Memorials of the family of Row

MEMORIALS OF THE FAMILY OF ROW. 5
52 yeares, and dyed anno A6\6) aged 78. I find in Calderwood's History,
yat on ye 6th Feb r 1622, he was charged by letters of horning directed
from the Council to keep within ye bounds of his own parish.
This Mr Jo. Row dyed anno , and in ye said Mr Greenshiells ge-
nealogy I find yis Epitaph upon him :
Tho' bald with age, and prest with the weight
In crooked times, this man went straight.
His pen kept hid things in record,
For which the Prelates him abhored.
And here Carnock, his little quarter,
For Canterbury he would not barter.
This Mr John married Grissel daughter to Mr David Ferguson, mi-
nister at Dunfermling, and Chaplain to K. James ye 6th. This Grissel
lived to a good age, and survived her husband, dying aged 84. Mr John
by her had 5 sons, David, John, Robert, William, and Mr James Rows,
of whom in order: 1. Mr David was a minister, but never settled. He
went to Ireland and marr. , dau r to Boyd, and sister to
Thomas Boyd, a rich merchant of the City of Dublin in Ireland, whose
daughter and heir Lettice marr. William E. of Kilmarnock, by quhom is
descended ye first Earl. This Mr David Row has issue in Ireland by
daughters.
2. Mr John Row became an Independent Minister in Aberdeen, anno
1652, and was made Principale of ye Kings Colledge yr, where he conti-
nued till anno 3661; yet he was put out upon ye establishment of Epis-
copacy. I find he preached a sermon before ye Parliament of England at
ye Abbey of Westminster ye 8 Oct. 1656, being appointed as a day of
publick Thanksgiving, which was ordered to be printed, and for which he
had the thanks of the House. This he calls mans duty in magnifieing
Gods work.
He marr. , dau r to , by quhom Mr John Row,
first minister at Sloniekirk, in Galoway, and after at Dalgity in Fife. He,
at ye Revolution, went to Fiance with K. Ja. 7th, qr he turned popish.
He married , dau r to Rig of Carberry, by quhom
4 children, qr of only 2 dau rs came to age, 1st, Mary married to Mr And.
Turnbull, mer' in Ed r , quho dyed in Sep. 1721, and was buried in ye
Gray fryers yr ; by him she had a dau r , , and a son, ,
quho was educate in Heriots Work. This Mr John, minister at Dalgity,
had a 2d dau r , Eliz. Row, who marr. Jo. Thomson, a writer in Ed r , quho
dyed and was buried yr 172 — ; by him she had several children, quho dyed
young, and she herself turning wrang in ye head, was committed to Pauls
Work in Edinburgh, qr she dyed in June 17^7, and lyes buried in ye Gray
fryers.