Samuel Magruder

Notes:

Member of the Maryland assembly. One of the first justices of Prince George's County. One of the first vestrymen of St. Paul parish.

Family/Spouse: Sarah. Sarah died between 16 Jan 1731 and 28 Sep 1734 in of Prince George's County, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Ninian Magruder was born in 1686; died in 1751.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1610, of Glenartney, Perthshire, Scotland
• Alternate birth: 1610, of Prince George's County, Maryland

Notes:

"[W]as fined with others for illegally carrying arms and shooting deer and wildfowl near Cargill, Cargill, 1622 (Registry of the Privy Council 13:101-03); probably acted as factor or chamberlain for Lord Maderty in Dunblane parish, Strathallan; was probably the "Allastar Mcgruger" who served in Col. Sir Thomas Ruthven's reg. of the Army of the League and Covenant in England, 1645/6; is believed to have been captured serving in the Scottish army in the civil wars, perhaps at the Battle of Worcester, 1651, and to have been sent to America as a prisoner; settler in Md. by 1653; of Turkey Buzzard Island, Calvert Co., and "Anchovie Hills," Calvert Co. (now Prince George's, near the present Baden), Md.; held about 3,750 acres in Prince George's Co. (brother of James McGruder, lord of Cargill, Perthshire, chamberlain to the Earl of Perth, member of a committee appointed by the Scots Parliament to expel Cromwell's army, 1649)." [Brice McAdoo Clagett, citation details below]

Ancestor of Confederate generals James Longstreet, William Beall, John Bankhead Magruder, and Stephen Drane; also of Asa Griggs Chandler, founder of the Coca-Cola company and principal founder of Emery University.

One of JMF's two gateway ancestors, but fittingly, given JMF's delight in ambiguity and historical contingency, his status as a "gateway ancestor" is controversial. In 2015, the lineage society the Order of the Crown of Charlemagne announced that Margaret Campbell was not his mother and therefore his descendants no longer qualified for membership, but (to the best of our knowledge, and that of historian Susan Tichy), no evidence for this was put forth.

It is certainly true that the evidence for the Maryland immigrant being the Alexander who was second son of Alexander McGruder and Margaret Campbell is circumstantial. In our view, it passes the test of being strong enough circumstantial evidence to warrant recording what appears to be the probable line.

From Susan Tichy, "Was Alexander Who We Think He Was?":

But how do we know he was the second son of these parents?

We don’t, not absolutely. We believe it on the basis of two pieces of evidence.

1) In Maryland, Alexander named three of his plantations for Dunblane (a cathedral town in Perthshire), Craigneich (the farm where Alexander Magruder the elder was born), and Inchaffray (an abbey and estate near Maderty, where Alexander the elder was chamberlain--corrupted in Maryland to Anchovie Hills). Craigneich is especially convincing because it was (and is) a private farm, not a large estate. It is unlikely a man without intimate connections there would have bestowed this name on a Maryland farm, and few would have had such connections.

Alexander named no plantations for Balmaclone (or Belliclone) where he is believed to have been born. That was a Drummond farm, to which his mother had a lifetime right as widow of her first husband, Andrew Drummond. Craigneich was a McGruder farm and had been for several generations. Alexander was seven or eight years old when his father died and his mother remarried, at which point he probably would have been sent to live at Craigneich to be raised by his father’s family.

2) The Records of the Privy Council (vol. viii, pp 101-102) show that on 22 November, 1622, one “Alexander McA Growder,” twelve years old, was fined for illegally carrying arms and shooting deer and wildfowl with some other boys at Spittalsfield, Caputh Parish, near Cargill, about six miles from Dunkeld.

This provides a birth date of ~1610, which places him after James, the known eldest son of Alexander Magruder and Margaret Campbell. This family–and James especially–also show strong association with Cargill. Later in his life, James Magruder is identified as being either in Cargill, indicating he lived there, or of Cargill, indicating he owned land there. In one record he is designated Laird of Cargill, which, if accurate, indicates a significant elevation in status.

And that’s it. That’s our positive evidence.

