List of Gilchrists, and bits from the Preface of the Argyle Patent

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From the Preface of the Argyle Patent

"Between 1738 and 1740 groups of Argyleshire families belonging to the Scotch Presbyterian Church, totaling 472 persons, were brought by Captain Campbell to the new world by invitation of the Provincial Governor of New York Colony, who offered a thousand acres of land to every adult person, and to every child who paid passage, five hundred acres. For various reasons the contract was not kept by the Governor. In 1764 a large number of colonists, led by Alexander McNaughton, succeeded in securing a grant of 47,450 acres, known as the Argyle Patent, in the township of Argyle and in parts of the towns of Fort Edward, Greenwich and Salem, in Washington County, upon which the Scotch colonists and their descendants took up their abode."

Thanks to Nancy Thomson for providing the list of Gilchrist names, and to Ann Gilchrest for providing the preface information

Here are the given names of the Gilchrists' listed in Jim MacNaughton's book:

Abigail
Alexander
Almira
Andrew
Ann
Ann Maria
Archibald
Catharine
Charles
Daniel
Duncan
Eleanor
Elizabeth
Gertrude
Harriet
James
Jane
Jeanette
John
Katharine
Lillie
Lilly
Margaret
Mary
Mrs.
Nancy
Nancy/Agnes
Peter
Robert
Sally
Sarah
Susan
Thomas
Walter
William

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