When Margaret Reid was born in 1768, in Dundonald, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, John Reid, was 46 and her mother, Mary Paterson, was 41. She married Robert Simpson on 21 December 1789, in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. She died before 1856.
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In 1802, John Playfair published the Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth. His influence was by James Hutton’s knowledge of the earth’s geology.
The Tron riot was a riot which occurred in Edinburgh, Scotland on New Year's Eve. A group of young men attacked and robbed wealthier passers-by. One police officer was killed in the riot. Though the total count of participants is unknown, sixty-eight youths were arrested, with five sentenced to death for their actions during the riot.
The United Kingdom Parliament helped Scotland by creating the divisions necessary for better construction of their judiciary system. The Act was later repealed by the Court of Session Act 1988.
Scottish: variant of Reed , of which Reid is the common modern Scots spelling.
History: Samuel Chester Reid (1783–1861), the sea captain who designed the stars and stripes form of the present the American flag, was born at Norwich, CT. His father, Lt. John Reid, a former British naval officer of a distinguished Glasgow family, had resigned his commission and joined the cause of the American Revolution.
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