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ALEXANDKIl, FOURTH OK KINCKNNIK. 157
ut the end of which year (4 Dec.) lii.s relict and executrix gives up liis will Part ll.
;
to be coiifirinea (BrT. 17). She is niiinod thcrcaf'.or, 29 Uec. IG'JG, when ^'^"P '^•
she grants a discharj^e for the animal rent of her tociicr to the factor of
Easter Howrie (S.W. 509 a) ; 15, I" May, wlien she has asaction v. Kuphame
Smith (O.B.K. 403) ; and, 27 Jan. 1703, when there is a decree again.st her
(D.Dec. 50). In 1708 (15 May, 30 Ann;,) she was.suing Alexander Wedderbiirn
of that ilk in rei,Mnl to her tocher, which was ultimately paid to her,
after his death, 21 Oct. 1714 and Aug. 1716 (S.W. 512). She was living,
13 Oct. 1723, when she witnessed the baptism at ;>undee of Marf,'aret,
daughter of her son "Alexander Pearsoue, baxter, and Isobel Kcid " being
herself designed in the entry grandmother to the child (D.H s.d , orig.
record). Siie dicil shortly before G July 1737. when there is a decree
anent the roup of the household plenishing of liie late Margaret Wedderburn,
relict of John Pearson (D.Dee. 9.{). P.y her husliand she had liad three
sons, all of whom were baptized in Dundee, viz., Alexander, 7 .Ian. 1G92 ;
John, 2 Feb. 1693 : and James. 3 Sept. 1G95 (D.R. sdd., on- record).
2. Euphame Wedderburn, baptized in D\inike 27 June lOGti (O 15. 16).
As there is no otiier reference to her, she probably died young.]
Alexander Wedderburn' [1640-92], fourth of Kingennio, ami second of Fjister
Powrie, eldest son of Alexander Wedderburn and Elizabeth llamsav, was born about
1640, and is first named 5 April and 21 Nov. 1643 in connection withtiie will and estate
of his mother's father, -lohn Rawsay (S.W. 286, 288), and next, 16 Oct. 1G18, when he is
entered heir to his brother John in the North Marketgait land of their late mother (I) P.B.
274).'^ He matriculated at S. Andrew's in 1655, but there is no record of his gnulnating
there (S.A.ll. 28). After this the earliest references to him arc 15 .Inly \>'>''H, when he,
as procurator for his father, requires Durham of Omachie to desist from taking: i)eat from
tlie moor of Kingennie (S.W. 323 itt sup); 29 June 1660, 8 .(une lGij2, when he is a
witness (S.W. 344; D.D. 10); 2N April 1663, when he witnesses his fatiiers acipiisition
of Eiister Powrie (S.W. 358-59); and, 7 May 16G3, when he is attorney for his stei>mother,
Margaret Milne, in regard to the charge on Wester (lourdie in her f/ivnur (F..S. 37).
On these occasions he is called "younger of Kingennie." "eldest," or "elder sou and
apparent heir " of his father.
He, "younger of Kingennie," was admitted burgess of Dundee by his father's
privilege, 15 May 1665 (D L B. 55), at the close of which year he married (see below),
when his father, 1 Jan. 1666, settled on him the lands of Kingcimie,-' and, subject
to his own liferent, those of Easter Powrie also (F.S. 48. 49). After this he is often calle