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Updated: May 14, 2025
The Free Church has not within her pale, at the present moment, a man more generally esteemed, or more influential in all that relates to the discipline and welfare of the body, than he whose career and character we now propose briefly to sketch. The century was very young when Dr. Buchanan first saw the light at the quiet, rural village of Gargunnock, near Stirling.
For a time he abode with the Earl of Lennox, who was one of the few who had refused to take the oath of allegiance, and having recruited his force, he stormed the stronghold called the Peel of Gargunnock, near Stirling.
John Harvie, born at Gargunnock, died 1807, was Member of the Continental Congress , signer of the Articles of Confederation the following year, and in 1788 was appointed Secretary of the Commonwealth. He opposed the British commander's orders after the surrender of Hull, and redeemed many captives from the Indians.
Great stores and booty were found here; these were carried to the woods, and the castle was burned to the ground, as that of Gargunnock had been, as Wallace's force was too small to enable him to hold these strongholds. Indignant at this enterprise so close to their walls the English moved out the whole garrison, 1000 strong, against Wallace, who had with him but fifty men in all.
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