What we might call negative evidence boils down to the simple fact that no other candidate can be found in the records. McGruders / MacGrouthers were few in number, so other choices for where to locate Alexander among known families would be slim. In 1620, John McGrouther (brother of Alexander the elder) purchased land in Meigor, in Glen Artney, thus making the rare step from tenant to landowner. His descendants owned this farm until the 19th century when the line died out. Because of land ownership, there are more records for that family than for any other. Among them there is no Alexander who could be our immigrant, nor is there a Maryland plantation called Meigor.

Don McGruther has found a few McGruthers, MacCrouthers, and other variations of the name, scattered through the southern Highlands, Edinburgh, and as far as Ireland, but it seems far-fetched to imagine that Alexander came from one of those families. His strong attachment to Perthshire, in particular to Inchaffray and Craigneich, establishes his origins in the McGrouther heartland.

From Susan Tichy, "Alexander Magruder, The Immigrant":

[Alexander Magruder] was the first of his name in America. Born about 1610 at the small estate of Belliclone (now Nether Belliclone farm) in Madderty Parish, Perthshire, in Scotland’s Central Highlands, Alexander was the son of Alexander McGruder, the elder, and Margaret Campbell of Keithick. He is believed to have arrived in Maryland in January 1652 as a prisoner of war, having been captured during Cromwell’s invasion of Scotland late in the civil wars that attended the Protestant Reformation. Upon arrival, Alexander was sold into indentured servitude. In the disease-ridden Chesapeake, half of all indentured servants died within a year. Those who survived their term--most commonly five years--received their freedom and a “headright” to 50 acres of unimproved land--which they first had to find, then pay a surveyor and, for a fee, register their ownership. Alexander received his first of two headrights in November 1653, indicating that he served a remarkably short indenture. He went on to be one of the largest landowners among formerly indentured men of his generation. Historian Russell R. Menard, who studied men who arrived as indentured servants from 1648-1652, identifies him as one of only three who owned more than 1,000 acres when they died.

Alexander married Sarah before 1663. Sarah died between 1671 and 1672. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Abt 1616

Notes:

"[O]f Craigneach in Glenartney; Innerpeffray, and Belliclone, all in Perthshire, Scotland; chamberlain to James Drummond, 1st Lord Maderty, who was lord of Inchaffray in Strathearn (great-uncle of James Stewart, 2d lord of Ardvorlich; great-great uncle of Capt. Alexander McGruther, an officer in the 1715 and 1745 Jacobite risings; great-great-great uncle of Lieut. Alexander McGruther, officer in the 1745 rising, who d. in prison in London while awaiting trial, 1746)." [Brice McAdoo Clagett, citation details below]

No evidence exists that he was a descendant of a 14th century individual named "Gillespie MacGregor", called "The Cruiter", i.e., harpist; nor is there any evidence that the McGruder / Magruder family was in any way descended from Clan McGregor. A good overview of this, by historian Susan Tichy (herself a McGruder/Magruder descendant) can be found here.

Like Brice McAdoo Clagett (citation details below), Charles G. Kurz in his 1979 "The McGruder Lineage in Scotland to Magruder Family of America" (citation details below) makes this Alexander the second son of John McGruder of Craigneich (1544-1600), and grandson of James McGruder of Craigneich (1519-1592). Working more recently and from what appear to be a wider range of sources, Susan Tichy believes him to be the son of a James (II) McGruder who was active in the 1540s and after, this James being the son of another James, presumably the same individual identified by Kurz as Alexander's grandfather.

From "The McGruder Lineage in Scotland to Magruder Family of America" (citation details below):

He appears to have been trained as a chamberlain, perhaps by his father, at Drummond Castle. Innerpeffray Castle, on the River Earn, was the seat of James Drummond, Lord Commendator of Inchaffray Abbey. Alexander McGruder is styled "in Innerpeffray" for he lived there as chamberlain before he married Lady Margaret Campbell of Balmaclone, widow of Andrew Drummond.

On 30 April 1600, Alexander McGruder was witness at Innerpeffray to a band of caution where James Drummond, Commendator of Inchaffray, was surety for William Drummond (of Balmaclone), his son Andrew Drummond of Ardewney, William Drummond and David Dow their tenants, not to harm Sir John Murray of Tullibardine and others. (Register of the Privy Council, vol. vi, p. 645.)

