282 MANOR [PRESB. OF
lifted for the French and Irish Protestants.
He died Jan. 1692, aged about 67. He
marr. Helen Spittal, who had sasine with
him of an annual rent of the lands of
Dowerburn, Oct. 1665, and had issue
—
James, min. of Tweedsmuir and of Peebles ;
and others whose names have not been
traced.—[Skirling Sess. and New Gen. Reg.
Sasines, xiii. ; Chambers's Peeblesshire.]
ROBERT SMITH, M.A. (Edinburgh,
28th July 1648) ; schoolmaster of
Peebles ; licen. 1656 ; ord. to Craw-
ford, 1666 ; trans., adm., and inst. June
1683; res. 7th Oct. 1690; died 31st May
1696, in his 73rd year. He marr. Janet
Buchanan, who died 31st May 1697, and
had issue—Agnes (marr. George Smyth,
min. of Dawyck) ; Isobel, died 8th July
1728, aged 52.—[MS. Ace. of Mm., 1689.]
WILLIAM VEITCH, Peebles, had
1690 charge of Manor in 1690.
ANDREW MITCHELL, M.A. ; called
16Q5 27th Feb., and ord. 21st Aug. 1695 ;
called to Newlands 28th Jan. 1708,
but on a unanimous .petition against his
leaving, trans, was refused 25th Feb.
following. He was trans, to Newbattle
29th Nov. 1721.— [Boston's Mem. ; Reg.
Old Dee., ii. ; Pennecuik's Works.]
ARCHIBALD BRUCE, licen. by Presb.
1722 °* Pee^es 2n°l June 1720; pres. by
William, Earl of March, 18th April
;
called 30th May, and ord. 21st Sept. 1722 ;
died 13th Sept. 1739. He marr. Christian
Young, who died 13th Nov. 1750, and left
four children, who in 1746 are reported to
be "in very straitened circumstances."
—
[Tombst.]
1743
WILLIAM ANDERSON, licen. by
Presb. of Lanark, 28th Dec. 1740;
pres. by William, Earl of March, and
his curators 24th Nov. 1742; called 6th
Jan., and ord. 14th April 1743; died 20th
June 1774. He marr. 23rd Dec. 1756,
Marion Laidlaw, who died 5th July 1800,
and had issue—Margaret, born 28th Sept.
1757; Marion, born 19th Oct. 1758; David,
min. of Kirkurd ; Walter, born 15th Aug.
1764; Janet, born 18th June 1769.—
[Tombst,]
WILLIAM WELSH, pres. by William,
m5 Earl of March, 28th Oct. 1774 ; called
19th Jan., and ord. 16th March 1775 ;
trans, to Drumelzier 29th Nov. 1787.
WILLIAM MARSHALL, born Peebles,
17 2nd Aug. 1754, son of Bailie JamesM. of Peebles, and Janet Tait,
Traquair; educated at Univ. of Edin-
burgh ; licen. by Presb. of Peebles 16th
April 1783; pres. by William, Duke of
Queensberry, 6th Feb. 1788; called 27th
March, and ord. 1st May 1788 ; died 28th
April 1830. He marr. (1) 30th April 1790,
Christian (died 19th Sept. 1791), daugh.
of William Vair, Edinburgh : (2) 16th
Nov. 1803, Christian (died at Edinburgh,
9th March 1861, aged 84), only child of
Archibald Smith, Peebles, and Elizabeth
Govan (the last of theGovans of Cardrona),
and had issue—Elizabeth, born 1st Oct.
1804 (marr. (1) 1824, John Anderson,
Castlehill, Manor, and (2) 13th, Aug. 1833,
Thomas Thorburn, Edinburgh), died 13th
Jan. 1887; James, born 20th May 1806,
died 25th May 1812; William Forbes,
born 11th Jan. 1808, died in London,
2nd Dec. 1866 ; Janet, born 20th May 1809,
died 30th May 1826 ; Christian, born 25th
Oct. 1810, died 5th Dec. 1811 ; Archibald,
born 22nd Nov. 1812, died 15th Dec. 1889 ;
Isabella, born 21st Aug. 1814 (mar. 28th
March 1837, John Thorburn, New York),
died 14th Jan. 1840 ; Agnes, born 24th July
1816, died 23rd July 1836 ; Jane, born 2nd
April 1815 (marr. 21st Nov. 1848, John
Anderson, Edinburgh), died 10th Oct. 1880 ;
Margaret Christian, born 6th June 1824
(mar. 14th March 1843, John Hewat,
Edinburgh, originator of the Edinburgh
Time Gun, died 30th Jan. 1886, and
had issue, among others, Archibald
Hewat, F.F.A., Edinburgh, one of the
originators of the Ministers' Pension Fund,
and its first treasurer, 1912). Publication
—Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat.
Ace., m.).—[Tombst,, Family Papers.]