Document SC11/5/1644/11, held at the Orkney Archives, is the marriage agreement, dated 21 February 1644, for Margaret Heart, daughter of David Heart and Jean Mowat, and James Grahame. The NAS catalog description is here: http://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue/details.aspx?reference=SC11/5/1644/11 I recently ordered an image of this document from the Orkney Archives. The contract specifies that James Grahame's part of the agreement is to be done by the "advyse of the said Dauid Heart if he sall be on lyff And failyeing of him throw deceas be the advyse of the said [William] Heart his eldest sone and of Mr John Heart Minister his secund sone or ather of thame." With this evidence, I think that we can now confidently identify the parents of John Heart as David Heart and Jean Mowat. Jean's mother, Christian Stewart, was a daughter of Earl Robert Stewart of Orkney, and Robert was a son of King James V of Scotland by Euphame Elphinstone. John Heart, who received his M.A. at St. Andrews in May, 1637, was ordained at Crail on March 22, 1643. Agnes Heart, daughter of John Heart and Agnes Baxter, married Robert Craighead. Their children include colonial immigrants Thomas Craighead, husband of Margaret Wallace, and Katherine Craighead, wife of William Homes. Thomas and William were both Presbyterian ministers. Thomas and Margaret lived in Freetown, Bristol County, Massachusetts, and then in Pennsylvania. Katherine and William lived in Chilmark, Dukes County, Massachusetts (on Martha's Vineyard) where William was the minister from the fall of 1715 until his death in 1746. For some of the previous discussion of this topic, see http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/gen-medieval/2012-05/1337017240 https://groups.google.com/d/msg/soc.genealogy.medieval/fRZWTSsZitE/CpyCm3FfVCMJ https://groups.google.com/d/msg/soc.genealogy.medieval/q6Q3xHo0oWg/Zpc5IaplG1YJ https://groups.google.com/d/msg/soc.genealogy.medieval/qPH0BlVAXEs/SdFFkZMwCwAJ https://groups.google.com/d/msg/soc.genealogy.medieval/qPH0BlVAXEs/gsh20rtICwAJ

Excellent. So pleased to see that you've finally located definitive proof of this connection! All the best, Kelsey On Tuesday, 9 May 2017 17:04:10 UTC+1, Jan Wolfe wrote: > Document SC11/5/1644/11, held at the Orkney Archives, is the marriage agreement, dated 21 February 1644, for Margaret Heart, daughter of David Heart and Jean Mowat, and James Grahame. The NAS catalog description is here: http://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue/details.aspx?reference=SC11/5/1644/11 > I recently ordered an image of this document from the Orkney Archives. > > The contract specifies that James Grahame's part of the agreement is to be done by the "advyse of the said Dauid Heart if he sall be on lyff And failyeing of him throw deceas be the advyse of the said [William] Heart his eldest sone and of Mr John Heart Minister his secund sone or ather of thame." > > With this evidence, I think that we can now confidently identify the parents of John Heart as David Heart and Jean Mowat. Jean's mother, Christian Stewart, was a daughter of Earl Robert Stewart of Orkney, and Robert was a son of King James V of Scotland by Euphame Elphinstone. > > John Heart, who received his M.A. at St. Andrews in May, 1637, was ordained at Crail on March 22, 1643. > > Agnes Heart, daughter of John Heart and Agnes Baxter, married Robert Craighead. Their children include colonial immigrants Thomas Craighead, husband of Margaret Wallace, and Katherine Craighead, wife of William Homes. Thomas and William were both Presbyterian ministers. Thomas and Margaret lived in Freetown, Bristol County, Massachusetts, and then in Pennsylvania. Katherine and William lived in Chilmark, Dukes County, Massachusetts (on Martha's Vineyard) where William was the minister from the fall of 1715 until his death in 1746. > > For some of the previous discussion of this topic, see > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/gen-medieval/2012-05/1337017240 https://groups.google.com/d/msg/soc.genealogy.medieval/fRZWTSsZitE/CpyCm3FfVCMJ > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/soc.genealogy.medieval/q6Q3xHo0oWg/Zpc5IaplG1YJ > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/soc.genealogy.medieval/qPH0BlVAXEs/SdFFkZMwCwAJ > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/soc.genealogy.medieval/qPH0BlVAXEs/gsh20rtICwAJ

