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Copy of a paragraph of a Letter from the Revd Mr John Stewart at Tain to me R. F.

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Copy of a Paragraph from the Revd Mr John Stewart of Tain about burning his Chapel & plundering his dwelling House in 1746. Feb. 28. 1759.
Forbes
Copy of a paragraph of a Letter from the Revd Mr John Stewart at Tain to me R. F.
Steuart
Copy of a paragraph from the Reverend Mr. John Stewart of Tain about burning his Chapel & plundering his dwelling House in 1746. February 28. 1759
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Paragraph of a letter from Rev. John Stewart at Tain
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Vol. 8, 1799
Paton
Vol. 3, 165
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1799

Copy of a Paragraph of a Letter
from the RevdReverend Mr John Stew-
art
at Tain to me R. F.

My meeting house was burnt to Ashes
in the MonethMonth of May 1746, and my
dwelling house
was plunder’dplundered of all
that was not put out of the way
before the plundering Party came.
Tain Feb.February 28th 1759.
N.B. The Original of the above
is to be found among my Papers.
Robert Forbes, A. M.
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Forbes, Robert. “Copy of a paragraph of a Letter from the Revd Mr John Stewart at Tain to me R. F.” The Lyon in Mourning, vol. 8, Adv.MS.32.6.23, fol. 104r. The Lyon in Mourning Project, edited by Leith Davis, https://lyoninmourning.dhil.lib.sfu.ca/v08.1799.01.html.
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