After a land transfer contract of 3 April 1603, involving the lands of Wilyeamstoun granted by Edward Murray and spouse to James, Commendator of Inchaffray, a ceremony of sasine (transfer of possession) followed on 4 April. Alexander McGruder is designated as "chamberlain" and acted as procurator or attorney, receiving the sasine on behalf of James Drummond, which was registered 26 April 1603. (Register of Sasines, Perthshire, RS 48, vol. 2, folios 197a-198a.)

At Innerpeffray on 11 June 1604, Alexander McGruder acted as agent for his superior and designated "servitor to Lord Inchaffray as principal". That act made Lord Inchaffray surety for Finlay Bryce, another servitor of Lord Inchaffray. (Dunblane Commissariot, Register of Deeds I, fol. 14.)

The terms servitor and servant reflect the feudal sense that all Scots were in service to a superior, with the king at the apex. Alexander McGruder, as chamberlain in official service, was a servitor. Service was a condition of landholding by heritable charter of lords and lairds. Andrew Drummond and his spouse Margaret Campbell were also servitors as joint heritable charter landholders of Balmaclone (Belliclone) and subject to a reddendum or annual rent. This rent was service due Inchaffray Abbey, whose Lord Commendator was James Drummond, Lord Inchaffray.

Thus, Alexander McGruder, the chamberlain, was the official agent overseeing the charter terms of those holding lands of Inchaffray. The annual rent for Balmaclone (Belliclone) was payable in farm produce as service due from Andrew Drummond and Margaret Campbell, which possibly was collected by Alexander McGruder. (ACGS 1978 Yearbook, p. 62.) [...]

On 24 March 1604, Andrew Drummond died leaving the widow Margaret Campbell with their six children. On 8 March of the following year she became executrix of her late husband's estate. In the Scots custom, her husband's male relatives became the tutors (guardians) of her Drummond children. But as charter landholder her rent on Belliclone continued as a service required by the charter's terms. Perhaps she followed the Scottish widow's custom requesting her superior (Lord Inchaffray in this case) to provide a husband or to approve her choice.

In any event, Alexander McGruder became the spouse of Margaret Campbell on or before 25 May 1605. This record is in a band of caution (cited in full) enjoining "William, Master of Murray of Tullibardin, for Thomas Murray in Kintocher, Johne Smetoun there, Johne Dun there, Johne Beachtie there. Finla Scherair in Abircairny, Alexander Nicoll there, and Johnne Gray in Quarter, 400 merks each, not to harm James, Commendator of Incheffray, Johne Drummond, son of the late Andro Drummond in Balliclone, Patrik Grahame of Inchebreky, David Drummond, tutor of Drummenerinoch, William Drummond, portioner of Belliclone, Johne Broun, burgess of Perth, tutors and curators of the said Johne, Margaret Campbell, relicit of the said Andro, Alexander McGruder, now her spouse, William Drummond, younger of Belliclone, William Mores there, Johne Loutfute or Hew Eilsoun (Neilsoun). there. --Mr. Thomas Wilsoun, advocate, registers the band, written by Adam Oswald, notary public, and subscribed 25th May, before Johnne Vaus of Fornoch. Robert Murray, son and apparent heir of Andro Murray of Lacok, James Oswald in Tullibardin, and said writer hereof." (Register of the Privy Council, vol. vii, pp. 599-600.) (Note: Subscribed 25 May 1605; registered at Edinburgh 28 May 1605.)

On 4 June 1605, a similar band of caution enjoined Thomas Gray in Kintocher, James Dyn there, and James Patersoun in Over Abercairny, 500 merks each, not to harm the same persons mentioned in the 25 May 1605 band of caution. (Register of the Privy Council, vol. vii, p. 601; Acts of Caution, 1601-1605, folio 307b.)

Frequent famines and other problems arising from a barely subsistent economy caused a land hunger, and many disputes arose over boundaries. King James VI used the Privy Council bands (bonds) of caution as a means of requiring the lairds to keep the peace and obey royal authority, under stated penalties, and to accept responsibility for their whole family and clan as well as for their tenants.

There are Privy Council citations of Alexander McGruder and his spouse Margaret Campbell in two bands of caution dated 6 November 1610, involving a boundary dispute between Bellicione and an adjoining mill adjacent to Inchaffray Abbey. (Register of the Privy Council, vol. ix, p. 663, folios 159a, 160a.)

