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George Burns, His Times and Friends
Chapter I. The Burns Family
George Burns was born on the 10th of December, 1795. He came of an old and long-lived family, which for many generations had occupied an honourable position in the West of Scotland. The life of his grandfather carries us back to the beginning of the eighteenth century, and that is far enough in history for us to travel in this narrative.
Old John Burn has left on record, among his early remembrances, the fact that he saw from his father's house the soldiers crowding past with their wounded from the battle of "Shirra Muir" in the Jacobite rising of 1715.
The family was originally named Burn, and John Burn, the grandfather of the subject of our narrative, was a Stirling man, where he owned the little property of Corntown. He was an author, a man of considerable learning, and of deep piety.
There lies before the present writer the contract of marriage betwixt Mr. John Burn, of Stirth, and Sheriff Muir.
Janet Young, youngest daughter of the deceas'1 William Young, of Risk, and Jean White, his relict spouse?at St. Ninians, February 9, 1741."
Janet Young had been a staunch adherent of the Rev. Ebenezer Erskinel of Stirling, one of the four "outed ministers" of 1733, and she continued a Seceder for some time after her marriage to John Burn, who was an Established Churchman, although in course of time she, like many others, seceded from the Secession.
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