What is recorded here
ROBERT PATERSON THE PROTOTYPE FOR SIR WALTER SCOTT'S "OLD MORTALITY" WAS BORN HERE IN 1712 THIS STONE ERECTED BY THE HAWICK ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 1897 BIRTHPLACE OF OLD MORTALITY
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