History of the Fife Pitcairns

180 THE FIFE PITCAIRNS.
Baronet of Fingask. The estate of Fingask had been
forfeited in the Jacobite rising of 1715, also the estate of
Pitcairn. Sir Stuart bought back Fingask from the
creditors of the York Building Company, 1 who had
bought the forfeited estate in 1720, and a friend of the
Pitcairn family bought back Pitcairn for them at the
same time.
In the rising of 1745 Forthar was forfeited, and David
Pitcairn of that Ilk 2 was made bankrupt, his estate was
sold, bought on the 23rd Feb., and sealed the 6th of March
1756, by Sir Stuart Threipland, and in 1760 the business
of certification, and binding the ground, was concluded on
the 26th day of November of the same year.
Alexander Pitcairn was Dr Threipland's uncle by marriage,
and David Pitcairn, his son, was therefore his cousin. Dr
Threipland had most probably bought in the estate for
the Pitcairn family, as we find on 1st October 1773 there
was a " Disposition of the lands and Barony of Forthar
by Dr Stewart Threipland in favor of Dr William Pitcairn,
physician in London, dated the 2nd of August, and re-
corded in the books of Council and Session in October of
that year, and seasine in the said lands and barony of
Forthar following upon the precept of seasine, in said
Charter, in favor of Dr William Pitcairn, was dated the
22nd of September, and recorded in the General Register
of Sasines in Edinburgh the 6th of October 1775." 3
Dr William Pitcairn here mentioned was second cousin
to Rev. James Pitcairn of Forthar, his grandfather being
James, fifth son of William Pitcairn of Forthar. (See
Dysart Branch.)
Dr W. Pitcairn's nephew, Dr David Pitcairn, succeeded
him in the estate ; but it was sold in 1830 to the Balfours
of Balbirnie, who still hold it.
1 History of the Threipland Family, MS.
2 Retours and Indices of the County of Fife.
3 Ibid., and Canon Pitcairn's MS.