400 YESTER [PRESB. OP 1701 ROBERT MELDRUM, M.A. (Edin- burgh 1674) ; acini, min. of Garvald1682 25th Nov. 1680; deprived for not taking tlie Test 1681 ; adm. and inst. to this charge 31st Dec. 1682 ; died 14th Dec. 1699, aged about 46. He marr. (1) Jean Melvin, and had issue—Jean ; Elizabeth ; John ; Andrew ; Robert ; Isobel : (2) Helen Young, who survived him. — [MS. Ace. of Mln., 1689.] JAMES CRAIG, M.A. ; ord. 15th April 1701 ; trans, to Dunbar 26th Nov. 1718.—[Wodrow's Anal.] JAMES WITHERSPOON, born 1691 j educated at Edinburgh Univ. ; M.A. (22nd April 1709); licen. by Presb. of Haddington 27th Nov. 1716 ; called 25th Nov. 1719; ord. 20th March 1720; one of His Majesty's Chaplains in Ordinary 1744 ; died 12th Aug. 1759. He marr. 21st Oct. 1720, Anne, daugh. of David Walker, min. of Temple, and had issue—John, D.D., LL.D.,min. of Beithand ofPaisley,President of Princeton College, New Jersey, born 5th Feb. 1723 {Reg. Bapt.), died 15th Nov. 1794; David; Susan (marr. James French, schoolmaster of the parish) ; Joseph, born 9th Feb. 1729 ; Margaret Ann, born 31st Dec. 1732. — [Tombst.; Witherspoon's Works, i. ; Steven's High School Edin. ; Rodger's Fun. Serin., Carlyle's Autob.~] JAMES INNES, bapt. 26th June 1733, 17eo son of James I., min. of Mertoun ; licen. by Presb. of Earlston 6th Sept. 1757 ; asssistant to preceding ; pres. by John, Marquess of Tweeddale, and ord. 27th March 1760 ; declined election as min. of the Free Presbyterian Meeting-house, or Chapel-of-Ease, Glasgow, 17th May 1781 ; died 3rd Feb. 1821. He marr. 9th Oct. 1767, Mary Hogg, Edinburgh, who died 19th Dec. 1813, and had issue—James,bom 22nd July 1768, died 26th Sept. 1774; William, min. of Stirling, born 31st March 1770; Jean, born 24th March 1772, died 10th April 1789; Christian, born 10th Feb. 1774, died 29th Oct. 1774 ; Anne, born 9th April 1776 (marr. 13th Nov. 1794, Greville Ewing, min. of Lady Glenorchy's Chapel, Edinburgh). Publication—Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Ace, i.). DANIEL WILKIE, trans, from Stone- 1821 nouse I Pres. by George, Marquess of Tweeddale, and adm. 6th Dec. 1821 ; trans, to New Greyfriars, Edinburgh, 13th Aug. 1829. ROBERT SMITH, trans, from Dreg- horn ; pres. by the Commissioner for George, Marquess of Tweeddale, and adm. 15th Oct. 1829; trans, to Old Machar 23rd Sept. 1«30. DAVID HORNE, pres. by George, 18„1 Marquess of Tweeddale, and ord. 12th May 1831 ; trans, to Corstor- phine 28th Nov. 1833. JOHN THOMSON, born 1809, eldest . . son of John T., coachwright, Stirling ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow, tutor in the family of the patron ; licen. by Presb. of Haddington 3rd July 1832; pres. by George, Marquess of Tweeddale, and ord. 17th April 1834. Joined the Free Church ; min. of Free Church, Yester, 1843 ; adm. to Free St George's, Paisley, 13th June 1845 ; D.D. (Glasgow 1872); died 6th Aug. 1883. He marr. 23rd Dec. 1834, Margaret (died 12th Feb. 1879), daugh. of Alexander Buchanan, St Ninians, and had issue — John, born 25th Oct. 1836, died 16th Aug. 1873. Publications — Speech in the Free Synod of Glasgow and Ayr (Paisley, 1850); Account of the Parish {New Stat. Ace, ii.) SAMUEL KERR, born Half Morton, 8th Sept. 1805, son of Thomas K., farmer, and Mary Milligan ; educated at Half Morton School and Univ. of Edin- burgh ; licen. by Presb. of Annan ; pres. by Earl of Dalhousie as commissioner for Marquess of Tweeddale ; ord. 19th Dec. 1843; died 15th Jan. 1878. He marr. (1) 13th Dec. 1847, Elizabeth (died 26th Feb. 1862), daugh. of Alexander Hogg, farmer, Marvingston, Bolton, and had issue — Thomas, M.A., LL.B., W.S., Edinburgh, born 2nd Oct. 1848 ; Isabella, born 5th July 1850, died 9th June 1852; Alexander, born 1st Feb. 1852, died 2nd July 1863 : (2) 3rd May 1865, Margaret, daugh. of Robert Bird, of Beechhill, Morham, and had issue — Robert Bird, M.A., LL.B., advocate, bar- rister-at-law, British Columbia, born 21st