Historical and genealogical essay upon the family and surname of Buchanan

198 ACCOUNT OF THE
Walter Buchanan of Spittel. There is a contract
of wedset, for the sum of one thousand merks
Scots, upon the lands of Sallochy, by John Buch-
anan of that ilk, in favour of this Walter, dated
in the year 1618. Walter of Blairvocky had one
son, Alexander, who had four sons, Walter, Alex-
ander, William, and George. Walter's progeny
is extinet. Alexander left only one daughter.
George, the youngest, went abroad. William,
the third brother, having obtained the interest of
Blairvocky, sold the same to John Buchanan,
younger of Spittel. William , the last of Blair-
vocky, resided mostly in Ireland. He had four
sons, Alexander, William, Walter, and Henry.
Alexander the eldest resides in Glendermon, with-
in two miles of Derry, being in very good repute
and circumstances. William, Walter and Henry,
reside near Omagh in the county of Tyrone, and
kingdom of Ireland.
The fourth cadet of Spittel's family was Robert
Buchanan, late deacon of the bakers of Glasgow,
being one of the sons of the second marriage of
Edward Buchanan, second of that name, of Spit-
tel, and Buchanan of Ross's daughter. His son
Robert Buchanan, writer in Glasgow, married
Buchanan of Drumhead's daughter. He had also
two daughters, one married to Mr. Neil Snodgrass,
writer in Paisly, who left one son, John Snod-
grass, their former children being dead ; she was
-afterwards married to Alexander Wallace, writer
in Paisly : the other was married to John Buch-
anan, elder, merchant in Glasgow.
The next cadets of this family are the pre-