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KACHEL, MARRIED CILRKRT STEWART. 161
The expenses of her illness (£34 lli. 0.) and of her funenl (^103 13. 4.) are Part ii.
rccordoii in the account of her brother's estate for lGi)2-9l (ti.W. TiOl). Chap. iv.
4. Rachel Wedderburn.i Of her baptism also there is no mention in the Duii^lce
Parish l{'"/is/,;; so that she too was bom elsewhere. She is aamoJ with, hnt after,
Margaret in the 1687 bond of provision (S.W. 479), and as second danu'l'iter of her
father in his will in Oct. 1G91 (ib. 49G). She was between 14 and 21 years old ia
1693, as ill that year, 9 Oct., there is an edict of cnratorv to her "onlv daii-hter
of the late Easter Powrie " (D. Dec. -Ji). She is also named in the aecomits ol the
estate for 1691-94, as receivinsz her annnal rent and as bearing: a share of the co.st
of her sister Margaret's fnneral (S.W. n03-4). From Aiiiriist 169t on she boanled
with her uncle John Wedderbnni of Blackness in Edinburgh, whence. 2 Sejit. I GOG,
she writes to Thomas Milne of Milnetield, factor to her brother's estate to pay
her uncle £543 8. 4 (scots), which she found she owed him for her two years'
maintenance, "out of the first end of what annnal rents my brother is restii:'; mc "
(S.W 507). A facsimile of her signature to this letter faces p. 72 of vol. ii. "I'liero
is also a receipt by her to Milutield for £100 paid her on aeeotmt of her annnal
rents, 6 Feb. 1G97 (ib. 50S); a bond by Henry Crawford of Monnrgaii to her for
four hundred merks 27 May 1706 (R.D'. 27.^), "while a ticket by her" to her cou.siu
Alexander, afterwards second baronet of Blackness, for lifty merks on 4 June in
that year, is named in the " Judiciall Inventory " of his son's estate (.M.P. TJ).-'
She married in 1711 Gilbert Ste»:_irt," merchant in Ediubur-h, to whom she
brought a tocher of ten thousand merks, while he settled twentv-six thousand.
The marriage contract is dated at Wcdderburu, 27 July 1711 (S.W. 5:)8). She is
thus the " my cousine Jlrs. Stewart," of whom Alexander Wedderburn. the clerk
(afterwards fourth baronet of Blackness), speaks in two letters to (Joorje Scton,
1 Sept. 1711 and 30 Jan. 1712, as owing fifty merks to the estate of the late
baronet (.\I.P. 45, 51) I do not find the date of her (hath re