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BUCHAN, ELSPETH (17381791)

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 714 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BRI-BUN
BUCHAN, ELSPETH (17381791) , founder of a Scottish religious sect known as the Buchanites, was the daughter of. John
Simpson
 , proprietor of an inn near Banff. Having quarrelled with her husband, Robert Buchan, a potter of Greenock, she settled with her children in Glasgow, where she was deeply impressed by a sermon preached by Hugh White, minister of the Relief church at Irvine. She persuaded White and others that she was a saint with a
special
  mission, that in fact she was the woman, and White the man-child, described in
Revelation
  xii. White was condemned by the presbytery, and the sect, which ultimately numbered
forty
 -six adherents, was expelled by the magistrates in 1784 and settled in a farm, consisting of one room and a loft, known as New Cample in Dumfriesshire. Mrs Buchan claimed prophetic inspiration and pretended to confer the Holy
Ghost
  upon her followers by breathing upon them; they believed that the millennium was near, and that they would not die, but be translated. It appears that they had community of wives and lived on funds provided by the richer members. Robert Burns, the poet, in a
letter
  dated August 1784, describes the sect as idle and immoral. In 1785 White and Mrs Buchan published a Divine Dictionary, but the sect broke up on the death of its founder in spite of White's attempts
In August 1908, during some excavations at Dunkeld, remains were found which are supposed to be those of Alexander Stewart, the " wolf of Badenoch."


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