Thanks, Kelsey. Your finding in Smart's Register of Students at St Andrews, 1579-1747, that James Heart, a younger son of David Heart and Jean Mowat, had matriculated at St Andrews in 1643 was a useful clue along the way, and your gathering and organizing information about Edinburgh Hart/Hearts for us helped, too. By the way, I recently found likely parents of William Baxter, who was plausibly the father of John Heart's wife Agnes Baxter: Robert Baxter of Clerkington and Catherine Ra -- now wouldn't it be neat if we could find some medieval ancestry for them, too. And, maybe there is more to learn about Jean Mowat's Mowat and Tulloch ancestors. On Tuesday, May 9, 2017 at 2:29:51 PM UTC-4, Kelsey Jackson Williams wrote: > Excellent. So pleased to see that you've finally located definitive proof of this connection! > > All the best, > Kelsey > > On Tuesday, 9 May 2017 17:04:10 UTC+1, Jan Wolfe wrote: > > Document SC11/5/1644/11, held at the Orkney Archives, is the marriage agreement, dated 21 February 1644, for Margaret Heart, daughter of David Heart and Jean Mowat, and James Grahame. The NAS catalog description is here: http://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue/details.aspx?reference=SC11/5/1644/11 > > I recently ordered an image of this document from the Orkney Archives. > > > > The contract specifies that James Grahame's part of the agreement is to be done by the "advyse of the said Dauid Heart if he sall be on lyff And failyeing of him throw deceas be the advyse of the said [William] Heart his eldest sone and of Mr John Heart Minister his secund sone or ather of thame." > > > > With this evidence, I think that we can now confidently identify the parents of John Heart as David Heart and Jean Mowat. Jean's mother, Christian Stewart, was a daughter of Earl Robert Stewart of Orkney, and Robert was a son of King James V of Scotland by Euphame Elphinstone. > > > > John Heart, who received his M.A. at St. Andrews in May, 1637, was ordained at Crail on March 22, 1643. > > > > Agnes Heart, daughter of John Heart and Agnes Baxter, married Robert Craighead. Their children include colonial immigrants Thomas Craighead, husband of Margaret Wallace, and Katherine Craighead, wife of William Homes. Thomas and William were both Presbyterian ministers. Thomas and Margaret lived in Freetown, Bristol County, Massachusetts, and then in Pennsylvania. Katherine and William lived in Chilmark, Dukes County, Massachusetts (on Martha's Vineyard) where William was the minister from the fall of 1715 until his death in 1746. > > > > For some of the previous discussion of this topic, see > > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/gen-medieval/2012-05/1337017240 https://groups.google.com/d/msg/soc.genealogy.medieval/fRZWTSsZitE/CpyCm3FfVCMJ > > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/soc.genealogy.medieval/q6Q3xHo0oWg/Zpc5IaplG1YJ > > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/soc.genealogy.medieval/qPH0BlVAXEs/SdFFkZMwCwAJ > > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/soc.genealogy.medieval/qPH0BlVAXEs/gsh20rtICwAJ

Rev. William and Katherine Craighead Homes of Martha's Vineyard had a quite numerous progeny, with at least the following descendants (or spouses) covered in entries in the _Dictionary of American Biography_. Henry Augustus Homes Arthur Tappan Benjamin Tappan Eli Todd Tappan John Henry Wright Lewis Tappan Henry Chandler Bowen David Tappan Stoddard Rufus Wilmot Griswold (the "frenemy" and literary executor of E.A. Poe) William McCrillis Griswold Additionally, I think the wife of Henry Varnum Poor, of the family behind Standard & Poors, was a descendant.

On Tuesday, May 9, 2017 at 9:06:21 PM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote: > Rev. William and Katherine Craighead Homes of Martha's Vineyard had a quite numerous progeny ... Another descendant of William and Katherine was Berkeley poet and professor Josephine Miles.

Dear Jan, John, and Kelsey - Your research collaboration has been most impressive. Kudos to all of you for your collegial approach to problem solving the Heart-Mowat ancestral line. Way to go! Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah