Old photograph of Yester Parish Church in Gifford, East Lothian, Scotland. John Knox, the famous reformer of Scotland, was born in Gifford in 1505. Reverend John Witherspoon, was born in Gifford in 1723. He studied at the Haddington Grammar School, gained a Master of Arts from the University of Edinburgh in 1739, and was a Presbyterian minister in Beith, Ayrshire, before accepting an offer from Princeton in New Jersey, America, to be their 6th President. He was the only clergyman to sign the Declaration of Independence of the United States, on 4 July 1776. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.
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