Scottish

Born in Scotland, Robert Cathcart (c. 1650-1718) immigrated to New England and settles at Tisbury, Massachusetts, where he became town clerk (1693-1718), inn keeper, and shop keeper.  Banks, History of Martha's Vineyard, 41-41., 100.

David Thomson, a Scots fishmonger from London in the employ of the Gorges family, arrived in New England in 1623 and settled at Little Harbor on the Piscataqua River to work on a cod-drying factory.  Three years later Thomson  acquired an island in Boston Harbor (Thomson’s Island) and removed there.  Samuel Foster Haven, History of Grants under the Great Council for New England (Boston: Press of John Wilson and Son, 1869), 28.  See, Charles Deane, “The Indenture of David Thomson and Others,” in Albert S.

John Ramsay, the son of Sir Robert Ramsay of Wyliecleuch, Scotland, was a courtier of James I who became 1st Earl of Holdernesse. He was a member of the Council for New England, of which he became vice president in 1623, and from whom he was granted the land about Casco Bay in Maine.  Holdernesse was among those to whom Christopher Levett dedicated his  A Voyage into New England begun in 1623 and ended in 1624 (London, 1628) ODNB

Possibly Sir John Bruce of Airth, Scotland, whose estate was so encumbered that he had to sell off much of his property in 1617.  John Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, Vol. 2 (London: Henry Colburn, 1837), 370-371.  Kenneth Brown, Noble Society in Scotland: Wealth, Family and Culture from Reformation to Revolution (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004), p 103.

Charles Stuart, the son of James VI and Ann of Denmark, was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland.  He ascended to the throne at the death of his father in 1625.  Charles was interested in the expansion of trade and adventuring on a global scale.  Like his father, he granted large tracts of land in America to his friends and family.

Thomas Ranney, possibly of Scotland, was the husband of Mary Hubbard, daughter of George Hubbard and Elizabeth Watts of Hartford.  He was a husbandman by trade and served on numerous town committees. Ranney lived in the Upper Houses of Middletown and owned a number of plots on the east side of the Connecticut River and at Wangunk Meadow and at the Wangunk upland.  In 1672, the Town of Middletown voted to compensate him if he were obliged to give up his Wangunk lands.

James Grant was an army officer and Governor of East Florida (1764-1771) from Ballindalloch, Scotland.  He served as a major in Montgomery's Highland Battalion against the Cherokee in 1760, although according to one biographer, both men sympathized with the Indians.  Grant returned to that mission the following year in a more forceful offensive.  With the assistance of the Assistant Superintendent of Indian Affairs in the Southern Colonies, John Stuart, he negotiated a peace treaty with the Creek by applying principles of the Royal Proclamation of 1763.