Biggar and the House of Fleming

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and passed Writer to the Signet in l(i!)4<. In right of his
wife, he was made a burgess and guild-brother of Edinburgh
8th July 1696. He is designed of Wells in 1701, and seems
to have sold this property previous to 1704, when he married
Miss Anna Livingston, daughter of George Livingston of Salt-
coats, in Haddingtonshire. He had three sons by his first
marriage,— Robert, who was one of the magistrates of Edin-
burgh in 1745, and again in 1755 ; David, who married Miss
Helen Bruce of Earlshall, and was killed at a horse-race at
Cupar-Fife in 1725 ; and William, who was Governor of
Guinea ; — and by his second marriage he had an only son
George.
Mr Baillie, who died in 1747, is represented as having been
" a very honest and bright gentleman," and was private agent
for the Earl of March, Baillie of Lamington, Menzies of Coul-
terallers, etc., and had a large and respectable practice. His
son, Mr George Baillie, succeeded him in the lands of Harding-
ton and Bagbie, and married Miss Euphemia Bertram, daugh-
ter of William Bertram of Nisbet, and had — with several other
children — James, Robert, and Menzies. James, who was born
in 1732, was a writer in Edinburgh. He purchased Coulter-
allers in 1771, and died unmarried in 1818. Robert, who
was born in 1734, was apprentice to his uncle, the Edinburgh
magistrate, and afterwards a settler in Georgia, in the United
States of America. He distinguished himself very much in
the American War, and was colonel of a regiment of Volunteers
in the service of his Britannic Majesty. He married Miss
M'Intosh, daughter of John Mohr M'Intosh, one of the earliest
colonists of Georgia, and one of whose descendants again dis-
tinguished himself in the Mexican War. He died in 1782.
Menzies was first an assistant surgeon in the army ; then a
partner in the firm of Bertram, Gardner, & Company, of Leith,
and afterwards Barrack Master at Leith. He was born in
1741, and died in 1804. He married Miss Anne Hodgson.
Robert Granbery Baillie, Esq., who. was grandson to the above-
mentioned Robert Baillie, succeeded to the estate of Coulter-
allers on the death of his granduncle, James Baillie, in 1818.
He married Miss Anna Baillie, daughter of the above-named
Menzies Baillie, and had two sons — James William Baillie,
Esq., W.S., and John Menzies Baillie, Esq., C.A. He died
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