Buchanites
Charles Buck Theological Dictionary [1]
A sect of enthusiasts who sprung up in the west of Scotland about 1783, and took their name from a Mrs. Buchan, of Glasgow, who gave herself out to be the woman spoken of in the Revelations; and that all who believed in her should be taken up to heaven without tasting death, as the end of the world was near. They never increased much; and the death of their leader within a year or two afterwards, occasioned their dispersion, by putting an end to their hopes of reaching the New Jerusalem without death.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]
a fanatical sect which arose in Scotland 1783. An ignorant but shrewd woman, named Elspeth Buchan (born 1738), gave out that she was the Spirit of God, the mysterious woman in Revelation 12 in whom the light of God was restored to men. She professed to communicate the Holy Spirit, and pretended that she had brought forth a man-child, "who was to rule with a rod of iron," in the person of the Rev. Hugh White, minister of the Relief Presbytery at Irvine, who, though an educated man, gave himself up to this delusion. A number of persons joined them. Driven from Irvine by a popular tumult, they made a settlement at New Cample, enjoying community of goods, and living in concubinage and adultery. Mrs. Buchan promised her deluded followers "translation" instead of death, but unfortunately died herself March 29, 1791. The community held together for a while, but Mr. White left them in 1792 and went to Virginia, where he became a Universalist preacher. The establishment was removed to Crocketford, where its last survivor, Andrew Innes, died in 1845. — Train, The Buchanites from first to last (Edinb. 1846, 18mo).
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [3]
A fanatical sect who appeared in the W. of Scotland in 1783, named after a Mrs. Buchan, who claimed to be the woman mentioned in Rev. xii.
