In late summer 1773, William Mylne furtively departed Edinburgh, Scotland, for the American colonies, his journey precipitated by misfortune, misery and debt. One of the city's most promising architects and master masons, Mylne had been driven to mental and financial exhaustion following the accidental deaths of five people at one of his construction projects.
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