140 THE TRON [PRESB. OF
of Papery Discovered.—[Edin. Counc. Reg.
(Bur.); Wodrow's Anal., iii., iv. ; Grant's
Univ., ii. ; Edin. Chr. Inst., xxv.; Acts
Pari., ix., xi.; Boston's Mem., Pennecuik's
Works ; Test., 20th Nov. 1708, recorded 23rd
Feb. 1709 (Reg. of Deeds, Mack.) ; Warrick's
Moderators.]
JOHN STEEDMAN, son of Eobert S.,
171 min. of Carriden ; licen. by Presb. of
Linlithgow 19th Feb. 1699; ord. to
Dalmeny 16th Aug. 1699 ; called 20th July,
app. by Presb. 22nd Nov., and adm. 27th
Dec. 1710; died 24th Nov. 1713, aged 35.
He marr. 9th Jan. 1701, Jean, second daugh.
of John Kinnaird, min. of East Calder,
and had issue—Robert (colonel in the Scots
Brigade in the Dutch service) ; Jane (marr.
Adam Rolland of Gask) ; Sarah, died 17th
July 1716 ; Sophia (marr. John Gray, min.
of Dollar) ; Margaret ; John, surgeon, Scots
Greys ; Alexander, died in Jamaica, Oct.
1735; Rachel, died at Edinburgh in 1716;
Marion (marr. William Black, clerk to
the Regality of Dunfermline).
—
[Dalmeny
Sess., Test., and Reg. (Bur.) ; Wodrow's
Corresp., i. ; Erskine's Supp. to Gillies's
Collect.']
MATTHEWWOOD, educated at Univ.
1715 of Glasgow ; licen. by Presb. of
Lanark 27th Nov. 1704 ; ord. to
Leslie (Fife) 3rd Feb. 1709 ; trans, to Grey-
friars, Edinburgh, 18th March 1711 ; trans,
and adm. 16th Jan. 1715 ; died 19th Oct.
1741, in 65th year. He marr. 13th Dec.
1711, Katherine, daugh. of Bailie William
Hutchison who, as his widow, obtained a
decreet of the Court of Session against the
Magistrates for the ann 9th June 1747.
—[Reg. (Bur.), Hart's Journal; Morrison's
Digest and Diet., i.]
WILLIAM WISHART (secundus), son
7 of William W., min. in 1707 ; edu-
cated at Univ. of Edinburgh; min.
of the Scots Church, Founder's Hall,
London; elected Principal of the Univ. of
Edinburgh 1737, receiving at the same
time a call to be min. of New Greyfriars
;
trans, and adm. 20th June 1745. He
supported the measures of the popular
party in the Church, and dissented 15th
May 1751, from a resolution of the General
Assembly, censuring the Presb. of Lin-
lithgow for not proceeding in the settle-
ment of Torphichen as appointed by the
preceding Assembly. He died 12th May
1753. He marr. (1) 1st Dec. 1724, Margaret
(died 27th Feb. 1746), daugh. of Thomas
Halyburton, Professor of Divinity, St
Andrews, and had issue—William Thomas
of Foxhall, died 3rd Dec. 1799 ; a son, died
Jan. 1739; Ann, died in 1819, aged 82;
Janet (marr. Mr Maxwell, merchant,
Dundee) ; Margaret (marr. 27th Oct. 1766,
James Macdowall, merchant, Edinburgh)
;
Cordelia (marr. 6th Jan. 1724, John Mon-
crieff of Rumgay, M.D.) : (2) 17th March
1747, Frances, daugh. of James Deans of
Woodhouselee. His widow marr. in 1754,
John Scott of Stewartfield, and subse-
quently John Strother Ker of Littledean.
Publications— Charity the End of the
Commandment, a sermon (Edinburgh,
1731); A Sermon preached before the
Societies for Reformation of Manners in
London (1732) [on which was founded
a libel for heresy, from which he was
acquitted by the General Assembly, 20th
May 1738]; Answers to the Charge
exhibited before the Synod of Lothian
and Tweeddale (Edinburgh, 1738) ; edited
Scougal's Life of God in the Soul of Man
(Edinburgh, 1739); Select Sermons of Dr
Benjamin Whichcote (Edinburgh, 1742)
;
Ernesti's Preface to Cicero (1743); Public
Virtue recommended, a sermon (Edinburgh,
1746) ; Volusenus' (Florence Wilson) De
Animi Tranquillitate (Edinburgh, 1751)
;
Discourses on Several Sicbjects (London,
1753) ; Essay on the Indispensable Neces-
sity ofa Holy and Good Life to the Happi-
ness of Heaven (London, 1753).— [Test,
and Reg. (Bur.) ; Erskine's Disc, i. ; Wod-
row's Anal., iii. ; Wilson's Diss. Churches,
ii. ; Morren's Ann., i. ; Somerville's Life,
Carlyle's Autob. ; Playfair's Bar., iii.
;
Grant's Univ., ii.]
JOHN JAPDINE, born 1715, son of
17_. Robert J., Lochmaben ; licen. by
Presb. of Lochmaben 7th Sept. 1736 ;
ord. to Liberton 30th July 1741 ; trans, to
Lady Yester's 6th Dec. 1750 ; trans, and
adm. 11th Oct. 1754; D.D. (St Andrews,