Colonel John Bayard 1738 1807 And the Bayard Family of America the Anniversar
Colonel John Bayard 1738 1807 And the Bayard Family of America the Anniversar
James Grant Wilson
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" " Any Baptists} " " No. " " Have you any Methodists ? " No. " " Have you any Congregationalisms, or Independents there ?" " No — no. " "Why, who have you there?" "We don't know those names here ; all that are Christians, believers in Christ ; men who have overcome by the blood of the lamb and the word of His testimony ! " " Oh, is that the case ? Then God help me, — God help us all to forget party names, and to become Christians in deed and in truth. " The last but one of Colonel Bayard's ane...cdotes which I will introduce here, as related by a granddaughter, was of one of his son-in-law's Scottish ancestors, Sir Thomas Kirkpatrick, of Closeburn Castle, * who, on meeting for the first time with the Duchess of Queensbury, of Drumlanrig Castle, also in Dumfriesshire, was greatly irritated by her patronizing airs — her family being of recent origin, while his was among the most ancient in Scotland, dating back to the ninth century. The patience of the proud old patrician Baronet was at length exhausted by the insufferable airs of the parvenu Duchess, and he turned on her saying, " Madame, Closeburn was in ruins before the first stone of Drumlanrig was laid !
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