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Rh sought homes near together in Saratoga County, New York, where they formed a little colony, following their old customs, and had a flourishing church where their beloved Scotch version of the Psalms was sung. Thither Mr. Carter took his father’s family in the following year, when they came to America. The older people always clung lovingly to the memories of their home beyond the water, and always maintained that there was nothing in America that was quite equal to what they had in Scotland, “unless it were the moon.”

The sole male survivor of Mr. Carter’s fellow voyagers on the “Francis” is Mr. Richard Davidson, who settled in Troy, New York, and opened a classical school there. They had occasional affectionate intercourse in after life, never losing sight of each other. In the last year of Mr. Carter’s life this old friend visited him. Mr. Davidson was at the advanced age of eighty-nine, but, though bowed under the weight of years, his mental powers were clear and vigorous. He writes:—