PRESBYTERY OF KIRCUDBRIGHT p. 704

- [Fasti Aberd., Kirkden Sess., Edin. Presb., Test., and Edin. Reg. (Bur.), List of Disorderly, MS. Acc. of Min. 1689.]

1693. ALEXANDER DUNLOP, licen. by the Presb. of Glasgow 4th April 1692; trans. to Whithorn in Feb. 1697.-[Syn. Reg., Mackenzie's Galloway ii.]

1699. WILLIAM TOD, Licen. by the Presb. of Hamilton 25th April 1699, ord. 21st Sept. same year; died 24th Oct. 1735, aged 63, in 37th min.-[Syn., Presb. Reg., Tombst.]

1736. JOHN M'KNAUGHT, A.M., chaplain to Colonel Will. Maxwell of Cardoness, licen. by the Presb. 7th July 1731, called 6th July, and ord, 21st Sept. 1736; died Father of the Synod 7th May 1792, in his 95th year and 56th min. He marr. 22d Feb. 1739 Margaret, daugh. of James Gordon, in Hill, and had a son and daughter.-[Presb., and Syn. Reg., Mun. Univ. Glasg. iii., Tombst., &c.]

1785. GEORGE MAXWELL, of Glenarm, licen. by the Presb. of Dumfries 13th July 1784, appointed by George III. in Oct. following, and ord. (assist. and suc.) 7th April after; died 2lth June 1807, in 45th age, and 23d min. In the Heron ballads, he is styled

" Buittle's apostle,

                                                   Wha's mair o' the black than the blue."

He marr. 11th July 1800 Henrietta Cannan, she died 5th June 1859.-PublicationAecount of the Parish (Sinclair's St. Acc. xvii.)-[Presb., and Syn. Reg., Tombst., Burns's (Cunningham's) Works iii., &c.]

1808. ALEXANDER CROSBIE, son of - Crosbie, Esq., of Merkland, licen. by the Presb. 1st Feb. 1804, pres. by Geo. III. 16th Sept. 1807, and Ord, 12th May following; got a new church built in 1819, and died 3d Dec. 1847, in his 71st year and 40th min. He marr. 26th Dec. 1817 Agnes, daugh. of Mr John M'Clellan, Kirkcudbright; she died 8th Jan. 1859, and had three sons, John, M.D., James, and Thomas, and two daughters, one of whom marr. the Rev. Robert Hyslop,  Kirkcolm.-Publication-Account of the Parish (New St. Acc. iv.)-[Presb., and Syn. Reg., New St. Acc., &c.]

CARSPHAIRN.

A supplication was presented to the Gen. Assembly, 16th June 1638, in name of this church, stating "it lyeas in a very desolat wilderness, containing five hundred communicants." That it had been built at the expense of some gentlemen " out of love to the salvation of souls of barbarous and ignorant people, who had heretofore lived without the knowledge of God, their children unbaptized, their dead unburied, and no way for getting maintenance to a minister." On the day following the Assembly recommended a contribution to be made by all south of Tay for getting up a stipend to the minister, which was renewed by the succeeding Assembly. It was then erected from portions of Kells and Dalry, after 11th Sept. 1639, recommended by the Assembly in January, and sanctioned by Parliament 8th March 1645. The parish was disjoined from the Presb. of Kirkcudbright; and annexed to that of Wigton by the Gen. Assembly 24th Jan. 1699, but again re-united to the former by the Assembly 22d March 1703.

1637. JAMES ADAMSONE, A.M., a son, or relation of Principal A., graduated at the Univ.