Birthplace and parentage of William Paterson

68 WILLIAM PATERSON.
impression that the legacies never were paid, and proba-
bly for this reason that the executor had not been able to
recover from the Treasury the full compensation money
ordered by the Act of Parliament to be paid to Paterson
or his heirs. At sundry times the Scotch relations made
searching investigations, but entirely without effect. Mr
Stewart of Hillside, a gentleman already named, has
obliged us with the perusal of notes of a "case " drawn
up for them in 1853, with a view to further inquiry.
That document leaves little doubt that the compensation
money, so justly due to Paterson, had not been realised
— certainly that the Scotch relatives never received the
legacies designed for them.
The handsome legacies in the will to the Mounseys, t
and Mrs Paterson, Kinharvey, (paid or unpaid,) would all
the more keep their connexion with Paterson in continual
remembrance, — indeed, it was not in human nature that
they would fail constantly and proudly to recollect their
illustrious relative, and the high position to which his
genius had carried him.
The Scotch relations — particularly the Mounseys, de-
scended of the banker's sister Janet, — occupied themselves
for years in endeavouring to trace the funds whence
the legacies should have been paid, but in vain. It was
in the prosecution of this that the family genealogical
tree, already mentioned, was prepared — shewing clearly
enough the increasing, and multiplying, and replenishing
which flowed from Janet's marriage with Thomas Moun-