![]() ![]() ![]() Scattered across Scotland in various archives lie letters, wills and other documents relating to the lives and experiences of Highlanders who had made the decision to go to the Caribbean at a time when their communities, which were located in Britain’s northernmost region, were convulsing from the aftershocks of Culloden. Inclosed you have on a slip of paper the notes I promised to send you, I send it you for the purpose of giving you some idea of my little affairs in this country in case any accident happening to me that you may be able to render a service to my children y eldest boy Simon is now going on four years old e goes to school and I hope he will read and write a little before he is sent home which I mean to do if possible when he is seven years old I understand you have a very good academy in your town furnished with good teachers in several branches of Education, if it pleases the Almighty to spare me to see my three boys able to shift themselves I shall think myself the happiest of mortals. ![]()
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