Zachary Pont, Min. of Bower

Biographical Summary

"Zachary Pont, younger son (by his first wife) of Robert P., min. of St Cuthbert's, Edinburgh, one of the Lords of Session, and brother of Timothy P., the topographer; educated at Univ. of St Andrews; M.A. (about 1583); app. chief printer to His Majesty 28th Oct. 1590 ; pres. by James VI. 2nd Sept. 1608 ; died before 20th Jan. 1619, aged about 55. He marr. before 13th Nov. 1599, Margaret, second daugh. of John Knox, the Reformer, and Margaret Stewart, and had issue — Robert ; Samuel, bapt. at Prestonpans, 26th Oct. 1609. Mr Pont, min. of Ramelton in Ireland, was probably a son or descendant. He fled to Scotland, and died before May 1641."

SOURCE: Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae: the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation, Vol. VII, page 113