Genealogical memoirs of the Duffs

142 Genealogical Memoirs of tìie Duffs.
Guthrie about 1695, the land being of a dry
warm, rich soil, the Tenants had good crops, &
paid their rents well in the dear years. Sir
John Guthrie's other Estate of Fishery failed
much during these calamitous years, and, in one
of them, Sir John offered to give Craigston
Fishery in Exchange for Castleton.
Gordon of Coynach, I suppose Dr. Gordon at
Peterhead his father, lived at Craigston in 1687,
& had a son born there that year, who was
nursed by the same woman, who, 111 the four suc-
ceeding years, nurs't Craigston's four sons of his-
first marriage, & all on the same milk.
A Gentleman of a small Estate in the parish
of Tannadis, County of Angus, McDufF
of Tarfaichies.
An Irish Lady, married to William Lesly of
Melross' second son, an Officer in General Aber-
crombie's Regiment, a woman of very good sense,
vvho was lately in the North of Scotland,
says- — ■
" That there are some old Castles in the
South of Ireland, Province of Leinster, upon good