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BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. 39 his sister, Isabel C'atto, and her heirs : which failing, to Alexander Walker, grandchild in the second marriage with my daughter, &c." Patrick Grill is said to have died when 101 years old. The elder son, Alexander Gill, h. about 1679, farmed first in the Pitsligo district, was a great agriculturist, and removed to one of the finest farms in Buchan, viz.. Mains of Pit- fuer (Pitfour), in tlie parish of Old Deer; m. Barbara {b. 1676, d. 1742), daughter of James Urquhart, merchant in and baron baillie of Fraserburgh (of the Urquharts OF Meldrttm), by his first wife, Christian Adamson. Alexander Gill, d. 18th June, 1731, and was interred at Pitsligo, leaving issue, two sons, I. Alexander, captain of a merchant- man, m. Isobel Catto, and had issue, three daughters, Barbara, Isobel, and Christian, who all d. young. II. George, b. 1704. The second son, GEORaE Gill, shipmaster, of Fraser- burgh, b. 1704 (a strong Jacobite and Epis- copalian) ; m. Christian Catto, and d. 17th September, 1741, leaving issue, three sons and one daughter, viz., I. Patrick, of him again. II. Alexander, baptised 21st April, 1736 ; m. twice. Issue of first marriage now extinct. His second' wife was Helen, daughter of Charles Shand, Esq. of Gellyhill, parish of Gamrie, nephew of James Shand, Esq., Provost of Banff, 1729—32, progenitor of the Shands of Craigellie, in Aberdeenshii-e, and of the Burn and Arnliall, in Kin- cardineshire ; she d. 1789. Her hus- band, who predeceased her, was buried at Boyndie. Their eldest son, James Gill, a captain in the mer- chant service, m. Catherine, daugh- ter of John Simpson, Esq. of Meikle Hilton, parish of Turriff, and was wrecked off Rattray Head, near Peterhead, where he perished with all his crew, 12th April, 1811. Their son, the late Charles Bowman Gill, Esq., M.D. (St. Andrew's TJniversity), in. 20th June, 1 844, Charlotte Gellie, and d. 26th July, 1863, leaving issue, two sons, 1 James Gill. 2 George Gellie Gill. III. George, baptised 8th July, 1740. I. Christian, baptised 11th June, 1738; d. unm. 24th June, 1808. The eldest son, Patrick Gill, a captain in the mer- chant service, trading mostly between Banff and Holland. He was a keen Jacobite, and helped several of his friends, who were adherents of the Stuarts, to go and come from Holland. He perished at sea with all his crew between the years 1760 — 1770. Captain Gill in. Anne, sister of James Clark, Esq. of Linksfleld, co. Banff (who m. 1752, Mar- garet, sister of John Shand, Esq. of the Burn and Arnhall), and daughter of Captain Alexander Clerk or Chirk, by his wife, Curis- tian Gordon, descended, it has always been stated, from the old Aberdeenshire family of Gordon of Lesmoir, and had issue, one son and three daughters, viz., I. Patrick. I. Margaret, baptised 14th October, 1753 ; d. unm. II. Anne, d. unm. III. Sophia, TO. 1783, Alexander Dutf, Esq. of London, and had two sons, 1 Alexander Duff, d. young, nnm. 2 John Duff, settled in America, who, by his wife, Margaret Stuart , had, with a son, Alexander, d. unm., two daughters, 1. Jane Duff, m. Duncan Mae- kay, Esq., lately Mayor «( Brantford, Canada West, and had issue. 3. Margaret Duff, m. Captain Ritchie, son of Peter Ritcliie, Esq. of Aberdeen, merchant and shipowner ; no issue. Patrick Gill, Esq. of Aberdeen, h. 1757 ; m. 23rd June, 1782 ; Margaret (who d. 11th December, 1828) , daughter and eventually sole heiress of David Anderson, Esq., planter, of Kingston, in the island of Jamaica, of the same'family as David Anderson, of Finshaugh, Aberdeenshire, an eminent mathematician (who d. 1629), and had issue, four sous ami four daughters, viz., I. Patrick, h. 1783, d. an infant. II. Patrick, b. 1786, d. an infant. III. David, of whom hereafter. IV. John, b. 1794, d. 1799—1800. I. Mary, of Aberdeen, b. 1784, d. unm., 1864. II. Margaret, h. 1787, d. young, unm. III. Sophia, b. 1791, d. unm. 26th Sep- tember, 1828. IV. Marjory, b. 1792, d. unm., 2nd August, 1858. Mr. Gill d. 26th January, 1850 (having en- tered his 94th year) ; his only surviving son and heir, Datid Gill, Esq. of Blairythan, Aber- deenshire, b. 26th May, 1789, who bought the properties of Blairythan and Savock, in the parish of Foveran, AberdcenshLre, was a commissioner of supply, and, for nearly sixty years, a magistrate for the county ; also for some time an officer in the Aberdeenshire militia. He m. 20th November, 1838, Ma--- garet {b. at Savock, 8th March, 1809, d. ISth December, 1870), daughter of Gilbert Mitchell, Esq. of Savock, (baptised there 1st April, 1774) and Margaret Bruce his wife, sister of James Bruce, Esq. (see Moir-Byres OP ToNLEY, in Burke's Landed Genlrif), of