Early records of an old Glasgow family

AN OLD GLASGOW FAMILY 45
marnock and Carntyne — in addition to the connection with
the Hamilton -Grays of Carntyne through Marion Hill,
after-mentioned — a connection exists between the families
of Gray and Hill.
Detailed information respecting the families and descendants
of most of the above will be found under the appropriate head or
" Sept " in the before-mentioned MS. Pedigree of Hills, etc., and
also in the MS. volume titled, " Family Tree of the Hutche-
sons, etc."
Elspeth or Elizabeth Hill or Pollock.
Elspeth Hill, another daughter of Ninian Hill and Helen
Hutcheson was baptized on 9th March, 1613, 1 the "witnesses"
being her maternal uncles, George and Thomas Hutcheson.
She is mentioned in George Hutcheson's Will in 1639 2 as one
of his sister " Helein hir bairnis," and in the Contract between
Mrs. Marion Stewart or Hutcheson and the heirs portioners of
George and Thomas Hutcheson, dated 14th April, 1642, 3 she is
designed as " lawfull daughter " of Helen Hutcheson and " spouse
to Thomas Pollock, Merchant burgess of Glasgow."
This Deed also enumerates, and excepts from the properties
with which it deals, the following heritable subjects, which had
previously been specifically conveyed by Thomas Hutcheson, by
two Dispositions, "to the said Thomas Pollock and his spous," viz. :
Tenement "in Gallowgait with back sellar adjacent yrto possest
be themselfes," indicating their residence there.
" Ane barne and yeard lyand without the Gallowgait port."
" Ane aiker of land callit the Thencroft [Hencroft?] with kills
and barnes situat upon the samyne."
" Ane barne lyand within the West port, with
" Ane aiker of land at the back thereof, lyand in the Long
Croft."
■Hill, Munimenta, vol. I., Part II., No. 3, Extracts from Register of Baptisms.
2 Hutcheson Papers (Personal), vol. 1., Part I., No. 14.
3 Hutcheson Papers (Personal), vol. I., Part III., No. (b)/i ; also Hill, Munimenta, vol. I.,
Part II., No. 10.