Alexander McGruder died before 1 May 1617, at about the age of 48. No will or other documentation of his death has yet been found except for the following. On 20 June 1617, the tutors of young John Drummond requested an accounting of properties held by a 18 July 1606 contract between the complainers on the one part and Margaret Campbell, widow of Andrew Drummond, and the deceased Alexander McGruder, then her spouse. The action taken was subscribed on May 1617, against Margaret Campbell and Donald Campbell, now her spouse. (Register of Inhibitons, Perthshire, 1581-1750, vols. 8 and 9, folios 14b-16b; ACGS 1978 Yearbook, p. 63.)

Alexander married Margaret Campbell before 26 May 1605. Margaret (daughter of Nicholas Campbell and Katherine Drummond) was born about 1571 in of Keithick, Couper Angus Parish, Perthshire, Scotland; died after 8 Aug 1631. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1572
• Alternate death: Abt 1632

Notes:

Also called Nicoll Campbell.

"[M]aster of arts; was granted by a royal decree of 1543, entitled Literas Legitimationis Nicola Campbell, all legal and natural rights "as if said Nicholas had been born in lawful wedlock"; was probably the "Nicolaus Campbell, nobilis," from the Diocese of St. Andrews who was a candidate for the M.A. degree at the Univ. of Paris, 1552; Dean of Lismore Cathedral, c. 1564-87; lord of Keithick, Dalvany and Craignatie, Perthshire; bailie of Crunan." [Brice McAdoo Clagett, citation details below]

He lies under a monumental stone at Bendochy parish church. The inscription, translated from Latin, reads:

Under this tomb there lies
the memory of
the very former and
highly skillful man of God
Master Nicholas Campbell of Keithick
who was the grandson of the
former Earl of Argyll
through the
Venerable Father, Lord Donald Campbell,
Abbot of Cupar,
who departed this life in the
year 1587
in the year of his age 70.

Nicholas married Katherine Drummond before 1563. Katherine (daughter of George Drummond and Catherine Hay) was born in of Blair, Perthshire, Scotland; died before 1604. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1500

Notes:

Appointed abbot of the Cistercian abbey of Coupar Angus by James V, in whose court his brother Colin Campbell was prominent, Donald Campbell travelled to England, France, and Rome as a Cistercian prelate and diplomat. At the Reformation of 1559-60, he (in the words of The Scots Peerage, citation details below), "put on secular weed" in May 1559. He sat in the Scottish parliament and the Convention of Estates; he was Keeper of the Privy Seal during the reign of Mary, Queen of Scots; and he was a senator of the College of Justice under James V.

