. The chiefs of Grant. Memoirs (Correspondence. - Charters.) [With plates, including portraits and facsimiles, and genealogical tables.] . robably died in 1624, as herwill is dated at the Isle of Moy on 9th October in that year. 1 Vol. iii. of this work, p. 221. 2 Ibid. :: Ibid. |>. 410. 196 JOHN GRANT, FIFTH OF FREUCHIE. [1622. She married a second time, as William MIntosh is named by herin her will as my husband, but who he was does not 2. Jean or Janet, born about Michaelmas 1597. On 19th September 1612, she was contracted in marriage to William Sutherland,younger of Duffus, the
. The chiefs of Grant. Memoirs (Correspondence. - Charters.) [With plates, including portraits and facsimiles, and genealogical tables.] . robably died in 1624, as herwill is dated at the Isle of Moy on 9th October in that year. 1 Vol. iii. of this work, p. 221. 2 Ibid. :: Ibid. |>. 410. 196 JOHN GRANT, FIFTH OF FREUCHIE. [1622. She married a second time, as William MIntosh is named by herin her will as my husband, but who he was does not 2. Jean or Janet, born about Michaelmas 1597. On 19th September 1612, she was contracted in marriage to William Sutherland,younger of Duffus, the tocher being 9500 They had issue. 3. Lilias, born in 1599. She married, before 1624, Sir Walter Innes of Balveny, and had issue. 4. Katherine, born in 1604. She married Alexander Ogilvie of Kempcairn, and had issue. This Laird had also a natural son, Duncan Grant, designed of Clurie,who was legitimated in the year 1615. He married, contract dated 4thJuly 1615,3 Muriel E-oss, relict of Duncan Grant of Rothiemurchus, andwas the ancestor of the Grants of Clurie. 1 Vol. iii. of this work, p. 337. 2 Ibid. p. 411. 3 Ibid. p. 197 XIII.—SIR JOHN GRANT, Sixth of Freuchie, Knight. MARY OGILVIE (of Deskford) his wife. 1622-1637. In a comparatively uneventful period of the national history, Sir-John Grant succeeded to and swayed the destinies of the Grant were at this time no inconsiderable possession. His influence uponthem is traditionally said to have been of a somewhat injurious nature,owing to an alleged profuse and expensive style of living, frequent attend-ance at Court, and making Edinburgh his principal residence. It wasundoubtedly the case that the Grant estates were greatly extended by SirJohns father, the fifth Laird, while, on the other hand, James, the seventhLaird, eldest son of the subject of this memoir, succeeded to the paternalinheritance under circumstances less favourable than those existing at theentry of his father, but the facts respec
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