Genealogical memoirs of the Duffs

i6 Genealogical Memoirs oj tlie Diffs.
10. John Duff, who got a Precept from the
Chancery proceeding upon a Retour of his Ser-
vice as heir to his father, dated Novr. o,th, 1627.
By the said Isabel Allan, he left one Son,
John, and after her death, he married Margaret
Gordon, Daughter to John Gordon of Cairnbur-
row, by whom he had another son, Adam Duff
of Clunybeg, who came to be Representative of
the Family, and whose posterity is now number-
less, and connected with many of the best
Familys both of the North & South of Scotland.
According to the best information, the man-
ner of his acquiring this Title is as follows :—
Clunybeg is a considerable part of the Estate
of Auchendown, in the Parish of Mortlach, &
comprehends just now a dozen of pretty exten-
sive Farms.
One of the name of Duff, a Relation of the
Family of Moldavid, had sometime, in the iòth
Century, obtained it in Wadset from the Earl of
Huntly, or perhaps from one of the Earls of
Athol, when they were Proprietors of the Lord-
ship of Balveny, which comprehended the whole