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The Alstons are a family of old standing in Lanarkshire, and are said to have been seated at Thinacre Milne in the parish of Hamilton since the beginning of the fourteenth century.

Emigration 1770 Maryland, USA
Immigration 1770 Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland

American merchant

JOHN ALSTON, merchant, and afterwards banker in Glasgow, was a much respected citizen. He was born in 1743, and left Scotland for America in 1759. On his voyage he was captured by a French privateer. Being stranded on the Spanish coast, and there set at liberty, he returned to Scotland and re-embarked the same year. He was settled in Maryland till 1770, when he returned to Scotland and went into business in Glasgow. He was afterwards manager of the Thistle Bank. In 1772 he married Patrick, the only surviving child of Patrick Craigie, youngest son of Craigie of Dumbarnie, Perthshire. He had six children, and died in 1818, his wife having predeceased him in 1786. The children were 1) Anne Hay, born 1773, and married in 1800 John Gordon of Auchenhead. 2) George, 3) Isabella, born 1777, married David Connell, 4) Robert Douglas, born 1778, afterwards of Auchinraith 5) John Thomas, born 1780, 6) Patrick Craigie, died an infant.

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. 1777 Isabella Alston was born on 20 Jan 1777 in Glasgow, Scotland; and died.