302 BORTHWICK [PRESB. OF
Anna Hamilton, and had issue—Mary : (2)
25th Sept. 1649, Janet Scroggie.—[Test,
S. Leith Sess., and Edin. Reg. (Bajrt.) ; New
Stat. Ace]
THOMAS PATERSON, educated at
ie 7 Univ. of Edinburgh, bursar in
divinity; M.A. (May 1653); called
13th Sept., ord. 24th Dec. 1657; died 13th
May 1683, aged about 50. Wodrow ranks
him as a Nonconformist, and he mayhave
been indulged by favour. He marr. Helen,
daugh. of Robert Trail, min. of Greyfriars,
Edinburgh, and had issue—Thomas, his
successor ; Elizabeth (marr. (1) 13th Nov.
1696, George Turnbull of Currie ; (2) James
Thomson, min. of Elgin) ; Robert, appren-
tice to Patrick Halyburton, merchant, Edin-
burgh.
—
[Old Dec, i. ; Edin. Gtcild and
Reg. (Bapt.), Tombst., Murray's Biog. Ann.,
New Stat. Ace]
THOMAS PATERSON, M.A. ; pres.
1683 Dy Alexander, Archbishop of St
Andrews, and inst. 22nd May 1683
;
deprived by the Privy Council 4th Sept.
1689, for not reading the Proclamation of
the Estates, and praying for James VII.
—[Reg. Sasines (Fife) ; MS. Ace. of Min.,
1689 ; Murray's Biog. Ann.,New Stat. Ace.
;
Morrison's Dec, xxviii.]
JOHN CAMPBELL, called 23rd Aug.,
1687 and ord. by a committee of Synod
15th Nov. 1687 ; died 24th Jan. 1690,
in his 35th year. He marr. Christian
Porter, who survived him (P. C. Acta, 11th
Nov. 1690).—[Tombst,, New Stat. Ace]
WILLIAM TRAIL, bapt. 28th Sept.
1690 1640' eldest son °f Robert T., min. of
Greyfriars, Edinburgh ; educated at
Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (30th June
1658) ; chaplain to the Laird of Scotstarvet
;
licen. in London 1671 ; ord. to the Presby-
terian congregation at Lifford, Ireland, in
1671. Joining with four other ministers
in the appointment of a Fast, he was
examined by justices of the peace at
Raphoe, summoned to the Privy Council
at Dublin, remitted to the Assizes at
Lifford, imprisoned from 11th Aug. 1681
to 20th April 1682, and fined. He after-
wards went to Potomac, Maryland, but
returned at the Revolution ; was called to
this parish 26th July, and adm. 17th Sept.
1690 ; was a member of Assembly same
year ; and died 3rd May 1714. There is a
tradition that " every morning about three,
when he had public work on hand, he
heard three knocks at his chamber door,
and if, through weariness or heaviness he
disobeyed these, there were generally three
others at his bed-head, which he durst not
refuse, but arose to his duty. This at first
frightened him ; at length he became accus-
tomed to them : they never failed on
Sabbaths, and at communions. When he
grew old and infirm, the knocks entirely
ceased." He marr. (1) 15th Sept. 1671,
Euphan (died 1677), second daugh. of
Provost Sword of St Andrews, and had
issue—Mary : (2) 25th March 1679, his
cousin, Eleanor (died 4th Jan. 1695), sixth
daugh. of Lieut.-col. James Trail of
Tullochin, and had issue— Sarah, died
unmarr. 1685 ; James, min. of Montrose
;
William, min. of Benholme ; Robert, min.
of Panbride ; Jean, died unmarr. ; Margaret
(marr. 4th Nov. 1719, Robert Alison,
writer, Edinburgh) ; Eleanor (twin) ; Eliza-
beth (marr., pro. 23rd Aug. 1731, James
Stevenson : (3) 8th June 1701, Jean Murray,
relict of David Moncrieffof Boghall. Publi-
cation
—
A Necessary and Excellent Advice
about Some Duties (Edinburgh, 1762).
—
[Test., Sess., and Elie Sess. Regs. ; Reid's
Ireland, ii. ; Wodrow's Hist, and Anal.,
Reg. Gen. Ass. ; Chr. Inst., xxiii. ; New
Stat. Ace, Lord Guthrie's Chalmers and
Trail Ancestry.]
WILLIAM ROBERTSON, adm. 23rd
1714 Sept. 1714 ; trans, to Lady Yester's,
Edinburgh, 22nd Nov. 1733.—
[Douglas's Bar., Stewart's Life of Robert-
son, Neio Stat. Ace]
THOMAS TURNBULL, born 27th
1?34 Sept. 1701, son of George T., min. of
Tynninghame ; licen. by Presb. of
Dunbar 25th March 1724 ; ord. to Greenlaw