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GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS OF JOHN KNOX. 23
by whom she had one son, who assumed the name and
arms of Knox, and succeeded to the Dungannon estates.
He died in London unmarried. 1
William, second son of Thomas Knox and Elizabeth Spang,
was a merchant-burgess of Glasgow. Mr George Crawfurd,
who knew him personally, states that he died without issue
in April 1728, aged seventy-six, bequeathing to his nephew,
Thomas Knox of Dungannon, a considerable fortune. 2 This
fortune is set down by M'Ure, the Glasgow historian, at one
hundred thousand merks.
John, third and youngest son of Thomas Knox and Eliza-
beth Spang, acquired the lands of Ballycreely, near Comber,
county Down. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Hugh
Keith, county Down, whose ancestors belonged to Galston
in Ayrshire. 3 Dying in 1722, he was succeeded by his only
son, Thomas, who was deputy-governor of the county Tyrone,
and sometime M.P. for Dungannon. Thomas Knox died in
1769. His wife was Hester, daughter of John Echlin of
Ardquin, county Down, and grand-daughter of Eobert Echlin,
Bishop of Down and Connor, who died 1635, and whose
father was Andrew Echlin of Pittadro, Fife, son of William
Echlin, who in 1517 was representative of the old family
which bore his name. 4
By his wife, Hester Echlin, Thomas Knox was father of
two sons, Thomas and John, and two daughters, Hester and
Elizabeth. Hester, the elder daughter, married James
Moutray of Favour Eoyal, county Tyrone, M.P. Elizabeth,
the second daughter, married Matthew Forde, Esq. of Sea-
1 M'Ure's History of Glasgow. ! Crawfurd'a MS. Genealogy.
3 Hill's Montgomery Manuscripts, Belfast, 1869, p. 163.
* Ibid., p. 137 ; Crawfurd's Memoirs of the Echlins of Pittadro.