Genealogical and personal history of western Pennsylvania; . country which was thecradle of their race. Toward the close of the twelfth century they weregranted lands in Ireland, and about 1330, Agneau, son and heir of the Earlof Larne, acquired the lands of Locknaw in Galloway, with the hereditarytitle of constable and the office of sheriff of Wigtown, as well as of thebaillie of Leswalt. In the fourth generation of that title Earl Douglas ex-]jelled the incumbent, this taking place about 1390, it being restored in thefifth generation when Sir Andrew Agnew married, in 1426, the daughter ofSir
Genealogical and personal history of western Pennsylvania; . country which was thecradle of their race. Toward the close of the twelfth century they weregranted lands in Ireland, and about 1330, Agneau, son and heir of the Earlof Larne, acquired the lands of Locknaw in Galloway, with the hereditarytitle of constable and the office of sheriff of Wigtown, as well as of thebaillie of Leswalt. In the fourth generation of that title Earl Douglas ex-]jelled the incumbent, this taking place about 1390, it being restored in thefifth generation when Sir Andrew Agnew married, in 1426, the daughter ofSir John Kennedy, of Dunure, by the Princess Mary. Reinstatement wasmade by the Duchess of Turenne, Lady Superior of Galloway, who not onlyreplaced him in his fathers position, but caused charters of ratification tobe passed to him, under the Great Seal, establishing also the sheriffdomof Wigtown in his family forever. Such is the blood from which DanielAgnew, the American ancestor of the line of Agnew, descends, coming tothis country from Glasgow,
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