Elizabeth Leslie

Biography

Historical Records of the Family of Leslie from 1067 to 1868-9 ..., Volume 3 By Charles Joseph Leslie. Page 393. < GoogleBooks > Page 393 - 395

“ALEXANDER LESLIE, “EIGHTH BARON OF PITCAPLE

“Alexander Leslie, eighth Baron of Pitcaple, got a disposition of the Mill of Pitcaple, with the multures thereof, from his uncle, Sir Gilbert Ramsay of Balmain, 18th December 1652; also of the lands and Mains of Pitcaple, with the fortalice, the croft of land called England, the town and lands of Pitbee, and croft at the Chapel of Garioch, in the parish of Logydurno, with commonty and common pasturage in the moss and forest of Bennachie, and the liberty of casting, winning, and bringing peats and fuel in and from the said moss to the said lands, used and wont, 21st October 1656. He granted a disposition of the above lands to Elizabeth Leslie, his spouse, in liferent, and to this eldest son, John, and his lawful heirs-male, in fee, with remainder to his second son, Alexander Leslie, 6th January 1657. He obtained a disposition of the teinds of the said lands from John, Earl of Louden, 4th February, and registered in the books of Exchequer 11th February 1659. Alexander Leslie of Tullos, fourteenth Baron of Balquhain, made a contract, dated 29th June and 3d July 1669, with Alexander Pitcaple, Elizabeth Leslie, his spouse, and John Leslie, their eldest son, for the sale to them of the lands of Pitbee, the croft at Chapel of Garioch, and the reversion of the lands of Pitbee Hauch, to be held by them in the same manner as the same were held by the deceased John Leslie elder, and John Leslie younger, of Balquhain, in the year 1625.

“Alexander Leslie married Elizabeth Leslie, daughter of Leonard Leslie, Laird of Haches, and had issue -

• “ I. John, who gat a charter of the lands of Pitcaple and others, 6th January 1657, but died without issue before his father. “
• II. Alexander, born 23d January 1656; succeeded as ninth Baron. “
• III. Charles, died in Holland. “
• IV. David, also died in Holland. “
• V. William, a Jesuit. “
• VI. Walter, also a Jesuit. “
• VII. Janet, married to David Dunbar of Kirkhill

A decreet of adjudication was issued, at the instance of Patrick, Count Leslie, fifteenth Baron of Balquhain, against Alexander Leslie, ninth Baron of Pitcaple, charged to enter heir to the deceased Alexander Leslie of Pitcaple, his father, in the lands of Pitcaple. One of the debts mentioned in the adjudication was due to Janet Leslie, sister of the said Alexander Leslie younger, and spouse of David Dunbar of Kirkhill, 7th November 1682.

“Alexander Leslie, eighth Baron of Pitcaple, died before 1679, when Elizabeth Leslie, his relict, assigned to Alexander Leslie of Pitcaple, her son, a bond by John Leslie of Aquhorsk, obliging himself to convey to her the teind right of the lands of Pitbee and others. He was succeeded by his son"