October 1 Month begins with the letter O. Octo is Latin for eight From the time of Julius Caesar, and before, the year started after the VERNAL equinox in March, 21-24. So the 8^th month from March was named October. Scotland started the year on January 1, in 1600, the English in 1752.

Photo by John Choate, of poster at the National Security Agency’s Library and Museum Fort Mead Maryland. The X symbol, above Mary’s name, was a substitution code for the letter O used by Mary Queen of Scots while captive at Fotheringhay castle, circa 1587.

Sources; TG Tales of a Grandfather, Sir Walter Scott, circa 1827

YY Yours for Yesterday Helen Hill Miller circa 1960. Wikipedia the online encyclopedia.

http://www.scotlandvacations.com/scottishhumour.htm

017ca Anderson The Scottish nation, or The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland – 3 volumes circa 1862

System of Heraldry, Speculative and Practical: with the True Art of Blazen, according to the Most approved Heralds in Europe, published in 1742, Vol. II, appendix to Part IV P. 42, Alexander Nisbet 1742 and 1765.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/ 1950-2005

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videos

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/history/early_scotland/roman_forces_are_evacuated_from_britain/

400 AD With the empire under threat from the Goths, Roman forces in Britain are evacuated and withdrawn and sent to Italy. The garrisons left behind are unable to cope with sustained rebellions from the Caledonian tribes. Video: In Search of Scotland: Mysterious Ancestors.

1066 Normans in Angleterre.

HIC EPISCOPUS CIBU[M] ET POTU[M] BENEDICIT

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1263 Haco, King of Norway, at the head of a powerful fleet and army, came to invade (TG5-61)and conquer the kingdom of Scotland. Alexander III of Scotland. Haakon Haakonarson (Early 1204 – 15 December 1263) (Old Norse: Hákon Hákonarson; Norwegian: Håkon Håkonsson), also called Haakon the Old, was king of Norway

Haakon IV the Old (Håkon IV Håkonsson) 1217–1263 with his son Haakon the Young (1240–1257) later Magnus VI (1257–1263) from Flateyjarbók (c. 1394)

Haakon HAAKONSON (Heir) of NORWAY     Born:  1232    Died:  1263

HM George I’s 12-Great Uncle.       HRE Charles VI’s 14-Great Uncle.       U.S. President _[MONROE]‘s 20-Great Uncle.       PM Churchill’s 22-Great Uncle.       Lady Diana’s 22-Great Uncle.       PM Cameron’s 21-Great Uncle.  

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1419 In 1418 Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany appointed his son, John Stewart, 2^nd Earl of Buchan, Chamberlain of Scotland to command the Scottish expeditionary force, the largest army that medieval Scotland had ever sent abroad. 7000-8000 men arrived at La Rochelle in October 1419 and made their way to Tours to greet the Dauphin. The first thing the future Charles VII did was to shower munificence upon the Scottish nobles. Buchan received Châtillon-sur-Indre, the Earl of Wigtoun received Dun-le-Roi, Sir John Stewart of Darnley received Concressault and Aubigny, and Thomas Seton the castle of Langeais. The Scottish leaders were persuaded to return to Scotland to recruit more troops. The Scottish leadership returned in 1420 with another 4000-5000 reinforcements. While their leaders were at home the Dauphin assigned the Scottish contingent throughout his armies and garrisons and picked a number roughly one hundred of the best warriors to be his personal body guard.

1542 – James 5^th’s army approaching Border of Scotland and England. English withdraw, nobles refuse to invade England. James V returns to Edinburgh. (TG 28-47)

1568 the Bannatyne Manuscript, the most extensive collection of early Scottish poetry in existence, was published by George Bannatyne, an Edinburgh merchant

1623 William Keith, 6^th Earl Marischal ratified his father’s building of Marischal College by a charter of 1 October 1623. Baronet of Nova Scotia at the end of May 1625 and, on the new Scottish privy council’s restructuring in March 1626.

1662 Decreet of the Privy Council, Andrew Millar IV, deprived of his charge of ministry at Dailly, for refusing to recognize the episcopate. YYMA 55. Dailly is a village in South Ayrshire, Scotland. It is located on the Water of Girvan, 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) south of Maybole, and 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) east of Old Dailly.

1662 Robert Millar 1^st , Minister of Ochiltree, deprived by Decreet of Privy Council 1^st Oct. 1662 ; went to Holland and France ; obtained the degree of M.D. in 1668. He married (1) Margaret, daughter of Gilbert Kennedy of Girvanmains ; (2) Grizel, daughter of Colonel Hugh Cochrane, brother of William, Earl of Dundonald, and had issue — Robert 2^nd , minister of St Quivox; William, M.D.

Neilston Parish Church.

www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk

John minister of Neilston ; Hugh ; Margaret ; Katherine ; Mary ; Jean.”

SOURCE: Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae: the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation, Vol. III, page 61

Andrew and Robert Millar are brothers.

1715 In the beginning of October, the plan of insurrection was so far ripened, that the gentlemen of Galloway, Nithisdale, and Annandale, proposed by [TG68-290] a sudden effort to possess themselves of the county town of Dumfries.

1728 Robert Livingston the Elder died. (December 13, 1654 – October 1, 1728) was a New York colonial official, and first lord of Livingston Manor. was born in the village of Ancrum, near Jedburgh, in the County of Roxburgh, Scotland, one of seven children of the Reverend John Livingston, a lineal descendant of the fourth Lord Livingston, ancestor of the earls of Linlithgow and Callendar, a minister of the Church of Scotland, who was sent into exile in 1663 due to his resistance to attempts to turn the Presbyterian national church into an Episcopalian institution. The exiled family were raised in Rotterdam, in the Dutch Republic, thus Robert Livingston was fluent in the Dutch language, which helped him greatly in his later career in the former Dutch colony of New Netherland.

