Family Heritage Reference Table of Contents Before America and early America...........................................................................................................5 FOREWORD 2012.......................................................................................................................................5 PRE-HISTORY OF THE SCOTS.....................................................................................................................7 THE CELTS ARE HERE..................................................................................................................................9 THE DRUIDS................................................................................................................................................11 DALRIADA.................................................................................................................................................12 THE DARK AGES........................................................................................................................................13 DNA............................................................................................................................................................14 THE ORIGINAL DNA REPORTS FOR Hollis D. "Andy" Anderson.....................................................14 LORDS OF THE ISLES.................................................................................................................................21 CLAN DONALD........................................................................................................................................24 THE ISLE OF SKYE.......................................................................................................................................26 THE CLEARANCES....................................................................................................................................28 A SHORT HISTORY OF CROFTING IN SKYE............................................................................................32 WHAT WAS IT LIKE.....................................................................................................................................36 “DUKE OF KENT”.......................................................................................................................................38 GOING TO AMERICA: THE WAY IT MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED............................................................41 EPILOGUE:.................................................................................................................................................46 WHEN DID THE ANDERSONS ARRIVE IN NORTH CAROLINA? WHERE DID THEY COME FROM?. 48 WERE THE ANDERSONS ON THE ISLE OF SKYE?...................................................................................50 Given Name of the Anderson Patriarch..................................................................................................52 Scottish Naming Tradition......................................................................................................................52 Death Recorded on Croft Rolls............................................................................................................53 History of Capt. Allen S. Anderson............................................................................................................54 Accounts of the Death of Allen S. Anderson.....................................................................................54 Collected Notes applicable to Archibald Allen Anderson.................................................................59 LETTERS BETWEEN THE FAMILY IN MISSISSIPPI AND TEXAS.......................................................................66 Letter October 6, 1852...........................................................................................................................66 Letter January 17, 1853..........................................................................................................................66 Letter May 28, 1858.................................................................................................................................68 Letter December 10, 1860.....................................................................................................................69 Letter September 7, 1871.......................................................................................................................71 Letter June10, 1872.................................................................................................................................72 The Florida Indian Wars...............................................................................................................................74 The Creek War in West Florida, 1836-1840..........................................................................................75 Brief History of John "Big John" Anderson...........................................................................................79 Family Lore Surrounding the Death of "Big John" Anderson...........................................................81 A Personal Recollection of The Indian War........................................................................................83 A Selection from McKinnon's book "History of Walton County":...............................................83 THE BROXSONS CAME TO AMERICA VERY EARLY - 1677.......................................................................84 Colleton County, South Carolina Early History..................................................................................89 John Wesley Broxson...................................................................................................................................98 About John Wesley.................................................................................................................................98 2 Family Heritage Reference The Military Service Of John Wesley....................................................................................................98 54th Alabama Infantry Regiment...................................................................................................98 About John Wesley’s Service in the 54th Infantry.............................................................................99 MORE ANDY NOTE:..................................................................................................................................99 Tidbits about John Wesley Broxson....................................................................................................100 John Wesley’s Importance to the Families.......................................................................................100 Marriage and History of Catherine "Kate" Anderson and Richard J. Henderson..........................101 Hugh Stewart Anderson Research Notes..............................................................................................103 Inside Texoma: History of Wichita Falls...................................................................................................105 Joseph Alexander "Jodie" Kemp............................................................................................................110 Biography of Joseph Alexander Kemp.............................................................................................111 STEWART DOCUMENTS...............................................................................................................................114 Notes and Lore Concerning James Vaughan:....................................................................................117 Angus McLane Anderson.........................................................................................................................120 The Civil War...........................................................................................................................................120 Memories of Burl Blake Jackson..............................................................................................................122 Vaughan History.........................................................................................................................................127 Eclectic Medicine......................................................................................................................................137 Defunct Medical Colleges in the US – Wikipedia...........................................................................138 Eclectic medicine.................................................................................................................................139 History......................................................................................................................................................139 References.............................................................................................................................................140 Honest Abraham...................................................................................................................................142 The Impact of the Flexner Report on the Fate of Medical Schools in North America After 1909 .......................................................................................................................................................................162 Methods..................................................................................................................................................163