Grampian Club > Memorials of the Strachans, baronets of Thornton, Kincardineshire, and of the family of Wise of Hillbank, formerly Wyse of Lunan, in the County of Forfar

Memorials oj t/ie Families of Strachaii and Wise. 19
ill connection with the colony. The whole of the sums
l)ai(l, were in reality retained by the Lieutenant-General
for his private use, while none of the baronets was adven-
turous enough to claim the sixteen hundred acres of the
new colony which he received with his patent. On the
I'oll of the Nova Scotia baronets, the baronet of Thornton
ranked next to Gordon of Letterfourie, the premier baronet.
On the IStli April 1026, "Sir Alexander Strachan,
knyght baronet," received the royal license, dated at
Whitehall, authorising him " to export and cause be ex-
ported from hence to our kingdome of Scotland, to his
own vse, and the better saiftie and defence of that
kingdome, corslettis, pickis, and muskettis, bandelieris,
and all armes competent for fourtie pikmen, and so many
musketerris, with a reasonable proportion of powder, schot,
matches, etc." In 1630, Sir Alexander was appointed a
Commissioner of Exchequer and a Commissioner for
auditing the Treasury accounts. He received, in the fol-
lowing year, £3000 for surrendering some of his commis-
sions to the crown. In 1633 he is a witness to the resigna-
tion of William Earl of Angus of his hereditary right of
the first seat and vote in Parliament.^ He was in 1635
1 Acta Pari. v. 10.