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she retained a flow of imagination and an activity of
intellect almost preternatural." She was born 1710,
and died 1794. She married Patrick, second son of
Adam Cockburn of Ormiston, Lord Justice-Clerk.
There remains to be noticed John Ruthirfurd, a
grandson of Nichol, the founder of the Hundalee
family. He married a daughter of the house of
Gordon, and appears to have had control for a time
of the estates of Lochinvar and Stitchel. This con-
nection was no doubt the cause of his going north to
the county of Aberdeen, where the Gordons, once
of Huntly and Gordon, in the Merse, were firmly
established, and very powerful. He was Provost of
Aberdeen from 1483 to 1492, and was designated of
Migvie Castle, in Cromar, which estate he had
acquired. In the old kirk of Aberdeen his effigy
was to be seen, says a chronicler in 1 700, " with a
cat-a-mountain at his throat, by whom he was
worried in the year 1500.'' His son Sir John Ruthir-
ford was also Provost of Aberdeen from 1496 to
1500. On the 15th May 1485 King James III.
granted " familiari servitori suo Johanni Ruthirfurd
militi terras de le Est-toune et Tarlane in Cromar
vie. Aberdene."
Sir John's coat was the original one of Hundalee,
with a boar's head couped in base, to commemorate
no doubt his descent from the Gordons. His father
bore the same coat, but instead of the boar's head
he placed a bunch of three holly leaves in base for
difference.
The same arms were borne by Alexander Ruthir-
furd, Provost of Aberdeen from 1591 to 1609,
probably Sir John's grandson. This gentleman was