"[A] monk of the Cistercian Order; master of arts, probably from St. Salvator's College, Univ. of St. Andrews, where "Donaldus Campbel, nationis albaniae" was admitted 1522; clerk in the Diocese of Lismore by 1525; last Abbot of Coupar Abbey, Co. Angus, 1529- 60; traveled to Rome, England and France as a Cistercian prelate and as a diplomat; one of the visitors of the Scottish universities, 1532; commissary of the chapter-general of the Scottish Cistercian houses; member of the Scots Parliament and Council of State for many years; member of the Privy Council of the Regent Arran; one of the Lords of the Articles; Senator of the College of Justice (Lord of Session); was nominated Bishop of Glasgow, 1548, Bishop of Dunkeld, 1550, and Bishop of Brechin, 1559, but each time failed to receive papal confirmation, apparently because his orthodoxy was suspect; Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland, 1552, 1554-62; gave Balgersho, Arthurstone, Keithick, Den-head and Croonan, lands belonging to Coupar Abbey, to his bastard sons; was reputed to be wearing "secular weed," 1559; sat in the Scottish Parliament and the Convention of Estates which established the reformed Church of Scotland, 1560; approved and signed a demand that "he incontinent re-forme his place of Cowper Putting down and birnying oppinlie all Idolis and Imagis and tubernaculis tharin destroying and putting away the altaris And that na mess be thair done heiraftir nowthir privilie nor opinly. And that the super-stitiouse habit of his monkis with their ordour ceremonis and service as you cann it be removit. And that na prayeris be usit in the kirk but in the Inglishe toung And that according to the scriptouris of God" (Scottish Historical Review 21:142) (brother of Colin Campbell, 3d Earl of Argyll (ancestor of the subsequent earls, marquesses and dukes of Argyll, down to the present); Sir John Campbell, jure uxoris of Cawdor, Co. Nairn (ancestor of the Earls Cawdor of Castlemartin, down to the present); Margaret Campbell, Lady Erskine; Isabella Campbell, Countess of Cassilis; Janet Campbell, Countess of Atholl, and Katherine Campbell, wife of Lachlan Cattanach (the Shaggy) Maclean, chief of Clan Maclean; uncle of John Erskine, 6th Lord Erskine, Ist Earl of Mar; Gilbert Kennedy, 3d Earl of Cassilis; John Stewart, 3d Earl of Atholl; Quintin Kennedy, Abbot of Crossraguel; Janet Stewart, Lady Methven, Lady Ruthven; Helen Stewart, Lady Lindsay of the Byres; Elizabeth Campbell, Countess of Moray and Sutherland; John Campbell, Bishop of the Isles; Janet Campbell, Lady Lovat, and Katherine Campbell, Countess of Crawford; great-uncle of Jean Kennedy, Countess of Orkney; Mary Stewart, Countess of Angus; John Stewart, 4th Earl of Atholl, Chancellor of Scotland; Henry Stewart, 2d Lord Methven; Dorothea Stewart, Countess of Gowrie; Eliza-beth Stewart, Countess of Moray; Margaret Stewart, Countess of Erroll; John Gordon, 10th Earl of Sutherland; Patrick Lindsay, 6th Lord Lindsay of the Byres; Hugh Fraser, 5th Lord Fraser of Lovat; James Ogilvy, 5th Lord Ogilvy of Airlie; Margaret Lindsay, Countess of Atholl; John Lindsay, 1st Lord Mennuir, Secretary of State of Scotland, Lord Privy Seal, and Elizabeth Lindsay, Lady Drummond; great-great uncle of Patrick Stewart, 2d Earl of Orkney; John Stewart, Ist Earl of Carrick; Mary Stewart, Lady Gray; Jean Stewart, Lady Lindores, Lady Melville of Raith; James Stewart, 3d Earl of Moray; Margaret Stewart, Countess of Nottingham, Viscountess Monson of Castlemaine; James Erskine, Ist Earl of Buchan; Mary. Erskine, Countess Marischal; Anna Erskine, Countess of Rothes; Margaret Erskine, Countess of Haddington; Elizabeth Stewart, Lady Fraser of Lovat, Countess of Lennox and March, Countess of Arran; Margaret Stewart, Lady Saltoun; Grizel Stewart, Countess of Crawford; Mary Stewart, Countess of Erroll; James Ruthven, 2d Earl of Gowrie; Margaret Ruthven, Countess of Montrose; Sophia Ruthven, Duchess of Lennox and Richmond; Jean Ruthven, Lady Ogilvy of Airlie; Elizabeth Ruthven, Lady Campbell of Loudoun; Sir Donald Campbell, Ist Bart. of Ardnamurchan; Margaret Ogilvy, Countess Marischal; Sir David Lindsay, Ist Lord Lindsay of Balcarres; James Stewart, 2d Earl of Atholl, 7th Lord Innermeath; Margaret Drummond, Lady Elphinstone; James Drummond, 4th Lord Drummond, Ist Earl of Perth; John Drummond, 5th Lord Drummond, 2d Earl of Perth; Lilias Drummond, Countess of Dunfermline, and Jean Drummond, Countess of Roxburghe; great-great-great uncle of Archibald Campbell, 8th Earl and 1st Marquess of Argyll, the Coven-anter, executed 1661; Anne Campbell, Marchioness of Huntly; Annabella Campbell, Countess of Lothian; Jean Campbell, Viscountess Kenmore; James Campbell, Ist Earl of Irvine; Mary Campbell, Lady Rollo; Elizabeth Erskine, Lady Napier; Mary Erskine, Lady Forbes; John Leslie, 7th Earl of Rothes; Mary Leslie, Countess of Eglinton; Margaret Leslie, Countess of Buccleuch and Wemyss; Sir Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Nottingham, 5th Baron Howard of Effingham; William Keith, 7th Earl Marischal; Sir John Keith, Ist Earl of Kintore; Jean Keith, Lady Pitsligo; Thomas Hamilton, 3d Earl of Haddington; sir James Graham, 5th Earl and 1st Marquess of Montrose, the great commander in chief in Scotland for Charles I and II, Field Marshal of the Empire, executed 1650; Margaret Graham, Lady Napier; Beatrix Graham, Lady Madderty; Sir James Stewart, Ist Lord Ochiltree; George Abernethy, 8th Lord Saltoun; Helen Lindsay, Lady Cranstoun; James Ogilvy, Ist Earl of Airlie; George Ogilvy, Lord Ogilvy de Muirton in the imperial peerage; Alexander Lindsay, 1st Earl of Balcarres; James Stewart, 2d Earl of Atholl, 7th Lord Innermeath; Lilias Elphinstone, Lady Elphinstone; Jean Drummond, Countess of Sutherland; Sir William Drummond, 2d Earl of Roxburghe; Jean Drummond, Countess of Wigtown; Anne Seton, Viscountess Fentoun; Isabel Seton, Countess of Lauderdale; Margaret Seton, Countess of Seaforth, and Sophia Seton, Lady Lindsay of Balcarres." [Brice McAdoo Clagett, citation details below]

