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Biographies of Scots and Scots Descendants (B)
Brackenridge,
Hugh Henry |
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Author, born in Campbeltown, Argyllshire, but
settled in Pittsburgh in 1782, a judge of the Supreme Court, he was also a
novelist and magazine editor. When Alexander Hamilton proposed an excise
tax, the Presbyterian farmers around Pittsburgh, who produced most of the
new nation’s spirits resisted the measure strongly (the Whiskey
Rebellion). They were led by this Princeton-educated Scot. Washington
ordered 13,000 troops and the rebellion ended. He was largely self-taught
who managed to go from the Pennsylvania backwoods to Princeton and in 1770
wrote, with Philip Freneau, Father Bombo’s Pilgrimage to Mecca,
the first novel ever written in America. Publication was somewhat delayed,
but it was finally published by Princeton University in 1975, 105 years
after it was written. He was the principal founder of the University of
Pittsburgh.
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