Farmed The Browe in the parish of Ruthwell in Dumfries
It is not known how many children he had or who he was married to (if he did). Of the known children David (1654-1734) married Mary Johnstone, a second daughter married a Mr Wilson, and a second daughter married a Mr Gillespie.
Extract from 1918 history: "of the Browe was selected from the tenants of the family of Stormont in the skirts of the Moss on the north west side of Comlongon, the Manor of that family in the parish of Ruthwell, stewarty of Annandale, and Shire of Dumfries in North Britain, to levy a small toll for which the family got a grant in the reign of Chas I (Charles I) and settled at the Browe (in that parish) a small farm cut off from the Manor and which continued exempt from mill multures (tolls levied by mill owners for grinding corn) to the days of his great grandchildren."
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