Part 16 (2/2)

1770-1781--JAMES CAMPBELL, A.M., died 1st January.

1781-1803--ANDREW DUNCAN, tr. to Ratho.

1803-1834--CHARLES STEWART, died 31st August.

1834-1843--Parish vacant pending settlement of ”Auchterarder Case,”

Presbytery refusing, in obedience to Veto Act, to take Robert Young on trials.

1843-1865--ROBERT YOUNG, died 14th September. ”His congregation greatly increased in numbers, and many who had once been his bitter opponents became his warmest supporters and best friends. When the day of his death came all mourned him with unfeigned grief.”--_Presbytery tribute to his memory_.

1865-????--WILLIAM GIBSON. In 1871 Mr Gibson was judicially declared to be insane, and the parish has since been served, in terms of the Belhaven Act, by a series of ordained a.s.sistants.

1871-1878--WM. SIMPSON. Appointed to Bonhill.

1878-1888--CHARLES SHORT, died 2nd June.

1888-????--ARCHIBALD JAMIESON, M.A.

ABERUTHVEN

(_Supplied with Readers from 1567-1591, but united to Auchterarder before 1618._)

BLACKFORD

(_Formerly Strageyth._)

1574-1576--ALEX. GALL, tr. to Trinity-Gask.

1576-1589--WM. DRUMMOND.

1590-1591--WM. STRIUILING.

1592-1606--JAMES BRANDON, tr. to Muthill. Protested against introduction of Episcopacy.

1607-1613--ANDREW ALLAN, A.M.

1613-1651--JAMES GOVANE, A.M., died in August.

1660-1683--DAVID LITTLEJOHN, A.M., died in May.

1683-1689--DAVID MORAY, A.M. Ousted at Revolution.

1697-1739--ARCHIBALD MONCRIEFF, A.M., died in August.

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