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tan substantially over the same ground as the present road from 
Dumfries through Annan, Longtown, and so to Brampton, where 
it joined the ancient.“ Stanegate,’’ the well-known ancient high- 
way between Newcastle and Carlisle, which, passing through or 
near to Brampton, was the principal means of communication 
between east and west. It is, perhaps, to this fact that we owe 
the presence of so many Lowland Scotch at different periods as 
residents in Brampton and its vicinity. The Brampton Presby- 
terian Congregation, for a long time definitely connected with the 
Kirk of Scotland, had its origin in the Act of Uniformity, which 
culminated in the ejection of over two thousand parish 
ministers in England, who, rather than bind themselves 
to a cast-iron uniformity, resigned their benefices, and 
became the first of the English Nonconformists. The 
parish minister of Brampton at this time was Nathaniel 
Burnand, who had been presented to the living by the first Earl 
of Carlisle, the Cromwellian Charles Howard. We are not now 
concerned with Burnand or his immediate successors, interesting 
and important as their story may be, but we pass on to notice 
those ministers who are immediately connected with the ground 
which this society’s operations cover. The first of such ministers 
was an exceedingly interesting character, John Kincaid, variants 
of the spelling of his name being Kingcaid, Kinkaid, Kincade, 
Kingeade, and Kinkead. Our first introduction to him is 
his settlement as Episcopalian parson over the parish of 
‘Terregles in 1688. When revolutionary times came he was 
deprived by the Act of the Scottish Parliament of 1690, which 
restored the Presbyterian ministry and ejected the Episcopalians. 
It is probable that Kincaid had been a Presbyterian minister 
before the establishment of Episcopacy and conformed when 
Episcopacy became the fashion, for his degree of M.A. was 
obtained at Glasgow in 1659, so that when he came to Terregles 
he was no longer a young man. The disturbances known to 
‘students of Scottish history as “ outings,’’ or “ rabblings,’’ took 
place at and immediately after Christmas, 1688, and in 1690 we 
find him inducted at Brampton. No congregational records of 
this date are extant at Brampton, so that any connected or de- 
tailed account of his ministry here is out of the question. We 
can, however, by judiciously gathering and piecing together 
small, and in themselves insignificant facts, tell something of 
