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(ill.) Patrick of Auldtownburn married, 26th June 1683, 

 Anne, daughter and heiress of John Wauchope of Edmonstone, 

 and from him the family of Don Wauchope of Edmondstone 

 is descended. 



(iv.) Anne married James, 4th Lord Cranstoun. 



(v.) Margaret married Sir James Murray of Philiphaugh, 

 and her grand-daughter, Mary, married her second cousin, 

 Sir Alexander, 4th Bart, of Newton. 



(vi.) Jean married Ist, Sir Andrew Ker of Greenhead, 1664. 

 2nd, Sir Roger Hog of Harcarse, 1685. 



(vii.) Isabel married Andrew Edmonstone of Ednam. 



Sir James Don, 2nd Bart., married Marion, daughter of 

 Scott of Gorsenbury. His name occurs in the Kirk Session 

 Records. On 19th June 1700, the Kirk Session of Nenthorn 

 resolved to make a collection to build a bridge over the Eden, 

 "as one half of the parish is detained frequently from the 

 Kirk by the water." The bridge was to be of wood, with 

 some stonework at the abutments, and Sir James Don offered 

 two great trees. On 4th July the bridge was finished. 



Sir James died before 1718, leaving issue — 



Sir Alexander Don, 3rd Bart., who inherited Rutherford from 

 his uncle in 1712. He married, July 1705, Margaret, daughter 

 of John Carre of Cavers and West Nisbet, 



The Newcastle Journal, 15th April 1749, has a notice of 

 his death. " 1749, Newcastle, 15th April, was news from 

 Northallerton that Sir Alex. Donn of Newton, Bart., near 

 Kelso, who passed through this town a few days ago, on 

 his way towards Aix la Chapelle, died there, and that his 

 corpse will be brought back to be interred with his ancestors 

 in North Britaine." 



The date of his death was 11th April 1749. His wife 

 survived him, and died at a great age at Coldstream, 24th 

 August 1767; they had issue — 



(i.) Alexander, who succeeded. 



(ii.) Thomas, born 1718. 



(hi.) Patrick, born 1718, died 22nd February 1811, was a 

 captain in the army. 



(iv.) James of Revelaw, ob. s. p., 14th August 1743. 



Sir Alexander Don, 4th Bart., inherited Revelaw from his 

 brother James. He married, in 1750, Mary, daughter of 

 John Murray of Philiphaugh, his second cousin. The old 



