Lirk or MACMILLAN. 19 
second, Kathren, was born in 1727 (December 19), at EHastshields 
in the parish of Carnwath ; hence Macmillan left Balmaghie finally 
between June, 1726, and December, 1727. ‘This corrects an 
apparent error in Hutchison’s History, p. 158, where the date of 
his leaving seems to be fixed in 1729. 
Macmillan moved about at first from one house to another in 
Carnwath. In 1727, as we saw, he was at Eastshields ; in 1729 
at Hastforth ; and in 1731 at Henshelwood. Then between 173 
and 1734 he must have removed to Dalserf, since his youngest 
child, and first deceased, was buried in the churchyard there. His 
house at Dalserf, from the Societies’ minutes, appears to have been 
called Braehead ; but he died not there, as Hutchison (p. 201) 
states, but at Broomhill, Bothwell (see the Dalserf monument). 
This fly-leaf also shews that he publicly baptized all his own 
children, the mother being sponsor. He could not, indeed, do 
otherwise, as he had no ordained colleague till 1745, when he was 
associated with Rev. Thomas Nairn in forming the Reformed 
Presbytery. 
4. The dispute between Macmillan and his Presbytery occa- 
sioned a paper warfare. I shew first an anonymous “ Narrative,” 
generally ascribed to Macmillan himself, and dating, probably, in 
1704. At the close of this long paper, of 62 pp., a note is added, 
referring to a “Letter to the Parishioners,’ just published, by 
tev. Andrew Cameron, of Kirkcudbright. See Narrative, p. 9. 
A third print appeared in 1705, containing the Presbytery’s 
‘« Answers ” to Macmillan’s paper of ‘‘ Grievances,” and a fourth 
came out in the same year, in reply to Macmillan’s own 
‘“« Narrative,” containing also a copy of the Libel. I exhibit copies 
of these two last prints, and draw attention to two points—(1) 
the statement in preface to the ‘ Pamphlet intituled,” that 
Macmillan as a boy was a “Separatist ;” (2) in the special — 
‘“‘ Hxamination,’ p. 7, that Macmillan himself is the author of the 
anonymous ‘* Narrative.” : 
5. I have two further relics of a literary character, and both 
highly interesting. (1) The ‘“ Hlegy” on his second wife, also 
anonymous, but from internal evidence, the work of Macmillan. 
See especially a passage at page 15 (“The Sprightly Babe,” &c.). 
The date is 1723. (2) The full report of the “ Auchensaugh 
Xenovation” of the Covenants, with notes of Macmillan’s addresses 
