. Scottish notes and queries. 10, educated asa surgeon in Scotland, entered the medical service ofthe Army as Surgeon of CotteveTs Regiment of Ma-rines/ 1741. Afterwards vvus with Colonel WilliamShirleys Regiment of Foot in 1754. Placed on half-pay in 1756, and continued so until 1785, when hisname disappears from the Army List through death,at the age of 75. On retiring, from the Army hesettled at Margate, Kent, lie married a Miss Mar-garet Smart, daughter of Peter Smart of Hall Place,Banning, Kent, who was a sister of the poet, Chris-topher Smart. There is some reason for supposingthat Mr Wi
. Scottish notes and queries. 10, educated asa surgeon in Scotland, entered the medical service ofthe Army as Surgeon of CotteveTs Regiment of Ma-rines/ 1741. Afterwards vvus with Colonel WilliamShirleys Regiment of Foot in 1754. Placed on half-pay in 1756, and continued so until 1785, when hisname disappears from the Army List through death,at the age of 75. On retiring, from the Army hesettled at Margate, Kent, lie married a Miss Mar-garet Smart, daughter of Peter Smart of Hall Place,Banning, Kent, who was a sister of the poet, Chris-topher Smart. There is some reason for supposingthat Mr William Hunter came from the family of theHunters of Thurston, Co. Haddington, but the con-nection is by no means clear to his descendants. Thearms lie used are—In chief gules a hound courantargent, in base argent 3 hunting horns stringed seal belonging to him is in possession of the crest was a boars head. Any information show*ing the family connections of this gentleman will bethankfullv received. C. I. 849. Rev. Patrick Dunbreck.—Mr Dunbreckwas one of the Ministers of Aberdeen, who, after thedisestablishment of the Episcopal Church in 1689, managed to retain possession of his living until 1716,when, in consequence of the part he had taken inconnection with the rising of 1715, the Presbyteryof Aberdeen, on the 16th May, 1716, served a libelagainst him, with the result that he was shortly after-wards deposed and went into hiding at Rora, inthe parish of Longside. He afterwards appears tohave returned to Aberdeen, for there is still extant avery able and interesting correspondence by him, of acontroversial nature, dated from that city in the years1719-1720.—Can any of your readers inform me inwhich of the Established churches in Aberdeen MrDunbreck had been minister, or favour me with anyparticulars of his career after his return to the city?Aberdeen. J. T. 850. St Aidan:.— A correspondent in the DailyScotsman asks for information when and where inIr
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