1672 JOHN INGLIS, M.A., formerly of Hamilton; indulged with preceding 3rd Sept. 1672. [Min. of First Charge, Hamilton, 1687.]-[Brown's Hist. of Indulg., Wodrow's Hist.]

1677 JAMES HAMILTON, M.A. (St Andrews, 25th July 1668); offered Dalserf in 1677, which he declined; adm. here 1677; two men were scourged for committing an assault on him same year; died Feb. 1685. He marr. (name unknown) and had issue-one child (Edin. Com. Decreets, 1st April 1685).-[Act. Rec. Univ. St And., Test. Reg., Wodrow's Hist., Turner's Memoirs.]

1685 WILLIAM THOMSON, M.A. (Edinburgh 1671); inst. at Douglas 20th Sept. 1682; trans. and adm. 1685; deprived by the Privy Council 12th Sept. 1689, for not reading the Proclamation of the Estates, etc. [Probably min. of Tundergarth 1691.]- [Peterkin's Constitution of the Church.]

1687 MICHAEL POTTER, M.A.; called at the Toleration 23rd Oct. 1687; joined with three others in forming the Presb. 30th Nov., and adm. 7th Dec. 1687; a member of Assembly 1692, and trans. to Dunblane same year.-[Wodrow's Hist.; New Stat. Acc., ii.; Crichton's Mem. of Blackadder, Dickson's Emeralds Chased in Gold.]

1694 JOHN BRAND, M.A. (Edinburgh, 9th July 1688); licen. by the Presb. of Edinburgh; called 14th Sept. 1693; ord. 3rd Jan. 1694; app. by the General Assembly (17th Feb. 1700) one of a deputation to visit Shetland, and if convenient, Orkney and Caithness, a journey which occupied from 18th April to 24th June. He died 14th July 1738, aged about 70. He marr. Aug. 1700, Elizabeth, daugh. of Andrew Mitchell, Provost of Aberdeen (Canongate Reg.), and had issue-Andrew; Elizabeth; Janet; Margaret; Joan; John; William, his successor; Martha; Mary (marr. 17th Oct. 1716, Alexander Smith, baker, Edinburgh). Publication-A Brief Description of Orkney, Zetland, Caithness, etc.

 (Edinburgh, 1703; reprinted 1883).[Acts of Ass., Dict. Nat. Biog.]

1739 WILLIAM BRAND, born 1709, son of preceding; ALA. (Edinburgh, 7th Dec. 1732); licen. by Presb. of Linlithgow 17th March 1736; called 1st Feb., and ord. 11th April 1739; died 9th Nov. 1745. He marr. (cont. 22nd Oct. 1742), Mary (died 11th April 1768), daugh. of John Meldrum of Brochoell, and had issue-Marjory; John; William.-[Test. Reg., etc.)

1747 PATRICK BAILLIE, chaplain to Sir William Maxwell of Calderwood; licen. by Presb, of Hamilton 30th May 1738. During the illness of Professor Drummond he taught the Greek class in the Univ. of Edinburgh for a session; called 8th May 1746; ord. 14th May 1747; died 11th Sept. 1791. He marr. 16th Feb. 1749, Margaret Connell, who died 14th June 1771, and had issue-Jean (marr. John Chrystie of Bo'ness, 12th March 1783). Publication-A Short Account of the Author (John Henderson's [shipmaster, Bo'ness] Divine Meditations and Contemplations) (Glasgow, 1763).-[Acts of Ass., 1749; Carlyle's Autob.]

1792 JOHN MORTON, son of Gavin M., Loudon; educated at Univ. of Glasgow; licen. by Presb. of Ayr 28th March 1781; pres. by Douglas, Duke of Hamilton and Brandon; ord. 10th May 1792; died unmarr. 6th May 1794.

1795 ROBERT RENNIE, born Perthshire,  only son of Robert R., a min. in Virginia, U.S.A.; educated at Univ. of Glasgow; taught an academy for some time at Dumbarton; licen. by Presb. of Cupar 25th Oct. 1791; pres. by Douglas, Duke of Hamilton; ord. 9th April 1795; D.D. (Glasgow, 27th April 1820) ; died 29th July 1833. He marr. 19th Dec. 1809, Jean (died at London, 14th Feb. 1851), eldest daugh. of William Urquhart, merchant, Glasgow, and had issue Anne, born 13th April 1811, died 19th May 1811; Janet, born 1st July 1812, died 12th Oct. 1827;