Jan. 1732. He marr. when a student of divinity, Janet, daugh. of Robert Sibbald of Woodfoot, and had issue John, bapt. 21st Aug. 1709.-[W. Calder Sess. Reg., Wodrow's Anal.]

1733 WILLIAM ANDERSON, nephew of preceding; licen. by Presb. of Linlithgow 25th Feb. 1730; called 5th Sept. 1732; ord. 16th Aug. 1733. He died unmarr. 8th May 1741.

1744 JOHN ADAMS, son of Henry A., min. of Kirkoswald; M.A. (Glasgow, 15th Jan. 1723); licen. by Presb. of Ayr 1st Sept. 1725; ord. to Dalrymple 15th Feb. 1726; called 23rd Nov. 1743; Moderator of the General Assembly 10th May 1744; trans. and adm. 30th of same month; proposed again for Moderator in 1748, but not chosen. He died 20th March 1757, aged about 54. He marr. Janet Osborne, who died 7th Jan. 1768, and had issue - Dicksona (a daugh.); John; David; Robert; Margaret; Mary; Harry; Quentin; Patrick Grant. Publications-"An Inquiry into the Powers committed to the General Assemblies of this Church"; "Apology at the Bar of the General Assembly on the Settlement of Torphichen," 1751 (Scots Mag., xiv.).-[Morren's

Ann., i.; Carlyle's Autob]

1759 JOHN AITCHISON, min. of a Presbyterian chapel at Morpeth; pres. by George II. 28th April, and adm. 6th Oct. 1759; died 18th May 1787, in 72nd year. He marr. 12th Aug. 1741, Jean Hardie, who died 20th April 1774, aged 55, and had issue-Samuel, born 17th May 1744; John, born 8th Nov. 1745; Thomas, born 12th March 1747; Ann, born 9th Dec. 1751, died 24th Nov. 1783; Jean, born 26th Oct. 1753 (marr. 12th Nov. 1783, William Glen), died 17th April 1787.

1787 JOHN MUIR, licen. by Presb. of Linlithgow 2nd Dec. 1778; pres. by George III., and ord. 26th Oct. 1787; died 20th July 1793. He marr. 22nd Dec. 1788, Marion Pearson of Borrowstounness, who died 9th Feb. 1801.

1794 JAMES WILSON, only son of William W., Carluke, born 1754; educated at Univ. of Glasgow; M.A. (1781); ord. to a congregation in Stafford 15th April 1784; removed to Stockport; adm. to Mid-Calder 20th Dec. 1792; pres. by George III. 11th Jan. 1794; trans. and adm. 2nd May 1794; D.D. (Edinburgh, 28th May 1802); died 8th June 1829. He marr. 8th April 1785, Jean (died 4th Sept. 1819), daugh. of John Weir of Kerse, and had issue-William, born 1st Feb. 1786, died 1803; Thomas, born 16th Jan. 1788, died 2nd June 1805; John (a twin), D.D., min. of Stirling, born 16th Jan. 1788; Elizabeth, born 23rd May 1789, died 17th Sept. 1804; Gray, student, born 17th Aug. 1793, died 16th Nov. 1811; James, born 8th Nov. 1796, died 15th Dec. 1811; Archibald, born 19th Aug. 1798, died Uth Dec. 1804. Publications-A Defence of Public or Social Worship; A Sermon for the Benefit of the Public Kitchen (Edinburgh, 1800); The History of Egypt,  3 vols. (Edinburgh, 1805); Prayers for the Use of Families and Individuals (,Edinburgh, 1818); Accounts of Mid-Calder and of Falkirk (Sinclair's Stat. Acc., xiv., xix.); "Method of Increasing the Sensibility of the Barometer" (Nicholson's Journal, iii.); Articles in Edinburgh Encyclopaedia.[New Stat. Acc., viii.]

1830 JOHN BROWN PATTERSON, born 29th Jan. 1804, son of Robert P., Crofthouse, Alnwick; educated at Haddington, where his maternal grandfather, John Brown, D.D. (author of The Self-Interpreting Bible), had ministered to the Burgher Seceders, and at High School and Univ. of Edinburgh, where he greatly distinguished himself; M.A. (31st March 1827); tutor to James Edward, Lord Cranstoun, whom he accompanied to Oxford; licen. by Presb. of Kirkcudbright 7th Jan. 1829; pres. by George IV. 21st Sept. 1829, on the suggestion of Sir Robert Peel, Secretary for the Home Department; ord. 26th Feb. 1830; died 29th June 1835. He marr. 23rd April 1833, Sarah Elizabeth (died 24th March 1882), only daugh. of the Rev. George Atkin, Morpeth, and had