Historical and genealogical essay upon the family and surname of Buchanan

ACC O UNT
FAMILY OF AUCHMAR.
IN giving an exact account of these cadets, now
become families, which came immediately off that
of Buchanan, and retain that surname, I shall be-
gin with that family last came off the principal
one, and consequently next to the same, and shall
mention each of the rest in order, according to the
times of their several descents off the chief family.
In prosecution of this method, I shall begin with
the family of Auchmak, which, by the original
charter thereof, as also by the genealogical account,
or tree, of the family of Buchanan, is not only
clearly evinced to be descended of a son of the
laird of Buchanan, but also to be the latest cadet
of that family. Though the principal family con-
tinued in being for the space of one hundred and
thirty-five years after this family came off the same,
nevertheless, the few second sons, or cadets, which
descended of Buchanan since that of Auchmar