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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: John Rae, Mungo Mackay, George Mackay Brown, William Spence, Edwin Muir, William Balfour Baikie, Mary Brunton, Henry Halcro Johnston, Kari Solmundarson, Ivan Drever, Isobel Gunn, Harald Leslie, Lord Birsay, George Spence, James Aitken, Cameron Stout, Magnus Linklater, James Robert Smith, Sigurd the Stout, James King, 1st Lord Eythin, Stanley Cursiter, William Walls, Gawain Erland Cooper, Ola Gorie, Julyan Sinclair, Thomas Hourston, Hugh Marwick, Thomas Stewart Traill, Murdoch Mackenzie, The Wrigley Sisters, John Mooney, Thomas Webster, John Gerard Anderson, Robert Kemp, Thorfinn Turf-Einarsson, Earl of Orkney, Robert Rendall, Ragnhild Eriksdotter, Gilbert Balfour, John D. Mackay, Jimmy Hogarth, Walter Traill Dennison, Ernest Marwick, William Towrie Cutt, John Firth. Excerpt: Mungo Mackay (April 1, 1740-March 29, 1811) was a Scottish seafarer from the Orkney Islands who made a fortune in the Boston shipping trades in Massachusetts. Mungo was a highly regarded ship master, successful privateer owner and bonder, and operated a store on Long Wharf in Boston. He was also active in the politics of the town of Boston and the Masonic Order in Boston. His legacy includes the Alpheus Babcock and Jonas Chickering piano manufacturing establishments. Mungo Mackay was born in Holm Paplay parish, near Kirkwall, Orkney Islands, in 1740 to Alexander Mackay, who was married to Elizabeth Keith. Mungo made his way to Boston in about 1755, as a cabin boy, according to family tradition. By about 1760 he was deeply involved in shipping, and became a Master by 1764. He married Ruth Coney in 1763, and their first child, Mungo, Jr. was born in 1765. Ruth was a grandniece of John Coney. The silversmiths Paul Revere I and II made a pair of silver sauce boats for the couple. Mungo's brother Alexander, born in Holm Paplay parish near Kirkwall...
