Facts and traditions collected for a family record

FACTS AND TRADITIONS.
Frederic, seventh brother :
On a chief embattled of the second, a rose between two trefoils slipped of
the first.
Finally, at the family gathering in Manchester, in April 1860, the
writer was requested to arrange the information which he had collected
from various sources, and place it in the hands of the printer, for dis-
tribution and preservation in the family. It is in compliance with this
request that these collected facts appear in the form of a little work, to
render which the more complete as a family record, I have added some
incidents in the life of my father and his more immediate ancestors.
For the sketch of the life of my father and mother, comprised in the
last chapter, I am indebted to my brother James.
As this work is intended strictly for private circulation, I do not
need to make ariy apology for the "'prentice hand" which may be
traceable in it. I should be sorry, nevertheless, if the book were to fail
in its mission.
The time thus spent has gone by pleasantly with me, and the pleasure
would be greatly enhanced in the retrospect by the knowledge that I
had in some degree met the wishes of my family.
DAVID C. M'CONNEL.
Edinburgh, January 1861.