Life and diary of Lieut. Col. J. Blackader

CHAP. XXI. CONCLUSION 551
Near this place are deposited the Remains of a
Brave Soldier and Devout Christian,
JOHN BLACKADER, Esq.
Late Lieutenant- Colonel of the Caineroninn Regiment.
He served under the Duke of Marlborough in
Queen Anne's "Wars,
and was present at most of the Engagements in that Reign.
He died Deputy Governor of Stirling Castle, in
August 1729. Aged 65 gears.
August 1789. J. Y. *
Having brought our extracts to a conclusion, it
would now only remain to lay before the reader some
general sketch of the character of the individual whose
papers have been submitted to his perusal. This,
however, has been already anticipated, and in some
measure superseded, by the criticisms which precede
the Diary, and the occasional remarks with which the
whole is interspersed. Besides, the Journal itself pre-
sents so true a mirror of his mind, and enters so fully
into the minutiae of his life, as to furnish a more ac-
curate and faithful portraiture than any laboured de-
* This marble was the tribute of his grand-nephew, Mr. John
Young, Edinburgh, whose initials are inscribed upon it, with the date
of its erection ; grandson of his sister already mentioned. Of Mrs.
Young's Diary, and her husband's consolatory letter, entitled, " Faith
promoted, and Fears prevented, from a proper view of affliction,"
we designed to give some further account, but the length to which
our other extracts have extended, prevents us. She had two sons,
John, a merchant in Leith, father to the above, and grandfather to the
present John Young, Esq, Edinburgh ; William, who served as a
surgeon in the Coldstream Guards during the Marlborough campaigns,
and is often mentioned in the Colonel's letters. He afterwards settled
as a medical practitioner, with his wife and family, in England, where
his descendants still remain.