Historical and genealogical essay upon the family and surname of Buchanan

AN
AC C O U NT
FAMILY OF SPITTEL.
THE case of the family of Spittel, seems to be
much the same, with that of diverse other families
of that name, they having been in possession of se-
veral lands, at some little time after they came off
the family of Buchanan, a great part of which lands
are since gone from it, as from other families, by
ways and means not easy to be discovered at this
distance of time.
The ancestor of the present family of Spittel, and
who first obtained these lands, was Walter Buchan-
an, son to Patrick, the second of that name, laird
of Buchanan. This Walter, and his successor
John, their charters of these lands, by bad keeping
in turbulent times, are so effaced, and the writing
thereof so obliterated, as renders the same in a great
measure illegible. However, it is very presumeable,
that the laird of Buchanan gave the lands of Spit-
tel, to his son, Walter, for patrimony, when he
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