no CRANSTOUN [PRESB. OF
His sister Isobel marr. Jolm Smith, por-
tioner, of Biggar, and her daughs. were
his heirs (G. R. Homings, 1st Jan. 1686).
—
[Test. Reg., Wodrow's Hist., Steven's High
School.]
GEORGE KINTORE, M.A. (Edinburgh,
1663 15tn July 1650); chaplain to Sir
Charles Erskine of Alva ; licen. by
Presb. of Stirling 27th Feb. 1656 ; ord. to
Second Charge, South Leith, 16th June
1657; trans, and coll. 25th March 1663;
died in Dec. 1678, aged about 49. He
marr. (cont. 7th June 1661) Marion, daugh.
of John Brotherstains, merchant, burgess of
Edinburgh (G. R. Inhib., 1664). William
Kintore of Mountlothian, advocate, his
brother-german, became executor.
—
[Reg.
Collat., Test. Reg.]
JAMES BLAIR, born probably in Edin-
1679 burgh in 1656 ; educated at Edin-
burgh Univ. ; M.A. (21st July 1673) ;
pres. by Robert, Viscount Oxfuird, ord.
after 19th June, and adm. and inst. 11th
July 1679 ; deprived in 1681 for not taking
the Test. He removed to England, and was
sent in 1685 by Henry, Bishop of London,
as a missionary to Virginia ; became Rector
ofWilliamsburgh,andheld the office ofCom-
missary, the highest ecclesiastical position
in the province ; was President of the
Council in the Colony, and President of
William and Mary College which he
founded in 1692; died 1st Aug. 1743,
Publication
—
Our Saviour's Divine Sermon
on the Mount Explained, 4 vols. (London,
1722-3) ; 2nd ed., with Preface by the Rev.
Dr Waterland, 4 vols. (London, 1732 ; 3rd
ed., 1740).— [Waterland's Preface ; Scots
Mag., v. ; Burnet's and Wodrow's Hists. ;
Chalmers's Hist., v. ; History of Virginia,
Dr Totten's MS., Diet, Nat. Biog.]
ROBERT ARBUTHNOT, M.A. (Edin-
1682 burgh, 27th July 1663); min. of
Monigaff 1681 ; of Colmonell same
year ; trans, to Crichton 1682 ; pres. by
Robert, Viscount Oxfuird ; adm. and inst.
22nd Nov. 1682 ; deprived by the Privy
Council 4th Sept. 1689, for not reading the
Proclamation of the Estates, and not pray-
ing for their Majesties William and Mary ;
sentenced to imprisonment for resetting
in his house John Hay, after he had been
in the rebels' army. He marr. Margaret
Kennedy, who died at Edinburgh, March
1707, and had issue—George ; Janet ; and
a "great family of other children" (P. C.
Dec, v., 1, 1692).—[Test. Reg.; MS. Ace.
of Min., 1689 ; S. Presb. Eloquence.]
JOHN WILLIAMSON, pres. by the
1694 Pres^' Jure devoluto 3rd May, and
ord. 28th Aug. 1694 ; dem. 23rd Oct.
1712; died 16th May 1720, in 65th year.
He marr. Elizabeth Gairner [Gardner],
and had a daugh., Mary.
—
[St Cuthbert's
Sess. and Edin. Reg. (Bur.).]
ROBERT MUTTER, licen. by Presb. of
1714 Haddington 26th April 1709 ; pres.
by the heritors 16th April 1713 ; ord.
23rd March 1714; died unmarr. 7th Feb.
1733.
WILLIAM SMITH, born 1697, son of
7 Robert S., min. of Longformacus
;
tutor in the family of Dalrymple of
Cousland ; licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith 3rd
Dec. 1728 ; pres. by Robert, Viscount
Oxfuird, and ord. 31st Oct. 1733 ; died 21st
Jan. 1783. He marr. (1) 3rd July 1735,
Grace, daugh. of Robert M'Aulay, min. of
Stirling, and had issue—Beatrix, born 1736
(marr. 31st March 1769, John Robertson,
min. of Kilmarnock) ; John, born 1737,
died young : (2) 26th Feb. 1742, Jean (died
21st May 1798), daugh. of James Baird
of Chesterhall, and had issue—James, born
21st April 1743, died 20th May 1773 ; John,
merchant, Port-Glasgow, born 22nd May
1744 ; Lewis, born and died 1745 ; William,
born 19th Sept. 1747 ; George, min. of
Galston, born 2nd March 1749 ; Margaret,
born 2nd Sept. 1750 (marr. R. Cochrane).
—[Carlyle's Autob.]
WALTER FISHER, born 1749, son of
a tailor in Portsburgh ; tutor in the
family of Johnstonburn ; licen. by
Presb. of Haddington 2nd Dec. 1777 ; pres.
by Dame Elizabeth Dalrymple Hamilton