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Dates c.1666-c.1679, c.1685-1688
Location Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Rothbury; Longhorsley; Beverley
Vocation Minister
Place of Birth Lanarkshire
Marriage Marion Fairley
Issue William; Samuel; Ebenezer; Elizabeth; Sarah; Agnes; Janet; three other children
Place of birth Source Fasti, ii, 264

Adhered to the Pentland rising (1666), and afterwards fled to England. Chaplain to the mayor of Newcastle, and then served presbyterian meeting-houses around Rothbury and Longhorsley, Northumberland. Imprisoned on the Bass Rock (1679), but released (1680) and served as an agent of the Earl of Argyll in Northumberland and Holland. Minister of a meeting-house at Beverley (1685). Minister of Morebattle (1688), Peebles (1690) and St Michaels, Dumfries (1684).