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|Dates=1659 – 1730
|Location=London
|Vocation=Draper
|Marriage=Margery (?) and Sara Curtis (1715)
|Issue=Margaret
|Place of birth=Margaret
|Source=TNA PROB 11/637/301
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Born in Aberdeen in 1659, the son of Gilbert Molleson and Margaret Smith. Margaret was an early convert to Quakerism in Aberdeen, while her husband was a merchant who served on the town council and persecuted Quakers. Gilbert was made a freeman of the Drapers Company in London by 1690. Brother-in-law of Robert Barclay, the Apologist. Identified as a trustee and one of the 'correspondents inhabiting at London for the services of the truth in Scotland' in Elizabeth Dickson's 1701 bequest.