Saturday, November 15, 2025, 10:30 a.m.
Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage State Historic Sites
Virtual Lecture: https://events.gcc.teams.microsoft.com/event/dab55eb1-71da-4195-b826-a80c19a2207f@5076c3d1-3802-4b9f-b36a-e0a41bd642a7

The Wallace House’s John Wallace, leaving Scotland for British North America in the eighteenth century, was part of a modern movement of Scottish emigration beginning in his lifetime and continuing across the globe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Marjory Harper offers “Snapshots from Scottish Emigration, ca. 1700 – 2000” in this virtual lecture, placing John Wallace’s emigration in the context of a much larger movement of Scots around the world over past 250 years.

Register for this virtual lecture online: https://events.gcc.teams.microsoft.com/event/dab55eb1-71da-4195-b826-a80c19a2207f@5076c3d1-3802-4b9f-b36a-e0a41bd642a7

Prof Harper completed her undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the University of Aberdeen, where she has been employed since the mid-1980s. She is currently Professor of History and also a Visiting Professor at the Centre for History, University of the Highlands and Islands. Since 2017 she has directed an award-winning online Master’s Programme in Scottish Heritage and she has also been involved in developing a training programme for the Scottish Tourist Guides’ Association. Public engagement lies at the heart of Marjory’s interests and she particularly enjoys engaging with local communities through public lectures.

This program is part of a series made possible by the Wallace House and Old Dutch Parsonage Association, Proud Partner of Revolution NJ, with the sponsorship of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. #njhumanities

Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this series do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities or the New Jersey Council for the Humanities.

250 years after Scottish emigrant and Philadelphia merchant John Wallace built the Wallace House at “Hope Farm,” the Wallace House is under construction again as part of Down the Brook: Revitalization of Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage State Historic Sites for Revolution NJ. The historic rehabilitation of Wallace House is being supported in part by a Semiquincentennial Grant from the Historic Preservation Fund administered by the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.

? Revolution NJ is New Jersey’s official observance of the 250th anniversaries of New Jersey’s first Constitution July 2, 2026 and the American Revolution in New Jersey from 2024 – 2033.

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