Eleanor Trail

ELEANOR TRAIL

Eleanor Trail is the daughter of James Trail of Tullochin. She married, as his second wife, the Reverend William Trail, Minister of the Gospel at Borthwick. They were married on 25 March 1679. She died on 4 January 1695. Fasti of the Church of Scotland I: p. 302

Genealogy

Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae. The Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland from the Reformation. By Hew Scott, DD. New Edition. Volume I. Synod of Lothian and Tweeddale (Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh 1915), 452 pp. including indexes

Biographical Summary by Darryl Lundy's Peerage

Eleanor Trail was born on 19 October 1659.1 She died on 4 January 1695 at age 35.1

Family

http://thepeerage.com/p34215.htm#i342149

She was the daughter of Lt.-Col. James Trail and Mary Hamilton.2

She married Reverend William Trail, son of Reverend Robert Trail and Jane Allen Annan, on 25 March 1679.1

Children of Eleanor Trail and Reverend William Trail

1. Reverend James Trail2 d. 1723
2. Sarah Trail2 d. 1685
3. Jean Trail2
4. Margaret Trail2
5. Eleanor Trail2 d. 1692
6. Elizabeth Trail2
7. Reverend William Trail+2 b. 13 Oct 1683
8. Reverend Robert Trail+2 b. 20 Nov 1687, d. 7 Nov 1762

Evidence from Maryland Records

• The following records discovered and provided by George Arthur Trail IV......

Somerset County Land records- " This indenture made April 25, 1691...between Eliner Trail of the county of Somerset and Archibald White..weaver....Now know ye that ..William Trail did by a certain deed of writing convey unto Josias Seaward late of this county,deceased, 43 acres of land out of the 1331/3 acres of land called Brothers Love.....William Trail did ..by a letter of attorney bearing date the 23 day of April 1689/90...appoint his well beloved wife Eliner Trail....confirms unto ..Archibald White...ninety acres and one third acre called Brothers Love...in the presence of Michael Clugston, William Planner Sr..."

• It seems Elinor Trail midway through her conveyance to Archibald White deceptively referred to the 43 acres of Brothers Love sold by William Trail in an effort to allow someone she left behind (David Trail Sr.) to live there discreetly and unmolested for awhile because there is no record of William Trail ever conveying 43 acres of Brother's Love to Josias Seaward. Eventually the Somerset authorities caught on to the cover up but not for almost 35 years when they caught up with James Trail's .(son and heir of Rev. William Trail) widow Christian Allardice all the way back in Montrose ,Scotland. (see below)

1726 James Traill (Wills and Testaments ref. cc3/3/10, Brechin Commissary Court ,) Image 13...." Christian Allardice, Relict and Executrix...gives up to the said...By Southy Whyttington Esquire, son to Collonell William Whyttingtone,deceased, in Summersett County in Maryland as the price of the plantation called Brother's Love in the said county five thousand three hundred pounds of tobacco estimate to be worth in the said county.."