LINLITHGOW] FALKIRK 207 Jan. 1732. He marr. when a student of divinity, Janet, daugh. of Robert Sibbald of Woodfoot, and had issue—John, bapt. 21st Aug. 1709.—[W. Calder Sess. Reg., Wodrow's Anal.'] WILLIAM ANDERSON, nephew of preceding; licen. by Presb. of Lin- lithgow 25th Feb. 1730; called 5th Sept. 1732 ; ord. 16th Aug. 1733. He died unmarr. 8th May 1741. JOHN ADAMS, son of Henry A., min. of Kirkoswald ; MA. (Glasgow, 15th Jan. 1723); licen. by Presb. of Ayr 1st Sept. 1725 ; ord. to Dalrymple 15th Feb. 1726; called 23rd Nov. 1743; Moderator of the General Assembly 10th May 1744 ; trans, and adm. 30th of same month ; proposed again for Moderator in 1748, but not chosen. He died 20th March 1757, aged about 54. He marr. Janet Osborne, who died 7th Jan. 1768, and had issue— Dicksona (a daugh.) ; John ; David ; Robert ; Margaret ; Mary ; Harry ; Quentin ; Patrick Grant. Publica- tions—"An Inquiry into the Powers com- mitted to the General Assemblies of this Church"; "Apology at the Bar of the General Assembly on the Settlement of Tor- phichen," 1751 (Scots Mag., xiv.).—[Morren's Ann., i. ; Carlyle's Autob.] JOHN AITCHISON, min. of a Presby- 1*759 ter^an chapel at Morpeth ; pres. by George II. 28th April, and adm. 6th Oct. 1759; died 18th May 1787, in 72nd year. He marr. 12th Aug. 1741, Jean Hardie, who died 20th April 1774, aged 55, and had issue—Samuel, born 17th May 1744 ; John, born 8th Nov. 1745 ; Thomas, born 12th March 1747 ; Ann, born 9th Dec. 1751, died 24th Nov. 1783 ; Jean, born 26th Oct. 1753 (marr. 12th Nov. 1783, William Glen), died 17th April 1787. JOHN MUIR, licen. by Presb. of Lin- 1787 lithgow 2nd Dec. 1778; pres. by George III., and ord. 26th Oct. 1787 ; died 20th July 1793. He marr. 22nd Dec. 1788, Marion Pearson of Borrowstoun- ness, who died 9th Feb. 1801. 1794 JAMES WILSON, only son of William W., Carluke, born 1754 ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; MA. (1781) ; ord. to a congregation in Stafford 15th April 1784 ; removed to Stockport ; adm. to Mid-Calder 20th Dec. 1792; pres. by George III. 11th Jan. 1794; trans, and adm. 2nd May 1794; D.D. (Edinburgh, 28th May 1802) ; died 8th June 1829. He marr. 8th April 1785, Jean (died 4th Sept. 1819), daugh. of John Weir of Kerse, and had issue—William, born 1st Feb. 1786, died 1803; Thomas, born 16th Jan. 1788, died 2nd June 1805 ; John (a twin), D.D., min. of Stirling, born 16th Jan. 1788 ; Elizabeth, born 23rd May 1789, died 17th Sept. 1804 ; Gray, student, born 17th Aug. 1793, died 16th Nov. 1811 ; James, born 8th Nov. 1796, died 15th Dec. 1811 ; Archi- bald, born 19th Aug. 1798, died 15th Dec. 1804. Publications — A Defence of Public or Social Worship ; A Sermon for the Benefit of the Public Kitchen (Edinburgh, 1800) ; The History of Egypt, 3 vols. (Edin- burgh, 1805) ; Prayersfor the UseofFamilies and Individuals (Edinburgh, 1818); Ac- counts of Mid-Calder and of Falkirk (Sinclair's Stat. Ace, xiv., xix.) ; " Method of Increasing the Sensibility of the Barometer " (Nicholson's Journal, iii.) ; Articles in Edinburgh Encycloj>aidia.— \_Neio Stat. Ace, viii.] JOHN BROWN PATTERSON, born 1830 29th Jan. 1804, son of Robert P., Crofthouse, Alnwick ; educated at Haddington, where his maternal grand- father, John Brown, D.D. (author of The Self-Interpreting Bible), had ministered to the Burgher Seceders, and at High School and Univ. of Edinburgh, where he greatly distinguished himself; MA. (31st March 1827) ; tutor to James Edward, Lord Cranstoun, whom he accompanied to Oxford ; licen. by Presb. of Kirkcudbright 7th Jan. 1829; pres. by George IV. 21st Sept. 1829, on the suggestion of Sir Robert Peel, Secretary for the Home Department ; ord. 26th Feb. 1830 ; died 29th June 1835. He marr. 23rd April 1833, Sarah Elizabeth (died 24th March 1882), only daugh. of the Rev. George Atkin, Morpeth, and had