Map of Roxburghshire, with Jedburgh on the railway line, which did not exist in 1728. Roxburgh is on the border between Scotland and England.

1781 Yorktown Virginia. On October 1, the allies learned from British deserters that, to preserve their food, the British had slaughtered hundreds of horses and thrown them on the beach. In the American camp, thousands of trees were cut down to provide wood for earthworks. Preparations for the parallel also began. As the allies began to put their artillery into place, the British kept up a steady fire to disrupt them.

British Legion Dragoon, measuring the muscle on the horse, ready to eat.

1801 London. Preliminary articles of peace between France and Britain, signed. Tytler’s Britannica 263.

1803 Louisiana Purchase. Negotiated by Robert Livingston, Minister to France. The Louisiana Purchase (French: Vente de la Louisiane “Sale of Louisiana”) was the acquisition by the United States of America of 828,000 square miles (2,140,000 km²) of France’s claim to the territory of Louisiana in 1803. The U.S. paid 60 million francs ($11,250,000) plus cancellation of debts worth 18 million francs ($3,750,000), for a total sum of 15 million dollars (less than 3 cents per acre) for the Louisiana territory ($100 was about a good year’s wage in 1803, or 30 cents a day). Robert Livingston Issue of 1904

1804 Effective on October 1, 1804, the purchased territory was organized into the Territory of Orleans (most of which became the state of Louisiana) and the District of Louisiana, which was temporarily under the control of the governor and judges of the Indiana Territory. The Louisiana Purchase Treaty was signed by Robert Livingston, Robert Livingston and Luke Soren Sorensen are both decendants of Sir Alexander Livingston, who flourished under James 2^nd

1866 John Nicholson, Scot, arrived in Salt Lake City, October 1, 1866. One of the first individuals to greet Elder Nicholson was the Prophet of the Lord, Brigham Young, who inquired of the young man if he had any relatives in the city. Being told that he had none the President remarked, “You have many friends.” George Q. Cannon engaged him to canvass in the interests of the “Juvenile Instructor,” which he had rather recently established. Author of Come follow me.

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1913 Joseph F. Smith (clans Huntley, Hamilton, Mackenzie, Mack , Inverness) dedicates the Seagull monument in Salt Lake City, Utah for the ‘Miracle of the Gulls’ of 1848.

St Vincent postage

http://www.ldsliving.com/11-Postage-Stamps-with-Mormon-Pictures-on-Them/s/79398

1940 America or good auld US of A. After a dozen British merchant Marine ships crossing the Atlantic, zigzagging to avoid Nazi submarines, ferrying 600 freight cars worth of American rifles (half a million), field guns, machine guns, ammo, shells, cartridges, carrying the guns from New Jersey to England. Backstory, the British evacuation of Dunkirk (May June 1940) and other evacuations from Brest, Cherbourg, St. Malo, and St. Nazaire, left all the Brits guns and equipment on the beaches of France. The United States sold a half million rifles and more to restock and rearm Scotland and England against a threatened Nazi invasion upcoming in the Battle of Britain (June to November 1940).

• The “American Committee for Defense of British Homes” in 1940, sent an urgent appeal — in American Rifleman — for Americans to send “Pistols – Rifles – Revolvers – Shotguns – Binoculars” because “British civilians, faced with the threat of invasion, desperately need arms for the defense of their homes.” Thousands of arms were collected and sent to England,..
• http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/650257/posts

1980 USS Cochrane (DDG-21), rescued 104 Vietnamese refugees 620 miles east of Saigon. Named for Vice Admiral Edward L. Cochrane, USN, was a Charles F. Adams-class guided missile armed destroyer.

1948 Macbeth (1948 film), directed by and starring Orson Welles

2012 humor. Cornwall and Lewis were walking along a street in Glasgow.

Cornwall looked in one of the shop windows and saw a sign that caught his eye. It read, “Suits £5.00 each, Shirts £2.00 each, trousers £2.50 per pair”.

Cornwall said to Lewis, “Look at the prices! We could buy a whole lot of these ane when we get back tae Wales we could make a fortune. Now when we go in, you stay quiet, okay? Let me do all the talking cause if they hear our accents, they might think we are cheap Welsh. I’ll put on my best Liverpudian accent”.

“OK Cornwall, I’ll stay quiet” said Lewis. In they went, and Cornwall said in a posh voice, “Hello my good man. I’ll take 50 suits at £5.00 each, 100 shirts at £2.00 each, and 50 pairs of trousers at £2.50 each. I’ll back up me truck ready to load them on, old chap!’’

The shop owner said quietly, “You must be Welsh or English, aren’t you?” “Well, yes,” said a surprised Cornwall. “How’d ye guess?” “Well, first of all, you’ve never had your clothes dry-cleaned…” !

http://www.scotlandvacations.com/scottishhumour.htm

2014. Tune Scotland the Brave for Praise to the Man. Performed by the America’s Choir, a National Treasure.

https://www.lds.org/general-conference/music?lang=eng#sort=session&dir=desc&page=&lang=eng&clang=eng&search=praise+to+the+man&conference=all

2016 flashback to 1505, when the first printing press was brought to Scotland by A. Mylar, who began printing Bibles, later translated from Latin to English causing the 1560 Protestant Reformation, leading to 1829 Glasgow lead fonts used to set type for the printing of the Book of Mormon, to 1830 Scots’ Joseph Smith the Prophet and the organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; leading to 2010 and Scots’ Thomas Monson and these New Testament videos.

https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2010-11-01-introduction-our-heavenly-fathers-plan?category=new-testament/new-testament-stories&lang=eng

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