Early records of an old Glasgow family

AN OLD GLASGOW FAMILY 5$
Relics of Helen Hutcheson or Hill.
The only personal relic of Helen Hutcheson, now remaining,
is a silver bound and clasped girdle-pouch or Purse, ornamented
in the front with silver filigree work, the silvering of which is
much worn, also the black velvet at the back, but otherwise
in excellent preservation. This Purse is understood to have
belonged to, and to have been a gift from her sister-in-law,
Mrs. Marion Stewart or Hutcheson, wife of Thomas Hutcheson;
but Helen Hutcheson may also be credited with bringing into
the Hill family, along with her titles and other papers, the
" Dutch-built spring locket kist, woven of strips of yron in
comelie form," formerly belonging to her brother, George
Hutcheson of Lambhill," 1 of both which interesting relics the
accompanying are correct illustrations.
Her death.
Mrs. Helen Hutcheson or Hill died evidently before 31st
March, 1654, when her son Ninian, on his marriage to Margaret
Craufurd, daughter of Hew Craufurd of Cloberhill, his first wife,
infefts her 2 in the liferent of the 5 merk land of Granges in
Dunlop Parish, and also of the 2 merk land of Lambhill, burdened
with the liferent of his aunt, Mrs. Marion Stewart or Hutcheson,
but without making mention of his mother, Helen Hutcheson or
Hill, who succeeded to these properties in liferent, and whose
rights would have required her consent to their exclusion had she
been then alive.
Anent Ninian Hill's Estate of Garioch.
At what date and from whom Ninian Hill acquired Garioch I
have only conjecturally ascertained. Neither have I been able
to ascertain precisely as to the title or writs vesting these lands in
Mr. Ninian Hill of Lambhill, his son and heir.
1 History of Hutclicsons' Hospital, 1881, p. 28. - Hill, Munimenta, vol. I., Part III., No. 6.