John son of James Maxwell, appears next as laird of Breconside and Terraughtie; and passing over some intermediate links we reach the best known of the Terraughtie family, John, great-great-grandson of Queen Mary's doughty champion, the intimate friend of Burns, and the veteran hero of one of the poet's best effusions. Being a younger son, he had no patrimony; he was therefore apprenticed to a joiner in Dumfries, and after acquiring that trade he prosecuted it with such success that he was able in 1754, while quite a young man, to purchase Terraughtie from John M'George of Cocklick, into whose hands it had fallen; and to that estate he afterwards added, through the same money power, Portrack, in Holywood. He married first AGNES, DAUGHTER OF WILLIAM HANNAY, Dumfries, who bore him 3 sons and 6 daughters (no dates for Agnes).
John son of James Maxwell, appears next as laird of Breconside and Terraughtie; and passing over some intermediate links we reach the best known of the Terraughtie family, John, great-great-grandson of Queen Mary's doughty champion, the intimate friend of Burns, and the veteran hero of one of the poet's best effusions. Being a younger son, he had no patrimony; he was therefore apprenticed to a joiner in Dumfries, and after acquiring that trade he prosecuted it with such success that he was able in 1754, while quite a young man, to purchase Terraughtie from John M'George of Cocklick, into whose hands it had fallen; and to that estate he afterwards added, through the same money power, Portrack, in Holywood. He married first AGNES, DAUGHTER OF WILLIAM HANNAY, Dumfries, who bore him 3 sons and 6 daughters (no dates for Agnes).
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