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Stroquhan; Adam Kirko of Bogrie and Skailstoun; and John 
Kirko, elder and younger of Sundaywell; Grierson of Lag; 
James Grierson of Dalgoner; Gilbert Grierson of Chappell ; 
Thomas, Robert, and Gilbert Grierson of Over Laggan; 
Thomas Grierson of Swyre; and other Griersons owning 
part of Kiljileogh, Newton, Dempsterton, and Whiteside; 
Stephen Laurie of Maxwellton, owner of Craigenbey and 
Blackmark; David Welsh of Nether Craigenputtock; and 
John Welsh of Collistoun; William and John Edgar of Edgar- 
toun; John Milligan owning part of Newton and William 
Milligan owning part of Dempsterton; John M‘Fadzan own- 
ing part of Killyleoch; and William M‘Fadzan and John 
M‘Burnie, owning part of Bessiewalla and Nether Laggan 
respectively ; Lindsays, Murrings, Hainings, Moffats, Craiks, 
Hiddlestons, and Smiths. 
Apart from what Wodrow tells us of hardships of Kirko 
of Sundaywell and Maclellan, who married his niece, and 
from Dalgoner’s narrative of his imprisonment, we have 
little information as to the treatment of the Dunscore cove- 
nanters after the Restoration. Wodrow tells us that in 1666 
the fines imposed upon the families in that parish amounted 
to A1411 13s 4d.4° At a much later date—in 1685 
Sittingtoun, a Dunscore man, was banished, apparently to 
New Jersey, and died there.*% 
James 
I have said something in other papers regarding the 
Griersons and Kirkos who resided in Dunscore, and I may 
conclude this paper with a short account of one of the oldest 
families of the district—I mean the Kirkpatricks of Friars’ 
-Carse, Alisland, and Braco. 
The earliest notice which I have seen of this family is 
contained in a Papal Commission, dated 13th September, 
1465, to confirm certain charters which had been granted by 
the Abbot and Convent of the monastery of Melros in aug- 
mentation of their rental and for certain sums of money paid 
to them by John Kirkpatrick of Alisland, in favour of the 
said John and his heirs male of the £4 land of old extent of 
‘* frierkers,’’ with the fishings and mill of the same called 
‘“ Grange milne,’’ and with the astricted multures of the 
£36 land of like extent, viz. :—‘‘ dalgoner, killelego, 
