and Treasurer of the province.  Alexander Skene, who previously held office in Barbadoes, settled in North Carolina about 1696.  In 1717 he was Member of Council and Assistant to the Judge of Admiralty to try a number of pirates.  In 1719 he was elected Member of the New House of Assembly and became leader of the movement for the Proprietary Government.  He was “looked upon as a man that understood public affairs very well.”  Major Richard Stobo (1727-c. 1770), a native of Glasgow, served in the Canadian campaign against the French.  It was he who guided the Fraser Highlanders up the Heights of Abraham.  Archibald Kennedy (c. 1687-1763), a relative of the Earl of Cassilis, was Collector of Customs of the Port of New York and Member of the Provincial Council.  In his letters to headquarters and in his reports he urged the importance of the American Colonies to the mother country and advocated measures which, if carried out, would undoubtedly have strengthened their loyalty and added to their wealth and prosperity.  Alexander Barclay, grandson of the Apologist of the Quakers, was Comptroller of the Customs under the Crown in Philadelphia from 1762 till his death in 1771.  William Ronald, a native of Scotland, was a delegate in the Virginia Convention of 1788.  His brother, General Andrew Ronald, was one of the Counsel representing the British merchants in the so-called British Debts Case.  William Houston, son of Sir Patrick Houston, was a Delegate to the Continental Congress (1784-87) and a Depute from Georgia to the Convention for revising the Federal Constitution.  His portrait, as well as that of his brother’s, was destroyed by fire during the Civil War.  Sir William Dunbar (c. 1740-1810), a pioneer of Louisiana, held important trusts under the Federal government and was a correspondent of Thomas Jefferson.  Rev. Henry Patillo (1736-1801), born in Scotland, advocated separation from the mother country on every possible occasion, and was a Member of the Provincial Council in 1775.  John Dickinson (1732-1808), Member of the Continental Congress of 1765, of the Federal Convention of 1787, and President of Pennsylvania (1782-85), was also the founder of Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.  The Dickinsons came from Dundee in early colonial times.  John Ross, purchasing agent for the Continental Army, was born in Tain, Ross-shire.  He lost about one hundred thousand dollars by his services to his adopted country, but managed to avoid financial shipwreck.  John Harvie, born at Gargunnock, died 1807, was Member of the Continental Congress (1777), signer of the Articles of Confederation the following year, and in 1788 was appointed Secretary of the Commonwealth.  John McDonnell (1779-1846), born in Scotland, was in business in Detroit in 1812, and “thoroughly Americanized.”  He opposed the British commander’s orders after the surrender of Hull, and redeemed many captives from the Indians.  Became Member of State Constitutional Convention (1835), State Senator (1835-37),