1743 HUGH BLAIR, M.A.; trans. from Collessie called 13th Jan. and 10th Feb., and adm. 14th July 1743;  trans. to Lady Yester's, Edinburgh, 11th Oct. 1754.-[Bonar's Canongate.]

1755 JOHN WARDEN, son of John W., min.  of Gargunnock; M.A., (Glasgow, May 1725); licen. by Presb. of Stirling 9th Dec. 1730; ord. to Campsie 21st March 1732; trans. to Perth 19th March 1747; pres. by the Heritors and Kirk session (another presentation being given by George II. on 16th Jan. 1755 (R. Sec. Sig., 560) to Hugh Bannatine, min. of Dirleton; both were withdrawn, and a moderation at large allowed). He was called 21st Aug., and adm. 6th Nov. 1755; died 29th Dec. 1764. He marr. (1) Anne, daugh. of Hugh MacFarlan of Ballancleroch, and had issue-Elizabeth; Helen; Margaret; Lilias, born 26th Dec. 1738; John, his successor; William, born 5th Oct. 1745; James, born 21st Jan. 1747: (2) 13th Feb.1750, Janet (died 18th March 1762), daugh. of James Campbell of Burnbank. Publications-An Inquiry into the Nature, Obligation, and Advantages of Religious Fellowship (1746); The Happiness of Britain illustrated, a sermon (Edinburgh, 1749); A System of Revealed Religion, composed in the express Words of Scripture (London, 1769; another edition, 1843).

1765 JOHN WARDEN [MACFARLAN], born 29th May 1740, son of preceding; educated at Univ. of St Andrews; M.A. (1761); licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 27th Oct. 1762; elected by the Heritors and Kirk-session 17th Jan., and ord. 18th April 1765. Assumed the name of MacFarlan on succeeding to the estate of Ballancleroch; D.D. (Edinburgh, 2nd March 1778); secretary to the Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge, 1784; Almoner to His Majesty 12th July 1785; died 24th Dec. 1788. He marr. 16th Feb. 1766, Helen (died 10th May 1819), daugh. of James Macdowall of Canonmills, and had issue-John of Ballancleroch, advocate, born 12th Jan., 1767, died 18th Dec. 1846; Lilias, born 16th Aug. 1768, died 15th April 1769; Ann,

born 5th Dec. 1769, died 13th Nov. 1774; James, born 22nd Jan. 1771; William, born 17th June 1772, died 18th Dec. 1772; Archibald, born 15th April 1774; Elizabeth Home, born 13th Aug. 1775, died 1794; William, born 2nd Dec. 1776; Hew, born 31st March 1778, died 29th July 1778; Helen, born 15th Sept. 1779; Patrick, min. of Greenock, born 4th April 1781. Publications-On the Perpetuity of the Gospel Dispensation, a sermon (Edinburgh, 1778); A Defence of the Clergy of the Church of Scotland who have appeared in Opposition to an unlimited Repeal of the Penal Laws against Roman Catholics (Edinburgh,1779); Inquiries concerning the Poor (Edinburgh, 1782); A Summary Account of the Rise and Progress of the Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge (Edinburgh,1783); Tracts on Subjects of National Importance (London, 1786); revised his father's System of Revealed Religion (see Scotch, Preacher, 1789).-[Moncreiff's Life of Erskine, Bonar's Canongate.]

1789 WALTER BUCHANAN, born 11th Jan.  1755, second son of Andrew B., maltman, Glasgow; educated at Univ. of Glasgow; M.A. (1774); licen. by Presb. of Glasgow 2nd Dec. 1778; ord. to Stirling 23rd Nov. 1780; elected by the Magistrates, Kirk -session, Deacons of Crafts, and Heritors 19th Feb., and adm. 18th June 1789; D.D. (Edinburgh, 9th Dec. 1805); died 6th Dec. 1832. He was the friend of Charles Simeon of Cambridge, who thought "it one of his greatest blessings to have known him." He marr. 22nd Feb. 1785, Margaret Stobie, who died 28th July 1847. Publications-The Beneficial Influence of the Gospel, a sermon preached before the Christian Knowledge Society (Edinburgh, 1804); Account of the Life of  John Witherspoon, D.D., LL.D. (Witherspoon's Works, i.); edited The Religious Monitor till its close in 1819.[Haldane's Mem., Bonar's Canongate, Tombst.]

1833 JOHN CLARK, M.A.; trans. from New Street Chapel; pres. by the Heritors, etc., and adm. 12th Sept. 1833; trans. to the Old Kirk 6th June 1844.