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174 THE WEDDERBURX BOOK.
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^' ^^^°" Scrymgeour. Slic marriod Gc-oigc Hewett (sun of Ck-orge Hewott, sometime
builie in S. Audrew'n). who was at one time a nKTchunt in S. Andrew's, and
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later at Newcastle, but afterwards entered the ministry. He is named at Newcastle
3 Dec. 1753 (S.W. vi., v., .32a) and in a bond, 24 Juno 1757 {ib. 14) by her
brother David to his wife is described as having been merchant fiistat S. Andrew's
and later (174G) at Newcastle. In the testamentary disposition, however, of her
mother's cousin, David Falconer, 22 July 177G, there is a legacy to " Janet Hewett,
my cousin, daughter of the Ilcv. ilr. (ieoige Hewett, and Marion Scrymgeour,
aunt to Mr. Alexander Scryuigcoiir of Birkhill " (S.W. G52) and in JanetHewett's
discharge of the sum left her, dated 21 March 1777, she is described as " daughter
of Mr. George Hewett, minister of the gospel, and of Mrs. Marion Scrymgeour,
spouses, both doceast '' (S.W. vi., v., 42). Marion Scrymgeour is named in the
entails of the Wedderburn estates, 1760-69 (S.W. 637"; U.S.R. 144; F.S. 129);
1785 (S.W. 671), and 1811 (S.W. 699 ; R.D. 458). She was living in 1773, when,
18 Sept. there is a receipt for the cost of the passage of Mrs. Hewett, six children
and a servant from Dundee to London (S W. vi., v., 31 b), but died between then
and 21 March 1777 (.S.W. vi., v., 42, ut sup.). I iiave not ascertained the names of
all her issue. Her daughter Janet is named (ut sup.), and a Fleming Hewett, who
writes to Alexander Scrynigeour-Wedderbnru, 24 Nov. 1 781, in regard to the expense
of his outfit for merchant-thipping service in the West Indies (S W. vi., v., 45), and
a Scrymgeour Hewett, named in an account for school books, 13 April 1787 {i/i. 47)
are, no doubt, sous, and there is also a Mary Hewett named in a note of annuities
and legacies left by the settlement of Janet Scrymgeour (Mrs. Gillespie, senior,
post, p. 17G), dated 1811 (S.W. vi., v., 54).'
2. Jean Scrymgeour. She married Alexander Watson, surgeon in Dundee, and died,
leaving issue, before 1766, as she is from the first named as decea.sed in the entails
of the Wedderburn estates, 1766 —1811 {ut ^itp.). Two daughters by her, Margaret
and Janet Watson, are named in the testamentary disposition, 23 July 1776, of
their cousin David Falconer, and in the discharge, 7, 17 March 1777, hj them to
his executor of the sums left them by him (S.W. vi., v., 40-41); and she may have
have had other issue.'
David Scrymgeour, eldest and only surviving son of Dr. Alexander Scrv-mgeour
and Janet Falconer, was, no doubt, born at S. Andrew's, but at what; date I have not
ascertained He is named in his father's settlement of Newgrange on liim and his issue,
4 Mav, 22 June 1730 (S.W. viii , xii , 3, 4, ut nup.). He was admitted an advocate in
1731, and some four years later bought the estate of Birkhill,- which has since been the
residence of his descendants.
He seems to have had a considerable practice at the Scotch bar, and is always named
as "of Birkhill, advocate," e.;i , 4, 16 Feb. 1738, when he is nominated advocate for the
town of Dundee in a process between the town and David Wedderburn of that ilk, unless,
"as a near relative of Wedderburn,'" he prefers not to act (D.C.B. 187).^ From 1736-43
he received the freedom of several burghs, viz., 1736, of Aberbrothock ; 1738, of Dimdee;
1742, of Pitteuweem, Ayr, and Stirling; and 1743, of Elgin (S.AV. ix , xiv., post, vol. ii.,
p. 88). In 1748, on the abolition of heritable jurisdictions, he was appointed sheriff
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Mr. Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn. now of Wedderburn and Birkhill, ha.? no knowledge of any living
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descendants of these two aunts of his grandfather's, and believes tlieir lines to be extinct.
Birkhill, originally called Corbie or Corbie-hill, was held in 1655 by Sir John Leslie of Newton, son of the
Hon. Sir. John Leslie, who was fiftli sun of Andrew, fourth Earl of Kothes, and was killed in the
storming of Dundee by General Monk in 1651. Sir John of Newton m. Isobel, daughter of George
Hay of Naught'n, and died in 1CS2, leaving with two sons (John, d. unm., Alexander of Balcormo,
d. s.p. ?) four .laughters. Of these the eldest, Elizabeth, m. William Dick of Grange, and had two
daughters, Janet and Anna, of whom the elder, Janet, m. (i.) Mungo Carnegie, advocate, d. 1705,
and(ii.) Alexander Alison, W.S., who died 1728, leaving an only surWving son. John Alisou. who was
retoured heir to his father in the lands and barony of Birkhill and got sasine thereof, recorded at
Cupar 18-2-1 March 1729. His fathers estate was considerably involved, and was thus sold to
David Scrymgeour in 1735 (S.W. v., ii, 1-10}.
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David Scrymgeour is
1744 (F.S. 114 ;
R.D. 444). There is also a letter to liim from his brother-in-law, Johu Wedderburn,
22 Sept. 1744 (S.W. 575).
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See letters from .Alexander Grant. 26 Oct. 1768 and Donald McQueen, 8 July l/b9, the latter of which
is endorsed by his son, " From the substitutes and sheriff clerk of Inverness after my father 'a
removal with their acknowledgments of gratitude" (S.W. VI., v., 29).