Donald married Margaret. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Flaskhill and Ledcrieff, Perth and Kinross, Scotland
• Alternate death: Abt 1595

Notes:

1st Lord Blair. 4th of Flaskhill and Ledcrieff. Captain of Tantallon Castle. He was a deputy sheriff to John, Earl of Athole, in 1566 when John was Sheriff of Perth.

George married Catherine Hay. Catherine (daughter of Peter Hay and Margaret Crichton) was born in of Megginch, Perth and Kinross, Scotland; died after 1612. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1613

Notes:

"[S]ister of the Rev. Edmund Hay, S.J., first rector of the Scots College at Pont-à-Musson, Provincial of the French Jesuits, and Sir James Hay, Controller of Scotland; aunt of Sir George Hay, Ist Earl of Kinnoull, Viscount Dupplin, Lord Hay of Kinfauns, Lord Chancellor and Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland; Sir James Hay, K.G., 1st Earl of Carlisle, Viscount Doncaster, Lord Hay of Sawley, Lord Proprietor of the Caribbee Islands, and Robert Hay, Master of the King's Robes; great-aunt of Margaret Hay, Lady Spynie; great-great aunt of Mary Hay, Countess Marischal, and George Lindsay, 3d Lord Spynie; great-great-great aunt of William Keith, 9th Earl Marischal." [Brice McAdoo Clagett, citation details below]

Notes:

2nd Earl of Argyll.

From Wikipedia (accessed 2 May 2021):

He was made Master of the Royal Household of James IV of Scotland on 24 March 1495. After a crisis of law and order in the west of Scotland, Argyll was made governor of Tarbert Castle and Baillie of Knapdale, and this was followed by an appointment as Royal Lieutenant in the former Lordship of the Isles on 22 April 1500. Argyll eventually rose to the position of Lord High Chancellor of Scotland. His "clan" was rivalled only by Clan Gordon.

The Earls of Argyll were hereditary Sheriffs of Lorne and Argyll. However, a draft record of the 1504 Parliament of Scotland records a move to request Argyll to hold his Sherriff Court at Perth, where the King and his council could more easily oversee proceedings, if the Earl was found at fault. The historian Norman Macdougall suggests this clause may have been provoked by Argyll's kinship with Torquil MacLeod and MacLean of Duart. These western chiefs supported the suppressed Lordship of the Isles.

The Earl of Argyll was killed at the Battle of Flodden on 9 September 1513, with the king and many others. He is buried at Kilmun Parish Church.

Archibald married Elizabeth Stewart. Elizabeth (daughter of John Stewart and Margaret Montgomery) was born about 1470; died about 1500. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Not to be confused with her younger sister Elizabeth Stewart, who married John Colquhoun.

Notes:

3rd of Flaskhill and Ledcrieff. "He and his second son William were killed by William Chalmer of Drumlochy and an armed party, near the kirk of Blair, on Sunday, the 3d June 1554, as they were 'playan at the rowbowlis in the hie marcate gait,' near the said church. The maurauders were afterwards compelled to make submission, and to give manrents, etc., to David, Lord Drummond." [The Red Book of Menteith, citation details below]

George married Janet Haliburton. Janet (daughter of George Haliburton and Janet Ogston) was born in of Buttergask, Perthshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

3rd of Megginch.

Peter married Margaret Crichton about 1530. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]