3 memoirs of lai'd Milton. Sept. ^. 



His mother was the daughter of Sir David Car- 

 negy of PItarrovv, baronet, and granddaughter of~ 

 David, earl of Southefl^ ; who waS mafried to Henry 

 in the year 1688. 



Lord Milton's father, though he inherited much 

 of the genius, vivacity, and probity of his famiiy, is 

 not to be traced by his public character. He was 

 devout and studious, and attached to rural affairs. 



His v^ife appears to have been a woman of singu- 

 lar merit and enterprise, for the benefit of her fa- 

 mily, and the good of her country. She went, du- 

 ring the troubles in which the family of Fletcher was 

 involved, to Holland, taking v^ith her a mill-wright 

 and weaver, both men of genius and enterprise in 

 their 'respective departments ; and by their means 

 llie secretly obtained the art of weaving and drefsing,.., 

 what was then, as it is now, commonly called hoi- 

 land (fine linen ;) and introduced the manufacture 

 into the village and neighboi;rhood of Salton *. 



Andrew, the eldest son of this respectable couple^ 

 was born in the year 1692, and educated with, a view 

 to the profcfsion of the bar in Scotland. He was 



proprietor of the estate of Restennote in Angus ; John, dean of Carlisle j 

 and Patrick, who died abroad in the service of the statts general of Hol- 

 land. 



David Fletcher, bi/hop of Argyll, was the eldest son of Andrew, the 

 second ion of Innerpefier. John, the immediate younger brother of the 

 biihop, was lord advocate of Scotland in tl;e reign of Charles ii. whcse. 

 heir James, son of the bifcop of Argyll, left an only daughter Elizabeth, 

 who was married to Sir James Dalrymple of Couslanii, to whom flje 

 brought the esratc of Cranston, now inlieiitcd by her grandsan, SitfJohn 

 Dairymplc Haaiihon Macgill bai-t. 



* Memolrj of the family, MSS. 



