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- http://www.ourwebsite.org/jane/shanktown.shtml
A soldier, John Scot, tells his "Remembrance" of "the progress of a Regiment" 1701-1711, and tells it in verse. It starts on pg 307/347 of this book:
http://archive.org/details/papersillustrat00ferggoog Papers illustrating the history of the Scots brigade in the service of the United Netherlands, 1572-1782 - volume 38
Author: Ferguson, James, 1857-1917, ed; Scot, John, soldier
Publisher: Edinburgh, Printed at the University Press by T. and A. Constable for the Scottish History Society 1901. The page numbers are shown in the format 311/347. The first is the actual page number in the book. The second number is the image page if you are looking at it in the PDF format.
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The "Dedicatorie" 311/347
John Scot addresses "the Right Noble worthy and Honorable, Major John Campbell, Major of Cornall Heyburns Regiment lying at present in the Citydalle of Liel: May, 1709". He says he has finished the "enseuing progress of war", which "your honor will upon revieue find to be a true acount of the present war in Braban, Lukeland and Flanders, and a brief and true acount of the progress, marching, and quartering of the Regiment wherof your honor is now the Major". He also says that the account starts in 1701 and continues on to the present time (May 1709). He refers to " the most noble and honorable Earle of Loudoun, your father" and "the present noble Earle of Loudoun, your brother" . He reminds Major John that he first enlisted in "your honors company" about the first day of May 1701 in the dwelling house of George Loudoun, Bailey in Newmiles. That "I took your word of honor" ... " and I will be bold yet to ask, whoes word of honor was it I took, was it not Captan John Campbells, whom I knew to be the second son of the diseast James Earl of Loudoun, and who was very young made the Laird of Shankston, and who had raised a company of men, and been a Captan for some years, in Cornal Douglass regiment, in Scotland, and who was then listed a Captan in this regiment, and who hes now been some years Major, whom I have now served eight years..."
That establishes that John was the 2nd son of the deceased James Earl of Loudoun, that he (John) had been a Captain, and was now (1709) a Major (he later became a Colonel). Also, that the present Earl is Capt/Major John's brother. (Links below go to that persons genealogy page).
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