History of the Fife Pitcairns

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CHAPTER VII.
DAVID PITCAIRN'S CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN.
Agnes Pitcairn, granddaughter of David Pitcairn of that
Ilk and youngest daughter of his eldest son Henry, married
John Fyne or Phin of Burnt Island, in 1595. They left
two sons, Patrick and David Fyne, and one daughter,
Marjory. When Agnes Pitcairn's uncle, Robert Pitcairn
the Commendator, died in 1584, his estate of Limekilns
and the Gellets passed to his brother John and his nieces
Janet and Agnes. This appears from one of the Pitfirrane
charters, which is here copied, and from casual contempor-
ary entries in the Register of Dunfermline Abbey. Agnes
Pitcairn's son, Patrick Fyne, in 1597 made a conveyance
of his hereditary interest in the Pitcairn estates to David
Seaton of Parbroath, as the following contract indicates : —
Ane contract past betwixt David Seaton of Parbroath and Patrick
fyne, son to John fyne in Burntiland and eldest sone and appearand
aire to umqu. Agnes Pitcairn who was one of the two aires of con-
quest served and retoured to Umqu. Mr" Robert Pitcairn, Com-
endator of Dunfermling, whereby the said Patrick fyne as aire
forsd. assigns in favour of ye said David Seaton the reversion of
the lands of Lymekills and sech uyr lands Ilks wer dispossed by
the said Comendator to Mr John Pitcairn his Broyr, the one-half
of the lands of Lymekills with the teynd sheaves thereof, reserving
the Manor place, Orchards and salt pans and Harbors thereof to the
said David Seaton. Dated 10 and n days of April 1597. x
David Phin, presumably a brother of Patrick Phin, also
appears in connection with this transference. In 1598 he
1 Pitfirrane Charters, kindly allowed to be copied by the late Sir P. Arthur
Halkett of Pitfirrane.