John Leslie (deceased) Icn_world

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http://books.google.com/books?id=lyENAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA338#v=onepage&q=&f=false Page 338 - 340

“X. John Leslie, first Laird of Kincraigie in Ireland, "... who had taken orders in the Episcopal Church, and had obtained a living in the north of Ireland, through the influence of his relatives, the Leslies of Glasslough. John Leslie remained in Ireland till the death of his father, when he returned to Scotland to claim his patrimonial estate of Kincraigie, which he found in the possession of his stepmother’s famly, to whom his father had devised it, having taken the steps necessary according to Sctoch laaw for that purpose, although, except under peculiar circumstances, entails can lawfully be barred only with great difficulty. John Leslie was obliged to compromise matters with his stepmother and her family, and relinquished his claim for £5000, a large sum in those days. With this money he returned to Ireland, and purchased from Sir James Colquhoun the manor and castle of Rosamonil and Corkee, to which he gave the name of Kincraigie. He had several sons, of whom the three eldest succeeded successively to the estate of Kincraigie in Ireland. The eldest reduced the estate greatly by his extravagance [second Laird of Kincraigie in Ireland]. He died without issue, and was succeeded by his next brother [third Laird of Kincraigie in Ireland], who also died without issue, and was succeeded by his next brother, Charles [fourth Laird of Kincraigie in Ireland]. John Leslie had a fourth son, Matthew, a man of excellent character, who was rector of the Parish of Kilmacronan. He had four sons, one of whom was a doctor in Cork, and fourteen daughters, on of whom married Mr. Paterson in the north of Ireland, and another married James Grove, and had twenty-one children.

“Charles Leslie [fourth Laird] of Kincraigie in Ireland had a son who succeeded him [fifth Laird of Kincraigie in Ireland], and had a son, Charles Leslie [sixth Laird of Kincraigie in Ireland], the present proprietor of the estate.

“ ‘The estate of Kincraigie in Scotland’, says the old manuscript history of the family, ‘is gone from the name of Leslie after they had enjoyed it for the space of 230 years, and it is now purchased by one Alexander Achindacy, a person risen from the very dunghill, being of very mean, not say worse parents. After he had been a servant to one Jamieson, a Popish priest, he fell in about the Earl of Dunfermling’s house, and after the said Earl’s death at St. Germains, he became so intimate with the Countess of Dunfermling that she not only made him her chamberlain while she lived, but made over all her effects to him after her death. He is now a man of great substance, and his daughter is married to John Elphinston of Glack, the blind baggage (money) of this world having such a prevailing with some, as to make them deaf as well as blind. His only son, George Achindacy, is married to Isabel, daughter of William Gordon of Rothnie, who head (as it was truly said of Richard Cromwell) is not like to fill his father’s bonnet’. This manuscript history is dated 1741."