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Memorials of the Families of Strachan and Wise. 41
John, baptized 27tli December 1747 ; died s.p.
Henry, bai3tized 8th October 17-19. Died young.
On the 26th December 1749, Alexander Wyse of
Lunan executed a settlement of his affliirs, nominating"
as his executors his son-in-law, the Rev. Henry Ogilvie,
minister of Lunan, and his brother-in-law, Lieutenant James
Strachan. He entrusted them with the administration
of " eighteen thousand merks Scots money,'* which was to
be applied to the suj^port of his widow and for division
among his children " secluding David Wise his eldest son."
David subscribes the will as one of two witnesses ; he
writes his name David Wise, and thereafter this mode
of spelling the family name universally obtained among
the members of his House.
David Wise of Lunan was a person of remarkable
mechanical skill. One of the first in Scotland to recog-
nise the importance of employing machinery in the art of
weaving, he invented a machine for cotton spinning about
the same time that Hargreaves of Lancashire produced
his spinning-jenny in 1764. To make provision for the
other members of his father's family, he disposed of the
paternal inheritance.
David Wise married Grizel, daughter of Thomas Hen-