The Tale of Peter Williamson: Before I start the tale of Indian Peter
I must give a tip of my hat and hearty well done to the city of Aberdeen Scotland.
On 11-06-07 the city of Aberdeen pulled back the curtain on a dark part of the
cities history.
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Slavery in Scotland?: April 1666 City fathers of Edinburgh were exporting
beggars and vagabonds because they were “not fit to stay in the kingdom”.
A ship named “Phoenix” which was captained by James Gibson would sail
from Leith loaded with the unfit and poor to be sold in Virginia.
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RECENT ARTICLES BY JAMES A BULLMAN
The Term Ancient Colors: When you buy tartan material today, you get a choice of colors
Ancient, modern, muted, weathered etc, etc. The most confusing of these is
the term ancient colors. This term does not, I repeat does not have anything
to do with the ancient colors of clan x, y or z. It is not the colors worn by
Clan X, 500, 600 years ago.
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Visit of King George IV : The result of this visit on Scotland, was not, nor can it be left out of tartan history. What we see today at clan tents, Scottish Highland Games (U.S.A.), the explosion of tartan. The stories we hear true or false can be traced back to this event. Traced to an English King.
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The Celtic Tribes of Scotland: When you say celtic tribes of Scotland, most people think of one tribe, “The Caledonii”
from which we get the word Caledonia.
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The Sgian Dubh: The sgian dubh we see today
is a mixture of history, myth and misinterpretation. Sgian in Gaelic means knife,
the dubh part means black. Thus you get black knife. The black refers to the fact
it was a hidden knife or a concealed weapon.
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William McIntosh Creek Indian: To begin at the beginning we find Captain
John McIntosh who came from Badenock Scotland in 1736. John arrived at a town
in Georgia called New Inverness, now known as Darien, Georgia.
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