1733 ALEXANDER PYOT [PYOTT], probably son of James P., Montrose; educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1714); schoolmaster of Benholme 1716; chaplain to John, Marquess of Tweeddale; licen. by Presb. of Dunbar 8th Nov. 1722; ord. to Carriden 29th Oct. 1725; pres. by John, Duke of Roxburghe; trans. and adm. 24th Oct. 1733; so great was the opposition that on the day of induction the church doors were found locked, and entrance bad to be effected by the vestry window. He died 26th March 1765. Col. Gardiner was his guest for two nights immediately preceding the battle of Prestonpans. Pyot was the subject of the satirical .Memoirs of Magopico, by Simon Haliburton, chaplain to the 1st Foot. He marr. (1) 17th June 1726, Eleanor (died 1st Aug. 1742), daugh. of Robert Stevenson, merchant, and had issue, who assumed the name of Graham-Susan, born 1727 (marr. -- Robinson); Katherine, born 30th Dec. 1729 (marr. James Begbie, surgeon, Haddington); Anna, born 10th Dec. 1731; John, Deputy Governor of Georgia, born 5th Nov. 1733; James, born 8th Feb. 1737: (2) 3rd March 1752, Rebecca Thomson [Carlyle's Autob., Miller's Hist.]

1766 GEORGE BRUCE, born 1709, Rothiemay, Banffshire; educated at Parish School and King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1724); schoolmaster of Forglen; licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith 4th June 1734; ord. min. of a Presbyterian congregation, Newcastle, 13th Aug. 1734; declined nomination as min. at St James's Island, South Carolina; adm. to Minto 6th Feb. 1745; pres. by John, Duke of Roxburghe; trans. and adm. 4th July 1766; died 8th May 1795. He bequeathed £100, the interest of which was to be given to the schoolmaster of Forglen, on condition that he read portions of scripture "to the congregation from the desk every Sabbath between the second and third bells“ a similar sum was left to the schoolmaster of Grange; he bequeathed £50 to the school at East Barns. He marr. 8th Jan. 1750, Elizabeth Hall, who died 16th Aug. 1770, and had issue-George, born 22nd April 1752, died 1st Sept. 1768; Sarah, born 7th March

1755; Gilbert, born 24th Aug. 1756; Thomas, born 9th March 1759, died 2nd Dec. 1782. Publications -Personal Religion, a Necessary Qualification in a Minister of the Gospel, a sermon (Newcastle, 1743); Account of the Parish (Sinclair's Stat. Acc., v.).- [Miller's Hist.]

1795 PATRICK CARFRAE, bapt. 6th Jan. 1742, son of John C., farmer, Carniehaugh, Garvald, and Mary Turnbull; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; licen. by Presb. of Haddington 5th March 1765; ord. to Morham 20th Nov. 1766; pres. by John, Duke of Roxburghe; trans. and adm. 16th Sept. 1795; D.D. (St Andrews, 12th Oct. 1796); dem. 4th Oct. 1820; retired to Bowerhouses, Dunbar, where he died 5th March 1822. He marr. Dec. 1769, Mary Sherriff, who died 27th July 1807, and had issue-Jacky (a girl); Isabella; Francis; Agnes; Mary, died 12th March 1812; and others, all of whom died in early life; John, General H.E.I.C.S., died 29th Aug. 1860; Jean (marr. 27th June 1792, Adam Dalmahoy, glover, Edinburgh). Publications-A Letter to Scotia's Bard, which elicited a reply (Burns's Works, iii., Wallace's edition); Account of Morham (Sinclair's Stat. Acc., ii.). - [Somerville's Life, Miller's Hist.]

1821 JOHN JAFFRAY, born 1792, a native of the Carse of Stirling; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 30th March 1814; assistant to preceding; pres. by Mary, Duchess-Dowager of Roxburghe; ord. 20th April 1821; died 13th Feb. 1862. He held a high place as an agricultural authority, and some improvements in agricultural implements, as well as in the cultivation of the soil, were due to his suggestions. He marr. 17th Nov. 1824, Isabella Lucas, of Stirling, who died 7th Feb. 1873, and had issue-Isabella, born 19th March 1827, died unmarr. 9th Feb. 1895; John, banker, Dunbar, born 26th Aug. 1828, died 28th Jan. 1875; Thomas Lucas, born 10th Dec. 1832, died 11th Aug. 1833; Janet Smart, born 13th May 1834, died unmarr. 10th Feb. 1907. Publications -Account of the Parish (New Stat. Acc., ii.); "Account of an Experi