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About Reverend Matthew Reid, Minister of the Gospel at Prestonpans
REVEREND MATTHEW REID
Minister of the Gospel at Prestonpans
Fasti of the Church of Scotland I: p. 381
Biographical Summary
"Matthew Reid, bapt. 1st May 1707, son of Matthew R., min. of North Berwick; licen. by Presb. of Haddington 9th Dec. 1731 ; ord. to Prestonkirk 20th Nov. 1734; pres. by Janet, Countess of Hyndford, trans, and adm. 9th June 1768; died 5th Aug. 1770. He marr. (1) 21st Feb. 1739, Sarah (died 11th March 1761), daugh. of Alexander Jolly, writer, Edinburgh, and had issue— Matthew, lieut. 40th Regt., born 3rd Nov. 1740, killed at the siege of Havana, 11th Aug. 1762; Alexander, born 20th Nov. 1745; Janet, born 24th Feb. 1746 (marr. John Sydserff of Ruchlaw) ; Margaret, born 27th June 1753; Hugh, born 12th Oct. 1756 : (2) 3rd Oct. 1765, Elizabeth Findlay, who died at Edinburgh 9th April 1802."
SOURCE: Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae: the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation, Vol. I, page 390
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August 5, 1770
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