of James II. lived John de Ralstone, who, in 1444, was made lord keeper of the privy seal, in 1448 bishop of Dunkeld, and in 1449 lord-high-treasurer. The same year he was sent ambassador to England, and again in 1452 (Keith’s Catalogue of Scottish Bishops.) He was succeeded in the estate of Ralston by his nephew. In 1505 Thomas Ralston of Ralston obtained a charter of his lands from John Lord Ross. Hugh de Ralston of Ralston fell at the battle of Pinkie 10th September 1547. The son of the latter, also named Hugh, acquired in 1551, from Gavin, commendator of Kilwinning, the lands of Woodside and Turnerland, parish of Beith, Ayrshire. He was the sixth laird of Ralston.

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Beith is a small town situated in the Garnock Valley in North Ayrshire, Scotland approximately 20-miles south-west of Glasgow. The town is situated on the crest of a hill and was known originally as the “Hill o’ Beith” (hill of the birches) after its Court Hill.

 The Alamo, as drawn in 1854. San Antonio, Texas (February 23 – March 6, 1836) was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution. List of Alamo defenders of Scots ancestry.

All crossed Colonel Travis’ line in the sand drawn by Travis’ sword. All chose to remain to the end. 29 Scots’ Defenders names.

  • Richard W. Ballentine Private unknown 1814 Scotland killed in battle.

John Blair Private         unknown 180 Tennessee killed in battle (clan Blair)

  • Samuel Blair Captain, assistant to ordnance chief Ordnance Department 1807 Tennessee killed in battle

James “Jim” Bowie, American pioneer and soldier (b. 1796) Bowie was of    Scottish and English ancestry.

James Buchanan         Private unknown, marksman         1813         killed in battle         resident of Austins Colony

Samuel E. Burns Private Carey’s artillery company 1810         Ireland killed in battle

Robert Campbell         Lieutenant         Harrison’s company (VAC)         1810         Tennessee killed in battle.

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Robert E. Cochran         Private         Carey’s company         1810         Merrimack County, Pembroke, New Hampshire killed in battle. Cochran County, Texas is named for him

Lemuel Crawford         Private         Carey’s company         1814         South Carolina         killed in battle.

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David P. Cummins Private Gonzales Mounted Rangers 1809         Lewiston, Pennsylvania killed in battle. (rode in as part of the “Immortal 32” Gonzales Mounted Rangers), His cousin-in-law, John Purdy Reynolds, also died at the Alamo

  • Robert Cunningham Private Carey’s company October 18, 1804 Ontario County, New York killed in battle.

John M. Hays Private Baker (possibly) 1814 Nashville, Tennessee killed in battle         He was nominated as a delegate to represent the Alamo garrison at the Convention of 1836 but was not elected.

  • Joseph Kerr Private marksman, unknown 1814 Louisiana killed in battle rode in with Louisiana Volunteers for Texas. Independence under Capt.S.L.Chamblis, Son of Ohio General and Senator Joseph Kerr.

William J. Lightfoot 3rd Corporal. Carey’s artillery company 1805 Kentucky killed in battle fought at Bexar, remained at Alamo. Actual name is John William Lightfoot

  • Byrd Lockhart Commissioner, empowered to muster Gonzales Ranging Company Gonzales Ranging Company     1782     Virginia survived On February 23, Lockhart and Andrew Sowell were scouting for provisions when the Mexican army arrived. Unable to re-enter the Alamo, they went to Gonzales.

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Edward McCafferty Lieutenant Bowies company         , Refugio resident         killed in battle         Possible officer to Jim Bowie’s men

Jesse McCoy Private, marksman Gonzales Mounted Rangers         1804         Tennessee         killed in battle original settler of Dewitt’s Colony, (rode in  as part of the “Immortal 32” Gonzales Mounted Rangers)

William McDowell         Private, marksman Harrison’s company         1794         Pennsylvania         killed in battle joined Vol.Aux.Corps in Nacogdoches

  • James McGee Private, marksman Blazeby’s infantry co. unknown Ireland killed in battle fought at Bexar remained with Blazeby

John McGregor Sergeant Carey’s company 1808 Scotland killed in battle fought at Bexar, remained at Alamo with Carey, played bagpipes accompanied by Crockett’s fiddle.

