Oregon Rippeys

I discovered if you Google "Oregon University Rippey" you get hits on several apparently illustrious Rippeys--whether they're any relation to Captain John, I've not the foggiest.

Scottish LInkages for Harshaw?

I'm exploring possible linkages to Scotland for the Harshaw name. I found this amusing from a transcription of the Fenwick parish:
The state of society, depicted by the Committee of Assembly, disproves this up to the hilt. Half a century afterwards, Edinburgh, the centre of the Reformation movement, was said " to be the ordinary place of butchery, revenge, and daily fights "; while more than fifty years after that, from my reading of church records of Scotland, the state of morality and the respect for religion most certainly
The state of society, depicted by the Committee of Assembly, disproves this up to the hilt. Half a century afterwards, Edinburgh, the centre of the Reformation movement, was said " to be the ordinary place of butchery, revenge, and daily fights "; while more than fifty years after that, from my reading of church records of Scotland, the state of morality and the respect for religion most certainly
The state of society, depicted by the Committee of Assembly, disproves this up to the hilt. Half a century afterwards, Edinburgh, the centre of the Reformation movement, was said " to be the ordinary place of butchery, revenge, and daily fights "; while more than fifty years after that, from my reading of church records of Scotland, the state of morality and the respect for religion most certainly had not improved among the masses. It is only just to say that exception must be made with regard to ministers. No such cases came under my observation as reported in St Andrews and some other printed kirk-session records. Fenwick records, to my mind, are even worse in the respect indi- cated than any I have dealt with. Lying, false swearing,, and a host of grossly worse immoralities positively occupied nearly the whole time of the kirk-session meetings. Some writer informs us, " As this was a newly erected parish, the people had been very much neglected." Surely this does not redound to the credit of the mother parish, when its population, including Fenwick, is not supposed to have been more than 1400. Pages 9 and 10 of the original records were in the handwriting

rish of Fenwick except the Mures of Polkelly."

On the 23rd of April, "The qlk day the tenants of Hartshaw Mure com-

pieane of the disaccomodone, for want of a furine behind the seats appoynted

for ye fewers of ye Raith, conforme to ye act of Presbe yr anent. The

Session appoynts all ye fewers of ye Raith to be present ye nixt day,to see

ye Presb. act mad eft'ectuall." At the meeting of 4th May,"The tenants of

ye Hartshaw Mures doe againe plead ye benefit of ye Presb. act, in presence

of ye fewers of ye Raith.

The Sessioune appoynts Thomas Gemill in

dalshraith, with ye fewers of ye Baith, to rectifie yr seats, yt the act of

Presb. may be mad effectuall, in favouris of ye tenants of Hartshaw Mures,

which they under tak to doe before the 15thof June, and for remeyding of

further contest, the session doeth appoynt yt ye entirie of ye seat belonging

to Thomas Gemble of Dalsraith shall henceforth continowe in the midds of it, as

now it is, and that a little furine shall stand at ye end of ye seatts belonging

to him and ye fewers of Raith, in which they ar to claime 110proprietrie."

" Also for awoyding discord and contentione likly to arise, among ye fewer

Welcome Living McCauley

This blog has served one of its purposes--helped locate a living McCauley (descendant of Capt. John's daughter Anna).