Scots are known as some of the most careful canny buyers in the world so much so that people think it is part of our Scottish culture to be mean with money.
We make fun of ourselves continually calling it “meanness” but those who have ever studied the annual reports of the UK Charities Commission will know that on a basis of money donated that Scotland gives more to Charity per head of population than any other part of the UK. And we are keeping that a secret so don’t tell anyone else.
Was this the reason why the American President Jefferson sent two Scottish Americans to take responsibility for what was probably the most important real estate deal that America ever got involved in. If it wasn’t the most expensive purchase of land in any single transaction it certainly had to be the largest in terms of acreage.
One of the people sent by Jefferson was Robert Livingston a descendant of Lord Livingston who had served Guardian to the young Mary Queen of Scots after she was born 1542 so he clearly had a strong Scottish culture in his family background. However Livingston was also a strong influence in early American politics even to being one of the five people who had drafted the American Declaration of Independence with Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin. Perhaps that is why the US Declaration of Independence bears so much resemblance to the Robert Bruce Declaration of Arbroath claiming independence from our unwelcome rulers England now very much part of the Scottish culture.
Although Livingston was not one of the original people to publicly sign that Declaration of Independence due to other business commitments back in New York he was the person who administrated the oath of allegiance given by to the new president so he was definitely a Scottish American with a strong Scottish culture with a foot in both camps.
Livingston was sent by President Jefferson with another Scottish American James Munro to France to negotiate the purchase of over 828,000 square miles of land. This land comprised of the states we now know as Iowa, Nebraska, Louisiana and Arkansas as well as most of Kansas, the two Dakotas, Oklahoma, Wyoming, Colorado, Montana and Minnesota. At a price equivalent to only 3 cents an acre or $15 million in total these two Scottish American using their Scottish culture background were able to double the size of America with one stroke of the pen.
These Scottish Americans partly because of their Scottish culture knew the value of land and were willing to invest in it. We have established this special website especially for Scottish Americans and others interested in their Scottish cultural connection.
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