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INTRODUCTION.
Hii.
Between 1590 and 1600, he aajuired the estates of Wester Gouidie and Introd.
Kingennie. Of these, the former was bought from the Car-
Th^purch^a inichaels and Dunmuirs for some 9,000 merks in I.J91-9.3, and
1600.'°*^°'^^' the latter from the Guthries for 1G,000 merks in lUUO. It
was from Kingennie tliat lie and his descendants thereafter
took their designation until the purchase of Easter Powrie by his grandson
in 16G2, and its erection into a new barony of Wedderbnrn in 1708. His
town house was in the Nethergait of Dundee, and stood until denWi^hed some
few years back, when a stone, sculptured with his arms and those of his
wife, which formed part of one of the fire-places, was set in an outside
•wall. Illustrations showing this stone, part of one of the ceilin"s of the
house, and some sculptured stones at Kingennie, will be found post, at pp.
128 and 427. Kingennie died in the early part of 1G:2G, leaving a will,
which I have not discovered, in which, as appears from other documents
there were legacies to the minister and poor of Dundee. He had married'
almost immediately on coming of age in 1582, Helen Ramsay, daughter of
Alexander Ramsay of Dundee and grand-daughter of Mr. George Speus, and
by her, who died between 1618 and 1625, had issue eleven chiidreu. From
the two eldest sons spring the Kingennie and Blackness lines of tjie family, the
former of which became extinct in male line in 1761. The two next sons were
Peter, who married Helen Lovell, but died s.p. in 1629, and William, ulio married
Jean Pierson, but died also without issue in 1630.
The remaining son, John, afterwards Sir John of Gosford.^ rose to great
distinction in the profession of medicine. He was born in 1599,
Wedderbnrn educated at S. Andrew's, where he graduate