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place of Dundee besyd mv neirest freinds and rolationcs" (S.'W. 496) I:v this will ,i
ALEXANDER, FOURTH OF KINGENNIE. 159
19 Dec. 1664, 8 Jan., 30 \ov. 1687 (. 460, 471, 480, 482;.i I do n„c know ul..t Partll.
became of this bond, but soon after, 13 June 1G88, he grunts one foralikcamounttoChap.lv.
James AVed.lerDum, the clerk (S.W. 484), and as John of (Josford had ju^t died, and his
estate no doubt was bcnig administered, it seems likelv that the latter w.is a means of
facsimile of his signature to which will bo found opp. p. 56, Vol ii he miHants its his
executor and universail legatour his only son Alexander, aiul him failii,.'. his brother
Feter. Provision is made for his two daughters, Ruchell an.l .Mar-aivt, and tutor^
appointed ''for ruleing and guiding" his son. Tlie will was eunt.i.ned at llrochiii
18 xNov I 9;
D.D. 117). With these entries I shall deal under the accounts of the perMins to'wiiom'
they more immediately refer (post, pp. IGl seqq.).
He had married, 20 Dec. 1665, his second cousin, Grissell Wedderburn, fourth
daughter to Sir Alexander of Blackness (Bl. 9). The marriage contmct—a rlo.sflv uritten
roll of eleven sheets—is dated 18 Dec. in that year (S.w/377 7S
, and siL-ued bv l«)tli
spouses, their parents, and several witnesses (see facsimile vol. ii , opp. [i. 56;. 'I'hc bride'a
tocher was 11,000 merks, and on the hu.sband's part there is an elabonite sttllenient of the
family estates on himself, his wife, and their issue. It was followed bv a charter iind
sasine 18, 23 Dec. (S.W. 379-80), while on 1 Jan. 1666 he and his wifj got, as we have
seen, sasine of Kingennie and the reversion of Easter Poxvrie (F.S. -18, {•.)). I'.y bis wife,
who was born 8 Feb. 1647 i
from the mortcloth dues for " Easter Powries leady " at this date (D..M.D. 10;, ho had
issue four sons and four daughters :
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Bl. 9) and died I68.>86, and was burii-d in DumKe ii-s iip[K'ars
1. John Wedderburn^ [1667— 1688-9J. He was born in Oct. 1GC7 mid baptizc-d in
Dundee on the 10th of that month (D. U. 15).'' He is next named 7 Feb. 1C81
Other aiich references are 1671-30. action between him anit Juhn Scrvim:«iu
» bond of relief (S.W. -JOS, 427-28, 446 ; K.A.I). 9r0 ; 7 Sept. iOTj. I~
Kirktoun to him "'youiitrer of Kingennie" (S.W. 600); 1. June 107
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18 July 1678, action iu repMid to it (S.W. 434) : 26 M.iv 1677, l«.nd a-i
Graham of Duntroon (S.W. 431); 15 Kov. 1678, oblii,Mtion (i*. !.!.'.'
(D.D. 31); 31 March 1682, decree for him (I) Dec. i") : 1 M.inh \i;s-
— 1686, discharge to him by Kev. Robert E.hvanl of Miirro.M (S.W. 474' ; H
J-..It Ji—;. li»i;o
to him by Sir Darid Carntgy or I'itarrow (HI). 2.^2) : 25 Oct. 10-'.'. by J«ui. 489), and, 14 Juno Id&l, Ly J»ii,r. KjJ U Crujia
iib. 493).
' He died after 7 Jan., when hh son is still called " younirer of Powrie " whrn » »itiir« to th