Archive for the 'Sanquhar parish' Category
The Covenanters’ Watch Hill near Sanquhar
• November 11, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in Covenanters, Dumfriesshire, Nithsdale, Sanquhar parish
Tags: Covenanter Sites, Covenanters, Dumfries and Galloway, Hillwalking, History, Knockenhair, Sanquhar, Scotland, Walking
Peden’s Cave, Damned Whigs and the Confounded Mist in 1685
• June 7, 2014 • 2 CommentsPosted in 1685, Alexander Peden, Andrew Clark (Auchengruith), Auchengruith, Covenanter Sites, Covenanters, Dumfriesshire, John Mathieson (Closeburn), Nithsdale, Peden's Cave (Howats Burn), Sanquhar parish, Scotland, Scottish History
Tags: Covenanters, Hillwalking, History, Peden's Cave, Sanquhar, Scotland, Scottish History
Devils, True Banditti and Catching Wild Cats: The Covenanters, The Killing Times and the Convention at Wanlockhead of 1684
• October 31, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in 16 convention, 32 convention, 39 convention, 41 convention, Abjuration oath, Alexander Wood, Apologetical Declaration Against Intelligencers, Bo'ness, Crawford parish, Crawfordjohn parish, duke of Hamilton, Dumfriesshire, earl of Melfort, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Glengaber, His Majesty's Regiment of Dragoons, His Majesty's Troop of Life Guards, James Lawson, James Renwick, John Alison, King's Regiment of Horse, Lanarkshire, Linlithgow, Linlithgow parish, Ninian Steel (Glengar), Nithsdale, Sanquhar parish, Swine Abbey, Viscount Tarbet, Wanlockhead, William Douglas duke of Queensberry
Tags: Covenanters, Drumlanrig Castle, Early modern history, Glasgow, History, Scotland, Scottish History, Wanlockhead
The Most Militant Document in Scottish History: Where the Covenanters Agreed the Apologetical Declaration of 1684
• October 29, 2013 • 3 CommentsPosted in 16 convention, 1684, Apologetical Declaration Against Intelligencers, Barbados, Bessie Weir, Cameronian Regiment, Crawford parish, Crawfordjohn parish, Douglas parish, Dumfriesshire, Enterkin Pass, Glengaber, Glengar, James Renwick, John Flint, John Hamilton of Eldershaw, Lanarkshire, Margaret Weir (fl. 1687), Ninian Steel (Glengar), Nithsdale, Penpont parish, Sandilands, Sanquhar parish, Wanlockhead, William Chapman (Douglas)
Tags: Covenanters, Crawfordjohn, Hillwalking, History, Scotland, Scottish History, Southern Upland Way, Wanlockhead
Wanted Dead or Alive. Reward of £16,000 Scots for Notorious Traitors in 1680
• October 9, 2013 • 14 CommentsPosted in 1680, Airdsmoss, Alexander Gordon of Kilsture, Annandale, Auchinleck parish, Auchtitench, Ayrshire, Ayrsmoss, Balmaclellan parish, Barr parish, Benbain, Blairfoot, Carrick, Carsphairn parish, Causeway End (Penninghame), Covenanter Sites, Covenanters, Covington parish, Craigminn (Cumnock), Cubs, Cumnock parish, Dalblair, Dalgig, Dalry parish, Daniel McMichael, David Moodie, Donald Cargill, Dumfriesshire, Durisdeer parish, Evandale parish, Fenwick parish, Francis Johnston, Galloway, Galston parish, Glencairn parish, Glenkens, Horsehill, Irongray parish, James McMichael (d.1684), James Stewart (Causeway End), John Crichton (Auchtitench), John Fowler, John Gemmell (Cumnock), John Hamilton (fl.1680), John Howie of Lochgoin, John Malcolm (d.1680), John Moodie, John Paterson (fl.1680), John Potter, John Vallance, Kells parish, Kilsture, Kirkcudbrightshire, Lanarkshire, Lesmahagow parish, London, Lorgfoot, Loudoun parish, Michael Cameron, Midland, Minnigaff parish, Morton parish, Muirkirk parish, Nithsdale, Old Castle of Cumnock, Penninghame parish, Peter Gemmel, Queensferry paper, Richard Cameron, Robert Dick, Sanquhar, Sanquhar Declaration, Sanquhar parish, Scotland, Scottish History, Sorbie parish, St Brydsbank, Thomas Campbell (Waterhead), Thomas Douglas, Tundergarth parish, Wamphray parish, Waterhead (Cumnock), Wigtownshire
Tags: Airds Moss, Charles II, Covenanters, Early modern history, History, New Cumnock, Sanquhar, Scotland, Scottish History, Wanted Dead or Alive
