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PART IV.
THE FRASERS OF PHILORTH,
LORDS SALTOUN.
ALEXANDER FRASER,
TENTH OF PHILORTH, AND TENTH LORD SALTOUN.
ELIZABETH,
A DAUGHTER OF WILLIAM FORBES OF DAUGHTER OF ALEXANDER SETON
TOLQUHOUN. OF MELDRUM.
rTIHE only son of the marriage between the ninth Laird of Philorth and
Margaret, daughter of George de Abernethy, seventh Lord Saltoun, was
Alexander Fraser. He was born in the year 1604, and, at an early age, had
the misfortune to lose his mother, who died before 1608.
He received as good an education as the age afforded, and his name is
recorded as having matriculated at King's College, Aberdeen, in 1619. 1
If the almost hopeless state of disorder into which the pressure of
pecuniary difficulties had thrown his grandfather's affairs had been allowed
to continue, no very bright prospect of succession would have been opened
to him, but, as already noticed, Simon Lord Lovat 2 and his co-trustees had
been appointed in 1615 for the purpose, among others, of restoring to him
all that could be saved out of the family property ; and this trust was
strengthened, in 1620, by his grandfather's resignation of the lands and
1 Fasti Aberdon. most disingenuously, omits to state that he
2 Mr. Andersou, History of the Family of held it in trust, with other co-trustees, for the
Fraser, p. 97, notices that Simon Lord Lovat young heir, and leaves it to be inferred that
had a charter of the Manor of Philorth, but, it was one of his own possessions.
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