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II. 4th Oct. 1751, and adm. 7th May following; died 21st March 1753, aged 29. Mary Maxwell, his widow, died 16th Feb. 1767.-[Presb. Reg., Tombst., &c.]

1753. WILLIAM SLOANE, tutor in the family of Captain Maxwell, younger, of Cardoness, licen. by the Presb. 1st Nov. 1748, called 24th July, and ord. 27th Sept. 1753; died 11th April 1765, in 46th age and 12th min.-[Presb., Syn., and Test. Reg. (Dumf.), Tombst., &c.]

1766. PHILIP MORISON, A.M., had gift of a bursary from the Exchequer 17th June 1748, and took his degree at the Univ. of St. Andrews same year, licen. by the Presb. of Penpont 5th March 1755, ord. by the Presb. of Edinburgh 14th Oct. 1756, as min. to the Presbyterian congregation at Charleston, South Carolina, which he resigned before 12th Aug. 1763, pres. to this par. by George III. in Sept. 1765, and adm. 20th March thereafter; trans. to Balmaghie 6th May 1777.-[St. Andrew's Univ. Cal., Presb. and Syn. Reg., &c.]

1777. JOSEPH KIRKPATRICK, pres. by George III. 28th June and ord. 18th Sept.; he was pres. to Ochiltree by the Countess Dowager of Glencairn 5th July 1786, but recalled his acceptance 28th following; trans. to Wamphray 29th Jan. 1806. During the few years the poet Burns sojourned at Ellisland he was his parishioner. Being persons of very different temperament, however, they could not always agree, for, on the worthy minister observing the day of thanksgiving appointed by the Assembly to commemorate the Revolution 5th Nov. 1788, and showing the persecutions sanctioned by the unfortunate and misguided royal sovereigns under whose government they occurred, he so incurred the bard's indignation, that on his return from church he despatched a letter to the London Star newspaper, complaining of the abusive treatment the Stewart dynasty had received.-[Presb., A yr Presb., and Syn. Reg., Burns's (Cunningham's) Works i., vi.]

1806. THOMAS INGLIS, son of Andrew I., Esq., Provost of Lochmaben, licen. by the Presb. of Uist 14th Aug. 1805, pres. by George III. 12th April, and ord. 18th Sept. 1806; trans. to Lochrutton 23d June 1807.-[presb. Reg., &c.]

1807. CUNNINGHAM BURNSIDE, licen. by the Presb. of Penpont 12th July 1803, pres. by George III. 10th April, and ord. 17th Sept. 1807; died 25th June 1821, aged 51, in 14th min. To the endowments of a vigorous understanding and a clear apprehension, he united those qualities which enhance their value and adorn their exercise,-a rich fancy, elegant taste, and love of truth. Sincere and upright, he was a man in whom there was no guile. He searched the Scriptures with care and candour, preached and exhorted with plainness and fïdelity, and in the intercourse of life combined affection and dignity. He marr., 29th Oct. 1794, Jean Macknight, who died 11th Oct. 1850, and had the Rev. George M., min. of Urr, besides other two sons and three daughters, one of whom marr. Rev. William Glover, D.D., of Greenside, Edinburgh.-[Presb., and Syn. Reg., Tombst., &c.]

1822. ROBERT BRYDON, son of William B., gunsmith, Edinburgh, brought up in George Heriot's Hospital, where he obtained a bursary, studied at the Univ. there, was licen. by the Presbytery of Stirling 4th Oct. 1820, pres. by George IV. 17th Sept. 1821, and ord. 25th April following. He got the church rebuilt in 1823. On adhering to the Protest, joining the Free Secession, and signing the deed of Demission, he was declared no longer a min. of this Church 24th May 1843, had DD. from Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, U.S., and died 26th Aug. 1860, in his 68th year and 39th min. His distinguishing excellencies were sim-