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PATERSON, ROBERT (1715-1801)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 911 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PATERSON, See also:ROBERT (1715-1801) , Scottish See also:stone-See also:mason, who suggested to See also:Sir See also:Walter See also:Scott the See also:character of " Old Mortality," was See also:born near See also:Hawick in 1715. Through the patronage of Sir See also:Thomas Kirkpatrick, whose See also:cook he had married, heobtained the See also:lease of a See also:quarry at Gatelawbrig, but in 1745 his See also:house was plundered by the retreating See also:Jacobites, and Paterson himself, a pronounced Cameronian, was carried off a prisoner. He subsequently devoted his See also:life to cutting and erecting stones for the See also:graves of the See also:Covenanters, for 4o years wandering from See also:place to place in the lowlands. He died in poverty in 18o1, and a stone to his memory was erected by Scott's publishers in 1869 in Caerlaverock See also:churchyard.

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