Jan. 1729) Barbara, daugh. of James Allan, and had issue-Agnes (marr. 1696, Charles Johnston, schoolmaster at Ormiston: Edin. Com. Rec. Deeds, 27th Aug. 1750).-[Edin. Reg. (Bur.).]

1738 ALEXANDER DUNCAN, ord. (assist ant and successor) 12th Sept. 1738; trans. to Smailholm 24th Nov. 1743.

1744 ALEXANDER DAVIDSON, licen. by  Presb. of Peebles 23rd April 1740; called 18th April, and ord. (assistant and successor) 9tb May 1744; died 20th July 1759, in 51st year. He marr. 27th March 1747, Helen Ramage, who died 19th May 1767.

1760 ALEXANDER ADAMS, licen. by Presb.  of Edinburgh 24th April 1754; assistant at Peebles; pres. by George III. 19th Nov. 1759; called 24th Jan., and ord. 24th April 1760; died 10th Jan. 1789, in his 57th year. He marr. 31st Oct. 1760, Janet (died 7th Dec. 1799), daugh. of Adam Doak of Monkton.-[Ayr Sess. Reg., Tombst.; New Stat. Acc., iii.]

1789 JOHN WALKER, licen. by Presb. of  Linlithgow 26th March 1783; pres. by George III. 7th April, and ord. loth Sept. 1789; died 26th March 1802. He marr. 19th March 1793, Jean (born 1743, died 1818), daugh. of James Williamson of Cardrona, and had issue-William, born 26th April 1794, died 1830. Publications-Accounts of Traquair, and of Innerleithen (Sinclair's Stat. Acc., xii., xix.).

1802 JAMES NICOL, born Innerleithen, 28th  Sept. 1769, son of Michael N.; bred a shoemaker; educated at the parish school and Univ. of Edinburgh; tutor in the families of Borthwick of Crookston, and Farquharson of Finzean; licen. by Presb. of Peebles 25th March 1801; assistant to preceding incumbent; pres. by George III. 15th May, called 2nd Sept., and ord. 4th Nov. 1802. In 1808 he founded the first friendly society at Innerleithen. Having adopted views inconsistent with the doctrines of the Church of Scotland, he

contemplated resigning his charge, but died 5th Nov. 1819. He was an accomplished scholar, and had few equals as a Biblical critic. He marr. 25th Nov. 1802, Agnes Walker (sister of his predecessor), who died at Innerleithen, 19th March 1845, and had issue-James, born 16th Nov. 1803, died 18th Nov. 1809; Marion Hope, born 16th Dec. 1804, died 1859; Agnes, born 27th Aug. 1806, died 1829; Marjory, born 11th April 1808, died 11th Dec. 1828; James, Professor of Civil and Natural History in the University of Aberdeen, born 7th Aug. 1810, died 8th April 1879; William, born 31stMay1813. Publications-Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, 2 vols. (Edinburgh, 1805); An Essay on the Nature and Design of Scripture Sacrifices (London, 1823); Articles in Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, signed N., J. N.-[Lit. and Stat. Mag., iv.; New Stat. Acc., iii.; Chambers's Peeblesshire; Rogers' Scott. Minstrel, Veitch's Hist. and Poetry of the Scottish Border, Dict. Nat. Biog.]

1820 JAMES CAMPBELL, born Carsphairn, 16th July 1789, son of William C. and Agnes Rigg; studied at the Univ. of Glasgow; licen. by Presb. of Kirkcudbright 7th May 1817; tutor in the family of Robert Nutter Campbell of Kailzie; pres. by George, Prince Regent, 7th Jan., and ord. 21st Sept. 1820; died 29th April 1861. He marr. 26th Oct. 1820, Mary (died 4th Sept. 1860), daugh. of Matthew Combe, brewer, Leith, and had issue-Julia Stewart, born 14th Feb. 1822, died 11th Nov. 1823; William, born 3rd March 1824, died in Australia 1900; Anne Bruce, born 8th Dec. 1825, died 25th Nov. 1836; George, min. of Eastwood; James, born 5th June 1829, died at Richmond, Australia, 21st April 1892; Agnes Mary, born 12th Sept. 1833 (marr. Jardine Wallace, her father's successor); Jane, born 25th Feb. 1836, died 16th May 1871. Publications-Review of the Kingdom of Heaven, a sermon (1830); Account of the Parish (New Stat. Acc., iii.)

1859 JARDINE WALLACE, born 19th Jan. 1834, son of Robert W., D.D., min.  of St Michael's, Dumfries; educated at Dumfries Academy, Glasgow and Edin