Is this the John Kincaid who came to American on the "Henry and Francis" in 1685? These paragraphs are from "The hereditary sheriffs of Galloway; their "forebears" and friends, their courts and customs of their times, with notes of the early history, ecclesiastical legends, the baronage and placenames of the province" " John Kincaid in Chalcarroch confesses that he heard Mr. Samuel Arnot and Mr. George Barclay preach in the house of Arioland and little Aries, and that he had a chyld baptized with Mr. Thomas Kennedy, minister in Ireland. Confesses he was at the communion in Penninghame about the time of the rebellion or thereby, where Mr. John Welsh preached : And being inter- rogat if he counterfeited a testimonial for one Sprot, confesses he did the same, and does not deny but he received the Cove- nant at the communion where Mr. John Welsh preached : And being interrogat if Bothwell Bridge was rebellion, was not clear to give his judgement thereanent ; and further the pass being produced judicially, he not only owned the same, but also signed it that it was the same testificat that he forged, and this he con- fesses judicially by his own declaration : And further confesses that he was at the breaking of Mr. James Couper, minister at Methven-Mochrum his house, immeadiately before the rebellion seventhie-nyne. " Committed to the irons. (Signed) JOHN KINCAID." ******************************************************************* " William Sprot in Clutach confesses judicially that he ad- vised John Kincaid to counterfeit a pass to him when he was going to Ireland ; and being solemnly sworn and interrogat if he converst with rebells, depones he converst with no rebels from the last circuit at Dumfries in anno 83 : and being interrogat 136 HEREDITARY SHERIFFS OF GALLOWAY [A.D. 1683 how old his last chyld was, and who baptized it, he depones that his last child is about 3 years old, and that Mr. Ross baptized it. Owns the king's authority, and disowns rebellious principles, and says he knows not what the test or oath of allegiance is. " Committed to prison. (Signed) QUEENSBERRY." ********************************************************************* " John Kincaid in Chalcarroch, and John Henderson, whose crymes are extraordinary, sent for trial before the Justice- General and Lords of Justiciary at Edinburgh ***************************************** Again, John Welsh (a grandson of John Knox), the ejected minister of Irongray, held a conventicle on a whinny bank in Larg. As the congregation were assembling, the Laird o' Larg set the brushwood in a blaze, tauntingly exclaiming : " The old fox is burnt out." " You have grudged God's minister a whinny corner of your land," Welsh solemnly replied ; " perhaps He may not leave your children enough land to spread a tent on." http://www.archive.org/stream/hereditarysherif02agneuoft/hereditarysherif02agneuoft_djvu.txt Barb Van Hout