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after it was possessed by the Macullochs ; and through 

 the marriage of Marion, only daughter and heiress 

 of David Maculloch, with Sir James Stewart of Colt- 

 ness and Kirkfield, it eventually became the property 

 of the Stewarts, in whose hands it remained till 1775. 



MoREDUN House. 



Sir James Stewart was an Edinburgh merchant, and 

 at one time Lord Provost of the city. He took the 

 side of the Covenanters in i65i, and, as indicated in 

 a previous chapter, his house of Goodtrees was on 



