James Carnegie

The first Carnegie ancestor of hereditary importance is James born c.1745. This Carnegie was a weaver, and also, during dull weaving seasons,a tiller of soil. Like most of his descendents he was a politicalfirebrand. As a young man, James Carnegie left the ancestral Forfarshireand established himself in Fife. In Scottish legal phrase, he "feued"(roughly leased) a piece of land in the new weavers settlement ofPattiemuir, a hamlet about two miles south of Dunfermline and about 1/10mile north of Limekins.

From Nancy Rockefeller's book, "The Carnegies and Cumberland Island".