John Napier

The Scots peerage : founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom; Page 408 (http://archive.org/details/scotspeeragefoun06pauluoft)

John had a Grown charter in which he is designed John Napier, son of John Napier of Merchiston, 15 August 1487, of the lands of Balcormo in Fife, which he subsequently conveyed to Robert Abercromby 22 January 1492. He was a burgess of Edinburgh, at 11 July 1497. He married Margaret Preston, who had a seisin 7 February 1496-97, and from whom, as his widow, a wadset of the lands of Nether Merchiston was redeemed in 1520.