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MASTERTON PAPERS
1703 selloch 2d wyfe dyed 9 Apr; The Earl of Mar1 was marled to ye
Viscount of Duplin his daughter at London 6 Apr; old Jon
McGreger dyd 17 Apr; old Jon Harroer at Hirsmiston dyd 20
Apr; Rot. Hunter oursman at Sawchie dyd 21 Apr.; Marquess
of Athol dyd 4 May ;2 John Steivnsone provest of Stirling dyed
19 May; old James Harlaw my Lords gardiner dyd 29 May;
Old John Reid dyd at Abercorn 5 June; The old Countess of
panmure 78 years dyd 30 July.3 A great shour of snow on ye
hils ye 27 Agust in ye night.
Jo" Bucham [sic] in Alloa dyd 9 Sepr; Jon Callendar in Kin-
cairn dyed 10 Sepr; Rot. Bruce in Linmiln dyed 18 Septer;
Duke of Argyle4 dyd at Newcastle 22 Sepr; Mr. Robins wyfe in
Ava dyd 5 October; Rot. Millar in Sawchie dyd 10 oct; The
Laird of Stow dyd ye beginning of October; provost dick his
wyfe dyed 20 oct; Mary Lindsay relict of Duncan Erskine dyed
23 oct; George Nairn merchant in Sterling dyd 26 oct; George
Smith Tenant in Tilligart dyd 28 oct; David Webster coach¬
man dyd 1 novr; Euphan Ramsay relict of old Ja. Bruce dyd
10 novr; Tho. Turnbull in Clackm. his wyfe dyed 13 novr; Sr
Vm Preston of Valyfield dyed 14 Novr. My neece Christian
Paton was maried the 17 novr to Paton in Anguss. John
Thomson in Wester Cambus dyed 18 novr; The Earle of Glen-
cairn dyed 17 novr;5 John Mitchel wyfe Glasier in Allwa dyd
2 der. a cold spring, a dry summer, a very good harvest tho
something late. The bear betwixt Christm. and Candlemass 5
and six pund; The meal 6 lib and 10 merks.
1704. Baylie morison at Stling dyed 11 Jar; The Laird of
Sands dyd suddenlie 18 Jar;6 Ms Vright, aged 74, dyd at Edr
1 John, sixth Earl of Mar, married, first, Lady Margaret Hay, eldest daughter
of Thomas, sixth Earl of Kinnoul, first Viscount Duplin, l6th April 1703.—
Foster. Douglas gives 6th April.
2 John, first Marquis of Athole, died 6th May 1703. —Douglas.
3 The Lady Jean Campbell, daughter of John, Earl of Loudon, wife of
George, second Earl of Panmure. See above, 1674.
4 Archibald, first Duke ofArgyle, died 25th September 1703.—Douglas’s Peerage.
s John, Earl of Glencairn, died 14th December 1703.—Index of Services.
6 Sands. In 1666 Lord Kincardine disponed Sands to George Wilson of
Kirktown and Alexander Wilson his son (then a minor). Kirktown is a farm
near Culross. Alexander Wilson died in 1704, and was succeeded by his
brother, George Wilson, a bailie of Culross. The estate then rapidly changed
hands twice, George Gordon, advocate, and Thomas Thomson holding it in