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Robert McKinney Lieutenant Served under Travis 1809 Ireland killed in battle Immigrated in 1835 from Ireland to Texas as shown in the petition and later issued Texas Land Grant given to his mother in 1860, Original held by Texas State Land Office Archives

James Waters Robertson Private, marksman unknown, volunteer 1812         Tennessee killed in battle Fought at Bexar

Isaac Robinson 4th Sergeant Carey’s artillery 1808 Scotland killed in battle         Fought at Bexar, remained in Alamo in Carey’s company.

Joseph Rutherford Private, marksman Carey’s company 1798 Kentucky         killed in battle Fought at Bexar, remained in Alamo in Carey’s company.

Lieutenant Forsyth.

 Forsyth Crest: A griffin sergeant Azure, armed and membered Sable, crowned Or. Motto: INSTAURATOR RUINAE. [From Latin: “A repairer of ruin”].Chief: Alister Forsyth of that Ilk

Cleveland Kinloch Simmons, Lieutenant Forsyth’s company June 8, 1815, born Charleston, South Carolina killed in battle, signed on in San Felipe as officer in Texas Regular Army, (2nd cousin of Joseph Pickens Simmons).

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1836 Cleland Kinloch Simmons (Cleland is a small village near Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, Scotland.) of Charleston, In the Alamo, San Antonio, Texas Republic, Simmons, a member of the dismounted cavalry, joined volunteers in helping Colonel Davey Crockett. In The last hour of the hand to hand combat, Simmons retired in good order to trenches inside the barracks. Travis and Bonham, both of South Carolina were in their twenties. Travis wrote the appeal ‘the People of Texas and All Americans in the World.’ The News and Courier August 2, 1964.

James E. Stewart         Private, marksman unknown 1808 England killed in battle limited information

John Sutherland Jr. Private, physician Patton’s Company, Alamo Hospital         May 11, 1792 Danville, Pittsylvania County, Virginia survived         Injured in a fall from his horse and could not fight, so Col. William B. Travis sent him Out Feb. 23 to recruit help from Gonzales. Later wrote The Fall of the Alamo, pub. in 1936

William DePriest Sutherland Private, marksman, physicians assistant         Patton’s Company, Alamo Hospital August 10, 1818 Tennessee, Navidad, Texas, resident, formerly Alabama killed in battle Followed his uncle, John Sutherland Jr., into the Alamo.

David L. Wilson unknown followed Dimmitt to Bexar, born 1807 Scotland killed in battle remained in Alamo, resident of Nacogdoches

 The Alamo Flag

1860 Ronald Craufurd Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar KT GCMG PC (6 March 1860 – 30 March 1934), was a Scottish politician and colonial governor. He served as the sixth Governor-General of Australia (1914–1920), and was considered the most politically influential Governor. In Britain he was Secretary for Scotland (1922–24). The family home in Raith, Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, the son and eldest child of Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Ferguson, a wealthy member of the British House of Commons of auld Scottish descent. His mother was Emma Eliza (née Mandeville). In 1864 his father inherited the estates of Novar in Ross-shire and Muirton, Morayshire, and took the additional surname Munro. He was educated at Sandhurst and pursued a military career until 1884

1881 – Horatia Nelson, (born 1801) died, daughter of Lady Emma Hamilton and Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson.

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1899 ‘Aspirin’ (acetylsalicylic acid) is patented by German chemist Felix Hoffmann. BBC. Scottish Daily Express

 Over A century after Aspirin was discovered, Aspirin New Health Alert, daily pills pose risk to elderly heart patients. Scottish Daily Express Cover June 14, 2017