The Royal Ancestry of EUPHAME (SCOT) JOHNSTON, of NJ and NY [wife of Dr. John Johnstone, Mayor of NYC et al

The Royal Ancestry of EUPHAME (SCOT) JOHNSTON of NJ and NY; wife of Dr. John Johnstone, Mayor of NYC et al

Nathan W. Murphy, MA, AG, FASG recommends the royal ancestry of EUPHAME (SCOT) JOHNSTON, of NJ and NY wife of Dr. John Johnstone, Mayor of NYC et al. Gary Boyd Roberts has Euphame in his book, but it follows a different line that he states may have problems. Nathan W. Murphy hasn't found any outstanding problems in this improved line Robert Stevens has presented proposed by Robert Stevens.

1. King Robert III m. Anabella Dummond, Queen of Scots (SCOTS 1:17, 330)
2. Lady Mary Stewart m. George Douglas, 1st Earl of Angus (SCOTS 1:18, 172)
3. William Douglas, 2nd Earl of Angus m. Margaret Hay (SCOTS 1:174)
4. George Douglas, 4th Earl of Angus m. Isabel Sibbald (SCOTS 1:175, 433)
5. Isabell Douglas m. Sir Alexander Ramsay of Dalhousie (SCOTS 3:92)
6. Elizabeth Ramsay m. Sir Alexander Boswell of Balmuto (SCOTS 3:92, BARON 309)
7. David Boswell of Balmuto m. Elizabeth Moncrieff (BARON 310)
8. Christian Boswell m. Sir James Melville I of Halhill (1535-1617) (SCOTS 6:92)
9. Sir James Melville II of Halhill (liv. 1653) m. (1) Catherine Colville, m. (2) Catherine Learmonth (SCOTS 6:92)
10. Elizabeth Melville m. by 1637, as his second wife, Sir John Scot of Scotstarvit (1586-1670), Director of Chancery (ODNB)
11. George Scot, Gent. of Pitlochie (1643-1685), m. Margaret Rigg. George and Margaret died on voyage to America in 1685. (ODNB)
12. Euphame Scot m. 1686, Dr. John Johnstone (d. 1732), Mayor of New York City et al.

Sources

1. BARON=Sir Robert Douglas, The Baronage of Scotland: Containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Gentry of that Kingdom (Edinburgh, 1798). Online at FamilySearch.
2. SCOTS=Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage, 9 vols. (Edinburgh, 1904-1914). Online at FamilySearch.
3. ODNB=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edition. Magdalen Newport, ‘Some Stories of Colonial Families: Johnstone, of New Jersey,’ The American Historical Register 1 (1894-1895):44-54, https://books.google.com/books?id=yswQFkkNipEC&pg=PA44 .
4. A.W. Savary, ‘Some Annandale Johnstons in America,’ New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 33 (1902):246-249, etc., https://archive.org/stream/newyorkgenealogi1902gree#page/n519/mode/2up .
5. Edith M. Mather, ‘George Scot, of Pitlochy,’ Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society 7 (1922):260-278, https://books.google.com/books?id=ErafAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA260 .
6. Rev. Charles Rogers, ‘The Staggering State of Scottish Statesmen from 1550 to 1650, by Sir John Scot, of Scotstarvet. With a Memoir of the Author, and Historical Illustrations,’ Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 1 (1875):278-429: includes biographical information and entries from Scot’s family Bible (including birth of George Scot): https://books.google.com/books?id=HKCd8jbS-bgC&pg=PA303 .
7. Sir William Fraser, The Melville, Earls of Melville; and the Leslies, Earls of Leven, 3 vols. (Edinburgh, 1890): Halhill family: https://books.google.com/books?id=nVLEvi_mpRAC&pg=PA162 .

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