06 ST CUTHBERTS [PRESB. OF
and a man and woman scourged through
Edinburgh ; trans, to Kintore in 1G80.
—
[Hey. Collat., Sime's West Kirk, Wodrow's
Hist., Nicoll's Diary.]
PATRICK HEPBURN, M.A. (Edin-
burgh, 15th July 1650); licen. by
Presb. of Haddington 13th Sept.
1654 ; min. of Bolton in 1661 : adm. min.
of Canongate 22nd Nov. 1663 ; trans, and
adm. 1680. Marr. Jean, only daugh. of Sir
John Johnston of Elphinston. Had an
only son, George. He died about the time
of the Revolution.— [Sime's West Kirk ;
MS. Aec. of Min., 1689 ; G. R, Inhib., 14th
July 1666.; Deeds, Durie, 17th April 1730;
Edith. Sets., xix., 368 ; Gen. Bey. Sas.,
xxxiv., 430.]
DAVID WILLIAMSON, M.A., formerly
in Collegiate Charge ; was de-
nounced as a rebel 6th July 1674,
for holding conventicles,andintercommuned
6th Aug. 1675. After the final Indulgence
granted to the Church in 1687, he returned
to Edinburgh, when a meeting-house was
erected for him in the village known as
Water of Leith. On 3rd Feb. 1688 he
was arrested, his name having been dis-
covered in a memorandum belonging to
Renwick, who had been captured two days
previously, but as the entries referred to
a period covered by his indemnity, he was
liberated after a fortnight's imprisonment.
Not long afterwards he was arrested on the
charge of not praying for the recently born
Prince of "Wales, but nothing followed
thereon, At the General Assembly sum-
moned after the Revolution, which met on
16th Oct. 1690, he was restored to his
former parish, where he continued to offici-
ate until the day of his death. He was
one of the Commissioners sent by the
Church to congratulate King William on
his accession to the throne. He was
a member of Assembly 1692; elected
Moderator to that of 6th March 1702, and
died "without painful sickness, generally
esteemed/' 6th Aug. 1706, aged about 72.
He presented a dwelling-house, 18th Jan.
1700, to his colleague and his successors in
office, discharging the feu-duty, £3, regu-
larly during his lifetime. lie marr. (1)
Isobel Lindsay, who died March 1665, and
had issue—William, who died young : (2)
Margaret Scott, and had issue—Margaret
(marr. James Haswell, merchant, Jed-
burgh) : (3) about 1676, Jean, daugh. of
William Kerr of Cherrytrees (the romantic
episode which probably led to this marriage,
gave rise to the song formerly well known,
of "Dainty Davy"), and had issue
—
Elizabeth (marr. 1704, John Brown, min.
of Abercorn, brother of George Bi'own of
Finmount : (4) Margaret Melville, servetrix
of the Countess of Wemyss, who died Oct.
1692, probably mother of John, min. of
Inveresk, Wodrow's correspondent ; Agnes
(marr. Api*il 1708, Henry Robin, min. of
Burntisland) : (5) Margaret, second daugh.
of William Dougall, merchant, Dysart, and
had issue—David, apprenticed 1713 to a
surgeon in Edinburgh ; Mary (marr. 1st
Feb. 1716, George Andrews, merchant,
Edinburgh) ; William : (6) name unknown :
(7) 10th May 1700, Jean, daugh. of Arthur
Straiton of Kirkside, Forfarshire, and had
issue—Arthur ; Joseph, advocate, one of the
principal city clerks, and clerk to the Com-
mission of Teinds, died 29th July 1795, in
his 95th year ; Jean (marr. 5th April 1730,
James Steele, saddler, Edinburgh). Mrs
! Williamson marr. secondly, in 1717, John
Martine, of Little Aries, Wigtownshire.
I Publications—Two single Sermons (Edin-
|
burgh, 1696-1703). The latter called forth
I
"Some Remarks " (by Archibald Campbell,
D.D., of the Non-jurant Church) (1703).—
[Edin. Rey. {Marr. and, Bur.), Kirkton
and Wodrow's Hist, ami Corresp., Sime's
West Kirk, Scottish Pasquils ; Acts Pari.,
xi. ; Leven and Melv. Rap., S. Presb. Eloq. ;
Scot. May., lvii. ; Fife Sasines, xv., 376
;
Deeds, Durie, 19 Melv. 1707 ; Herald and
Genealoyist, vii., 226 ; Renwick's Life, War-
rick's Moderators."]
THOMAS PATERSON, studied theo-
1706 *°°y a^ Univ. of Glasgow ; ord. to
Colinton 21st April 1697 ; trans, to
Collegiate Charge 22nd Oct. 1699; called
8th, trans, and adm. 13th Nov. 1706; died
22nd May 1726. He marr. (1) 27th Nov.
1699, Christian, daugh. of David Pitcairn
of Dreghorn, and had issue—Mary ; Helen